Download Festival
Leather Worn, Beer Drunk and An Industry That Just Keeps On Giving For the first time since its indocrination The Heavy Metal Music Awards was held at arena level at Wembley OVO. Stunningly grandoise, presenter Alex Baker (of Planet Rock Radio) kept the evening going with the necessary earned introductions, […]
Rufus Publications Announced Photo Book Featuring Shots From The Paul Di’Anno Years In Iron Maiden The new series of black-and-white books will be called ‘Portraits’. It will give fans and enthusiasts the chance to see behind-the-scenes pictures from studio sessions and general day to day habits of the band from […]
TotalRock challenge to interview every act on the bill for Download Festival 2021! We’re not ones to back down from working hard, each year we cover as many festivals as possible interviewing bands large and small, with Download festival being no exception, we typically clock in at 50+ interviews […]
Download Festival 2019: Sumo Cyco Recommends Our final selection of bands to see at Download comes from the most excellent Sumo Cyco! They play the Dogtooth on Friday 13:50! Skindred Enter Shikari Fever333 Clutch 12 Foot Ninja
Download Festival 2019: Heart Of A Coward Recommends We asked Heart Of A Cowards vocalist Kaan to choose soem bands he’s looking forward to at this years Download. “Five sick bands coming your way!” Black Futures Toska Crystal Lake Animals As Leaders Tool
Download 2019: Tech That! And Party. It could be argued that last year saw the first real presence of Tech-Metal crossing the threshold of Castle Donington, with the likes of Tesseract and Plini the first instrumentalist to appear at Download festival, plus not forgetting Sleep Token. So this year that […]
Download Festival 2019: Malcolm Dome’s Recommendations Today’s selections come from our oracle, the walking encyclopedia of heavy metal, Mr. Malcolm Dome… Def Leppard Clutch At The Gates Skindred Halestorm Lamb Of God Dream Theater Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics
Download Festival is so close that you can almost taste it and so to help support the build-up I’ve chosen some of my favourite tracks from my top 20 bands playing this year. And rather than explain why I’ve chosen them, I’ll let the music do the talking with this […]
The Odyssey on TotalRock with Katia warmly recommends the following bands: Underside The Odyssey’s guests on the 2nd ofJune. They put Satan back in your stereo. (check out their excellent album: Satan In Your Stereo.) Opeth Need I say more? The progmeisters certainly know how to keep you captivated. […]
Download Festival: Same old bands? Every year theres always complainers, haters gonna hate, right? But just how often have some of these bands played more than a couple of times? Here are ten repeat offenders, the first three may have not necessarily played the most but certainly the most complained […]
The Metal Messiah Download Festival Top Picks: Municipal Waste There’s no party like a Municipal Waste party. If you want a band to get drunk, head bang and mosh to then Municipal Waste are the band for you. Their lightning speed riffs and killer solos will get you wrecking your […]
