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DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL IS BACK WITH PACKED LINE UP FOR 2022


Download Festival, the world’s premier rock event, is coming back with a bang in 2022. The first major festival of the summer will be headlined by the mighty KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro, with other huge acts on the bill including A Day To Remember, Deftones, KORN, The Distillers, Funeral For A Friend and many more. As the first full-capacity Download Festival since 2019 and following last year’s phenomenal Download Pilot, which paved the way for the return of live events, it’s pulling out all the stops for 2022 with a gargantuan line-up of the world’s most exciting bands in rock, pop punk, hardcore, metal and much more. 

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BLOODSTOCK announces final batch of Sophie Lancaster Stage bands


Over halfway there! With just 168 days to go before the marauding metal hordes charge through the gates of Catton Park, BLOODSTOCK has its last batch of Sophie Lancaster Stage bands to announce. It’s also ‘Last Call’ time for the Deposit Scheme, where you can pay over 6 smaller instalments (full details below). Artists for the Jagermeister and New Blood stages and other fest entertainment details are yet to come, but in the meantime, wrap your eyes and ears around the following…

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METALITALIA.COM FESTIVAL 2022: SODOM, WATAIN, CORONER, ABBATH, ASPHYX & more bands confirmed


After two years of forced hiatus, Metalitalia.comVertigo and Cerberus Booking are pleased to look to the future with optimism and announce the first bands for the Metalitalia.com Festival 2022! The event, scheduled for mid-September, this time will gather the hardest, most infernal and darkest metal around, for two days of extreme music set to take place at the Live Music Club in Trezzo Sull’Adda (Milan, Italy).

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EVERY TIME I DIE – JOIN TURNSTILE + KNOCKED LOOSE AS HEADLINERS FOR OUTBREAK FEST 2022 & ALL REMAINING BANDS ANNOUNCED


EVERY TIME I DIE have been announced as the final headliners for OUTBREAK FEST 2022.

The band will join the already announced headliners of TURNSTILE + KNOCKED LOOSE at the 10 year Anniversary weekend which will take place in the new home of the Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester on 24th / 25th / 26th June 2022.

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ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2022 -more acts added + an extra date


ArcTanGent Festival 2022 has revealed a host of even more brilliant new additions to its line-up for next years event at Fernhill Farm, including the full line-up for Wednesday.

For the first time ever, we’re opening ArcTanGent’s doors a day early, with a stacked line-up of bands from 2pm on Wednesday including The St Pierre Snake Invasion, Sugar Horse, Memory of Elephants, Luo, Mother Vulture, Modern Rituals, Mutant-Thoughts, Olanza, The Road, My Octopus Mind, and Lightning Sharks, followed by DJs after dark. Let’s start the party early, avoid the Thursday morning drive, pick the best camping spot and wake up refreshed and ready to do it all over again. A limited number of early entry tickets are on sale now.

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ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL announces fresh wave of bands for 2022


ArcTanGent Festival 2022 can today reveal a host of even more brilliant new additions to its line-up for next years event at Fernhill Farm.

Leading the charge for the announcement are the incredible US doom metal band Pallbearer, who will be playing their album, ‘Sorrow And Existence’ in full for its release anniversary. Joining them include the recently(ish) reformed UK experimentalist Earthtone9, a UK trio of the highest quality in Conjurer, Elephant Tree and Pupil Slicer, (who released one of THE finest albums of 2021 in ‘Mirrors’) as well as over 25 other brilliant acts.

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