Linkin Park
Currently holed in the studio recording their eagerly-awaited fourth studio album, Linkin Park are merely hibernating, waiting for the summer festival season to arrive so they once again lay claim to headling their only UK show at the legendary Knebworth. Linkin Park are that rare breed of rock band that supersedes trends. With a catalogue of hits that found fans well beyond the boundaries of the genre of rap-rock, Linkin Park’s legacy as one of the great bands of the new millennium is already assured. Their now-infamous collaborations with Jay-Z on their Collision Course EP, gave rap-metal the respectability it craved, ...
Metallica
One of the defining heavy metal bands of all time, Metallica’s dedication to snarling riffs, savage solo shreds and pure, unadulterated volume ensured that their logo has been scrawled on exercise books and rucksacks for the last 26 years. Shunning the big hair gimmicks that characterised so much of 1980s rock, Lars Ulrich & co helped kickstart the entire genre of thrash metal. Metallica demonstrated to the heavy metal world and beyond that you can be lightning fast, steadfastly uncompromising, hugely successful and even sometimes dabble in the mainstream. From their 1986 classic, Master of Puppets, still sounding as exciting now as ...
Sonisphere wins its first award!
The Greener Festival Award 2009
Sonisphere UK has won the prestigious Greener Festival Award for its commitment to environmental sustainability, covering office management, greenhouse gas emissions, supporting green initiatives, travel and transport,...
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Festival Awards - Round 2
The first round of voting has just closed for this year’s Festival Awards, and Sonisphere got through to the second round on the big hitters Best Major Festival, Best New Festival, Best Headline Performance.
So we have second round voting kick off...
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The Haunted play Birmingham and London
Sonisphere is proud to also be involved with the new The Haunted tour. In the words of The Haunted main man “There is no room for apathy given our limited chances of survival in this Darwinian world” we recommend getting along to a show before...
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Sonisphere 2010 - Game on!
It’s official! Sonisphere 2010 will take place on 31st July and 1st August.
Thank you again everyone for coming to the first Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth Park in August 2009. We are really excited to announce that the first steps are being made...
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Sonisphere presents Alice In Chains UK tour
As Alice in Chains hit the number 1 US billboard chart with new track ‘Check My Brain‘ Sonisphere and Kilimanjaro is proud to present the first full UK tour.
New singer William DuVall takes up the stride of the late great Layne Staley. In...
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Slayer UK Tour
Slayer is the reason we get up in the morning. Slayer is the reason we married our wives and husbands. Slayer is the reason why birds sing and the sun rises. Needless to say Team Sonisphere is very excited about being asked to co-present the 2009 UK tour...
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Two different 1 hour shows on VH1 Stateside.
There is a lucky treat for our cousins over in the states this weekend as Team Sonisphere has just received word that there will be two different 1 hour Sonisphere specials broadcast on Palladia TV (VH1 HD Channel) in the USA. The programmes are scheduled...
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Merch: The new batch
You totally cleaned Team Sonisphere out of merch on site. All we have left is a smelly sweatband and the dufflebag we like to use for walking the dog. To remedy this, we have enlisted a couple of Santa’s gnomes to help us make a bunch more, including...
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What the fans and the bands think of the gig
Well that was really quite something wasn’t it? To be honest, Team Sonisphere is not quite sure how to describe the weekend and properly do it justice. We’ll get all tied up in superlatives and clichés and probably snap our keyboards in excitement.
Plus,...
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Metallica and Sonisphere sign off in style
“This is the best yet,” screams Lars Ulrich. “We played six Sonisphere shows this year and Knebworth was the one.”
All of Metallica seemed pretty excited. “This one is dedicated to the hardcore Metallica fan that is here and now,” says James...
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Sonisphere is on the telly: Channel 4 -14/08/09
Team Sonisphere have teamed up with Blink TV to serve up the most rocking televised event this side of Hades. Highlights from the two-day rockstravaganza at Knebworth House will blast out on Channel 4 at ten minutes past midnight on Friday 14th August...
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Machine F*cking Head
It’s the band we dare not speak the name of. You knew it. We knew it. Machine Head definitely knew it.
Booked for the last three shows of the tour, Machine Head dropped out of Knebworth after Limp Bizkit were drafted on the bill above them. Despite...
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Mastodon, Avenged Sevenfold, The Used, Taking Back Sunday and Dead By Sunrise EP for free.
You’re already going to be watching some of the finest bands around this weekend but do you want some free music from them as well? We’re talking about bands like Avenged Sevenfold, Mastodon, The Used and Taking Back Sunday. Uh huh? It’s rather...
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Killer covers
Wondering what to get your mum for Christmas? Well, Killing Joke are releasing a covers album where bands including Metallica, Foo Fighters and Tool cover the cigar-chomping death obsessives’ finest numbers. Lamb of God have been asked to join in too,...
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Thunder - This Is It!
“Michael Jackson couldn’t make it, but we did,” cheerily barks Thunder frontman Danny Bowes in the heaving Bohemia tent at the band’s last-ever show. This is exactly how to bring the Saturday night at Sonisphere to a close. A crowd...
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Airbourne go airbourne
Soil started it off by jumping in the crowd during the first set of the day, but Airbourne have taken it to a whole new level (fair enough, it’s the biggest gig they’ve ever played). Joel O’Keefe climbed the tower as far as it would go and then...
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Stripped-down Sonisphere
“Hi, I’m Lady Wildflower and I’m about to do a cowgirl routine to Ben Jovi’s ‘Dead or Alive’. I strip down to nipple tassles and knickers,” she says. “No, don’t say knickers, say panties, it sounds more classy.”
So speaks Team Sonisphere’s...
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Metal Hammer Podcast Sonisphere Special
The Metal Hammer Podcast team (Gill and Beez with special guest, Metal Hammer deputy editor Caren Gibson) bring you this very special episode in which they discuss everything and anything associated with this weekend’s killer Sonisphere festival!
Will...
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