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Download 2012’s horrendous weather had led to the year being described as ‘Drownload’, and as Saturday morning breaks it seems likely that this would head the same way; the rain isn’t as heavy but it’s no less relentless. That being said, the arena is open with time to spare before the …

I managed to grab Matt from Funeral for a Friend this year at Download Festival for a quick chat after the Welsh rockers played the Main Stage. Turns out, he’s not the biggest of Iron Maiden fans…

With, unbelievably, less than two months to go until Download 2015, the finishing touches are being added to this year’s masterpiece of a line-up, and today sees twenty-seven more flashes of colour streaking the tableau of Europe’s biggest rock and metal festival. Seminal post hardcore megaliths Funeral For A Friend make a …

Ahead of this months tour supporting Memphis May Fire, Birmingham quintet Cytota have released the video for their new track ‘Sinnocence,’ their first release since 2013’s ‘Generation Scared.’ The track brings together the musicality of Cytota’s previous tracks and the driving guitars along with brutal drumming, giving ‘Sinnocence’ a sense …

Welsh metalcore heroes Funeral For A Friend have very much returned to their roots with their sixth album, ‘Conduit’, which, as we noted in our recent review – http://planetmosh.com/funeral-for-a-friend-conduit/ – is a lot more grounded in the 1990s hardcore sound that characterized their first couple of releases.  This approach also …

Since their formation in 2001, Welsh ‘post-hardcore’ crew Funeral For A Friend have literally “been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts”. However, over the past decade or so, their popularity has undeniably waned: following the gold status of their debut ‘Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation’ in 2003, and …