While we dig ourselves out from the glut of ales, sprouts and assorted confections, the farthest reaching eyes of anticipation are already looking towards spring, summer and beyond in 2012. So far 2012 is looking like one hell of a year with one hell of a set of headliners at Download alone, and as days go by more and more events are fleshing out their bills.
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After a hard years touring, Reading metal mob Sylosis are preparing to celebrate the festive season with a home town gig. 2011 has been a massive year for the band, spending most of their time on the road since the release of “The Edge Of The Earth”, making quite an impact in venues across the the country and festivals alike. Snagging an prestigious opening slot on Knebworth’s Sonisphere line up[...]

Thrash metal legends Metallica are the first band to be announced for Download 2012. Marking the festivals tenth anniversary event with a Saturday headline performance the band have also announced that they will perform their best selling self titled album, better known as ‘The Black Album’ in it’s entirety, mirroring their earth shaking 2006 back [...]

Following the immense phenomenon of ‘The Big Four’ live performances of recent years and their crowning moment, a full stage, full line up performance of Diamond Head’s ‘Am I Evil?’ it’s easy to forget where all the inspiration came from. As one of the greatest bands to emerge from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Diamond Head never quite acheived the same heights as some of their peers [...]

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

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.

Sitting in a Middlesbrough Cinema isn’t usually the best way to see four of the biggest names in metal but for one night only Cineworld cinemas everywhere and perhaps a few other picture houses, broadcast the explosive display of rock that was the ‘Big Four’ at Sonisphere Sofia. Performing back to back in a Bulgarian [...]

Who Sonisphere When Saturday, August 1, 2009 12:00am – 2 day festival August 1st to 2nd – All Ages Where Knebworth (map) Knebworth House Stevenage, United Kingdom « Back to the calendar