
So Coppo and co have announced their final headliner, a special guest and a little something extra to please the internet trolls the cheeky buggers.
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So Coppo and co have announced their final headliner, a special guest and a little something extra to please the internet trolls the cheeky buggers.

Oh Mr Copping. After causing the Internet to explode with yesterday’s Download announcement, you only went and topped it this morning by announcing the second headliner and another special guest. Here’s my latest reaction to the Download announcements.
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Festival season is up and running and while festivals like Bloodstock have been pulling out exciting line ups involving the returning Emperor and the always loved Megadeth Download have held off on letting the cat out of the bag on their headliners for next summer. That is until today, when Andy Copping and co have decided to let the first of said cats out of said bag and let the world know exactly who they can expect to see when they are set up in that beautiful field down Donnington way.
Huntress were shot into the metal world’s attention with their very solid debut album Spell Eater, which took elements of trad metal and thrash and mixed it with very occult lyrics and the incredible voice of Jill Janus. They’re now back only a year later with their second album Starbound Beast, which has presumably been pushed out in order to capitalise on that publicity.
When the Djeent scene exploded a few years back TesseracT were quickly pinpointed as MVPs. Their brand of progressive metal is more intelligent, and better crafted, than nearly anything on the market at the moment and their second album Altered State will be looking to expand upon their already lofty reputation. It features Ashe O’Hara on vocals for the first time and is also their first release to feature entirely clean vocals.
Here’s another playlist folks. Hope you enjoy.
It says a lot that the latest Alice in Chains release will not be getting compared to their classic material, but instead their latest release Black Gives Way to Blue. The seemingly impossible task of replacing Layne Staley has been done ably by William DuVall and The Devil Puts Dinosaurs Here has a lot of expectation resting on it’s shoulders.
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Slightly late but all the better for it.
White Wizzard burst onto the scene back in 2009 with their debut album Over The Top, which saw them nominated for a Metal Hammer Golden God among other things. With a very simple goal of bringing heavy metal back to it’s roots and away from the emo and screamo genres that they felt had taken over, they were a straight up metal band in the vein of Iron Maiden and Manowar. A string of line-up changes that has seen bassist Jon Leon as the only original member led to a loss of this momentum which they will be looking to regain with latest release The Devil’s Cut.