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  After careful consideration, the organisers of Takedown Festival regret to announce the postponement of this year’s festival which was due to take place at Portsmouth Guildhall on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th April. Building works currently being undertaken at the Grade II listed venue to transform the basement of Portsmouth Guildhall into one of the most innovative creative spaces for young people in the country, have now been extended across the festival dates resulting in the loss of two key areas of the festival site and a reduction in capacity, which combined with challenging trading conditions have sadly left the event unviable for this year. Takedown Festival will return in 2025 with, it is hoped, much of this year’s line-up carried forward. Further details will be announced soon but in the meantime all ticket holders will be refunded by their point of purchase. Takedown Festival Ltd Director and CEO of The Guildhall Trust, Andy Grays said, “Like many historic buildings...

  In its 10th year this summer, the brilliant and award winning ArcTanGent Festival has once again well and truly delivered for its loyal, amazing audience. Following on from last months HUGE band announcement, today the summer event can reveal its final collection of acts playing in 2024. Heading up this announcement are one of the worlds greatest heavy bands to ever do it, the stunning Savannah Georgia 4 piece Baroness, who will be playing ARCTANGENT for the very first time. An unmissable set, and surely now one of the most anticipated of the whole weekend. Joining them include stunning Bristol outfit Scaler (formerly Scalping), the mysterious and exciting New York band Imperial Triumphant, the musical collective A-Sun Amissa which is led by musician Richard Knox, and the psychedelic goth duo Gloom Index. ALL bands announced today for ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL are: Baroness / Scaler / Imperial Triumphant / Blood Command / URNE / MSPAINT / Silver Moth / Orchards / Teeth of the Sea / ito...

  BLOODSTOCK has two true loves…heavy and metal. This Valentine’s, let BLOODSTOCK sweep you off your feet with 18 more crushing bands for August’s best metal weekender. And, with the line-up now complete for the two biggest stages, day tickets have gone on sale in the ticket store. With SOEN, COMBICHRIST, XENTRIX, RYUJIN, IGNEA, UNPEOPLE, BURNER and many more all joining the bill, there’s something this year for everyone on Catton Park’s hallowed turf! If you’re still hungry for more, why not get involved in your local Metal 2 The Masses heats, and be part of shaping the line-up for the Hopical Storm New Blood stage, with lots of lower card bands still to be confirmed in the coming months. Joining Sunday’s Ronnie James Dio main stage bill are Swedish progressive metallers, SOEN . The band recently released their sixth studio album, ‘Memorial’, via Spinefarm Records. Check out the lead single, ‘Unbreakable’, taken from that album here . And opening Sunday’s main stage are ex...

  Continuing their efforts to LOUDLY COMBAT HOMELESSNESS and raise money for Shelter, UK Thrashers switch things up in 2024, taking a break from the annual compilation album that has so far raised over £6000 for the housing charity, 2024 will see the first Moshin’ The Roof On Festival…or MTROFEST for short! Hosted by The Hairy Dog (Derby) The day will be stacked with some of the best underground thrash talent with 12 bands, on the one main stage with absolutely NO CLASHES at the ridiculous low price of just £12 (plus booking fee) for early bird ticket buyers! TICKET LINK HERE MTROFEST Full Line Up We have already announced our festival headliners at the end of 2023, but for those that missed it Elimination will be bringing our day to a crushing end, with the other 3 bands announced – London 2022 M2TM winners Imperium, Sheffield Blackened Crossover from Sidewinder and London Underground favourites Fracture Point. We can now reveal the other 8 bands making up the HUGE line up... Firs...

  Liquid Death presents Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, has today announced a further wave of 22 artists for this year’s festival, further bolstering a stellar 2024 line-up and truly delivering something for everyone. The new additions include Tom Morello, Enter Shikari, Black Stone Cherry, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, The Struts, Of Mice & Men, Busted, Wheatus, Electric Callboy and more. This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . Firmly established as one of the greatest live artists in the scene, Enter Shikari will grace the Apex Stage for a powerful performance. The band has carved a niche with their adrenaline-fuelled sets and socially conscious lyricism and saw huge success with their seventh album A Kiss For The Whole World, which earnt them their first ever UK Number One album. Tom Morello, ...

  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...

  To help celebrate the 10th year (THE TENTH YEAR!) of the mighty ArcTanGent Festival in 2024, todays band announcement is very likely it's biggest ever band announcement in its history. Yes, it is a biggie, and yes it will make you all very happy. Announced for this years event are the world renowned, globally acclaimed Scottish post rock band Mogwai, who play the festival for the very first time. An incredibly special band with one of the richest, most varied, interesting and loved back catalogues of music, ArcTanGent Festival is thrilled to have them grace our stages this summer. They are a band that the team at ATG has been trying to book since it began, back in 2013. Joining them include the atmospheric and powerful Texan quartet, Explosions In The Sky, the mysterious and anonymous duo Clown Core who play music ranging from grindcore to jazz, and the much loved, insanely talented Norwegian multi instrumentalist Ihsahn. Not stopping there, the festival can also announce another...

