Festival Announcements

Kirk Hammett has announced that he will not only perform at the festival himself, but will also take part in a special encore performance with a blast from his past – that’s right, EXODUS!

Alt-Fest are celebrating the New Year in style by announcing The Cult, set to appear on Sunday 17th of August as the final headliner for the festival. This is an exclusive UK 2014 performance that will take place over the weekend of 15th – 17th August at Boughton Estate, Kettering. …

While the set times for each band will be announced in April, here is the complete band roster for 2014’s installment of the USA’s most brutal metal festival, the Maryland Deathfest. Dubbed MDF by many fans and attendees, this festival draws some of the top names in extreme music year …

The self-proclaimed ‘God of Fuck’ has been confirmed as the headline act for Alt-Fest – Saturday 16th August 2014. This will be the band’s only UK Festival Performance. 10 albums down, 3 Grammy nominations, a string of past band members, a truck load of covers and more controversy than the …

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We are up to the 19th announcement on the Wacken Advent calendar! So far the bands that have been revealed are: Skid Row, Bring Me The Horizon, Excrementory Grindfucker, Crematory, Hammerfall, Steel Panther, Bülent Ceylan, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Vogelfrey, Pampatut, The Vintage Caravan, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Saxon, August Burns Red, …

We are up to day 17 on the Wacken Advent calendar! The first bands revealed so far are: Skid Row, Bring Me The Horizon, Excrementory Grindfucker, Crematory, Hammerfall, Steel Panther, Bülent Ceylan, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Vogelfrey, Pampatut, The Vintage Caravan, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Saxon, August Burns Red, C.O.P. UK (Crimes …

Fast rising metal stars Bleed From Within have today been confirmed to headline Friday night at Les-Fest 3 in 2014. Having recently concluded the highly successful Defenders of the Faith Tour with Carcass, Amon Amarth and Hell and now ready to hit the road in 2014 with DevilDriver, once again …

Tickets are flying out the door faster than ever for BLOODSTOCK 2014, the biggest metal party weekend of the year, with both the Early Bird and Rock Society tickets selling out in record time.  The VIP ‘Serpents Lair’ tickets are now on sale and are expected to move similarly fast.  …

The Wacken advent calendar started on the 1st Dec and the first bands revealed so far are: Skid Row, Bring Me The Horizon, Excrementory Grindfucker, Crematory, Hammerfall, Steel Panther, Bülent Ceylan, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Vogelfrey, Pampatut, The Vintage Caravan, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Saxon and August Burns Red. 2 new bands …

Dance/Rock icons The Prodigy join Iron Maiden and Metallica as the third headline artist to be announced for an historic Sonisphere festival in 2014. Prodigy will kick off the weekend with a bang on Friday night followed by Iron Maiden on Saturday night and Metallica closing the festival on Sunday. …

The Wacken advent calendar started on the 1st Dec and the first bands revealed so far are: Skid Row, Bring Me The Horizon, Excrementory Grindfucker, Crematory and Hammerfall. Since then the following bands have been announced Double package behind door 6 Steel Panther – Feel the steel! The mighty Steel Panther …

The brewers of the legendary ruby ale Hobgoblin are back to continue their partnership with Bloodstock Open Air Festival. A collaboration which sees both parties teaming up to bring METAL 2 THE MASSES at Bloodstock 2014, offering breaking bands the chance to perform on the ever increasingly popular Newblood Stage.

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF ROCK AT KNEBWORTH! Iron Maiden and Metallica, the two biggest metal bands on the planet, will make history this summer when they co-headline the Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth, the very first time both bands have appeared together on a British bill, and the ONLY CONCERTS EITHER …

Hellfest 2014 takes place on 20, 21, 22 June at Rue du Champ Louet, 44190 Clisson, France. With a record of 113,000 people attending the festival in 2012 & 2013, Hellfest has become the 3rd biggest festival in France. The originality of the festival’s artistic project has allowed it to …

Alt-Fest is very pleased to announce that the legendary Peter Hook will be joining the line-up of the debut festival in 2014. His band Peter Hook and The Light will perform seminal album ‘Unknown Pleasures’ in its entirety as part of his set. In keeping with the ethos of Alt-Fest, …

12 new bands have been announced! They are...The Offspring, Status Quo, Steel Panther, Trivium, In Flames, While She Sleeps, Letlive, The Black Dahlia Murder, Crossfaith, Miss May I, Blessthefall and Dying Fetus! Download Festival’s 12th year is shaping up to be one of its best as the 2014 line up …

Keeping things hard, fast and heavy for Friday night Les-Fest announce a handful of bands for their 3rd event in 2014. First up are Manchester based hard groove Metallers Incassum, signed to Rocksector records and with a very successful Bloodstock Festival under their belts in 2013, this again shows, Les-Fest …