Mad About Rock

  Welsh hard hitters, HOUSE OF HOSTS, are rising fast. The band have just released their scorching new single and video, 'Pedestal' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yjDs_qCmLg The track is lifted from their forthcoming EP, 'Reckoning', out on Friday 26th September. With this in mind, we exclusively caught up with the band and asked them to give the tracks that have greatly inspired their sound: Daniel Foley-Griffiths (vocals) Track Choice: Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven, Righteous Side Of Hell. "The double album was beautifully constructed in a way that not only harnesses the pure rage and drive of the screams but balances out with the contrast of melodic choruses and harmony. For me it demonstrates perfectly that you can both be heavy and sinister but also delicate and tranquil." Beth Goodwin (drums) Track Choice: Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions "The Rev plays incredible melodic and syncopated drums that emphasise and com...

  Multi-platinum headliners Avenged Sevenfold (comprising M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Brooks Wackerman, and Johnny Christ) have just announced European dates for 2025. Visiting new markets like Lithuania, Slovenia, and Greece the band will be surprising fans with their setlists and production. The band have just played in India for the first time and hopes to visit more unchartered (for them) territories. See the dates below and visit https://www.avengedsevenfold.com/tour for more details and to purchase tickets. For some time Avenged Sevenfold have been exploring the changing landscape of music and entertainment within the Blockchain, virtual reality concerts and immersive worlds, and were delighted to be nominated at The Game Awards for their ‘The Museum’ Fortnite map. The event will be streaming live on Thursday, December 12th, here . They commented “Why just WATCH when you can participate? Why just LISTEN when you can play? With UEFN's tools, you can do i...

  This weekend’s Liquid Death Presents Download Festival XXI welcomed over 75,000 attendees to the hallowed grounds of Donington Park. DLXXI celebrated its 21st anniversary with incredible sets from first time headliners Queens Of The Stone Age and Fall Out Boy, as well as Download favourites Avenged Sevenfold closing out the weekend with a bang. The atmosphere was electric as Download’s loyal community reunited once again to enjoy DLXXI’s mammoth line-up of bands. Queens Of The Stone Age delivered an epic set of hits on Friday, Chicago’s finest pop punk export Fall Out Boy delighted the crowd with a greatest hits set spanning their entire back catalogue, and Avenged Sevenfold closed out a sun-drenched Sunday with an incendiary set. With an unbelievable line-up over the weekend, featuring the likes of Limp Bizkit, Sum 41, The Offspring, Corey Taylor, Busted, Wheatus, BABYMETAL, Funeral For A Friend, Tom Morello, Kerry King, a mind-blowing secret set from Parkway Drive, a surprise...

  MERCHANDISE MEGASTORE, EULOGY IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE, HOT DOG AND CHILLI EATING CONTEST, WELLNESS MORNINGS, SKATE RAMPS, HAMMER HORROR CINEMA TAKEOVER, TATTOO BOOTHS, TRADERS AND MUCH MORE - Download Megastore: bigger and better than ever with new and exclusive products from Lou's Hot Sauce to collaborations with Mary Wyatt, P+Co, Meyba, Grandad Skates, Liquid Death and more - The Outpost: a brand-new stage featuring live fire cooking demos, primitive skills workshops, chilli and hot dog eating contests, wellness mornings and Fright Night classic film screenings from Hammer Horror - More food and beverage offerings than ever before, including the likes of Liquid Death Hearse, Rocktail Cocktail, The Tap House, LoNo bar, Ace Of Spades Tavern, No Frickin’ Chicken, King of the Yorkie, In For A Penne and many more - Live experiences include Eulogy: an innovative immersive 360-degree audio experience from Darkfield, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance launch and gaming stations, Liquid Death...

  Multi-platinum headliners Avenged Sevenfold (comprising M.Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Brooks Wackerman, and Johnny Christ) have debuted a trippy new music video for “Cosmic,” directed by Chris Hopewell (Radiohead, Run The Jewels). Following a grim reaper’s travels on a psychedelic journey, the 7½ minute song features the 78-piece San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra and is taken from their latest album ‘Life Is But A Dream…’. Watch the video HERE . Avenged Sevenfold is currently on their Life Is But A Dream… tour in the USA, with support from Poppy and Sullivan King. They will be headlining Download Festival on June 16th alongside other European festival headline slots. See the dates below and visit https://www.avengedsevenfold.com/tour for more details as well as tickets and VIP packages. Avenged Sevenfold recently launched their groundbreaking Season Pass loyalty program. Fans who are already streaming their music, buying merchandise, and attending live shows c...

