Download Festival –LIVE REVIEW by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy
Download Festival’s 20th anniversary saw a record-breaking 100,000 attendees to the hallowed grounds of Donington Park, becoming its most successful year ever. The fastest-selling Download in its 20-year history, 2023’s edition showcased world-class rock and metal across four days and six stages. The sold-out festival spanned four days for the first time ever, with two headline sets from Metallica, and a set each from Bring Me The Horizon and Slipknot.
Metal legends CAVALERA re-recorded SEPULTURA‘s first EP Bestial Devastation and first full-length album Morbid Visions which will be released on July 14th via Nuclear Blast Records.
Today, CAVALERA releases the lyric video for the second single, ‘Bestial Devastation‘.
The AREA 53 Festival is entering its next round, set to become a heavy metal pilgrimage site from 13 – 15 July 2023. Napalm Records and Napalm Events are proud to co-host the festival in Leoben, Styria, not far from Napalm Records’ home in Eisenerz. Over 25 top-class acts, including renowned headliners such as FEUERSCHWANZ, KREATOR and HAMMERFALL, as well as symphonic metal pirates VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, Dutch thrash metal legends LEGION OF THE DAMNED, epic power metallers ANGUS McSIX, Italian heavy metal dwarves WIND ROSE and Brazilian death metal machine CRYPTA will be present at this year’s edition.
CONQUER DIVIDE have revealed new song “the INVISIBLE,” taken from their upcoming new album Slow Burn, which will be released on September 8 via Mascot Records. Listen to “the INVISIBLE” here. You can pre-order the album HERE.
With just 8 weeks to go before the metal brethren thunder through the gates of Catton Park, BLOODSTOCK is excited to reveal some of the hotly tipped talent who’ll be ripping up the Jagermeister stage this year. So on festival weekend, why not grab a cold one and investigate some fresh talent that could become your new favourite band.
Queens of the Stone Age continue “Giving fans something to look forward to” (UPROXX) with the final advance offering from In Times New Roman… ahead of its highly anticipated eighth album out this Friday, June 16th on Matador Records. This pre-release gift comes in the form of “Paper Machete,” an instantly identifiable QOTSA future classic, sure to resound with casual fans and die hards alike. Lyrically, “Paper Machete” finds Josh Homme’s trademark rapier wit at its most acerbic. If the previously released “Carnavoyeur” signaled resignation and acceptance, “Paper Machete” is the collision of sheer, raw force that gets you there– “like electricity conveyed through the bristles of a paintbrush” (WALL STREET JOURNAL).
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