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MUSE, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, MEGADETH, MACHINE HEAD, DREAM THEATER, SEX PISTOLS, WEEZER, TURBONEGRO & MANY MORE CONFIRMED FOR TONS OF ROCK 2025!


Tons Of Rock is thrilled to drop a sensationally large lineup with a whopping 22 top-tier bands and artists made up of legends, icons, and heroes.
 
This year’s lineup is topped by four headliners who have never played at the festival.
 
The British legends MUSE, known for their grandiose live performances and with massive demand from fans worldwide, are set to deliver one of their select festival appearances in 2025.

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DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2025 THREE FIRST-TIME HEADLINERS AND OVER 90 OTHER BANDS REVEALED


Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 22nd edition, reborn and recharged in 2025 as DLXXII. Announced today are three first-time headlinersGreen Day, Sleep Token and Korn—alongside over 90 more colossal names spanning the full spectrum of rock, metal, punk, emo, hardcore, alternative and classic rock. This year’s festival will take place on 13-15 June 2025 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. General tickets are onsale at 9pm on Thursday 14 November at www.downloadfestival.co.uk.
 

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BLOODSTOCK launches 2025 ‘Metal 2 The Masses’ grass roots scheme across the UK


BLOODSTOCK wants to find the hottest new metal talent to appear across festival weekend next August! With weekend tickets for BLOODSTOCK 2025 now sold out, festival HQ is getting cracking on this year’s instalment of the phenomenally successful Metal 2 The Masses (M2TM) scheme, to fill out the bands who’ll be appearing on the New Blood Stage, in conjunction with sponsor Timothy Taylor.

No other festival does more to support grass roots metal and local venues in the UK. BLOODSTOCK was honoured to be recognised for this at the Heavy Music Awards earlier this summer, taking home top accolade The H Award, for exceptional positive contribution to the heavy music scene by way of the M2TM initiative.

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18 NEW BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR COPENHELL 2025


SLIPKNOT, POWERWOLF, SKILLET, HARDY, POPPY, KITTIE, ABBATH, WALLS OF JERICHO, SYL x EYES, JULIE CHRISTMAS, GÅTE, RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR, GABESTOK, BATTLESNAKE, TETRARCH, THROWE and HEAVE BLOOD AND DIE will visit next year’s festival.

The first COPENHELL 2025 headliner is ready: The Iowa superstars from SLIPKNOT will return to Copenhagen with their explosive energy, aggressive sound and insanely entertaining chaos of a stage show. Everyone who has experienced – and survived! – a concert with these masked maniacs can confirm that it is like a cathartic ritual, where both the audience and the band go absolutely wild until every last remnant of energy has left both body and mind! 

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BLOODSTOCK’S HALLOWEEN TREATS + ADDITIONAL WEEKEND TICKETS AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 5TH


It’s showtime! In honour of it being Halloween week, BLOODSTOCK was going to treat you to a spooktacular vampire pun. But it sucks. 

So let’s creep it real with some more bands joining the bill, because we all know that you ghouls just wanna have fun. And in case you missed the fangtastic news about more weekend tickets being released, read on for further details and mark your calendar for 9am, November 5th, for that’s when they go on sale! No tricks!

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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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