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  We’re excited to announce 22 new band additions and a venue update for Mangata Festival 2026, taking place on Saturday 5 September 2026 in Nottingham. With five stages spread across three city-centre venues, this is shaping up to be the biggest edition of Mangata Festival yet. We’re pleased to confirm that Mangata Festival 2026 will once again feature five stages, working closely with Rescue Rooms, Rock City, and The Tap & Tumbler. Rescue Rooms will host the Main Stage, with the Red Room stage upstairs, located at Masonic Place, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham (NG1 5LB). Just a few minutes away, Rock City on Talbot Street (NG1 5GG) will host the Beta stage and the Black Cherry Lounge stage. Around the corner, the Tap & Tumbler at 33 Wollaton Street (NG1 5FW) will host our fifth stage, which will be free entry with no ticket required. On the Rescue Rooms Main Stage, joining previously announced Raised By Owls, Red Method, and In Search of Sun, we’re thrilled to welcome our ...

  Multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Sacramento band Deftones share the details for their fourth annual Dia De Los Deftones set for Saturday Nov. 4 at Petco Park in San Diego, CA. Headlined, hosted, and curated by Deftones, the all-ages festival lineup also features 100 Gecs, Knocked Loose, Doechii, Pinback, Pieri, Rile, and Capra. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18th at 10:00 AM PST at Ticketmaster.com. Deftones' Artist Presale will run Wednesday, August 16th at 10:00 AM to Thursday, August 17th at 10:00 PM PST. Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Padres, and local radio pre-sales will all run Thursday, August 17th only from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM PST. On its two stages, Dia De Los Deftones showcases artists across the spectrum of culture, encompassing hip-hop, electronic, indie, alternative, and metal. Inviting complete immersion and an inimitable experience, its concourse comprises art installations, local vendors, exclusive merchandise, and more. After three prior installments, it ...

  Hot tubs, warm Caribbean breeze, and Heavy Metal. The organizers of 70000TONS OF METAL have announced the public sales date for the twelfth edition of The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise. Public Sales will start Tuesday, June 27th 2023 at 12PM EDT for the upcoming voyage that will sail on January 29th to February 2nd, 2024 from Miami, FL to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic and back. Every attendee receives unrestricted festival access to 120+ shows and special onboard events: meet & greets with every band, unique and intimate masterclasses with select musicians, exclusive live album premieres, listening sessions and more. Guests will also have the chance to explore Puerto Plata with their favorite bands on a selection of “Artist Escorted Shore Excursions”, where fans have the opportunity to join band members on expeditions like snorkeling, kayaking, boat tours and more. Sailing onboard Freedom of the Seas, 60 bands will perform across four stages, including ...

  Another successful edition with 220,000 fans and over 150 acts Hollywood Vampires, Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard on the main stages, Kreator in the Marquee, Billy Talent on the Jupiler Stage and Monster Magnet in the Metal Dome to name but a few - the organisation can look back on yet another memorable and sold-out edition. The festival grounds in Dessel welcomed 220,000 visitors for four full days of metal mayhem. True to form, the 2023 edition billed a varied selection of international top acts and homegrown talent. Over 150 bands gave it their all this year on two main stages (North and South), the enlarged Jupiler Stage and in the Marquee, the Metal Dome and the Classic Rock Café. The Graspop faithful ate it up and the atmosphere was exuberant in spite of the sweltering heat. No fewer than 63 of the 150 bands this year were GMM first-timers. Graspop places a strong emphasis on up-and-coming bands of the new generation, giving them ample opportunities to ply their trade in front...

