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Wipe away those January ‘back to reality’ blues with a great deal from those lovely BLOODSTOCK Festival folks!  The very popular deposit scheme is now on sale to help you spread the burden of paying for your 2014 weekend ticket.  Now you can secure your wristband for 2014’s heaviest festival …

BLOODSTOCK, the biggest metal party weekender of the year is just three weeks away, and the event has announced another handful of bands for the Sophie Lancaster Stage at Catton Park. Manchester’s ABSOLVA bring their inspired & modern take on classic British metal to the festival on Friday.  Formed last …

Running from March 20-232014 the second edition of the Prog weekender will continue to embrace both the classic and new artists of the prog scene. Our first wave of acts features ex-Marillion frontman and all-round prog legend Fish, Dutch progressive rock overlords Focus, Prog magazine favourites The Pineapple Thief, the …

BLOODSTOCK is only four weeks away, and the event have announced another handful of bands for the Jagermeister Stage at Catton Park. MOTORHEAD guitarist, PHIL CAMPBELL is set to bring new project., the PHIL CAMPBELL ALL STAR BAND to top out the party on Sunday night.  Phil comments: “I am …

BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL are excited to announce a whole batch of new additions for all three stages.  There’s only seven weeks left to the most metal weekend of the year!!  Have you got your tickets yet?! Opening Friday’s main stage, and fresh off the back of the release of ‘IV’, their …

Much to our regret both W.A.S.P. and Overkill have been forced to cancel their Graspop show for Saturday 29 June. W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless has suffered a broken leg in a car crash. As a result, W.A.S.P. have been forced to cancel their 2013 European summer festival dates, including their …

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 …

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 …

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 …