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Download 2024 reveals headliners and over 70 acts!


Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 21st edition, reborn and recharged in 2024 as DLXXI. Announced today are headliners Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold, as well as over 70 more huge names from the rock world. This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. General tickets are onsale at 9pm on Thursday 9 November at www.downloadfestival.co.uk. 

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CAVALERA release lyric video for ‘Necromancer’


On July 14th, metal legends CAVALERA released the re-recorded versions of SEPULTURA‘s first EP Bestial Devastation and their first full-length album Morbid Visions via Nuclear Blast Records.
Today, the band offers fans the lyric video created by Costin Chioreanu for ‘Necromancer‘ from the Bestial Devastation EP.

Max Cavalera states, “‘Necromancer’ stands out on the EP. The new version and video bring to life the magic that started 40 years ago. I consider it my first ‘big’ song!”

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When COPENHELL Freezes Over presents IKONIK, SYL, ASHES OF BILLY, SWARTZHEIM, ARCHANGEL and PERSECUTOR in VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark on January 27, 2024.


For the 11th time, up to 30 international industry representatives are presented with some of Denmark’s best and sharpest new bands from the hard and heavy genres by COPENHELL at When COPENHELL Freezes Over 2024.
 
Through more than a decade, COPENHELL and MXD have helped several Danish rock and metal bands across the country’s borders and out into the rest of the world with record deals and international representation by agencies and managements, as well as increased international attention to the Danish music scene.

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POWERWOLF Announces Biggest European Headline Tour to Date, the Wolfsnächte 2024 and New Studio Album!


POWERWOLF reign as Germany’s most actively successful artist without a shadow of a doubt. After bidding farewell to their fans last week with five celebrated shows and a long live break, the anticipation for their next live shows in October 2024 is rising now!

In trademark POWERWOLF style, the Platinum selling, award winning, #1 charting band is upping their game once again – not only announcing their biggest headline tour to date with shows taking place at the biggest arenas in Europe, but also a new studio album for 2024. Amid 16 shows in total, the tour will visit venues in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Prague and Vienna, and will heat up the Wolfpack with an unprecedented production.

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BRUCE DICKINSON UK & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED


Having set the rock and metal world alight in September with the announcement of a forthcoming solo album and Latin American tour dates, further details of Bruce Dickinson’s The Mandrake Project are revealed today.
 
The first single to be taken from it will be ‘Afterglow of Ragnarok’, a dramatic and epic track that introduces the world not just to the music of the album but to the compelling narrative that forms the basis of The Mandrake Project. It will be released on December 1st as a collectable vinyl 7” single, that includes an eight-page comic book. The single also features Dickinson’s original solo demo version of the song ‘If Eternity Should Fail’, which first appeared on Iron Maiden’s album The Book Of Souls in 2015.
 

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CARNIFEX announce ‘Necromanteum EU/UK Tour’ for Spring


Deathcore juggernaut CARNIFEX have announced their ‘Necromanteum EU/UK Tour’ for Spring 2024. The band will be joined by labelmates ABORTED, as well as REVOCATION and VEXED, as they prepare to showcase tracks from their latest record, Necromanteum, to European and UK fans for the first time.

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