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…
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…
We’ve all known it was returning to Download for another year, but it’s now finally been confirmed that the Jägermeister Acoustic Stage is back at Donington in 2014. Download 2014 will see a wide range of talent grace it’s acoustic sitting, including bands who are renown for putting on specialist acoustic shows such as prog…
The gift that is Download 2013 just keeps on giving! Courtesy of Mr Andy Copping and the Download powers that be, another seventeen bands have been added to the UK’s annual rock, metal and alternative festival pilgrimage to Castle Donington. Heading up the latest batch as US southern rockers Black Stone Cherry. The band, who…
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),…
In addition to the news we brought you at the end of last week that Five Finger Death Punch have unfortunately had to pull out of Download’s tenth anniversary edition of the festival, during last week there were two sets of new band announcements that we thought we had better catch up on for those…