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8 BANDS READY FOR COPENHELL’S BONEYARD CONTAINER STAGE


Today, COPENHELL announces eight bands that will perform on the festival’s new Boneyard container stage this summer. Boneyard was introduced at last year’s festival as an area that focuses on bands from the massive, dark Danish underground that give concerts straight out of a container, directly into the peoples’ faces, and it was a hugely popular initiative among the COPENHELL audience. 

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Uprising Announcement: First Wave Of Bands Revealed for Their Eighth Edition


Leicester’s premiere indoor rock and metal festival, Uprising returns for its eighth instalment on Saturday 24th May and it’s coming armed with an eclectic mix of bands.

Joining Uprising 8 are….

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BLOODSTOCK announce MASTODON + additional weekend tickets available soon


BLOODSTOCK is thrilled to announce that special guests on the Ronnie James Dio stage on Sunday will be…. wait for it…. none other than highly revered, four-headed metal behemoth MASTODON

The group are just off the road in the USA with festival alumni pals LAMB OF GOD, dropping the collab track ‘Floods Of Triton’ to celebrate their co-headline Ashes Of Leviathan tour. You can check out a ‘making of’ interview here.  Perhaps you caught MASTODON headlining BLOODSTOCK all the way back in 2016? Investigate the treasure trove of live tracks from that set on BLOODSTOCK’s YouTube at your leisure, including ‘High Road.’

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Green Day & More Announced For Tons Of Rock 2025


Following from a 2024 sold-out festival, with over 150,000 visitors from 80 countries, Tons Of Rock is thrilled to reveal Green Day as the first headliner and to announce further acts for its 2025 edition, including: Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Kim Dracula and more. To complete the announcement, the festival pre-sales go live today and tickets will be available for purchase here.
 
Located in the city center of Norway’s capitol Oslo, Tons of Rock is the largest rock festival in the country and it is becoming one of the biggest annual meeting point for all rock and metal fans in Europe. And now, legendary punk rock band Green Day are announced as main stage headliner on 26th June, with the performance being their exclusive Norwegian show.

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Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 Announcement


The Hellsinki Metal Festival, which sold out on its second day in August, is also expanding into a winter event. Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 roars on December 14 at Helsinki’s Kaapelitehdas, and the performers of the first indoor festival will be Dark Funeral, one of the best in Swedish black metal, Belphegor, Austria’s gift to lovers of blackened death metal, and domestic experts in the field Kyy and Omnivortex.

Kaapelitehdas was not chosen as the venue for the event by chance – metal has been celebrated in the same place during the years of the Finnish Metal Expo fair, and Hellsinki Metal Festival promoter Toni Törrönen also remembers those events fondly.

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Desertfest London announces first wave of bands for 2025


Desertfest London have announced the first wave of bands for their 13th edition, which will take place across multiple venues in Camden on Friday 16th – Sunday 28th May 2025. Weekend tickets are available HERE.
 
Swiss avant-garde metallers Zeal & Ardor are confirmed to headline the Roundhouse on Saturday night. Led by Manuel Gagneux, the group will undoubtedly deliver a masterclass in genre-pushing riffery following the release of their highly acclaimed fourth album Grief in August.

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