Festival Announcements

Behemoth Announced to Play Bloodstock 2016 Just announced on Bloodstock Festival’s Facebook page here “BEHEMOTH! Announced as 2016 special guests, playing ‘The Satanist’ in full. 2016 Early Bird tix available online from 9am Mon 10th Aug at www.bloodstock.uk.com” See the video announcement on Metal Hammer’s YouTube Channel below:- Behemoth are …

Wildfire are pleased to announce the first group of bands to be playing at next years festival.   Full details and early bird tickets from facebook.com/events/wildfire http://www.wildfirefestival.co.uk/ http://www.wildfirefestival.co.uk/ Apriori-Fire https://youtu.be/mos29X1rURk   Serpentine-Season Of The Witch Sky Valley Mistress-Dirty Blonde Blues https://youtu.be/8SXw5aUjH-o   Soldier- https://www.facebook.com/soldiernwobhm/videos/178070445675523/   Winterstorm-Sail The Unknown Sea  

Venom – First Band Announced for Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016 British Heavy Metal band Venom are the first band announced for Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016. The video announcement was aired at Bloodstock Open Air Festival today and can be seen on Bloodstock’s Facebook Page here and also on Metal …

There has been a last minute change to the line-up of this weekend’s PlanetMosh-backed Monsters Of Rot V extreme metal fest. Dublin death metallers Guttrench and hardcore troops Hollow Truth both have unfortunately had pull out.  They have been replaced by Xerosun, who will be performing their first gig with new …

We are well and truly deep into rock music Festival season, Download has been and gone, as has Wildfire; the Steelhouse festival is this weekend and Bloostock the weekend after. For those of us who may not wish to camp, there are also a growing number of indoor festivals to …

Goatsnake, Dozer, Moon Duo and more added to the Desertfest Belgium lineup We are happy to announce that Californian sludge-blues royalty GOATSNAKE have been added to the DESERTFEST ANTWERP 2015 line-up! Additionally, we have confirmations for the touring beast that isDOZER, the face-melting psych of MOON DUO, those fine purveyors of stoner …

NLC & Orange Amplifiers Presents ‘Rocking For The Children’ Supporting RAPCA UK & Awareness For Autism  NLC & Orange Amplifiers present “Rocking For The Children” Festival 2016, to be held at The Maze, Nottingham on 30th April 2016 – 1st May 2016. See poster below for the awesome line-up so …

The last acts taking part in this year’s Perverting The Innocent – which takes place on Saturday September 12 and now has been upgraded to Dublin’s Voodoo Lounge – have been confirmed. They are German progressive death metallers Alkaloid Louth sludgers Raum Kingdom and Dublin death industrialists Axial Symmetry They join …

Hayseed Dixie, Tygers of Pan Tang and Jettblack head up HRH’s annual ride out to Ibiza for Cycle 7 Rock n Roll holidays are hard to come by, but with 6 years of annual road trips to Ibiza we think we have the ideal ingredients to make the holiday of …

The Damned Looking Forward To Undercover Festival Festival Organiser Mick Moriarty made the following announcement: “Here at Undercover we are so pleased to be able to finally welcome THE DAMNED to Undercover as the headline act for SATURDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER making this one we are sure many will remember.  The Damned …

After another outstanding festival, Wildfire is all set to return in 2016. Now celebrating our 5th anniversary, Wildfire 2016 will be bigger, bolder, louder and with stronger headline acts than ever before. To celebrate, we have launch the start of our search for the best new, young and emerging talent …

Tyla J Pallas from The Dogs D’Amour, Jettblack and Black Rain lead a Sleaze injection of Rock as HRH AOR sells out in record time HRH AOR, now in its 4th cycle are pleased to welcome another 18 bands to the fold as all accommodation runs out. New additions include …

HRH Prog, now in its 4th cycle is proud to add yet another batch of bands to its increasingly popular annual Prog community gathering. Soft Machine are no strangers to the UK shores but their self-styled signature sound will compliment an ever growing line up.     Joining Soft machine, …

Norwegian extreme metal trio KEEP OF KALESSIN and Belgian hardcore quartet OATHBREAKER are the latest additions to Damnation Festival. The duo will join a diverse cast at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 7, which already consists of At The Gates, High on Fire, Mono, Amenra, Asphyx, Solstafir, Altar of …

Wildfire Festival have launched a poll to see what band you want to return for next year’s festival. Organiser Dave Ritchie comments: “Wow, what can we say? Excellent weekend and the feedback is overwhelming. Thanks for coming along or supporting us on the journey. We have more planned for 2016 …

Sorcerer Announced for Hammerfest 8 Sorcerer have been added to the bill of Hammerfest 8. The epic Swedish doom legends will join Exodus, Turisas, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Evile and a whole load more already announced plus tons more to be added to the bill. Check out the video for “The Dark …

Wildfire Festival in Scotland have announced the set times and final line-up of this years festival. Featuring the Tygers of Pan Tang, Ten and Swedish rockers Coldspell as the headliners, also appearing on the final night are the legendary NWOBHM act Diamond Head. It’s all set to be a rocking …

With Download over for another year, things are just ramping up for Bloodstock, which opens its gates in just seven weekends time!  With the ‘Metal 2 The Masses’ finals well under way and racking up record attendances, including numerous sell-out events, the next batch of winning bands to grab their …

Punk stalwarts Peter and the Test Tube Babies have been brought in as the Friday night headliners to complete the bill at the third Undercover Festival at Bisley Pavilion in Woking, Surrey. They sit at the top of the programme alongside The Damned, UK Subs, and Penetration. The festival is …

UK TECH-FEST announces grime-metallers HACKTIVIST, prog-metallers Monuments and Mathcore band Rolo Tomassi plus 17 more bands. With one more headliner to announce plus workshops, after parties and gear demos, Techfest 2015 is shaping up to be its biggest year yet. Also announced are Nexilva, No Consequence, Carcer City, Red Seas Fire, …