Festival Announcements

It is our honour to announce that Anathema will headline the Sunday date of the 20th edition of Roadburn Festival, at the 013 venue on April 12, 2015 in Tilburg, The Netherlands, with a special performance that will span the innovative British band’s 25-year career, and include special guest appearances …

BLOODSTOCK’s early bird tickets are flying out the door in the wake of Halloween’s ROB ZOMBIE headline announcement, but festival HQ aren’t resting on their laurels, they’ve got even more bands ready to add on to the bill! British stoner/doom overlords, ORANGE GOBLIN are set for a main stage slot …

Hard Rock Hell 9 officially goes on sale today with 82% of its packages already sold out on pre sale. HRH 9 which takes place next November 2015, brings to life its latest production, “HRH House of Horrors” which promises to be a deep and dark experience laced with over …

The city of Mumbai, India is set to witness it’s first proper open air metal festival in years with the announcement of the new BIG69 Festival hosted by Bajaao.com. The first edition of the festival will see bands such as Flesgod Apocalypse from Italy, Hacktivist from the UK as well …

Ramblin’ Man Fair, Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent UK – 25th & 26th July 2015 First acts announced – Scorpions – UK exclusive show in 2015 Gregg Allman (of The Allman Brothers Band) – UK exclusive show in 2015 Camel – UK Festival exclusive show in 2015 Marillion – UK Festival …

DESERTFEST LONDON has teamed up with Camden Lock Hotel to offer a limited amount of weekend tickets & hotel packages to the festival-goers. There are singles, twins and double rooms available… And as an added bonus upon arrival, each attendee will be welcomed with a Desertfest 2015 goodie bag including …

Love a bit of pyro?!  BLOODSTOCK HQ are continuing their popular website ‘treasure hunts’ and handing you a pyrotastic chance to win tickets for the 2015 event.  To make your bonfire week go with a bang, simply find the 12 hidden fireworks around the BLOODSTOCK website.  If you can locate …

Dames of Darkness festival have just announced their lineup for next year.  Additionally they’ve taken the step of moving from a one day event to a 2 day event, meaning more bands and more partying.  As with recent years, the lineup features a mix of British and European bands, and …

This Halloween, BLOODSTOCK has some howlingly good news to share! Are you a fan of the undead? Love Zombies? The fiendishly brilliant ROB ZOMBIE is confirmed as Sunday’s 2015 main stage headliner, bringing his mind-blowing full production to Catton Park. ROB ZOMBIE exclaims, “I am so ready to get on …

The lineup announcements had to come to an end eventually and Blastfest have now revealed the final 3 bands to the main lineup. But that’s not to say what you see on the burgeoning Blastfest poster is all that’s happening. No, no, no, there will be more! There’s already a …

Europe’s premier indoor extreme metal festival, Neurotic Deathfest, has announced new names for the 2015 installment, set to take place at 013 venue in Tilburg, Netherlands on April 17-19, 2015. Eleven new acts are confirmed, including Hate Eternal, Devourment and Nader Sadek. The organization earlier confirmed heavywheight acts such as …

BLOODSTOCK’s ‘Rock Society’ memberships are set to go on sale at 9am on 31st October.  The BLOODSTOCK ‘Rock Society’ is effectively the festival’s ‘Members Club’, offering not only a 10% discount on your weekend ticket (and that’s on top of the already discounted early bird ticket if you’re quick enough!), …

Corporation will play host to the first annual WinterRocks Festival in December. This extravaganza will mix international artists with some of Sheffield’s finest rising talents over two stages.   THE ANSWER will deliver their stunning live show as festival headliners. “We’ve been rocking out in Sheffield ever since our first …

WILDFIRE FESTIVAL have released a Special Autumn Ticket Offer as the early bird tickets sold out very fast, so a further 100 tickets are being offered at the amazing price of just £50! with no booking fee, which represents a saving of 20% from what will be our final price …

Blastfest has accepted the challenge and has delivered! It is official, Blastfest will be even bigger! With very positive results and excitement of a recent poll, the Bergen, Norway festival have decided 3 days of metal madness wasn’t enough and have expanded the festival into a 4 day event with …

Crossbone fest is proud to announce it’s first 10 bands that will be playing the 2015 edition. And no, Crossbonefest will not be moved to another date, the 20th and 21th of March of 2015 are set in stone no matter what headliner is available. Only a nuclear disaster that …

With all accommodation sold out and less than a handful of day passes left, Hammerfest add yet another batch of bands to an already powerful line up.   Joining the likes of Kamelot, Candlemass, Devilment and Orange Goblin are Northern Thrash metal pioneers Xentrix who have always been regarded as …

While other festivals are still figuring out their 2015 plan, the band announcements continue over at BLOODSTOCK HQ!  Three more bands join the already announced WITHIN TEMPTATION, OPETH, CANNIBAL CORPSE, IHSAHN and SEPULTURA on the Ronnie James Dio stage, and in this release, thrash fans are in for a treat. …

What better way to banish the winter blues than with another red hot Wildfire announcement, fresh off the press here at Les-Fest HQ. Occasionally a band comes out of nowhere and just blows you away. After catching a show stealing performance in the summer, Empire rocketed pretty much straight to …

Wildifire Festival, Scotland’s rock and metal festival has today announced its support to charitable organisation RACPA UK on an ongoing basis. Founded in 2006 in response to the lack of support and understanding being offered to the victims of childhood sexual abuse, RACPA UK began as an awareness campaign to …