Mad About Rock

  Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, has today added a further wave of 22 artists to an already stellar line up for its 22nd edition in 2025. The new additions include Rise Against, Opeth, Myles Kennedy, Shinedown, AWOLNATION, Power Trip, Hatebreed, Palaye Royale, Municipal Waste and more. This year’s festival will take place on 13-15 June 2025 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. General tickets are on sale now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . Also announced today are Crossfaith, Dirty Honey, unpeople, Smash Into Pieces, MOTHICA, Zetra, Bastardane, Kids In Glass Houses, Elliot Minor, Twin Atlantic, Cattle Decapitation, PRESIDENT and NECKBREAKKER. They join a colossal line up headlined by the mighty Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn, and also featuring the likes of Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Within Temptation, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Darkness and many more. The mighty Shinedown are ret...

After breaking personal records with See What’s On The Inside , Asking Alexandria is delivering new intimate takes of the most popular songs from the original album to thank fans and celebrate their return home. See What’s On The Inside (Deluxe) will include music from the Never Gonna Learn EP and acoustic versions of the title track, “Never Gonna Learn,” “Find Myself,” “Faded Out,” and “Alone Again.” Most recently, the band released a chilling music video for “Faded Out (ft. Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation),” which appears on The Retaliators Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and returns today with a new video for “See What’s On The Inside.” Joining Shinedown on tour, Asking Alexandria will be performing in Cardiff, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow, and London this November and December. A full list of dates below - visit https://www.askingalexandria.com for more information. Listen to See What’s On The Inside (Deluxe) HERE . Watch the title track’s official music video HERE ...

  Critically acclaimed rock band Asking Alexandria will embark on a full UK and European tour this winter as special guest to Shinedown. The extensive tour will see the band performing on iconic stages across Europe and the UK, bringing their incendiary shows to 16 major cities starting from Brussels and capping off in London. Ben Bruce comments: “After being away for so long due to various Covid-related problems we are excited to finally be coming home. To make things even sweeter, we are coming back with some of our best friends, Shinedown. This is going to be an absolutely incredible tour and we are bringing an insane show with us. We can’t wait to finally get home and see you all.” After ten years of recording their music separately, the band found new energy and a drive for creating when they reunited in Nashville during quarantine to make their latest album "See What's On The Inside" which has accumulated over 77 million streams globally since release in October o...

  Multi-Platinum, Grammy nominated band Saliva announced they will be hitting the road this June with the band Otherwise! The tour begins on June 2nd in Columbia, SC at New Brookland Tavern and ends on June 26th in Johnson City, TN at Capones. In addition, the band released the official music video for their single "Revelation Man"! WATCH Saliva - "Revelation Man": https://youtu.be/2QBWJbVeWa4 "Revelation Man" can be streamed/downloaded at: https://orcd.co/revelationman Saliva is back with their first new music in 4 years. The first track, "Revelation Man," is very personal to singer Bobby Amaru who states, "Revelation man is about a guy who couldn’t accept the struggles of his own addictions. He had to hit rock bottom to see the light. When I say “had to die to find a revelation.” I don’t mean dying literally but there were moments in my life where I felt like I had. It particularly relates with me because of my sobriety of 3 1/2 years. I...

So this was a big issue for me! I got to interview Arejay from Halestorm and Barry from Shinedown, which was massive as a big fan of both bands, be sure to check out as make for great reads! Halestorm is here:   https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/95 Shinedown here:  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/133 I reviewed a hell of a lot of albums too! See below direct links!  Deftones, Saosin, Goo Goo Dolls & Armonite -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/183 All Hail The Yeti, Magnolia, Martyr, Dead By Wednesday -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/185  My Native Spell, Actual Villians & Franklins Dealers -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/191 Kath and the Kicks -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/222 Elessar & Grand Rezerva -  https://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue37/223 I also done my first ever book review of the essential guide for musicians of If It Was My Band by E...