The hottest festival on earth, Hellfest 2023 brought with it scorching sun, torrential rain, star turns from Iron Maiden, Pantera and Slipknot, and an atmosphere like no other. Taking place in Clisson, France from 15th - 18th June, Hellfest was once again a total sell out.
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Metallica, Slipknot, Scorching Sun and More; Download 2023 Proves Summer's Hottest Ticket.13/6/2023 A scorching setting, the biggest crowd in its history, an electrifying bill, and a twenty year celebration; 2023's Download Festival had it all. Taking place at Donington Park from 8th - 11th June, and featuring star turns from Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot, and dual Metallica shows, Download 2023 proved one of the hottest tickets of the summer.
Celebrating five decades since their release, a pair of Alice Cooper classics are receiving a deluxe reissue. Newly remastered and expanded with rarities and previously unreleased concerts, the pair; 'Killer' and 'School's Out' arrive as 2-CD and 3-LP sets on 9th June 2023.
Back on track after a lengthy layoff in their super deluxe reissue series, Black Sabbath's 'Live Evil' is the first non-Ozzy album to receive the expanded treatment. Coming as an ornate and heavily adorned box set, the set features a newly remastered version by Andy Pearce, along with a new mix created from the original analogue multi-tracks by long time band associate Wyn Davis.
Following on from the mega Every Day Rocks seven-disc (and tee-shirt) box set which launched this extensive vinyl picture disc reissue series, Uriah Heep unleash a brace of mid-seventies classics from their later days with original vocalist David Byron.
Closing out one of the most productive weeks of their four-decade career, Def Leppard returned to Sheffield for a tiny club show at the Leadmill on Friday night (19th May 2023). Billed as 'For One Night Only', the special show was in aid of the charity Music Venue Trust.
Celebrating 40 years, W.A.S.P returned to Belfast’s Ulster Hall on Sunday night (26th March 2023), thankfully without the infamous riot that raged outside the same venue during an early visit in 1986. The original shock rockers treated the sold-out crowd to a fast-pace set with many of their early '80s classics, and the return of their most infamous number.
Returning to the Irish capital for the start of their 'Seize the Day' tour, and for their first gig in Dublin in seven years on Friday night (3rd March 2023), NWOBHM heroes Saxon were in fiercely fine form. Mixing classic tracks with a number of newies from latest set 'Carpe Diem', it was another vintage night from the veteran quintessentially English act. As if that wasn't enough, they headed north for their largest ever Belfast date at the Ulster Hall, the following night.
A decade in existence, their first gig since the release of their fifth album, a hometown show, and the return of bona fide legend Scott Gorham; there was much to celebrate as Black Star Riders returned to the stage on Saturday night (11th February 2023). Taking place at Belfast’s Limelight, Ricky Warwick and co blasted through a set like a band reborn, for the first show of their 'Wrong Side of Paradise' tour.
Hailing from Orlando, Florida, Trivium have been delighting the metal scene with their dual guitar solos, vicious vocals, and pounding drums since 1999. On Monday night (9th January 2023) they were in Belfast, blowing away the festive cobwebs and kicking off the new year in loud fashion.
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