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SLAYER announce return to the UK with European exclusive shows


For more than four decades, SLAYER has defined thrash metal – shaping the genre, inspiring others, destroying stages across the world, and forging an untouchable legacy of unrelenting speed, aggression, and power. Now, as they celebrate more than 40 years of chaos, they’re making history once again, announcing two massive headline shows, the biggest they’ve ever done in the U.K. and  the only headline shows SLAYER will play in Europe this year.

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100 Days To Go Until Download XXII


Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, is now only 100 days away. With the countdown now truly on, celebrate this year’s festival with our round up of Download By Numbers. This year’s festival will take place on 13-15 June 2025 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

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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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COREY TAYLOR and BAD OMENS collaborate to cover Kansas classic ‘Dust In The Wind’ which is featured on soundtrack of ‘Queen Of The Ring’


As excitement builds for the March 7th theatrical release of Queen of the Ring—the highly anticipated biopic chronicling the trailblazing journey of wrestling icon Mildred Burke, written and directed by Ash Avildsen and starring Emily Bett Rickards — Sumerian Records are thrilled to release a very special collaboration between the inimitable COREY TAYLOR and BAD OMENS. The track, produced, mixed and mastered by Aaron Gilhuis, is haunting cover of the Kansas classic ‘Dust in the Wind‘ and is featured on the official motion picture soundtrack of Queen Of The Ring (releasing via Sumerian Records on 7th March).

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Papa Roach Release Official Video For ‘Even If It Kills Me’


Today, Papa Roach release their cinematic Official Music Video for “Even If It Kills Me” Directed by Jesse Davey and Ed Shires. The band’s first single release in 3 years is taking the world by storm, in just 5 weeks the single has already amassed nearly 10 million streams, and is rapidly scaling the charts in 27 countries. Watch the video HERE.

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Employed To Serve release new single & video ‘Fallen Star’


Leading lights of British metal, Employed To Serve, release new single, the title track from their forthcoming albumFallen Star.’ 

“’Fallen Star’ is about enduring the burn out of someone close to us,” offer Employed To Serve front woman Justine Jones. “It can be devastatingto look on helplessly as someone you care for continues to fly too close to the sun and not learn from it. Sometimes you need to just distance yourself and love them from afar. We felt it should be the title track as it thematicallycenters around the lyrics of the new record. Breaking bad habits and overcoming the challenges life throws ourway.” 

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