It seems that Andy Copping and The Powers That Be at Castle Donington & Live Nation HQ are just determined to continuously outdo themselves this year. Well, this most recent bit of news for Download 2013 is gonna go down in the history of Download as one of the most impressive announcements ever. Not content…
Continuing the build up nicely to this Summer’s forthcoming rock & metal festivities, the nice people from the Download Festival have put together a short video teaser to build the mood for this years’ event. Check it out below: [youtube id=”WxPFe0ikduk” width=”600″ height=”350″] Download 2013 recently added around thirty more bands to the already impressive…
We just can’t keep up with the festival announcements at the moment! Hot off the press, and courtesy of a Twitter campaign by Download supremo Andy Copping, the fans of Download last night retweeted a request from Mr Copping over 5,000 times and as a result we all got to find out one more band…
Continuing the drip feed of new bands for Download 2013, the latest band to join the party at Donington Park are the recently revived nu metal act Coal Chamber. Frontman Dez Fafara, nowadays more famous for his other band Devildriver, has gotten back together with his old bandmates for a reunion. After a fair amount…
Straight from the horses mouth, or in this case both official band website and Download Festival booker Andy Copping on Twitter, Bullet For My Valentine will be returning to Donington for their sixth appearance at the festival in 2013. Most recently seen at Download sub-headlining Linkin Park in 2011, the Welsh metal four piece are…
A little bit more news and one more brand new band has been announced regarding next year’s Download Festival. After the announcement on bonfire night that the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age, 30 Seconds To Mars and Alice In Chains had joined the bill (you can read the most recent announcement here, It…
After two days of enduring pretty much everything that the British climate could throw at us short of lightning striking our campsite, the arrival of Friday at Donington Park made us grateful for two reasons. One the weather had relented ever so slightly, and two it was time for some music to hopefully help make…
So we’re now under a week to go to Download’s tenth anniversary and it’s fair to say the excitement is really building all over the place, not least here at Rocksins. This is the third and final part of our Download preview, so if you’ve happened to miss the first two parts (how dare you),…
With the tenth anniversary of the UK’s biggest rock & metal gathering of the year, otherwise known as the Download Festival barely two weeks away from kicking off, Rocksins is taking a a three part look at some of the bands who’ll be gracing the various stages this year and offering up our picks of…
Well, it’s been a day since the double Download Festival line-up announcement was announced (and spoiled somewhat by Soungarden, read about that here) and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive as Download fights back against Sonisphere in a big way. Rocksins has been collating information, mostly provided by Download booker Andy Copping via his Twitter…
