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  Monday 23 February 2026: Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, has today added 14 artists to its already stellar line up for its 23rd edition in 2026. The new additions to the DLXXIII line up include A Day To Remember, THE PRIMALS, Daughtry, Creeper, Hot Milk, DECESSUS and more. Download Festival will take place on 10-14 June 2026 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Day tickets are now available at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . Announced today are Florida pop punk heavyweights A Day To Remember, Final Fantasy XIV’s official band THE PRIMALS (performing outside of Asia for the very first time), Creeper, Daughtry, Hot Milk, Silly Goose, Marmozets, BAND-MAID, Stampin’ Ground, Frozemode, Conjurer, Annisokay, Private School and DECESSUS, the Santiago death metal band fronted by the current Miss World Chile, Ignacia Fernández. The new additions join an already gargantuan line up headlined by Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Lin...

  Following the runaway success of their surprise physical-first album, Big Ole Album Vol. 1, A Day To Remember are back with a brand new music video for their current, US top 20 radio single “All My Friends”. Perfectly encapsulating the energy of the song, the new clip is an unfiltered, shot-shooting celebration of chaos and camaraderie featuring WWE superstar Seth Rollins and his flame thrower. Sound crazy? It is. Watch the raucous new video HERE and find "All My Friends " on your streaming platform of choice HER E. The "All My Friends" video drops viewers into the middle of a rowdy dive bar night with A Day To Remember and their friends - including Seth Rollins and Cody Quistad of Wage War. Complete with crowd surfing, shots flying and a signature world- conquering, sing-along chorus made for losing your voice to, it’s reckless, it's fun and is perfectly representative of the kind of debauchery the song's energy deserves. Now riding high off a hugely s...

  Post-hardcore giants A Day To Remember have announced a huge run of shows in the UK and Europe for 2025, bringing their signature blend of metalcore, pop-punk, and post-hardcore anthems to some of the biggest venues and festivals across the continent. The tour kicks off on May 22nd in Glasgow and runs through to June 28th in Leipzig, hitting major cities and festival stages along the way. This highly anticipated tour follows the surprise release of the bands’ brand-new album, A Day To Remember’s Big Ole Album Vol. 1, which is available now on physical formats. Digital streaming for the album will officially launch on March 21st, giving fans a fresh set of anthems to scream along to this summer. UK & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES: 22 May - Glasgow, UK • O2 Academy Glasgow ^ 24 May - Hatfield, UK • Slam Dunk Festival* 25 May - Leeds, UK • Slam Dunk Festival* 27 May - Tilburg, NL • 013 Poppodium^ 28 May - Liège, BE • OM^ 30 May - Paris, FR • L’Olympia^ 31 May - Lyon, FR • Slam Dunk France...

  Flipping the script, shocking the system, and surprising audiences everywhere, A Day To Remember unveil their brand new full-length record, A Day To Remember’s Big Ole Album Vol. 1, today as a Physical-First release exclusively available in Vinyl and CD configurations at various online retailers and brick-and-mortar stores now. Get it HERE via Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic Music Group. A Day To Remember’s Big Ole Album Vol. 1 lands at all streaming platforms on March 21, 2025. Kickstarting this chapter, the band will share two new tracks of the album on DSPs—“Make It Make Sense” and “LeBron” this afternoon at 8PM GMT / 3pm EST. Listen HERE . Opening up the record, “Make It Make Sense” uncorks an unbridled blast of aggression and energy. The riff hits with the force of an air raid as an old-school hardcore breakdown tosses and turns beneath guttural screams. It culminates on a concentratedly crushing chant, “Glass half full, but it’s never enough. Make it make sense. Make it make sen...

  Today, genre-defying A Day To Remember announce their long awaited headline show in London. The band will perform at the iconic O2 Academy Brixton on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Known for their high-energy live performances blending post-hardcore, pop-punk, and metalcore, A Day To Remember has a reputation for delivering incredible live shows with their dynamic presence and unmatched showmanship. This London date follows the success of their extensive U.S. tour dates and festival performances, which has left sold-out arenas and rave reviews in its wake. TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with various presales beginning on Wednesday, July 31st. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, August 2nd at 10 am local time. Tickets are available from www.adtr.com . A DAY TO REMEMBER 2025 UK DATE: Tue, 24 June - UK, London - O2 Academy Brixton A Day To Remember ABOUT A DAY TO REMEMBER Since their formation in 2003, A Day To...

Photo credit: Matt Eachus – Download Festival 2017 (Biffy Clyro) So I went to the biggest rock/metal festival in the UK for  Dark Art Conspiracy  check out my Download Festival UK  2017 live review here! https://darkartconspiracy.com/2017/06/15/live-review-download-festival-system-of-a-down-biffy-clyro-aerosmith-donnington-park-uk-9th-11th-june-2017/ My review features Motionless In White, Four Year Strong, Mastodon, Five Finger Death Punch, Prophets Of Rage, System Of A Down (Headliners), Hackivist, Creeper, Alestorm, Suicide Silence, AFI, A Day To Remember, Wednesday 13, Rob Zombie, Biffy Clyro (Headliners), Orange Goblin, In Flames, Steel Panther, Opeth, Slayer and finally Sunday headliners Aerosmith. Enjoy and bring on Download Festival 2018!! To find out more about Download Festival visit: https://downloadfestival.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/downloadfest https://twitter.com/DownloadFest

Okay so now upto date Issue of Stencil Mag! (Jan 2014) Featuring loads of great interview/reviews! My reviews include: Canterbury, NOFX, The Lawrence Arms & Of Mice & Men! The new year has just begun and already we have seen some great releases, I highly recommend checking out Canterbury & Of Mice & Men's new album. You can read my reviews here: http://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue23 Until next time..have already started working on pieces for the next issue so look out for that and will also be posting more posts shortly! To all the upcoming awesome albums/gigs of the year!! Carina

This Issue was a personal highlight for me as I was lucky enough to do phone interviews with only Jacoby Fucking Shaddix frontman of Papa Roach & AFI guitarist, Jade! This was huge for me being a big fan of both bands and growing up listening to them! My other contributions included the interviews for Mayday Parade, Protest The Hero, The Word Alive, my album of the year feature (Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal - say what you like about the band, but there is no denying this was a hell of an album!) and my other reviews of, Protest The Hero, AFI and A Day To Remember! To view this action packed issue, go here: http://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue22 Carina