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TWO WEEKS TO GO UNTIL 21ST DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL LINE UP ANNOUNCEMENT + LAST CHANCE TO GET EARLY BIRD TICKET DISCOUNT


Tuesday 24 October – Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 21st edition reborn and recharged in 2024 as DLXXI. The very first wave of artists will be announced on Tuesday 7 November. This is the last chance to buy Early Bird tickets at a cheaper price before they go off sale at midnight on Monday 6 November. DLXXI will take place over three days on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Book your tickets here: https://downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets

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NOIZZE ANNOUNCE FIRST WAVE OF BANDS TO PLAY NOIZZEFEST 2024


The online music publication Noizze UK will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2024 with its first special all-day music festival, featuring a line-up of bands the site has championed since its humble beginnings. The first announcement sees The Liars ClubSlash FictionNightlivesBurner, and headliner Clt Drp added to the lineup. 

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Beyond The Grave festival returns to London with its biggest line-up to date!


On the weekend of November 24th and 25th London will play host to Beyond The Grave IV, boasting an array of extreme metal talent that will bring the capital to its knees! Camden’s Black Heart and Underworld will be taken over by an impressive line-up of lords of the underground. For fans of all forms of death metal’s twisted art this is an unmissable event, a nirvana of bludgeoning sickness for true disciples of destruction. On Friday 24th The Black Heart will unleash the first wave of horror with an incredible bill of the very heaviest bands on planet death. Headliners, Norwegian slam gods Kraanium, will be joined by an intimidating squadron of the UK’s finest – Amputated, Iniquitous SavageryRend Them Asunder and Deliberate Miscarriage.

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AUGUST BURNS RED announce ‘Death Below European Tour’ for 2024


AUGUST BURNS RED have announced the ‘Death Below European Tour’ for 2024. The tour consists of a run of headline dates across the continent accompanied by labelmates DYING WISH,  as well as a run of Impericon Fest shows throughout Germany.

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DIMMU BORGIR announce covers album ‘Inspiratio Profanus’ + release first single ‘Black Metal’


After their last two successful albums Abrahadabra and EonianDIMMU BORGIR herald their 30-year legacy by releasing, together for the first time, a collection of their cover songs. The album Inspiratio Profanus is being announced with the release of the thunderous first single, ‘Black Metal’ by the extreme metal pioneers VENOM. The album Inspiratio Profanus will be released on December 8th via Nuclear Blast Records.                     

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OPETH TO REISSUE ‘DAMNATION’ ON VINYL FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY


To mark the 20th anniversary of Opeth’s ground-breaking 2003 album ‘Damnation’, a special vinyl re-issue has been meticulously crafted to pay homage to a pivotal and trailblazing moment in the band’s illustrious history. Originally recorded in the serenity of Åkerfelt’s native Sweden, with additional production from Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, the album acclaimed by fans and critics alike has since received a re-mix and master in 2015, pressed to vinyl on a double LP together with the dichotomous ‘Deliverance’.

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