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  Award nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown Festival has today unveiled the day splits and stage times of the 2024 edition and announced nine more artists confirmed to play the festival. Joining the line-up will be London mathcore masters Pupil Slicer who will be performing their critically acclaimed new album ‘Blossom’ in full, UK nu-metal star Deijuvhs, Acres, The Hara, Calva Louise, Blanket, Harbinger, Lastelle, and Sumer. The announcement of day splits and stage times has revealed that Creeper will be headlining the Laney Stage on the Saturday, just after nu-gen star Cassyette takes to the stage. The Saturday line-up also sees Kid Kapachi headlining the Total Rock Stage, Graphic Nature closing the ‘Metal For Good’ stage and Mimi Barks topping the ‘Divergent’ stage. On the Sunday, Dinasaur Pile-Up will the closing the festival as headliners of the Laney Stage, Terrorvision will be concluding to Total Rock Stage, Pupil Slicer take on the ‘Metal For Good’ stag...

  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 Hard Rock Hell XIV which is to be held on November 4th-7th 2021! This means that accommodation packages, plus weekend and day tickets are available again NOW from www.hardrockhell.com until they run out. The 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 ( click here ) at just £130 (passes also required) for the whole weekend. If that wasn't enough, additional tickets have been made available for anyone who wishes to upgrade their existing package to include Thursday 4th. Weekend (Fri / Sat) ticket holders can click here or call 0207 193 1164 to add the Thursday night. To help fans decide which package to go for, the d...

Mammothfest are offering a one-off summer sale which ends 31st July, which will be your last chance to secure savings! The festival wants to continue to bring you the finest and up and coming talent to Brighton, UK and to help this they are offering some deals to cater for your needs of what you can afford and to help support the local scene and the event... Below are 3 ticket links... 0% discount (full price), 25% discount and 33% discount. If full price is too much for you, get a cheaper ticket if you want! Full price: https://www.gigantic.com/mammothfest-2018-tickets 25% discount: https://www.gigantic.com/mammothfest-2018-various-brighton-venues-2018-10-05-00-00-27664 33% discount: https://www.gigantic.com/mammothfest-2018-various-brighton-venues-2018-10-05-00-00-27664 The future of the festival is unclear but one thing is for certain that 2018 is going to be a blast, so come and be a part of this awesome weekend! Find out more about what bands are appearing across the weekend ...

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...

      With just three weeks to go now until the return of MammothFest in 2014 a final line-up change has been announced, as Aeolist had to pull out due to their drummer sustaining a broken hand, so Furyborn, a melodic death metal band from Dorset step up to to take their place and to tie in with this latest addition, the important matter of the day spilts have finally been unleashed also! (See poster above!)   Check out the latest band, Furyborn here: https://www.facebook.com/furyborn  & http://www.furyborn.com/   To mark and celebrate the rebirth of the festival  and the awesome line-up it has in store, MammothFest are releasing a epic LTD Ed. Tee (pictured below). Available from this week, only 30 will be printed, so make sure you keep an eye on the facebook to see when they are available: https://www.facebook.com/mammothmetalfestival   The tee also has a back print, featuring the line up - with which ...