Festival Announcements

PlanetMosh has looked at the long term weather forecast for this coming summer – and it shows that there will be Thunder over the south of Wales at the end of July! The veteran British rockers – who have just completed a British stadium tour this past weekend – have …

BLOODSTOCK is breezing through February with another clutch of confirmations for 2016’s best heavy metal weekender. Headlining the Sophie Lancaster stage on Thursday night, our welcome party night, will be PHIL CAMPBELL’S ALL STARR BAND.  The Motorhead axeman will also officially open the newly christened ‘Lemmy’s Bar’ with the first …

Raging Speedhorn Announce Split EP With Monster Magnet! Desertfest Sponsored 7” Set For April 29th Release Corby sludge demons Raging Speedhorn are set to appear on a split EP with US Stoner Overlords Monster Magnet as part of the bands’ appearance at the British Desertfest. The Desertfest sponsored 7” split …

DESERTFEST LONDON is happy to release the day splits for their 2016 edition, as well as a limited batch of day tickets. This is by far the festival’s strongest all-round lineup to date, with the first ever venue of southern heavy kings Corrosion Of Conformity and Crowbar, as well as …

Angel Witch, Electric Citizen & Black Spiders head up another batch to be added to HRH Doom vs HRH Stoner this October As all hotels virtually sell out for the latest HRH experience,  HRH Doom vs HRH Stoner are pleased to add even more bands to an already exciting line …

Mammothfest, the UK’s fastest growing independent festival will descend on Brighton again. The festival is held across 3 days (30.09.16 – 02.10.16) and has already dropped jaws across the nation by revealing all its headlining acts in the later part of last year. Textures, Venom Inc., Conan & Eastern Front are all confirmed as …

Skunk Anansie to rock INmusic Festival  – UK rockers join Croatia’s biggest open-air music festival – Wider line-up includes headliners Florence + the Machine and PJ Harvey 2nd February 2016 :- British rock band Skunk Anansie are the latest name to join the 11th edition of INmusic Festival. They follow …

Doom metallers AVATARIUM has been added to the Stockholm Rocks Festival 2016 bill, set to take place May 7, 2016 at Debaser Medis in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the first live show ever in Stockholm for them – joining Inglorious and Grand Magus, more names to be announced soon. AVATARIUM deliver a special blend of heavy adventurous music. Think about Jethro Tull, Blue Oyster Cult, Sabbath and Rainbow. It’s all there together with …

Ugly Kid Joe, Ratt, Glenn Hughes and Living Colour head the vanguard for this year’s 10th anniversary at Hard Rock Hell festival. HRH X is pleased to announce its first batch is spearheaded by Californian Rockers Ugly Kid Joe & the legendary Ratt. Joining them will be a whole horde …

HEVY FEST 2016 is very excited to announce its first wave of bands, continuing the reinvigoration of one of the UK’s most exciting festivals. With both headliners still to come, announced today are: punk titans REFUSED, technical metal frontrunners SIKTH, metalcore heavyweights WHILE SHE SLEEPS and instrumental legendsANIMALS AS LEADERS. They join …

Reading & Leeds Festivals are delighted to announce Foals and Disclosure as co- headliners for this year’s festival taking place across Bank Holiday Weekend 26-28 August 2016. In a Reading & Leeds first, two bastions of modern British music will be making the step up to the largest festival stages of their careers, bringing together two defining acts …

Redemption Festival 2016   Target 86 Management & Promotions proudly presents the 2nd annual Redemption Festival held at Warehouse 23 in Wakefield.  The venue is 1000 capacity, equipped with a 30k sound system, over £40,000 of stage lighting plus excellent facilities for artists and the general public. After the success …

Sebastian Bach, The Cadillac Three, Ginger Baker’s Airforce 3, Purson, The Kentucky Headhunters, Headspace, Inglorious and The Zombies are the latest acts to be confirmed for this year’s Ramblin’ Man Fair. They join headliners Whitesnake and Black Stone Cherry, as well as Thin Lizzy, Airbourne, Europe, Ginger Wildheart, The Graveltones, Procol …

GOATWHORE announce Bloodstock 2016 appearance New Orleans’ favourite road demons, GOATWHORE have announced they will appear at Bloodstock 2016 along with Stuck Mojo, Metal Allegiance and loads more still to be announced.   Ben Falgoust comments:   “In August we will be making our first appearance at Bloodstock Open Air. …

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME to Headline Tech-Fest 2016   BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME have been announced as headliners at Tech-Fest 2016 along with Protest The Hero. They will join Textures, Fallujah, Fit For An Autopsy, Aegaeon, Destiny Potato, Disperse, Shields, Cold Night For Alligators, Vitalism, The Hirsch Effekt, …

(the) Melvins are the first headline act to be confirmed for this year’s Temples Festival, which takes place at Motion in Bristol from 2 – 5 June. They will headline the Saturday night (4 June). They join a line up that already features Acid King, ACxDC, All Pigs Must Die, …

Steelhouse Festival has added Blues Pills, Fastway and Hey! Hello! to this year’s line up. They join The Darkness, who headline the Sunday evening, Von Hertzen Brothers, Vega and Hand Of Dimes. Steelhouse takes place at Hafod-Y-Dafal, just outside Ebbw Vale, in south Wales on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 …

UK TECH-FEST returns in style in 2016 for its fifth anniversary with a huge band announcement, delivering once again the most forward thinking metal line up in the UK this summer. Progressive metal legends BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME (UK 2016 Exclusive) and Canadian math-metal mavericks PROTEST THE HERO (UK …

Wipe away those January blues, because BLOODSTOCK has three more bands locked and loaded, ready to level Catton Park in August! The METAL ALLEGIANCE project joins the bill!  You never know who’ll show up on stage at a METAL ALLEGIANCE show, but the line-up confirmed so far includes Testament’s Alex …

Upload Festival 2016 are delighted to announce that Skarlett Riot will be headlining the first annual event on May 14th 2016 at Warehouse 23, Wakefield. Upload Festival is a showcase of the very best independent rock & metal that the UK has to offer and Skarlett Riot complete a superb …