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PRETTY MAIDS TO PERFORM AT COPENHELL AND JAILBREAK IN 2024


Spearheaded by original members Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer, the Danish music phenomenon PRETTY MAIDS is back on the heavy rock frontline and ready to hit the stages again with their energetic performances and unforgettable songs. The Danish music veterans will play their third COPENHELL concert and make their debut at JAILBREAK in their hometown of Horsens in 2024, which is the 40-year anniversary of the release of the band’s fiery debut album ‘Red, Hot and Heavy’ from 1984.
 

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Within Temptation Share Vampire-Horror Video “Ritual”


Dutch metallers Within Temptation follow the release last week of their brand-new studio album Bleed Out with a provocative, zombie-vampire-gore-fest-splatter-horror video for their current single “Ritual,” just in time for Halloween. 

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Hellfest Announce First Wave Of Bands For 2024 Ahead Of Last Round of 4 Day Pass Sales


Hellfest Festival has revealed the below:

WELCOME TO INFERNOPOLIS!

Hellbangers, it’s time to announce the final round of 4-day pass sales… and to give you a sneak peek of the band that will close the festival on Mainstage 1 : the FOO FIGHTERS!

We are also thrilled to present the first bands that will be joining us for the 2024 edition:

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – THE OFFSPRING – MEGADETH
DROPKICK MURPHYS – ROYAL BLOOD – BAD OMENS

ALL THEM WITCHES – BABYMETAL – BIOHAZARD – BRUCE DICKINSON – BRUJERIA – BRUTUS – DARK TRANQUILLITY – DIMMU BORGIR – ETERNAL CHAMPION – FU MANCHU – KORPIKLAANI – KVELERTAK – MADBALL – NOVA TWINS – RHAPSODY OF FIRE – SATYRICON – THE INTERRUPTERS

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TWO WEEKS TO GO UNTIL 21ST DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL LINE UP ANNOUNCEMENT + LAST CHANCE TO GET EARLY BIRD TICKET DISCOUNT


Tuesday 24 October – Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 21st edition reborn and recharged in 2024 as DLXXI. The very first wave of artists will be announced on Tuesday 7 November. This is the last chance to buy Early Bird tickets at a cheaper price before they go off sale at midnight on Monday 6 November. DLXXI will take place over three days on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Book your tickets here: https://downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets

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Beyond The Grave festival returns to London with its biggest line-up to date!


On the weekend of November 24th and 25th London will play host to Beyond The Grave IV, boasting an array of extreme metal talent that will bring the capital to its knees! Camden’s Black Heart and Underworld will be taken over by an impressive line-up of lords of the underground. For fans of all forms of death metal’s twisted art this is an unmissable event, a nirvana of bludgeoning sickness for true disciples of destruction. On Friday 24th The Black Heart will unleash the first wave of horror with an incredible bill of the very heaviest bands on planet death. Headliners, Norwegian slam gods Kraanium, will be joined by an intimidating squadron of the UK’s finest – Amputated, Iniquitous SavageryRend Them Asunder and Deliberate Miscarriage.

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DIMMU BORGIR announce covers album ‘Inspiratio Profanus’ + release first single ‘Black Metal’


After their last two successful albums Abrahadabra and EonianDIMMU BORGIR herald their 30-year legacy by releasing, together for the first time, a collection of their cover songs. The album Inspiratio Profanus is being announced with the release of the thunderous first single, ‘Black Metal’ by the extreme metal pioneers VENOM. The album Inspiratio Profanus will be released on December 8th via Nuclear Blast Records.                     

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