Festival Announcements

On Friday 25 May eight young bands from all over the country gained a once in a lifetime chance to play live at Download festival this June with the Red Bull Studios live at Download opportunity.  Six bands with the highest online votes from the public were picked, whilst two …

Voting is now live for one week only (May 17th – 25th) for the 15 bands who have made it through to the semi finals of the Red Bull Studios live at Download 2013 opportunity.   A huge 700 bands entered in total.  The public then voted and 100 of …

The award-winning BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL has started a weekly Facebook lottery, enabling a lucky winner to grab a pair of festival tickets (with camping) every week from now through to the festival in August.  All you need to do to enter is swap your current Facebook cover pic for one of …

Hellfest announced changes to this years line up earlier today – We are very glad to announce the confirmation of ENTHRONED. The Belgium horde will play under the Temple stage on Friday 21st at 12.50. Also, NACHTMYSTIUM cancelled their participation, they will be replaced by the evil French combo SVART …

Hard Rock Calling is set to be held at the brand new iconic home of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Kasabian make their UK festival exclusive headlining Saturday 29 June, while Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band return to finish what they started on Sunday 30 June 2013. *Confirmed …

Dave Richie -And so it comes to pass that we complete the line up in this our 6th announcement for Les-Fest 2013. The final additions take us to 62 live acts over 2 stages. With no clashes on Friday and no clashes after 6pm on Saturday or Sunday. First up …

With the addition of Soulfly, The Monolith Deathcult, Crucified Barbara and Thy Art Is Murder, the lineup for GMM2013 is finally complete. It looks like it’s going to be another vintage edition of Belgium’s premier metal festival! The 18th edition of Graspop Metal Meeting is shaping up to be a …

Download Festival continues to score out of the park with the announcement that a further 25 acts have been added to this year’s line up, including Thunder, Kvelertak, Devin Townsend and We Are The Ocean. Headlined by Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein, Download Festival takes place 14-16 June 2013 in …

BEARDED THEORY FESTIVAL 2013 Derbyshire’s biggest family friendly festival FRIDAY 17TH – SUNDAY 19TH MAY 2013   LEVELLERS | REVEREND & THE MAKERS ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION | SETH LAKEMAN NEW MODEL ARMY | STIFF LITTLE FINGERS THE HUMMINGBIRDS | NED’S ATOMIC DUSTBIN PEATBOG FAERIES | MACKA B | THE FARM …

Hard Rock Hell 7 announces more acts including Michael Monroe, Vain, Snakecharmer and many more for this November’s Event…and with only 76 rooms left, you better hurry! Hard Rock Hell 7 (Cirque Du Rock) which takes place November 28-30th at Hafan Y Mor Holiday Park in Pwllheli, N.Wales, has announced …

Just a few gaps remain to be filled in the lineup for the 2013 edition of Belgium’s premier metal festival! Earlier this month HYPOCRISY, GRAVE DIGGER and KORPIKLAANI were confirmed. Today we are proud to add ROCKSTAR, AGNOSTIC FRONT, ESCAPE THE FATE, KING HISS, VANDERBUYST, ROTTING CHRIST and PRETTY MAIDS …

There’s yet more thrash for BLOODSTOCK with Northern Irish upstarts, GAMA BOMB landing an opening slot on the Ronnie James Dio mainstage.  The band are looking forward to churning up the Catton Park turf, commenting; “BLOODSTOCK: it’s just like Woodstock, but for heavy metal types, and replacing the love and …

UK’s fastest growing festival Ghostfest just got even bigger with eight more bands added to the bill Set to be the UK’s biggest moshfest of the year, Ghostfest is very excited to announce eight more bands to its heavy pitting lineup at Leeds Student’s Union on 29 / 30 June …

You’ve talked a lot about it, and you’ve been waiting for it, today we are glad to confirm the presence of GOJIRA at HELLFEST. The leader of the french scene will crush the main stage 1 on Sunday, June 23rd with his “pachydermic” metal ! GOJIRA will be the 20th …

The lineup for this summer’s edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting is really shaping up now with the addition of another seven bands. The newcomers are Helloween, W.A.S.P., Prong, All That Remains, Tankard, Newsted and Love And Death. A small change to our day schedules: Heaven Shall Burn has been …

Having launched phase two of their crowd-funding via Kickstarter on Monday 4th March 2013, Alt Fest organisers are proud to announce that the £30,000 initial target was smashed within six days and with 22 days still left on the official campaign.  In accordance with Kickstarter’s terms and conditions, pledgers do …

  British shred-heavy melodic metallers SAVAGE MESSIAH have been added to the line-up for the VIP day at Hammerfest in Wales this Thursday. The band will be performing from 9:15pm to 10:20pm this Thursday, March 14th alongside SISTER SIN, SACRED MOTHER TONGUE, JAGUAR and more.  The festival will also feature …

Taking Place at the Jackson County Fairgrounds in Jackson, MI on June 22, 2013   Presented by Experience Jackson, Revolver Electronic Cigarette, Kings of Rock Entertainment & Happy’s Pizza   Hosted by SONS OF ANARCHY’s KRISTEN RENTON   PURCHASE TICKETS HERE   The 6th annual Monster Energy Drink ROCKAPALOOZA festival, …

BLOODSTOCK 2013 is shaping up to be the metal event of the summer, with another ten head-bangin’ bands confirmed to join headliners SLAYER, KING DIAMOND, and LAMB OF GOD. Canadian prog thrash pioneers, VOIVOD are set to play their only UK show of 2013 at Bloodstock Festival!! The band’s latest album, …

HARD ROCK CALLING plugs back in for 2013 at brand new iconic home Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London on Sat 29th and Sun 30th June . Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 8 March 2013 available at www.hardrockcalling.co.uk Two of the world’s biggest acts are ready to rock …