Despite being, by and large, a very open and welcoming community, the world of heavy metal is in fact, piled full of rules and shibboleths. Break one of them and you can face a torrent of wrath and vitriol. Over the past decade, one of...

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Love them or hate them Limp Bizkit are back, the nu-metal rap rockers have always divided opinion amongst metal-heads, with the old guard dismissing them off-hand, yet they still manage to sell records by the boat load and fill arenas the world over. We here...

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Co-authored by Mark Wrigley. Apollo Stage With Saturday’s diversities fresh in our memories, come 11:00 am it’s time to climb aboard the huge musical roundabout once more with Volbeat (11:00 – 11:30) kicking off the Apollo Stage. These guys literally are one of the best...

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Sonisphere Festival 2011, Knebworth - 9 Bands Added - Limp Bizkit, The Sisters Of Mercy, KIGH, Gallows, One Minute Silence, Gojira, INME, Volbeat, Protest The Hero

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Ok, so it’s 2 weeks since the Download Festival but it has taken me this long to put into words the amazing, amazing weekend that it was… The anticipation had been building for a good few weeks beforehand helped in no small part my me...

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