  Capulet Fest - Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Thompson, Connecticut: Are you ready for an unforgettable experience? We're thrilled to announce that this year's Capulet Fest is going to be bigger, better, and more extraordinary than ever before! Over the course of two days, we'll be treating you to an electrifying lineup of over 30 bands across two stages. Get ready to kick off the Independence Day festivities in style with Capulet Fest - the ultimate pre-Fourth of July celebration! This mega event has something for everyone, from amazing food and drinks to exciting entertainment and activities. With a wide variety of vendors, food trucks, and beer trucks on site, you'll never go hungry or thirsty. Plus, you'll be entertained by some of the top podcasters and radio personalities in the area, including Radio 104's own Amy Grey who will be emceeing the event. But that's not all - Capulet Fest will culminate in a spectacular fireworks display that will ...

  The 70000TONS OF METAL festival organizers have announced that the twelfth edition of the floating festival will sail on January 29th to February 2nd from Miami, Florida - Cruise Capital of the World - to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic and back, on board the luxury passenger vessel Freedom of the Seas. The festival will once again host 60 Heavy Metal bands spanning all subgenres and welcome 3000 metalheads from around the world. Freedom of the Seas, a Freedom class cruise ship, offers a host of amenities and complimentary dining options. Guests will also enjoy unrestricted festival access to all 120+ performances across four stages: The Royal Theater is a five-storied concert hall. The more intimate Star Lounge offers the local club vibe. A third indoor stage, Studio B, provides an arena-like atmosphere. Lastly, but most notable, the Pool Deck Stage: The World’s Biggest Open Air Stage structure to sail the Open Seas. This colossal stage is surrounded by bars, plenty of room to ...

  You asked, we provided. Hammerfest XIV is ready to rip its way through Great Yarmouth for its 14th run of some of the best Doom, Metal and Hardcore artists who are masters of their musical craft. By absolute fan demand, we are delighted to announce a return to the Whale Road where we take Hammerfest back to the heart of the "Angles" tribes and heartland (aka Camp HRH Great Yarmouth), where we create a sword storm and smash our shield walls together for a total metal mash-up of genres with more curveballs and surprises than anything else we do in the metal world! Hammerfest XIV is a must, as the last nine years have seen it sell out before the end of the current event, 9 months in advance! It's a metal maelstrom, it's the most popular and fastest-selling metal event we do. Even more, it's what everyone has asked us to do, during that Covid Blip. You don't wanna miss this one...it will be the biggest and craziest yet! Hammerfest XIV goes to another level as we...

  The dates of this new super HRH AOR 9 line-up will be 18th-19th June 2022, at O2 Ritz in Manchester. Honing in on the authenticity of the AOR brand, this venue will be hosting an incredibly strong and bold line-up of music with HRH AOR coming back in total style! We are back and officially in the full HRH Calendar at full capacity after an 18-month blip. This is going to be a sensational event turned all the way up to 11! Better still Earlybird full weekend tickets are priced at only £35 per person, £55 Royalty if you want the seated balcony, private bar etc and both with no booking fees… But this only applies for 5 days and finishes at midnight this Sunday 8th August where they virtually double, if there is anything left, as the whole event is already 68% booked with Veterans pre-sales. If you're not from the area, hotel packages start from £130 per person for 2 nights hotel, BB basis including weekend passes….not loads left so best to take advantage of this sooner rather than l...

  As we fast approach our first festival back at HRH, it is with a heavy heart that we have to say that LA Guns are staying in the US for the foreseeable future - meaning they sadly won’t be taking part in any forthcoming HRH events. However….we are thrilled to announce that Tigertailz will be doing a special Bezerk anniversary set for this year’s HRH Sleaze IV Festival! In addition, we are super excited to share the news that Mercury Riots, The City Kids, Last Great Dreamers, Gypsy Pistoleros as well as Stevie R. Pearce & The Hooligans will also be joining the explosive line-up at HRH Sleaze IV, hitting the stage with the likes of The Quireboys, Michael Monroe, Pretty Wild, Mercury Riots, Midnite City, and Plastic Tears. The HRH crew can not wait to welcome you all back safely to an HRH event and this will be the first time in over 18 months where we will all be reunited with music after the pandemic shook the world. The event takes place at the O2 Academy in Sheffield across ...

