In an announcement that was partially leaked by the good people at Kerrang yesterday, Sonisphere Knebworth have confirmed the latest batch of bands to be added to the festival line up in the UK this July. Heading the dozen new acts to play Sonispheere Knebworth are legendary US alt-metal group Deftones, who will be taking…
In what’s one of the best festival announcements we’ve seen in quite awhile, the Sonisphere team have just confirmed another seven bands to play Sonisphere UK at Knebworth this coming July. Watch the video for the full unveiling: [youtube id=”tqEOisrixUc” width=”600″ height=”350″] If you weren’t able to watch the video for some reason, the seven…
Well, well, well. The UK festival wheel appears to be turning once again! Look at what turned up on the official Sonisphere Festival Twitter feed about an hour ago: Happily to say we don’t think the excellent Sonisphere Twitter Feed person has been let go as this was quickly followed a few minutes later by…
For awhile, there’s been speculation over the fate of next years’ UK leg of the Sonisphere Festival. Having cancelled in 2012 due to poor ticket sales (and what many deemed was an unfavourable lineup being the cause), it seemed as recently as a couple of weeks ago that Sonisphere was going to return to Knebworth…
Needless to say, this isn’t the news we wanted to be reporting this morning. Rumours broke yesterday afternoon thanks to Queen’s official website that Sonisphere Knebworth 2012 was going to be cancelled and the Internet promptly went, for lack of a better expression, batshit with speculation. Unfortunately, it’s all true. Sonisphere Knebworth 2012 is cancelled….
Considering they’re playing catch up to our friends from the Download Festival, who have come out all guns blazing in celebration of their tenth anniversary, many people expected Sonisphere Knebworth to pull a few rabbits out of the hat with their initial announcement and so it proved with KISS, Faith No More and Queen amongst…
So the cat is finally out of the bag! In news revealed on Rocksins weeks ago, Queen (with Adam Lambert on vocals) are indeed the first headliners to be playing Sonisphere Knebworth 2012. In confirmation of another long rumoured headliner, which picked up steam this week after they were confirmed for the French Sonisphere, Faith…
We may be lacking in news about the UK installment of Sonisphere, Sonisphere Knebworth, but Europe’s touring festival are starting to get their act in gear when it comes to releasing some line up news for some of the stops on the mainland. Fresh from their appearance at various Sonisphere’s with the rest of the…
UK alt metal group One Minute Silence have issued the following statement in regards to their participation at this years’ Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth: Due unforeseen circumstances, legendary metal-crossover titans One Minute Silence have had to pull out of this year’s Sonisphere festival. This was an extremely tough decision for the band to make as…
With Sonisphere 2010 at Knebworth now hours rather than days away, we at Rock Sins thought we’d take a little look at the UKs main challenger to Download and give you a bit of a preview of the line-up highlights in Sonisphere’s second year in the UK. Friday will bring lots of fun, games and…