Mad About Rock

  All Points East and Outbreak Fest announce Deftones will be joined by special guests Interpol, as well as AFI, Salem, Mannequin Pussy, Blawan (live) and Ecca Vandal. Previously announced acts include IDLES, Amyl & The Sniffers, EsDeeKid, JPEGMAFIA, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, Basement, Wisp, Deafheaven and Show Me The Body, with more to be added. Tickets are on sale now. Visit allpointseastfestival.com . Multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Sacramento band Deftones are set to headline the event following a stellar 2025 that saw them release their tenth studio album, private music, as well as a sold-out global arena tour. Now on their EU & UK tour, the Deftones renaissance is in full swing, with The Guardian describing them as “alt-metal veterans”, giving them a glowing 5 stars. Tomorrow, Deftones will touch down in London for their major O2 show. There’s no doubt that Deftones performance at All Points East presents Outbreak Fest will be a must-see for anyone looking to immerse t...

  Initially beginning as a celebration of hardcore and punk, Manchester’s Outbreak Fest has built a major platform to the UK’s consistently thriving counterculture, while also providing a rite of passage for major touring acts across the world such as Death Grips, Earl Sweatshirt, JPEGMAFIA and more to lay waste to stages in Britain. After announcing their plans to come to London for the very first time, Outbreak Fest today announce initial line ups and locations for their London and Manchester 2025 weekender events. Tickets on sale HERE from this Friday 29 November. Starting with a one-day event in London’s Victoria Park as part of LIDO Festival series on the 13th June, this will be the biggest outdoor event led by hardcore acts that the UK’s ever had. London will play host to a varying line up that continues to push Outbreak’s ethos of boundary-breaking music from across the counterculture; from contemporary icons to burgeoning stars of the future. In London, hardcore crossover ...

  Following on from this years incredible, sun baked, sold out (and probably best so far) 10th Anniversary event, the much loved and mighty award winning ARCTANGENT Festival can today announce the first set of bands (including a main stage headliner) for next year. Taking place on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th of August 2025, tickets for the event are on sale now, and available from - HERE The first 2025 main stage headliner comes in the shape of the phenomenal Australian progressive metal band Karnivool, who will be making their ARCTANGENT Festival debut in 2025, as well as perform there as a 2025 UK exclusive show. A stunning band whose last studio album 'Asymmetry' was released back in 2013, and is considered and revered (quite rightly) as a modern masterpiece. With new music confirmed and on the way as well, this headline set is an absolute nailed on, not to be missed spectacle. Also announced today are Washington legends Melvins (UK festival exclusive), one of the finest e...

  The festival tickets for ROCKHARZ 2025 in Ballenstedt are sold out! This is what the organizers announce after just one week of advance sales. The 2024 festival ended last week. Not only were all 25,000 tickets sold within this record time. It is also the first time that this has been achieved completely within the so-called early booking phase – which normally lasts 14 days. Last year, it took just under 6 weeks, until the organizers were able to announce that there were no more tickets available. It is also worth mentioning that, according to the organizers, 90% of the tickets were sold to regular festival customers. The organizers had granted this particular group of people exclusive one-week access to their online store. The organizers from VERUGA GmbH are overjoyed: “This is unbelievable! That our guests have given us such a vote of confidence is a great honor!" The ROCKHARZ Festival in Ballenstedt celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. With almost 60 bands regularly pl...

  It’s by far one of the most impressive line-ups of 2024: For this year's 31st edition, ROCKHARZ festival at Ballenstedt airfield in Germany has announced over 50 bands and a billing that impresses not only by featuring big names but also with its diversity. Headliners include JUDAS PRIEST, DIMMU BORGIR, KREATOR, HAMMERFALL and Iron Maiden frontman BRUCE DICKINSON. Loyal ROCKHARZ fans can also look forward to experiencing bands such as KANONENFIEBER, THE HALO EFFECT, NESTOR, THE NIGHT ETERNAL, D'ARTAGNAN and NANOWAR OF STEEL as well as many other well-known acts live during FOUR days of festival goodness! Desperation has been great for the many metalheads who could not secure their tickets in time, since the festival announced that it was sold out – this year in record time. There is, however, a shimmer of hope now! In addition to info on which bands rocks which day, ROCKHARZ has now also published pre-sale details for a limited contingent of single day tickets (available excl...

  𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗘𝗗 (𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 - 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲) Formed in 1998, the Stéphanois have become pillars of extreme metal over the years with 8 albums and tours around the world. Inspired by morbid themes and the twists and turns of the human soul, their clever mix of brutality with a clearly assumed unhealthy side, is a reflection of the experiences that their singer had in his profession as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. After their opus "Obscene Repressed" released in the middle of a pandemic, the four fierce BENIGHTED come to take their revenge and promise real torture to your neck during this warm-up ! 𝗧𝗘𝗡𝟱𝟲. (𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 - 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲) New gem from the French-speaking scene, the guys from TEN56. made a very notable appearance under the Altar during the 2023 edition. Led by the charismatic Aaron Matts (ex-Betraying the Martyrs) and supported by his 4 brothers in arms, the TEN56. are climbing the ranks as quickly as their views so...

  UK black metal bands Ante-Inferno and Andracca are the latest additions to Fortress Festival, which will take place on 1-2 June 2024 at Scarborough Spa in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK. The announcement comes as Andracca have released their second full-length album “To Bare the Weight of Death” via Vendetta Records in January 2024, while Ante-Inferno are gearing for a new, third album release and more UK/European tour dates. Ante-Inferno’s latest album “Antediluvian Dreamscapes” was released in 2022 via Vendetta Records to critical acclaim. Andracca commented on their upcoming Fortress Festival appearance: "We greatly anticipate returning to Fortress Festival, alongside the strongest Black Metal line-up we've seen so far in the UK, armed with a brand new album. It will be a pleasure to play our part in the aural assault!" Ante-Inferno added: "We ready ourselves to return once more to the Fortress – one year since we unleashed our frenzied battle cry into the fer...

  Paris’ most anticipated music festival Rock en Seine returns for summer 2024 from August 22 to 25 at Domaine national de Saint-Cloud. In this stunning setting on the edges of Paris, five stages will host an unmissable lineup across 4 days with headliners Fred again., LCD Soundsystem, Måneskin, Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, The Offspring and The Smile. As reflected in its name, the festival is forever dedicated to the genre and invites the most worthy rockers to take to the stage. The enchanting PJ Harvey, known for her strong and enigmatic performances, distinct artistic vision and a fearless approach to experimentation, and will no doubt be a wondrous headliner for the final night of Rock en Seine 2024. PJ Harvey is joined by the larger-than-life Italian rock group Måneskin, and the Irish newcomers Inhaler plus, the legendary pop punk hitmakers The Offspring armed with all their classics, the fiery duo The Kills, the electrifying The Hives, and the US alt-rock trio Blonde Redhead. ...

  Scarborough, UK; 27.11.23: Following on from yesterday’s poster reveal and confirmation of second stage headliner Misþyrming, Fortress Festival is not stopping and has revealed another exclusive show for 2024. Dutch atmospheric black metal band Fluisteraars will also visit the Scarborough shores in June 2024. This will be a 2024 UK exclusive show for Fluisteraars and their first-ever UK show in the band’s nearly fifteen-year career. Other than Roadburn, this is currently the only 2024 live appearance planned by the Dutch act and their third-ever show in their brief concerting history. Fluisteraars said: "After Iceland, we are looking forward to playing on another island. Again, an island full of mythical history that we hope to get a taste of. We will play a set with various songs from our entire oeuvre. We'll see you there." Gary Stephenson, Fortress Festival organiser and Reaper Agency UK founder, said: "Drenched in raw atmospherics and folkloric mysticism, an...

  Headliners for Sunday 23 June 2024. With Scorpions and Machine Head we are adding the headliners for Sunday to the line-up of #GMM24. Together with Tool, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, Bring Me the Horizon and Avenged Sevenfold they will lay siege to Dessel in June 2024. Scorpions will close out the South Stage on Sunday 23 June and that same evening Machine Head will headline the North Stage. More confirmations for Graspop Metal Meeting 2024 will follow soon! Scorpions are making their fifth GMM appearance this year. With their previous stop at GMM22 the German hard rock icons proved that 60 years of rocking out haven’t dulled their edge and they still deliver a hit-laden set including ’Rock You Like a Hurricane’, ‘The Zoo’ and ‘Wind of Change’ to name but a few. Their 19th album, ‘Rock Believer’, dropped in 2022. Last summer Machine Head returned to Dessel for the first time in over a decade to headline our South Stage on Friday. Next year Robb Flynn & Co will be ba...

  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...

