Heavy Metal News of the Week 19th Nov

This weeks news is focusing on acts already announced for 2012 festivals

Download Festival 2012: The Prodigy were announced as the third headliner for Download 2012 joining a re-united original line up of Black Sabbath and Metallica playing the Black album in it's entirety.

Sonisphere won the best line up for 2011 but are lagging behind on announcements for next years line-up rumours include Foo Fighters, Chilli Peppers, Black Sabbath, Coal Chamber, Mastadon and Trivium

Bloodstock have announced the following among their line up for 2012 Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed, Alice Cooper, Watain, Corrosion of Conformity, Paradise Lost and Anvil

Choices Choices...







On Heavy Metal Bullet This week:

Review of Devin Townsend performing Ghost at Union Chapel in Islington
Review of Heavy Metal Books: Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins and Seb Hunter - Hell Bent for Leather

Heavy Metal News of the Week 12th Nov 2011

A couple of exciting Download 2012 Annoucements this week...

Metallica will play their Black Album in it’s entireity as the first headliner announced this week, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that it is not Lulu... speaking of which check out my review link at the end of this post

The second headliner announced yesterday after a flurry of internet speculation is the original line up of Black Sabbath. The world of metal has reacted well to the news lets see if they can live up to the hype

French band Gojira have signed to RoadRunner records this week, having seen these guys live would definitely recommend you check them out if you haven’t already and will release their fifth album through the label

German Power Metallers Blind Guardian are putting together a compilation album “Memories of A Time to Come” representing the first 25 years of their career

And on Heavy Metal Bullet this week if you haven’t already checked it out:

Heavy Metal New Blood Band Profile: Ampora – Find out more about the LA Based Metallers

Another Negative Heavy Metal Study – more psychological analysis from yet another doctor who just doesn’t get it

Heavy Metal Album Review: Metallica and Lou Reed – Lulu – Experimentation in music is always to be encouraged but...