  German black metallers Der Weg Einer Freiheit are the next band to be confirmed for next year’s Fortress Festival. This will be an exclusive UK 2024 appearance from the black metal experimentalists on the festival’s main stage. Der Weg Einer Freiheit join a stellar line-up of special bands and exclusive shows. Previously confirmed bands include Triptykon with a 2024 UK exclusive and mainstage headlining show, Wolves in the Throne Room with a 2024 UK exclusive and mainstage headline “Two Hunters” set (the first time the iconic album will be performed live in the UK), second stage headliners Misþyrming with a 2024 UK exclusive show, second stage headliners Regarde Les Hommes Tomber with a UK exclusive show for 2024, Blackbraid with a debut and exclusive UK show, Panopticon with a 'Roads to the North' anniversary full album set, Furia with an exclusive UK show, and Fluisteraars with a debut and exclusive UK show. The highly-regarded Portuguese act Gaerea will also visit the Nort...

  As December extends its frosty fingers, BLOODSTOCK is getting in the festive spirit with some early Xmas gifts by way of another chunky 2024 announcement. If you’re hoping for some heavy metal next summer, BLOODSTOCK’s got your presents wrapped up with a bow on top! And if you want to give the gift of heavy metal (yes, we mean a ticket for BLOODSTOCK 2024), you can now download a special festive card when you order at the ticket store to help present it to the lucky recipient! Don’t miss BLOODSTOCK’s Festive Facebook Live at 7pm on Dec 7th for some seasonal fun & oh maybe some prizes… and we suggest you keep your eyes (and your sprouts) peeled for who knows what other treats might be in store across the festival’s socials later this month… On the Ronnie James Dio main stage, grindcore & melodic death metal pioneers CARCASS land Sunday’s special guest slot. The “most influential band out of Merseyside since The Beatles” released their current studio album, ‘Torn Arte...

  Liquid Death presents Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, has today revealed nu metal legends Limp Bizkit as the latest addition to next year’s jam-packed line-up. The band join the recently announced headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold, as well as over 80 more names from the rock world. This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . Known for their high-energy performances and ground-breaking fusion of rock, hip-hop, and metal, Limp Bizkit are set to bring their infectious sound and electrifying stage presence to the hallowed grounds of Download Festival. Returning to the festival after ten years with their string of hits spanning nearly two decades, Limp Bizkit are set to show audiences why they’ve rightly cemented their place as one of the most influential and enduring acts in th...

  Scarborough, UK; 26.11.23: Following last month’s reveal of headline shows from Triptykon, Wolves in The Throne Room and Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Fortress Festival has confirmed Icelandic black metal act Misþyrming as the next and final headline act of the black metal festival set to take place on 1-2 June 2024 in Scarborough, UK. A UK exclusive performance for 2024, Misþyrming will headline the second stage of the black metal festival. Fortress Festival has also unveiled the event poster for which the illustration was created by Hester Aspland. Misþyrming join a stellar line-up of special bands and exclusive shows. Previously confirmed bands include Triptykon with a 2024 UK exclusive show, Wolves in the Throne Room with a 2024 UK exclusive “Two Hunters” set (the first time the iconic album will be performed live in the UK), Regarde Les Hommes Tomber with a UK exclusive shows for 2024, Blackbraid with a debut and exclusive UK show, Panopticon with a 'Roads to the North' ann...

  Following the announcement of our final headliner Alice Cooper this morning, we are adding 84 new names to the line-up of the 27th edition of Graspop Metal Meeting. Bruce Dickinson, Corey Taylor, Deep Purple, Electric Callboy and Megadeth as well as 130+ other bands will pull out all the stops from Thursday 20 June through Sunday 23 June 2024 at Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium. Earlier all the headliners for GMM2024 had already been confirmed: Tool (Thursday 20 June 2024); Alice Cooper (Thursday 20 June 2024); Five Finger Death Punch (Friday 21 June 2024); Judas Priest (Friday 21 June 2024); Bring Me the Horizon (Saturday 22 June 2024); Avenged Sevenfold (Saturday 22 June 2024); Machine Head (Sunday 23 June 2024); Scorpions (Sunday 23 June 2024); No fewer than 44 acts are making their GMM debut in 2024. Check out the full list on our website . Here are the new additions to our #GMM24 bill: ​Abbath - All Them Witches - Asinhell - Babymetal - Better Lovers - Biohazard -...

  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...

  ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL can announce its first 2024 main stage headliner in the shape of the brilliant Meshuggah, who will headline on the Friday night. Also announced today, and joining them on the main stage on Friday night (playing just before them) are the incredible Animals As Leaders. These shows are UK (Meshuggah) and EU (AAL) exclusive to ATG for 2024. Taking place near Bristol between the 14th August and the 17th August, the festival will be celebrating its TENTH year in 2024, and has once again been shortlisted for Best Medium Festival at the Festival Awards (it won best small festival in 2018), and continues to bring together some of the most interesting, diverse, exciting and eclectic bills for any festival, anywhere in the world. From festival booker and organiser James Scarlett - "To celebrate our 10th Birthday we wanted to invite back some of our all-time favourite bands from over the years. We drew up a list of all the bands that have ever played ATG that we’d like ...