Note: None of this footage has officially been uploaded by companies affiliated with Download Festival. In this current age of self-isolation due to the recent pandemic – COVOID19- it leads one to search for home entertainment using online means. One thing that has surfaced is an upload of the MTV Headbanger’s Ball coverage of Monsters Of Rock 1994. For those ...
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Just when you think you’ve heard it all from Brazilian metal machines Sepultura, they go ahead and drop the 15th Earth rattling hunk of steel upon us. Andreas Kisser, Derrick Green, Paulo Jr and Eloy Casagrande are back with a vengeance since the success of their last album, Machine Messiah in 2017. Quadra, meaning four or Quadrant, is aptly named ...
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So you’ve seen the Download Festival 2020 line-up, what would make it even better? That’s right 40 more bands. This includes too many to mention but here are some of the highlights: Pop-punk legends Bowling For Soup… Hard rock megastars Alter Bridge… Returning Welsh emo icons Funeral For A Friend… One of the best punk bands of the 00s, The ...
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Max Cavalera has made a name for himself by constantly pushing boundaries and shattering genres he is probably one of the most prolific artists in metal be it with Sepultura, Nail Bomb, The Cavalera Conspiracy or indeedSoulfly. So it comes as no surprise that he has been busy writing the follow up to Soulfly’s 2015 album Archangel. Ritual kicks off ...
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When Derrick Green entered the turbulent world of Sepultura back in 1998, the shit splatter from the fan was still very much pungent in the air. Earning it’s place up there as one of metal’s worst feuds that nigh on equals that of the Dave Mustaine Metallica bootin’ incident of ’83, the departure of Max Cavalera was not only a ...
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One thing’s for sure, Fit For An Autopsy won’t be someone’s little opening bitch this evening. Despite all the deathcore wannabes we’ve had to wade knee high to get through, the strongest of these bands are now showing their true colour. With FFAA firmly in the superior camp after showcasing what they’re capable of, their progressive maturity in their sound ...
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Sunday – the last day of the festival. A day where we look back on the best times this weekend and make the most of our last few hours at Bloodstock. But it’s not over yet! We have a full day of rock ‘n’ roll debauchery ahead of us. This morning we are greeted by London groove-metallers Skarthia on the ...
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Any spare time I get throughout festival season, you can find me in a field in a tent – that’s my happy place. Each year I face the same dilemma, I dream of a beach holiday in the sun; I know I should travel more, but I just can’t draw myself away from the festivals. Music is what I live ...
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Festival season has started, but Bloodstock still has a few more little announcements to keep our appetites wet. Ten new bands have been announced across the weekend. Friday on the Sophie Lancaster stage, Messiah’s Kiss take the stand featuring former session musicians for Tony Iommi and Saxon. Saturday welcomes old school thrash act Annihilated, and brutal death metallers Ageless Oblivion. ...
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Rewind back to the Mid 90’s – Sepultura were one of the leading lights in Metal. After coming out of Brazil in the 80s with the break through thrash classic ‘Beneath The Remains’ – they then smashed the metal world with one classic after the other, ‘Arise‘, ‘Chaos AD’ & then ‘Roots’. With Roots Sepultura & Ross Robinson helped to ...
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