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Bloodstock festival UK have just announced their final headliners as Australian metalcore heroes, Parkway Drive. This marks their first appearance at the popular metal festival. They join the very impressive line-up which features heavyweights Sabaton, Scorpions, Anthrax, Children Of Bodom, Soilwork and more. Bloodstock takes place on the 8-11th August 2019 at Catton Park, Derbyshire. For tickets and more information on Bloodstock: bloodstock.uk.com https://www.facebook.com/bloodstock/

Polish death metallers DECAPITATED have been announced as the first headliner for Mammothfest, Brighton UK 2018! This is another massive and proud moment for the South coast metal festival who last year impressively boasted 4 UK exclusive performances from ROTTING CHRIST, TJSUDER, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE and AMENRA who all utterly destroyed the ARCH on Brighton's seafront, MAMMOTHFESTS new home! In the past, the festival has also had heavyweights Venoc Inc., Textures and many more so it certainly will be exciting to see what else Mammothfest has up its sleeve for 2018. For more details on the event see the poster below: With just the one headliner announced so far, keep an eye out for more news from Mammothfest!  You can currently get weekend tickets for the festival at the discounted price of £40 until the end of March:  https://www.gigantic.com/mammothfest-2018-tickets Check out the Mammothfest store for merchandise:  https://www.ma...

DESERTFEST LONDON announce the final acts for its 2018 edition on May 4-6th in Camden, including psych legends HAWKWIND, plus The Quietus, Human Disease Promo & Nightshift Promotions stages all revealed. Yes, you read that title correctly. Desertfest are honoured, thrilled, losing our minds, quivering in our boots to reveal that one of the most influential English bands in heavy musical history are gracing us with our presence this May, seminal space-rockers HAWKWIND will return to the hallowed ground of The Roundhouse to play a very special performance as main support to Monster Magnet. Hawkwind require no real introduction - genre-defining mavericks since 1969, it’s safe to say most of your favourite bands wouldn’t exist without Hawkwind; their legend precedes them, expect a life affirming, life altering show. We are beyond excited. Yet more Carolina goodness is coming Desertfest’s way, underground skater heroes ASG will make their psych riddled, post-punk sound heard ac...

Mammothfest UK: Program Info & Stage Times Announced With just less than three weeks to go until Mammothfest descends onto Brighton, they have just unleashed the festival magazine, which features band interviews (including headliners Rotting Christ and more), festival information and more! The printed version will also be available for free to all paying customers in print at Mammothfest 2017 upon entry. Get yourself ready and prepared for the carnage that is about to unfold ahead of the festival by having a read of the magazine here: http://mammothfest.uk/Mammoth-Mag2017.pdf You can now plan your festival weekend with the stage times which have been released . See below! Check out the official weekend promo trailer below to get a taste of what to expect! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3RoK6nIvA&feature=youtu.be&fref=gc To find out more on Mammothfest and get tickets: https://mammothfest.uk/ https...

MAMMOTHFEST Release Official Festival Trailers & Reveal Aims For 2019 Plenty who have attented Mammothfest before will know the kind of carnage that unfolds on each day at the festival. For those who have never been before, you can now get a taste of what to expect across the weekend as Mammothfest has unveiled footage from previous events. There are four videos to watch, from the "weekend" video with a preview of everything you can experience at Mammothfest over the three days, to the separate videos of daily themed footage. This includes the Friday, which is the "Black Metal Day", headlined by Rotting Christ . The Saturday, headlined by Fleshgod Apocalypse , a day packed with a variety of extreme styles in metal. Finally, the Sunday "Doom Metal Day", headlined by Amenra . All headliners are exclusive to Mammothfest in 2017! This is the perfect way to either relive your previous experiences of the festival or get your first glimpse of t...

Satisfy Your Metal Appetite With Feed The Rhino Plus Loads Of Incredible Diverse Support Acts! Following the huge success of last year’s Mammothfest which took place in October 2016 and marked their biggest event to date, with larger venues and well known metal acts, Textures, Venom Inc and Conan leading the brigade that led to the victory and accolade of being almost a complete sell out and going on to earn them three festivals award nominations , including the UK Festival Awards in two categories, Best Metropolitan and Best Small Festival 2016 as well as the TBFM Best Independent Festival 2016 . The winners are yet to be announced for TBFM so watch this space! Mammothfest doesn’t leave us in the dark for long as they are thankfully back rearing their menacing head in 2017 and ready to make a massive impact (complete with a metal mammoth concept) and to fulfil a promise. Unfortunately FEED THE RHINO had to cancel their performance at Mammothfest 2015 due to ill health. But n...

Mammothfest, the UK's fastest growing independent festival will descend on Brighton again. The festival is held across 3 days (30.09.16 - 02.10.16) and has already dropped jaws across the nation by revealing all its headlining acts in the later part of last year. Textures, Venom Inc., Conan & Eastern Front are all confirmed as bill toppers. On top of that, the festival then confirmed Bast, Black Moth, Conjurer, The Infernal Sea and Sworn Amongst as a further wave of acts confirmed to perform. NOW the Brighton based fest are back to drop some more announcements! "We feel it's time to crack out another wave of announcements" comments Steve Dickson, Mammothfest Director. "Sales of Early Bird weekend tickets and accommodation options have been extremely encouraging in light of our previous announcements and as we pull in to 2016 - Ash, Rich and I feel that now is the time to show a little more!". Joining the line up is: FRIDAY 30.09.16 @ The Green Door S...