  With 135 days to go to BLOODSTOCK, are we allowed to start a countdown yet?! Spring is officially here and though the festival has some disappointing news to share first, there is also a plethora of excellent news and lots more still to reveal while we’re (im)patiently waiting for August to roll around. You can also tune in to the next Facebook Live on Thursday, 6th April at 7pm. We can’t promise festival management will be wearing Easter bunny ears, but we can promise some Easter goodies. Keep an eye out on BLOODSTOCK’s socials next week too for a little Easter competition…! Unfortunately, we have to share that both Nonpoint and DevilDriver have pulled out of the festival this summer. Putting on a festival involves a lot of moving parts, and BLOODSTOCK is as disappointed and frustrated as its audience when things crop up which the festival has no control over - after all, BLOODSTOCK wants to deliver the very best possible festival for you and works hard year round to curate an ...

  The greatest rock and metal festival of all time, Download Festival, announces 44 new names and the day splits for 2023’s mammoth line-up. New names include the blistering Halestorm, Alter Bridge, Neck Deep, Bob Vylan, Carcass, Five Finger Death Punch, Jinjer, Coheed and Cambria, Electric Callboy, Hot Milk and The Amity Affliction, who will join the celebration of Download’s 20-year legacy at the hallowed grounds of Donington Park across four days over 8-11 June 2023. They join headliners Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica, who will deliver two massive no-repeat performances. Weekend and day tickets are now on sale, as well as a very limited amount of camping tickets and new VIP options: www.downloadfestival.co.uk . The biggest annual gathering of the rock and metal tribes will be joined by 44 new names, including the Grammy-winning Halestorm, hard rock frontrunners Alter Bridge, heavy metal behemoths Five Finger Death Punch, MOBO’s first ever Best Alternative Music Ac...

  The brilliant ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2023 can today announce their next round of bands for this years event, following on from last years ATG Advent Calendar announcement week that happened in December 2022. The festival will be taking place between August 16th through to August 19th, at Fernhill Farm, a short drive from Bristol City Centre. The acts announced today include the magnificent US NYC experimental rock band Swans, the newest 'super group' in town Empire State Bastard which features Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro and Mike Vennart ex of Oceansize, as well as Norwegian extreme metal legends Enslaved. Also announced include PETBRICK, A Burial At Sea, A-Tota-So, Copse and many more. These brilliant acts join the already announced headliners Heilung, as well as other acts including Converge, Deafheaven (playing 'Sunbather' in full as a UK exclusive), Igorrr, Jaga Jazzist, Pigs7, And So I Watch You From Afar, Loathe, Cave In, Russian Circles and more. From festival org...

  Following on from the recent 'returning heroes' Wednesday band announcement, 2000trees Festival 2023, taking place next year between Wednesday the 5th and Saturday the 8th of July, can now reveal more of its line up, including the first main stage headliner. The mighty Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes can today be announced as Saturday night headliners. One of the most electrifying live bands to come from our shores, crowds will be in for a treat from this very special, homegrown band, who are more vital, fresh and exciting as they ever have been in their career. From 2000trees festival organiser James Scarlett - "Since their incredible set in 2017 Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes have easily been one of the most requested bands at 2000trees. So we're absolutely stoked that they're coming back to close out the festival as Saturday Main Stage headliners. You do not want to miss this!" Joining them include returning UK rock royalty in the shape of a refo...

  Today, Thursday 27th October, the brilliant, award-winning 2000trees Festival announces the first set of bands for their 2023 event. Ahead of any announcement for the main three full days (Thursday 6th, Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July 2023), 2000trees can now announce (nearly all of) the Wednesday Forest Stage line up, which will see a very limited number of festival go-ers given an extra days access to the event. The bands for Wednesday 5th July are all acts and artists that played the 2022 event and instantly became new, 2000trees cult classics. They all took the opportunity in 2022 and return to the festival only a year later as 2000trees heroes. As 2000trees Festival organiser James Scarlett explains, it is not a day to be missed - “Wednesday at Trees is pretty much my favourite day of the entire year! It’s super chilled and is almost the calm before the storm of the full festival. There are only two stages open (Forest and Word) so there is way less running around than on T...

Four Chord Music Festival announces the addition of STATE CHAMPS and ALLISTER (celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the band's Drive Thru Records breakthrough 'Last Stop Suburbia') to the lineup for its eighth instalment. The independently produced festival is back and bigger/better than ever before. For the first time since its inception, the Four Chord Music Festival will be expanding to a two-day festival on September 9th and 10th and will also feature a multitude of bands, including headliners All Time Low, Bad Religion, Descendents, and Jimmy Eat World, plus additional performances from Pennywise, The Story So Far, Silverstein, Lagwagon, The Starting Line, The Maine and many more. The festival will take place at Wild Things Park, in Washington, PA, just a short 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, and is presented by Four Chord Music & Drusky Entertainment. Sponsors include: Smartpunk, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Deep Eddy Vodka, Wild Basin, Dancing Gnome Brewery and Strange...