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Festivals 2015, Rock and Metal Festivals Poll?

festivals - wacken

With the New Year of Twenty Fifteen on our doorsteps, days are lengthening, nights are growing shorter and festival organisers are trickle feeding the metallian populus with lineup appetisers. It is now time for heavy metallers and rock fans from all over the world to begin the annual hatching of …

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BLOODSTOCK VIP Tickets On Sale Now

Tickets are flying out the door for BLOODSTOCK 2015, the biggest metal party weekend of the year, and now the VIP ‘Serpents Lair’ tickets are available!  Do you like a bit of luxury as part of your festival experience, or just want to hang in the VIP bar with some …

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BLOODSTOCK 2015 adds OVERKILL, ENSIFERUM & BELPHEGOR

While everyone’s talking about Christmas approaching, BLOODSTOCK’s sights are firmly fixed on next August!  And what better way to roll into the festive season than to announce three more crackin’ bands for 2015’s premier heavy metal event. Thrash legends OVERKILL are set to grace the Ronnie James Dio stage.  With …

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Rob Zombie to headline Bloodstock 2015

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 …

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Bloodshot Dawn – ‘Demons’

Bloodshot Dawn - Demons artwork

I first came across Bloodshot Dawn around about 18 months ago, when they played in front of a pretty small crowd in a tiny club here in Belfast, opening for the extremely disappointing Scar Symmetry in a gig which proved that some bands really should be more careful as to …

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BLOODSTOCK 2015 announces more bands!

It’s all systems go for BLOODSTOCK 2015 over at festival HQ.  No rest for the wicked!  As well as the recently announced Saturday night headliners, WITHIN TEMPTATION and special guests, OPETH, more bands are getting locked in for August 2015. Following Emperor’s triumphant headlining set at BLOODSTOCK this year, Emperor …

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BLOODSTOCK Reveal First Bands For 2015

After their biggest and most successful year to date in 2014, BLOODSTOCK are excited to announce their first UK headliner for 2015! WITHIN TEMPTATION are set to play their only UK show next year as Saturday night headliners at Catton Park!  It is a triumphant return for the Dutch megastars, …

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Killer Hurts – ‘Killer Hurts’

Killer Hurts album cover

The story of this debut album by Norwich old school thrashers Killer Hurts is a long and convoluted one… but one which also deserves to be told, as it is pretty much indicative of how the grassroots metal scene works and how those involved within its deepest machinations manage to …

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Darkeye post-Bloodstock interview

While we spoke to a lot of bands both signed and unsigned at Bloodstock, we were unable to manage to speak to all the up and coming  bands who played the New Blood stage, so have been catching up with the ones we missed to see how they enjoyed their …

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Vinnie Paul – Hellyeah interview

I spoke to Hellyeah drummer, Vinnie Paul earlier this year.  Recently I met up with him again to talk about their appearance at Bloodstock, how the album is going down with fans, and how their tour was going.  You can listen to what he had to say about these subjects …

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