Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, is now only 100 days away. With the countdown now truly on, celebrate this year’s festival with our round-up of Download By Numbers. This year’s festival will occur on 13-15 June 2025 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at the links below!Continue reading
Louder Than Life will be disturbing the peace in 2025 with one of the biggest and LOUDEST festivals in North America all year. Over 160 bands will perform on 6 stages September 18, 19, 20 & 21 at the Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY for the 11th edition of Louder Than Life. Louder Than Life 2025 also marks the largest lineup in the history of producer Danny Wimmer Presents. In addition to the previously announced return of metal legends Slayer, the four-day destination event will also feature Rob Zombie in a global exclusive performance of Astro-Creep: 2000 in honor of the album’s 25th anniversary, plus Marilyn Manson on Thursday; Avenged Sevenfold, Sleep Token and Breaking Benjamin on Friday; Deftones, Bad Omens and A Perfect Circle on Saturday; and Bring Me The Horizon, $uicideboy$ and Evanescence on Sunday.Continue reading
We are thrilled to announce the first major line-up for Download Festival 2025 (DLXXII), featuring three first-time headliners: punk-rock royalty Green Day, the enigmatic and meteoric Sleep Token, and nu-metal legends Korn. Over 90 bands have been confirmed, including Weezer, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Jimmy Eat World, Within Temptation, Eagles of Death Metal, The Darkness, Poppy, Loathe, Spiritbox, and many more. The fest takes place 13-15 June, 2025. This exciting news was revealed this evening at a special metal gala launch event in London.
It is with hot anticipation that Australian metalcore icons Northlane once again grace these UK shores. On their long journey up the band have gathered together a grouping of incredible acts to bring along with them as Ten56 and Novelists round out this whirlwind of a lineup.Continue reading
Korn will headline Australia’s traveling touring festival Good Things 2024. The festival is set to take place over three dates later this year in December in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Other bands on the fest includes Sum 41, Violet Femmes, Kerry King, Mastodon, 311, Billy Corgan solo, and many more. The full line up is listed below. Tickets are set to go on sale Thursday August 29th at 10 AM AEST. Continue reading
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With time being the ever tricky and questionable beast, it is easy to still consider Aussie’s Northlane as a brand new band and not 15-year veterans with six prior studio releases under their belt… yet here we are. What is perhaps also overlooked is their nature of change across their sound with releases encompassing progressive tinged modern Metalcore to more electronic ambient sounds elsewhere; meaning, every new release may offer something different and comes with anticipation as a result.Continue reading
Ghost Cult Keefy welcomed back in Marcus Bridge of Australia’s Metalcore kings Northlane. Their new EP Mirror’s Edge is out on April 12th, 2024 and is a star-studded affair. We caught up on the last few years of life for the band, why the EP is like a reverse “greatest hits” release, working with Will Putney, having collabs with Winston McCall of Parkway Drive and Ian Kenny of Karnivool, bringing back Brendon Padjasek for some guest growls, and the future of the band, and his favorite Marvel Comics!
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Australian heavy vanguards Northlane have announced their new EP, Mirror’s Edge, out April 12 (Self-Released). Alongside the news comes the colossal new single “Miasma,” featuring Winston McCall from Parkway Drive. Watch the video and pre-order the EP at the links below!
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Australia’s heavy music vanguards Northlane have shared their expansive new single, “Dante,” out now via Believe. “Dante” is the first piece of new music since the release of their #1 album Obsidian (2022) and signals a new era for the four-piece. Watch the video here.Continue reading