The Christmas content we never knew we needed! Not just for those who love Metallica, but for anyone who enjoys hearing a story read well. Frontman James Hetfield, aka Papa Het, reading the classic children’s Christmas story “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”. This surprise audio reading landed on Metallica’s YouTube channel earlier today. It’s accompanied…
When Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne announced the biggest of retirement parties in the shape of Back To The Beginning, the metal world knew it was going to be a momentous occasion. But truly, none of us, not even the Prince Of Darkness himself, could have fully prepared for what was to come on July…
For heavy metal fans around the world, there has been no hotter ticket this year than Black Sabbaths final gig. Scheduled to take place at Birminghams Villa Park stadium in little under a months time on July 5th. The bands Back To The Beginning show had hundreds of thousands of eager fans fighting for tickets…
Thrash metal titans, Metallica have been out on the road on their gargantuan M72 world tour now since 2023. However, the Bay Area legends show no signs of slowing down yet. Having just announced a run of shows across Europe and the UK in Summer 2026! Kicking off on May 9th at the Olympic Stadium…
Despite having seemingly brought their epic career to a close back in February 2017. Ending with an iconic two night show at Birminghams Resorts World Arena. Black Sabbath shocked fans around the world yesterday when they announced one final show together! Set to take place on Saturday July 5th at Villa Park in Birmingham. The…
Black Stone Cherry is THE reference for American Southern rock. After 20 years and 7 albums, they continue to thrill fans of the genre. Opening the festivities with Me and Mary Jane they wasted no time taking advantage of the snakepit set up for Metallica’s evening show, playing up close to the audience with Again, White…
Following on from the first phase of the bands highly successful coloured vinyl reissues. This week Bay Area thrash metal heavyweights, Metallica announced phase two of their much lauded back catalogue vinyl releases! Set to include classic cover album Garage Inc, on limited edition ‘Fade to Blue’ coloured wax. As well as a ‘Some Kind…
Three days into Download Festival 2023. At this point in a standard weekend at Donington some people would be starting to wind down, pack up the tents ahead of going home but not at Download 2023! Anticipation was high ahead of Metallica’s second set of the weekend, while the day was full of other hugely…
After months of waiting, the most eagerly awaited Download Festival in years was upon us. The twentieth anniversary of the modern trek to the hallowed Donington turf. For the twentieth edition of the festival, aka Download 2023, the 90,000ish in attendance are to be treated to not three, but four full days of music across…
Not satisfied with selling out venues worldwide all summer, including the UK’s own Download Festival. Metallica will be taking over a cinema near you later this year too, by bringing their mammoth 72 Seasons tour to the big screen! The Bay Area titans will be broadcasting two nights of their M72 World Tour live from…
We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
We’ve all seen the incredible viral videos of world class sign language interpreters backing up some of the world’s biggest artists on stage. From Amber Galloway’s work with Kendrick Lamar, to Justina Miles show stealing performance alongside Rhianna at this year’s Superbowl half-time show. Their interpretations are often as entertaining to watch as the shows…
