Want to keep the rock ‘n’ roll dream alive? Make A Scene! That’s exactly what Teesside based promoters Overdrive are doing with their fan led one day festival of the same name. Previous line ups of this indoor Middlesbrough based festival have been immense, including big names on the bill grasped from the bills of the major festival circuit with Heights appearing last year fresh from a performance at Download Festival among many others.[...]

The longboats of the distinctly Viking flavoured touring festival Heidenfest are looming off the coast of the UK ready to ravage the UK leg of their power metal ramage this October.
The 6 band bill headed by Finntroll will be the biggest bill of its kind seen in recent years with each band playing a different flavour of Battle/Folk Metal. Heidenfest sounds a rallying cry to all heathen warriors, pagan brothers and [...]

The one day festival Cybersonik has announced a bill of 7 acts including V2A and Machine Rox. Taking place at Londons Underworld venue on Saturday October 15th the event promises to play host to the same sort of electronic heavy hitters last seen at the recent Backlash event. Full billing for Cybersonik features V2A, Method Cell, Machine Rox, Kommand+Kontrol, TerrorNation(formerly known as 19ninetynine), Decayed Reflection and Dreams Divide.

Resistanz, the International Industrial/Electro Festival based in Sheffields legendary Corporation venue has begun to announce acts for their 2012 bill, and, in one fell swoop have trumped last years impressive line up. Industrial supergroup Icon Of Coil will be performing a one off UK date as headliners of April 2012′s Resistanz event. The band, featuring Sebastian [...]

Dark 7 Festival headliners System:FX have announced the upcoming release of new EP ‘Overdrive’. The release is set to feature remixes from some of the biggest names in the scene including Caustic, Straftanz and Implant. The Overdrive EP sees System:FX take strides forward with their own unique blend of ‘old skool’ 90′s industrial with modern [...]

It was only a matter of time; Necromag at Download. 4 stages of Rock in its many forms spread across a three day weekend, surrounded by thousands of attendees, all determined to party hard and make this the weekend of a life time. So how do we cover an event as grand and wide as [...]

For those eager to get in the festival spirit, looking for the perfect warm up to Download, or just 9 amazing tracks for free could do worse than visiting the Roadrunner Records facebook page for a chance to get their hands on a Download Festival compilation. Featuring tracks from a wide spread of Roadrunner artists [...]

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