The official line-up of UK headliners for the touring festival Sonisphere reached a whole new level with the announcement that the BIG FOUR were coming to Knebworth in 2011.

This latest announcement sees the big four bands of the early thrash scene, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax all play together on the same stage for the first time in the UK.

In the past fortnight there have been a few significant releases of non headliner bands in this years Download festival line up, with many being quite big names and others being curious surprises. Returning to the festival are bands like Down and Killswitch Engage, Killswitch having played Download a number of times before with Down [...]

Slipknot have divided and conquered for over a decade now, and each album they release has changed the way their fans and the world in general think about them. Their last album “Volume 3; The Subliminal Verses” saw them take the ultimate risk, abandon all that the legions of devoted fans had came to expect, [...]