The dust has settled and all 14 new acts on the Download bill have been confirmed. The slightly over eager Soundgarden upstaged the second wave of announcements by releasing the latest version of the event’s official poster over 4 hours early for one brief moment, which is all the time you need on the internet for the news to spread everywhere. Since then
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The first five acts announced in tonight’s piecemeal Download line up roll out are Soundgarden, Chase & Status, Biffy Clyro, You Me At Six, and Tenacious D. Rumours circulating ahead of the release have proved to be rather close to the truth. Soundgarden are easily the biggest band confirmed in this latest cluster. Soundgarden are easily the biggest band confirmed in this latest cluster.[...]

As Necromag gears up to cover this years Download festival, we’re going through just whats on offer with a fine toothed comb. beyond an utterly stellar line-up, lately our eyes have been turning to whats on offer after the sun goes down.

Sonisphere has now finalised its full line up with The Defiled and Black Spiders taking headline slots on it’s Jagermeister stage.

The Moon Nazis behind the upcoming sci-fi comedy invasion movie Iron Sky are currently making a grab for €300,000 needed for filming using ‘krautfunding’.
The filmmakers are running a project called ‘The Race For 300k’ where the team aim to raise 300,000 euro in just 60 days using a number of crowd funding sites.

Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have teamed up yet again with Edgar Wright in the new Sci-Fi movie Paul. Paul tells the tale of two geeky friends traveling across the United States who end up running into an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogan) just outside of Area 51. With Wright in [...]

A Perfect Circle have officially announced their reunion and intent to tour the American Midwest with a majority of dates featuring three night stops in each city.  At these three night performances the band have announced that they are to play each of their three albums (Mer De Noms, Thirteenth Step and eMOTIVe) in their [...]

A poet, a prophet, a rock and roll star. The heroic and bold comedian Bill Hicks was a lot to a lot of people. He stood up for what he believed in, screamed truth from the stage and got a few laughs along the way. Satire and shock comedy are nothing new, by any stretch [...]