Rock Sins Weekly Episode 7: The Return of Down, The Ghost Inside, Ozzy and More
Welcome to another episode of Rock Sins Weekly. This week the return of Down and The Ghost Inside, the rescheduling of Ozzy’s lost dates and more.
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Neck Deep, Skindred and Killswitch Engage Among New 33 Download Festival 2016 Bands
We thought we’d be due another Download Festival 2016 line up announcement before Christmas, and Andy Copping and his team have obliged with a monster of an announcement! Via their often used good friend, Daniel P Carter on the BBC Radio One Rock Show, ten new acts have been added to the festivities at Donington…
Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2014 – Friday Review
Words by James Halstead & Nicholas Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. It’s reached the waning end of Summer in the UK once again so that means one very important thing to the UK metal community – it’s time for the Bloodstock Open Air Festival. The 2014 instalment of BOA had one of the most impressive…
DOWN Confirmed as Second Headliners For Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2014
How do you follow the announcement that the most legendary of black metal bands, Emperor, are going to be the first headliners for your festival? How about by changing things up and getting one of the finest sludge / stoner metal bands the world has ever seen! That’s right, the legendary Down with the one…
Green Day & Avenged Sevenfold Announced As Soundwave Festival 2014 Headliners
It’s that time of year where we start getting the first festival announcements for 2014! Since our friends down under tend to kick off festival season with Soundwave Festival, it seems only right that we’ve been given the Soundwave 2014 line-up this morning, and to say it’s impressive is something of an understatement. After having…
Download Festival 2013 Review: Friday – The Rain Will Kill Us All
After all the build up, the band announcements, the hype, the anxious constant monitoring of the ever unpredictable British weather and worst of all the waiting, the eleventh annual Download Festival at Donington Park was finally upon us. Even before the bands had begun to play at 2013’s installment of the festival plenty had transpired….
Download 2013 – In Retrospect… (The Matt Report Pt.II)
Back in 2003, I went to my first Download festival following the last ever Ozzfest at Donington in 2002. Whilst memories of IRON MAIDEN, SIKTH, DEFTONES, STAMPIN’ GROUND, SEPULTURA and of course those cheeky chaps in METALLICA remain steadfast as being some of my greatest, throughout the years many of the following Downloads have involved…
Download Festival 2013 Preview: Friday
We’re now just a month away from the UK’s annual premier rock and metal shindig that takes place at Donington Park in Derbyshire, the one and only Download Festival. Having seen off Sonisphere to the point where their rivals at Knebworth have not staged the event for the last two years, Download has firmly re-established…