  Liquid Death Presents Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, is now only 100 days away. With the countdown now truly on, celebrate this year's festival with our round up of Download By Numbers. This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . DOWNLOAD BY NUMBERS 21 years of Download Festival 7 stages across the site, offering an array of entertainment across the weekend 110+ bands from headliners Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold on the Apex Stage, new talent on the Avalanche and Dogtooth Stages to DJs and secret sets in District X 90,000+ fans set to descend on Donington Park 200,000 cans of Liquid Death onsite 100,000 expected mosh and circle pit steps per person 30,000 Download t-shirts in production 5000 members of crew needed to build the site in 20 days 5000 new Download patches in product...

  Hellfest today has unveiled its full 2024 line-up for its 17th edition of the festival (see above!). 178 bands (+ 4 bands to be announced before the festival), 6 stages, and undoubtedly one of the most diverse and open line-ups in terms of “extreme music”! For more on Hellfest visit: https://hellfest.fr/en/ https://www.facebook.com/hellfest

  So far our headliner tally for #GMM24 stood at three with Tool, Five Finger Death Punch and Judas Priest. Now we are adding another two titans to the 2024 line-up with Bring Me the Horizon and Avenged Sevenfold. On Saturday, Bring Me the Horizon will close out proceedings on the South Stage whereas Avenged Sevenfold will do the same on the North Stage. A decade after their last appearance here, Bring Me the Horizon return to the hallowed grounds of Graspop Metal Meeting. In the interim the band have earned a new status as one of modern metal’s leading acts. Headed by Oli Sykes, BMtH have a taste for experimentation, both live and in the studio, effortlessly mixing metalcore with electronica and pop music while staging visually mind-blowing shows. In 2020 they dropped the first instalment in their Post Human EP series with ‘Post Human: Survival Horror‘ and the next EP ‘Post Human: Nex Gen’ is due in January 2024. This is sempiternal! The Americans of Avenged Sevenfold made their G...

  Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 21st edition, reborn and recharged in 2024 as DLXXI. Announced today are headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold, as well as over 70 more huge names from the rock world. This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. General tickets are onsale at 9pm on Thursday 9 November at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . Also announced today are UK and international heavyweights Royal Blood, The Offspring, Sum 41, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Pantera, BABYMETAL, Fear Factory, While She Sleeps, Billy Talent, Bowling For Soup, The Used, Hoobastank (playing ‘The Reason’ in full), Atreyu, Counterparts, Bad Omens, Dying Fetus, The Black Dahlia Murder, Those Damn Crows, Holding Absence, Silverstein, Charlotte Sands, Thy Art Is Murder, Fit For A King and so many more. The headliners and other acts announced today high...

  Multi-platinum headliners Avenged Sevenfold (comprising M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ, and Brooks Wackerman) unleash "Nobody," their first new single since 2016. Listen HERE via Warner Records. The triumphant track and its accompanying stop-motion video offer the first taste of the Huntington Beach, CA band's forthcoming eighth album, Life Is But a Dream..., which drops June 2. Watch the new video directed by award-winning director Chris Hopewell, for "Nobody" HERE . Pre-order the album HERE . Avenged Sevenfold will support the release with two massive live shows this summer, at Kia Forum on June 9 and Madison Square Garden on June 23. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 17th HERE . The newly announced arena concerts mark Avenged Sevenfold's first proper New York City on-sale appearance since 2007 and their first Los Angeles county headline on sale since 2009. "Nobody," the band’s first official music release si...

Check out the latest massive issue of Stencil Mag which this time includes my interviews with Paolo from Trivium and Arya from Skindred ! Skindred Interview:  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/106 Trivium Interview:  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/114 The reviews I done for this issue are: Lamb Of God - The Duke EP -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/180 Trivium - Ember To Inferno: Ab Inition (Deluxe) -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/181 AFI - The Blood Album -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/182 Matt Pryor - Memento Mori -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/183 Proll Guns - Horseflesh BBQ  -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/188 Arcane Roots - Curtains (Single Review) -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue41/188 Remember to check out all the other awesome interviews and reviews/features all for free here:  https://issuu.com/stencilma...