Dub is one of those styles of music that seems to lend itself to endless forms of experimentation by all sorts of musicians. From the avant-pop of Dubstar to the agit-rock crossover of Asian Dub Foundation (the clues are there!), everyone likes to put a...

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DOOMED  is the solo project of Pierre Laube of P.H.A.I.L. Not being familiar with P.H.A.I.L. I have no idea how the two bands compare, but after a brief perusal of their facebook page they mention bands such as Pantera, The Prodigy, Superjoint Ritual and even...

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The Prodigy – Jim Marshall Stage (Main Stage) – Friday 21:00 – 22:50 You can say whatever you want about The Prodigy, and most people have some opinion of them one way or the other, but to say that they don’t deserve to be headlining...

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Chase and Status – Jim Marshall Stage (Main Stage) – Friday 19:20 – 20:20 Download Festival is largely known for knowing its audience and generally giving said audience what they want, but over the years some shall we say questionable booking decisions have been made,...

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Download Festival kingpin Andy Copping has once again pulled a master-stroke out of the bag by announcing grunge rock behemoths Soundgarden for this year’s festival. Joining the Seattle rockers are foul-mouthed comedy rockers Tenacious D, Scottish rock stalwarts Biffy Clyro, young British upstarts YouMeAtSix and...

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Enter Shikari are one of those bands that split opinions to very strong extremes either garnering adoration or vehement negativity, their striking rock sounds laid in bed with electro rave wantonness. Now why are we mentioning Enter Shikari? Well, basically because Dallas based The Browning...

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Saturday started off with Five Finger Death Punch – they were amazing, i have their cd so was looking forward to seeing them live and I wasn’t disappointed! A great way to start the day off! Then came DevilDriver again I was really looking forward...

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