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Chloe Trujillo, wife of Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo, was at The Karma Sanctum Hotel for three days last week live painting to launch her ‘Art In Motion’ exhibit. Her art will be shown throughout the hotel all summer, alongside a guitar she hand-printed which belonged to Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden. This very special guitar will be auctioned off to ...

Don’t you hate it when you go to a gig and everyone is on their phones, you find yourself watching through your own screen or even the persons in front, and then you need to bring yourself back to the true moment! It’s a bit of a ‘Two Way Glass’ some would say, and that some are Let Man Loose ...

Downloaders don’t do things by halves, and this year just proves it as a huge number of campers are already settled into the mud at the iconic Castle Donington site. As you probably know, the rain has been relentless but maybe not as bad as the infamous ‘drownload’ of 2016. There is mud, yes, but guess what: this is a ...

You may remember the bands as recommended by fans of Download and readers of RAMzine alike. A list by the fans, for the fans. Great. Here at RAMzine, we have some more bands in mind that you need to see at the extremely stacked festival this weekend. As you can imagine the people who put together RAMzine day-to-day have very ...

If you are like me, and you can’t wait for the official times to go up, you will be checking the legendary website known as ‘Clashfinder’ at any given moment before a festival. Some of you going to the Download Festival this year may have noticed a new stage this year labelled ‘Danish Quarter’. This includes DJ sets and bands ...

Ramblin’ Man Fair is poking its head over the horizon and with now less than 6 weeks to go, we are taking a look at 12 bands worth your time, from the big names down to the small surprises, let us try and steer you into something that we ourselves will be trying to find our way to see. Austin ...

Following the recent release of Helheim’s tenth full-length record, the incredibly diverse and unconventional Rignir, RAMzine simply had to have a chat with bassist/vocalist V’gandr from the Norwegian Viking metal ensemble; in order to learn more about what makes them tick, why alienation is a relevant and important theme within the context of the new album, and how the writing ...

Little Steven is back with a brand new album called Summer Of Sorcery which is already popping up in all the charts while getting critical acclaim worldwide. This is his first record of new material in twenty years and he’s now embarking in a world tour together with his loyal band The Disciples Of Soul. The legendary musician doesn’t stop ...

There’s an interesting story about the gestation period of this album. Talk Is Cheap was put together by Keith Richards and his side band, the X-Pensive Winos, during 1987-88 while the Stones were off the road. In fact, they’d been off the road for several years by this time and hadn’t toured since 1982 because Jagger believed he could do ...

Only a few days ago we saw the new masks and heard the new tunes from the nu-metal survivors SlipKnot, in the form of their latest video ‘Unsainted’. Ahead of their Download 2019 headline set, this was very exciting for fans who wanted to see the band’s new look. We can all agree on both tracks:  ‘All Out Of Life’ ...