Festival Announcements

UK TECH-FEST has announced a series of warm-up all dayers featuring some of the hottest bands climbing the tech-metal ranks and serving as a great taster for the main event which takes place 7 – 10 July at the Newark Showground. Spanning three major cities, the all-dayer line ups are as follows: …

This autumn Nordvis wants to extend the invitation to a gathering; a feast celebrating the vigor and growth we’ve experienced over the past year. To commemorate this we will bring you the fruits of our harvest, tones from: PANOPTICON (First performance in Europe) Grift Skogen Forndom Waldgeflüster Some of them …

French Power / Speed veterans LONEWOLF to headline Gineta Rock Festival 2016 in Albacete, Spain this coming June. Gineta Rock Festival recently announced LONEWOLF, the Power / Speed Metal band hailing from France, as headliners of the festival’s 2016 edition in Albacete, Spain. Organized by the association of Rock Corazón de Metal, …

Vivian Campbell’s, Last in line, Fastway, Sweet Savage, The Vintage Caravan, Lionize and Inglorious lead another whack of international bands for this year’s 10th Anniversary of Hard Rock Hell.   It’s only 6 months away, it was sold out at last year’s event and now Hard Rock Hell, Europe’s leading …

Camden Rocks Festival, Saturday 4th June 2016 – Preview It’s not quite an annual event, with the first Camden Rocks taking place in 2009 and the second five years later in 2013, but it seems to have become an annual event since then, with this being the fifth. Unlike many …

It seems you can’t get rid of foxes right now. Earlier this week Leicester City won the Premier League and now Download Festival have announced Babymetal will play the main stage on Friday this year! In a move that shows the festival genuinely listen to opinion and the views of …

The program for Tuska 2016 is now ready. The last additions bring a whole new level of intensity and broaden the spectrum of the festival line up. GERMAN PRECISION, BRAZILIAN THRASH AND JAPANESE BIG-TIMERS German progressive death metal outfit Obscura have been added to the already killer Saturday program. Expect …

BLOODSTOCK HQ is readying to send Team M2TM out on the road for the finals, but in the meantime, there’s a few more band additions to the August bill! Joining Friday’s main stage bill are newly re-grouped British death metal overlords, AKERCOCKE.  The band are working on new music and …

The beautiful Cotswolds town of Lechlade on Thames plays host to its sixth 3 day family-friendly music festival over the late May bank holiday weekend.  From rock to reggae, folk to funk, pop to punk and everything in between, there’s something for everyone including free family activities, real ales, fabulous …

26TH – 28TH AUGUST 2016, BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND, THE BIGGEST NAMES FROM ACROSS THE MUSICAL SPECTRUM. NAS, FRANK TURNER, GOOD CHARLOTTE, KANO, MASTODON, TONIGHT ALIVE, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, THE TEMPER TRAP + OVER 70 MORE NAMES ADDED TO READING & LEEDS 2016 A UK FESTIVAL FIRST – 5 HEADLINERS OVER 3 …

With June creeping ever closer, Wildfire Festival’s impressive main stages line-up is all but finalised but there’s still time to announce a further 6 bands. With the imminent arrival of stage 3 announcement to complete what will be an outstanding weekend, Scotland won’t know what’s hit it when the gates …

It’s always nice to have new names for a festival, isn’t it? Luckily, Download have delivered and given us a smile to kick away the Monday blues with another twelve names on the bill. The new addition are as follows: the recently reformed Juliette and the Licks, British metal powerhouse …

FORT FEST is a brand new three-day music festival in the heart of rural Bedfordshire, showcasing some of the UK’s hottest talent as well as the rising stars of tomorrow. Set on the beautiful Scald End Farm, the event takes place on 2/3/4 September and offers fully inclusive camping. The first bands …

Alestorm, Hammerfall, Napalm Death, Armored Saint, Grand Magus, Venom Inc & Evil Scarecrow head up cycle 3 of HRH United With only 26 rooms left, HRH United 3 featuring Hammerfest, HRH Thrash, HRH Doom, HRH Stoner and HRH Black are pleased to announce their first batch of 28 bands encompassing …

Four More Additions to Beermageddon 2016 Once again we bring the new blood and of course a festival favourite from the past! As we prepare for the 5th annual Beermageddon Festival in true Beermageddon tradition we bring you some of the best emerging bands from the UK but also a …

Since its inception in 2014 the Barcelona based festival Be Prog! My Friend has played host to the likes of Anathema, Devin Townsend, TesseracT, Camel, Meshuggah, Katatonia, Riverside, Isahn and Alcest. Taking place in the beautiful open air surroundings of Poble Espanyol the site is one of the most important landmarks of …

The iconic and now legendary Rebellion Festival is set to return this year between Thursday 4th and the 7th of August at Winter Gardens in Blackpool. The largest independent Punk & Alternative Festival in Europe, Rebellion started out in 1996 as the ‘Holidays In The Sun’ festival and this year …

Brand new London metal festival Rock On Green has now announced the full line-up for its inaugural event, which takes place at Kentish Town’s O2 Forum on 4th June.  Previously announced co-headliners Tarja Turunen and Amaranthe are set to be joined by Austrian power metal giants Serenity, Australian multifaceted metallers …

With just under 8 weeks to go until Download once again opens it’s doors, there is still at least one more announcement of bands left. Whilst the majority of these will be acts filling out the slots on the lower stages, one prominent TBA is what will happen to the …

Sad news breaking tonight as Hevy Fest promoters announced the festival was no more after six editions and a superb looking lineup for 2016. The festival was due to take place in August, headlined by Enter Shikari and also feature appearances by Refused, While She Sleeps, LA Dispute, Sick of …