Mad About Rock

  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...

  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...

  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...

PVRIS are a fast and forever rising American trio from Massachusetts. They released their highly successful debut, 'White Noise' in 2014, and are still reaping the benefits and soaring to greater heights with it! They decided to release a deluxe version of their dark electro cinematic rock sound, out now (released 22nd April 2016), which luckily for us includes new song, 'Empty', which is hugely ambient and atmospheric, with Lynn's characteristic powerhouse vocals, leaving a lasting impression, and a stunning stripped down version of new single, 'You And I' , which differs greatly from the original, but is equally powerful and impressive, having a seriously emotive, beautiful and haunting raw sound.  They are certainly in the spotlight right now, having recently supported Fall Out Boy in the US in February/March 2016, they then embarked on their first ever headline UK tour which started and finished this month, which went down a storm , with many a ...

C heck out yesterday's Angle Daily, which I contributed too!  http://issuu.com/anglemagazineuk/docs/issue_17/1 Here's a bit of what's in this issue of the Angle Daily. Remember, there's videos and music in this mag, not just text and pictures! On the cover is a photo of Will Knox, taken by Lee Edwards of  Ledwards.photos . Inside you’ll find: Highlights from our Balcony Sessions featuring Martin Ellis, Logan Wilson, Harry Whitburn and Zakk Haydon. As well as photos of Mir Cooke’s guitarist James Brandenburg and Matt Finucane. Music and info on releases and news concerning rising bands/artists like Pity Sex, RingoDeathstarr, Suburban Legends, Cold Snap, Mofoisdead and Bel Esprit. Highlights from our Angle Radar playlist. A review by Cleary Mallard of the latest Thelem EP. Music and info on releases and news concerning major bands/artists like Simple Plan, Fall Out Boy, Demi Lovato, Protest The Hero, Radkey, Bullet For My Valentine and Twisted Sister...