Festival Announcements

Ghostfest adds another 13 bands to its brutal line up as well as stage splits for the weekender taking place at Leeds Uni on 28 /29 June. New additions are:  Bleed from Within, Heart of a Coward, Breakdown of Sanity, Your Demise 2004, Palm Reader, Broken Teeth, Dead Harts, Novelists, Early Seasons, Continents, Fathoms, The Catharsis and Black Dogs Presented by IMPERICON, the weekend …

UK TECH-FEST is proud to announce another 14 bands to add to its already impressive line-up, with two more secret headliners still yet to be unveiled. Back for its third year, the festival will be held at the prestigious Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire. The latest line up additions are: THE …

Five more acts have been announced today for Les-Fest 3, Scotland’s premier Rock and Metal Festival. First up UK hot property and causing a real stir across the scene is No Sin Evades His Gaze a great British Metal Band, with a very strong pedigree. Joining them on the same …

Things are hotting up at BLOODSTOCK HQ as even more bands are unveiled for 2014!! Joining the main stage bill are the newly renamed, ENTOMBED A.D.  After having to change their name from just ‘Entombed’, LG Petrov and his fellow band members are once again ready to let the music …

Hellfest have announced chages to the running order as well as Megadeth having to cancle their June tour dates. Hellfest – Please have a look on the new Running order, SOULFLY & DEEP PURLE, PARADISE LOST & SOILWORK, VREID & SOLSTAFIR have switched! http://www.hellfest.fr/running-order Regarding Megadeth “It is with deep …

English blackened grind duo ANAAL NATHRAKH and American death metal outfit REVOCATION will bolster the Terrorizer Stage at this year’s Damnation Festival. They’ll be joined by the bipolar sludge/grind purveyors CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR on the bill which will sprawl across four stages at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 1. …

EHT Promotions, a well-established local organizer of heavy metal events in Dublin are thrilled to announce details about the 2014 UNLEASHED FESTIVAL. The now annual event, launched in style last year with headlining performances from GAMA BOMB, OVEROTH and DEATH OF A SALEMAN, is coming back for another three days …

Three more Metal-Battle finalists confirmed! Wacken – we can confirm three more Metal-Battle finalists that will enlarge this year´s billing once more. The finals in Norway are over and the winner is a band called Timewaves. The band from Kristiansand beat all competitors and will now proceed to the finals …

The Official Hellfest 2014 Pprogram booklet is now available. To download it, please click HERE. The booklet translated into English click HERE. Hellfest 2014’s Running Order is out! You can now download the Running Order HERE or create your own programming here : http://www.hellfest.fr/running-order For all the up to date information about …

Hot on the tail of a highly successful U.K. leg of a mammoth World Tour, Leaves Eyes are now confirmed as Headliners for the annual Metal Female Voices Festival held in Belgium on 17th 18th and 19th of October. The band promise a full stage show, with special guests amongst …

PlanetMosh is delighted to be confirmed as main partner for this year’s instalment of the Monsters Of Rot one-day festival in Northern Ireland this summer. This year’s event – which once again takes place at The Halfway Inn, Letterbreen, County Fermanagh – takes place on Saturday August 16. Acts confirmed …

Hard Rock Hell announces 10 hot new acts from across the globe including Truckfighters, Big Elf & Massive. LA psychedelic rockers Big Elf and Sweden’s Stoner rock act Truckfighters join a wealth of great new talented bands added to the line-up for this year’s Hard Rock Hell 8. Other acts …

Six weeks until Download Festival. Yep, you read that right. Six. SIX. And with time until the gates open getting ever shorter, this year’s official DOWNLOAD 2014 APP has been released for iPhone and Android, featuring all the latest news, information and advice needed to make this year the best one …

Progressive Death Metallers, Nexilva, have today been confirmed for a Friday Main Stage slot at this summers Les-Fest 3. Joining an already strong line up of Death, Tech and Black Metal this is another strong signing for the rapidly growing event. Monolithic Music Manager Simon Garrod stated “We are proud …

We’ve been talking to those nice people at Alt-Fest and they’ve agreed to give Planetmosh readers 10% off the price of tickets if you order before 2nd May. All you need to do is go to the Alt-fest website and select the tickets you want.  Then hit continue and it …

Over 50 incredible new names revealed for Reading & Leeds Festivals 2014! In a year where Reading & Leeds Festivals have announced not three, but four of the world’s biggest acts as headliners for 2014, the line-up continues to grow with over 50 additions across the stages. This year looks …

METAL4SPLASH have announced two more bands for July: DARK AGE –  For almost twenty years DARK AGE have been standing for Melodic Death Metal quality made in Germany. Meanwhile the band has developed to one of THE German bands of this genre and their latest record “A Matter Of Trust” …

When it comes to early day crossover and the seminal bands that paved their way through the 80’s mixing the precision and intensity of thrash with the energy and anger of old school hardcore, the list of those that could be mentioned as essentials would be quite extensive. But, if …

The award-winning BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL are excited to announce the first batch of breaking bands to grace the Hobgoblin-sponsored ‘New Blood’ stage in 2014. BLOODSTOCK is very proud to support new bands from all over the world and the ‘New Blood’ stage gives them the platform to showcase grass-roots acts, underlining …

Taking Back Sunday are to headline the rejuvenated Merthyr Rock festival, which returns to the grounds of Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil, on Sunday 17 August. Now operated by Wales’ largest independent promoter Orchard Entertainment – who took over from previous operators Hay Festivals – the third edition of Merthyr Rock …