  HRH can barely contain their excitement as the full lineup is announced for what could possibly be the greatest HRH Prog yet. 3 amazing bands complete the stunning HRH Prog XII jigsaw with Americans Spock's Beard, Norway's Airbag and the UK's Jump added to the already strong lineup that includes Tangerine Dream, The Earth Band, Steeleye Span, Pendragon, Headspace, Galahad, Doris Brendel, IT, Solstice, Magenta and many more. HRH Prog XII takes place from 17th to 20th March 2022 in Great Yarmouth, England. Get ready to get lost inside 3 days of astonishing music as HRH Prog returns to the very popular residential format. The event is now 93% sold, but seeing as it's Easter HRH are offering an incredible 20% off for the next 4 days only - with just 48 rooms left and accommodation looking to sell out in record time, fans are urged to book early. Fans can use promo code HAPPYPROGEASTER at www.hrhrpog.com to get 20% off all packages for HRH Prog XII and witness one of the ...

  The light at the end of the tunnel has been spotted – and from that light emerges HRH Prog XII. The fans wanted it, the fans got it – the next chapter in HRH Prog’s long and illustrious history is to be a full-on no-holds-barred residential event, based at The 5 star Camp HRH resort in Great Yarmouth East Anglia, on the gorgeous East coast of England. Featuring a rare appearance by the legendary Tangerine Dream, and the welcome return of Pendragon, the lineup is one of the most unique and varied yet for HRH Prog. New talent hasn’t been overlooked either, with many of the bands never having performed at an HRH event before. Prog XII will be a 3 day, 2 arena showcase of the very best of progressive rock, both classic and new. As always for HRH Prog events, the lineup is based on a fan vote – with previous attendees able to express their prog preferences and the bookings closely matching their wishes. The fanbase didn’t let the side down and sure enough, the early access sales ...

  It's taken weeks of frantic negotiation, but Hard Rock Hell are beyond delighted to be able to announce that due to unprecedented demand additional capacity has been added at a sister HRH Site in Gt Yarmouth for HRH ABC which is to be held on November 11th-14th 2021! This means that accommodation packages, plus weekend and day tickets are available again NOW from www.hrhaor.com until they run out. HRH ABC is the mega residential event combining HRH AOR VIII, HRH Blues VII and HRH Crows III that were all rescheduled due to Covid-19 restrictions. It promises to be one of the best and biggest events HRH has ever staged! The newly arranged HRH Sister Site is just a 6-minute taxi ride from the main arenas. Free parking will also be available at the event site. In addition, a limited number of campervan pitches are also available at the event site ( click here ) at just £130 (passes also required) for the whole weekend. If that wasn't enough, additional tickets have been mad...

  HRH have, reluctantly, rescheduled the extremely popular HRH Vikings III festival to December 2021 due to the continued Covid-19 restrictions and the imminent government decision for an English lockdown. The lineup, however, remains almost intact – but with the incredible Korpiklaani and Audn replacing Borknagar and Saor respectively. In addition, HRH Vikings III welcomes back the amazing Atorc by popular demand plus Battle Born, Eoten and Accursed Years. Grab your tickets from www.hrhvikings.com They join Ensiferum, Burning Witches, Thyrfing, Warkings, Metsatoll, Skyforger, Grimner, Konvent, Vanaheim, Gwydion, Kull, Wretched Soul, Valafar and Metal Castle at the O2 Academy in Sheffield on 4th and 5th December 2021 for one of the true highlights of the HRH calendar. The hugely popular Korpiklaani are unique – their blend of Finnish folk music and heavy metal is like no other. Like traditional folk music that tells tales of joy, heartbreak and stories of old, Korpiklaanibrings n...

