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BLOODSTOCK announce MASTODON + additional weekend tickets available soon

October 26, 2024 carinadarkart Leave a comment

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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Less Than A Month To Go Until First Download Festival (DLXXII) 2025 Line Up Announcement

October 15, 2024 carinadarkart Leave a comment

Liquid Death Presents Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 22^nd edition in 2025 and the very first wave of artists will be announced on Tuesday 12 November 2024. Now is the last chance to buy Early Bird tickets at a cheaper price before they go off sale at midnight on Monday 11 November. DLXXII will take place over three days on 13-15 June 2025 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Book your tickets here: https://downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets

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BLOODSTOCK reveals 13 more bands

October 15, 2024 carinadarkart Leave a comment

Off the back of BLOODSTOCK’s first announcement of 19 bands for 2025, tickets have been flying out the door in record numbers. Adult standard weekend tickets are now sold out! A limited number of day tickets will be available in due course, once more bands have been announced. Missed out on the type of ticket you wanted? Sign up to Tixel, BLOODSTOCK’s official resale partner and avoid social media ticket scams!

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Green Day & More Announced For Tons Of Rock 2025

October 4, 2024 carinadarkart Leave a comment

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 26^th June, with the performance being their exclusive Norwegian show.

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Hellsinki Metal Festival – Winter Edition 2024 Announcement

October 4, 2024 carinadarkart Leave a comment

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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FIRST COPENHELL 2025 BANDS ANNOUNCED

September 26, 2024 carinadarkart Leave a comment

The 14th edition of COPENHELL will take place in familiar surroundings at Refshaleøen in central Copenhagen next summer. DREAM THEATER, IN FLAMES, LORNA SHORE, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SODOM, SYLOSIS, MYRKUR, MNEMIC and 18 additional bands have already signed up for the festival.

The dust from the four wild and crazy days in the middle of June has settled long ago, but the entire COPENHELL team is still swelling with pride months after the festival – not least festival director Jeppe Nissen:

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