Fans around the world will be getting a shock with their toast and cornflakes this morning. It has been announced this morning that Joey Jordison, drummer and founding member of Slipknot, has parted company with the Iowa band he helped turn into one of the world’s largest metal bands. A short announcement has been displayed…
After all the build up, the band announcements, the hype, the anxious constant monitoring of the ever unpredictable British weather and worst of all the waiting, the eleventh annual Download Festival at Donington Park was finally upon us. Even before the bands had begun to play at 2013’s installment of the festival plenty had transpired….
Back in 2003, I went to my first Download festival following the last ever Ozzfest at Donington in 2002. Whilst memories of IRON MAIDEN, SIKTH, DEFTONES, STAMPIN’ GROUND, SEPULTURA and of course those cheeky chaps in METALLICA remain steadfast as being some of my greatest, throughout the years many of the following Downloads have involved…
We’re now just a month away from the UK’s annual premier rock and metal shindig that takes place at Donington Park in Derbyshire, the one and only Download Festival. Having seen off Sonisphere to the point where their rivals at Knebworth have not staged the event for the last two years, Download has firmly re-established…
Continuing the build up nicely to this Summer’s forthcoming rock & metal festivities, the nice people from the Download Festival have put together a short video teaser to build the mood for this years’ event. Check it out below: [youtube id=”WxPFe0ikduk” width=”600″ height=”350″] Download 2013 recently added around thirty more bands to the already impressive…
Straight from the horses mouth, or in this case both official band website and Download Festival booker Andy Copping on Twitter, Bullet For My Valentine will be returning to Donington for their sixth appearance at the festival in 2013. Most recently seen at Download sub-headlining Linkin Park in 2011, the Welsh metal four piece are…
We will do this again my friends, I swear to fuckin’ god”. Words spoken by Corey Taylor at the conclusion of Slipknot’s mind blowing headline set at the 2009 edition Download Festival. Slipknot delivered one of the all time great metal festival headline performances that night, a show which is one of the greatest in…
Always keen to break new boundaries with whatever they do, masked metal legends Slipknot are this Friday and Saturday holding their own festival, aptly entitled Knotfest to take place in Iowa and Minnesota in the US. Keen for the wider Maggot family to be able to join in the fun, Slipknot are making their KnotFest…
Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman and all around metal god Corey Taylor earlier this year joined the ranks of the great, the good and the infamous in delivering a speech to the University of Oxford’s student’s union here in the UK. The event was filmed and is scheduled to be broadcast in four parts. Currently…
