Within the last hour, the news has broken that unfortunately Five Finger Death Punch are no longer appearing at the tenth anniversary of the Download Festival at Donington Park. Five Finger Death Punch released a short statement on the matter on the official Download Festival website which read as follows: “Due to logistical circumstances beyond…
Well they certainly kept that one quiet! Download have done it again and sneaked out another rather stonking lineup announcement. Coming onboard to play at Donington Park at Download’s tenth anniversary this time are none other than Killswitch Engage, recently reunited with original singer Jesse Leach in what promises to be one of the most…
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…
Everyone knew two Download Festival announcements were happening today and the first of these happened on Zane Lowe’s show on Radio One earlier tonight, confirming Soundgarden, Chase & Status, Tenacious D, You Me At Six and Biffy Clyro for the tenth anniversary of Download. Soundgarden were obviously proud of being on the lineup and posted…
A few days after the unfortunate news broke that Black Sabbath’s legendary guitarist Tony Iommi had been diagnosed with the early stages of Lymphoma (a type of cancer), Tony has given his first comments since the diagnosis in a message posted on his website earlier today. Iommi, also the guitarist in Heaven & Hell until…
The worst kept secret from the last few days is out: Black Sabbath are back and they are the second headliners announced for the 10th edition of The Download Festival, Download 2012. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Gezer Butler and Bill Ward announced yesterday at a press conference in California that they would be embarking on…
Ok, so we got it half right. As widely speculated and rumoured across the Internet over the last day or so, Metallica are indeed returning to Castle Donington to headline the 2012 installment of The Download Festival, their third time headlining the festival in its ten years in its current format. Lars, Rob, Kirk and…
In Mind Blowing news it seems that Metallica and Lou Reed are set to be the first announced headliner of Download Festival 2012. The Internet speculation has gone into overdrive this afternoon, being fuelled by both Andy Copping (Download Festival booker) and Zane Lowe with some carefully phrased tweeting Maverick_AC: Just one big fuck off headliner…