Mammothfest are proud to announce that Decapitated will now be doing a UK exclusive headline set on Saturday the 6th October in Brighton. So make sure you come down and witness the death metal carnage that ensues from the Polish act. The festival also has some other line-up changes, as unfortunately Cypecore who were due to headline on Sunday can now longer attend but Mammothfest local legends King Leviathan are taking the headline slot which is actually also their last ever local performance, so don't miss this momentous goodbye for the blackened thrash metallers. See the updated new Sunday line-up poster below! With the festival now fast approaching, the MAMMOTHFEST 2018 limited edition tees now available to pre-order! Order here: https://www.mammothfest.uk/store/MAMMOTHFEST-2018-Ltd-edition-tees-p113441071 For more on Mammothfest: https://www.mammothfest.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/MammothfestUK

The day you’ve all been waiting for with bated breath has arrived. DESERTFEST LONDON have announced those all important day splits and put individual day tickets on sale, which means you can finally start planning your Desertfest weekend. FRIDAY sees KOKO back in the Desertfest fold and, as the largest venue of the day, it plays host to our retro rocking headliners Graveyard, making their long awaited UK return. Speaking of returns, they’ll be supported at KOKO by doom royalty The Obsessed, with the punk infusedZeke and Greece’s Planet of Zeus joining them. The Old Empire stage invades The Electric Ballroom with their brutal assault headlined by crust punk progenators Napalm Death, who are joined by sludge survivors Eyehategod, doom game-changers Warning and more, followed by a late night set from ASG. The Black Heart gets experimental with The Quietus stage, bringing the psych freakout inducing White Hills, the heavy and atmospheric Ghold, the positively insane Snapped Ankles and...

2018 welcomes a brand new festival, POP PUNK PILE UP FESTIVAL that will take place at The Venue in Selby from the 27th - 29th April 2018. Riff Media has been running successful events all over the country for a decade and 2018 sees them branching out into the festival circuit. 2017 was a huge success for Riff Media who have seen a huge growth in their events and have gained a wealth of contacts which has helped them push forward with this new festival project. "Running events has been something we have done for 10 years and now we feel the time is right to show the world we can go that step further and host a huge event like a festival. We have opted to use the venue that we grew in. Music is a long held passion and this is a step forward for us. We are hoping to achieve success in our first year to help us develop and grow the festival!" - claims Adam Ruane, Pop Punk Pile Up Festival and Riff Media Director. With the likes of The King Blues, Room 94, The Bottom Line...

Belgium’s Extreme Metallers EVIL INVADERS have recently released the details of their upcoming album entitled Feed Me Violence. This brutal attack of an album will be released worldwide on September 29th via Napalm Records and has so much to offer. If you weren’t excited already, the band has another special treat! They have unleashed their first video from Feed Me Violence for the song “Mental Penitentiary”.  Check out the video below: Vocalist/guitarist Joe commented on the first track: “One of the faster songs on the record and definitely one of the coolest tracks we've written so far! Pretty intense lyrics, which are definitely worth checking out! The mid tempo part in the middle gives a nice contrast with the fast shit that's happening before and after. Making this video was compulsive endless lunacy! Fortunately only the camera guy got injured...” Feed Me Violence will be available in a regular Jewel Case edition, 1LP Gatefold Edition and a digital edit...

MAMMOTHFEST 2016 TO SUPPORT MARTLETS HOSPICE FOLLOWING THE TRAGIC PASSING OF TOM SEARLE FROM ARCHITECTS THIS A CALL TO ALL BANDS/LABELS/MAGAZINES etc to send MAMMOTHFEST some prizes they can raffle off to help raise as much money as possible. Tom Searle of metal band Architects - RIP The Mammothfest team in Brighton have been deeply moved by the passing of Tom Searle of Architects recently. He spent his last days being cared for by the incredible people at Martlets hospice, a charity that rely on donations to continue to help those in need through their last days. Stephen Dickson, Mammothfest director commented: "Firstly we send our love and compassion to the band and their families at this difficult time. Having personally witnessed the passing of my best friend and Mammothfest business partner Rik Mosquero in 2013 after months in a hospice, we know just how tough a journey it is. It is fucking brutal so we are compelled to do something positive to put some back. The peop...