Festival Announcements

Raging Speedhorn, Astroid Boys, Milk Teeth and Heck confirmed for Amplified Open Air This new UK live event takes place in Gloucestershire at Quarrydowns, Northleach on the 21st to the 23rd of July, with stage headliners including REEF, Puddle Of Mudd, Diamond Head, Acid Reign and Evil Scarecrow. Saturday’s main …

The jeweller of rock stars, Heidi Vornan, designed Tuska Festival’s Anniversary Collection Tuska 20th Anniversary Collection designed by Heidi Vornan is released today. Vornan, whose work adorns the bodies of many a rock star, including Alexi Laiho and Daniel Freyberg of Children Of Bodom, Ville Sorvali of Moonsorrow and Niklas …

TUSKA 2017 – NEW BANDS, AFTER PARTIES AND FESTIVAL AREA DETAILS – Stockholm-based death metal machine LIK and Finnish acts Huora and Amendfoil added to the bill – Festival area services improved: ”Tulinen Grillialue” BBQ area and Rottanaama Beer Bingo among other fine features – Official After Parties at Virgin …

BLOODSTOCK has six more bands lined up for the Sophie Lancaster stage and four lucky bands win slots on the New Blood stage to celebrate the start of the ‘Metal To The Masses’ finals. Landing slots on the Sophie Lancaster stage are Leeds metal trio BLIND HAZE, Italian power/classic metal outfit, …

Twenty years of existence celebrating Tuska Open Air Metal Festival’s signature song ”Tuska20 –  The Anniversary Song” is now available for listening at Tuska Youtube-channel and for download as mp3 or wav -file through fundyou.io. One download costs 5 euros. All proceeds from the song are being collected to ”Tuska …

They don’t just book bands, you know… Today, Download Festival announced that, following suggestions from fans, they have made a number of changes to the site at Donington Park that will, all well and good, provide a better all-round experience for the thousands of people who attend every single year. …

TUSKA20 – THE ANNIVERSARY SONG –  Charity Campaign starts on Monday April 10th As part of its twentieth birthday celebrations Tuska Open Air Metal Festival gets its own very special signature song. “Tuska20 – The Anniversary Song” is an exquisite seven minute epic, written and performed by the top names …

BLOODSTOCK are very excited to announce GHOST as their Saturday night headliner! This will be GHOST’s first ‘ritual’ at BLOODSTOCK and watching their amazing stage show after dark is sure to be quite the religious experience!  Check out a taster of what might be in store via this clip from …

Well, isn’t this lovely from Download Festival? They decided to round off the end of last month with a big, fat announcement of bands across all four stages! We’re a bit lucky aren’t we? The biggest names announced are metal’s mad hatter Devin Townsend, paying below Rob Zombie on the …

We’re now past the halfway point to BLOODSTOCK with 20 weekends left before the UK’s best metal weekender!  Let’s kick that off by announcing seven more bands! Anthemic black metallers WINTERFYLLETH join the main stage fray.  Their fifth album ‘The Dark Hereafter’ was released last October by Candlelight Records/Spinefarm.  Check …

TUSKA 2017 – TRIPTYKON, SOILWORK, ROTTEN SOUND AND MANY OTHERS ADDED – Tuska 20th Anniversary at Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland on 30.6.-2.7.2017 – Triptykon, Soilwork, Impaled Nazarene, Rotten Sound, Brother Firetribe and more Tuska’s 20th Anniversary program keeps on getting sweeter, as a bunch of new Artists have been added to …

#BOA ANNOUNCEMENT ⚡ FOUR bands added to the BLOODSTOCK 2017 LINE-UP! BLOODSTOCK is powering ahead with even more bookings for 2017!  We’ve four more to get you excited for August’s best metal weekender…   German thrash legends KREATOR shred their way on to BLOODSTOCK’s main stage this Summer in Saturday’s …

TUSKA 2017 – DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT CONFIRMED – 20th Tuska at Suvilahti, Helsinki, 30.6.-2.7.2017 – Tuska Show on the Tuska youtube channel Canadian gentleman and multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend along with his Project has been confirmed to appear at Tuska 2017 on Friday June 30th. Devin has always had a very …

Heidelberg Deathfest „HDDF“ 2017 God Dethroned (HOL) + Haemorrhage (ESP) + Deranged (SWE) + Jig-Ai (CZ) + Ultimo Mondo Cannibale (ITA) + Mucupurulent (CD-Release- Show) + Japanische Kampfhorspiele + Korpse (HOL) + Fleshless (CZ) + Fragments Of Unbecoming + Plasma   For those of you lucky enough to be based …

Ramblin’ Man Fair have added more bands to an already strong lineup… Supersonic Blues Machine (First Ever UK Show) Glenn Hughes The Kyle Gass Band Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash Steve ‘N’ Seagulls Supersonic Blues Machine feat Eric Gales (Planet Rock Mainstage) – One of the most exciting blues acts of …

By way of a late Valentines Day gift, BLOODSTOCK is thrilled to announce 3 more bands for 2017’s event! ARCH ENEMY will be joining us as Sunday’s special guests.  Get a taste of their Swedish melodeath with the live video for ‘War Eternal’, shot at Wacken 2016 and check out …

The organisers of the Metal Female Voices Fest have put the festival on hold for an unknown duration.  They released the following statement… After a long discussion, reflection, many thoughts and overview of all possibilities, we have decided to put the festival on hold for the moment. You probably jumping …

Ramblin’ Man Fair have announced more acts…. Black Star Riders (Special Guests / UK Festival Exclusive) Danny Worsnop Aaron Keylock Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown Lionize   Announced acts to date are: Friday 28th July Planet Rock Main Stage Saxon (Main Stage Headliner) Y&T Last in Line Graham Bonnet Band …

As 2017 settles in, four more brutal bands are locked in for August’s best metal weekender; BLOODSTOCK! Swedish metal marauders, SOILWORK are confirmed for a main stage slot at Catton Park. Frontman Björn ‘Speed’ Strid tells us “We are really thrilled to return to UK soil after a killer mini-tour …

It seems like forever since Download Festival last made an announcement of bands, but good things come to those who wait and the bigwigs have officially made their first announcement of 2017 – and what an announcement! 48 new bands have been added to the bill including several big names …