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Sonisphere 2009 - The DiS Review

In Depth by Kev Eddy

Or Sonisphere in Five Minutes»

Mastodon answer your questions + Win a pair of their Vans

In Depth by Sean Adams

DiS met Mastodon, asked them questions and captured it on video. »

In Photos: Mastodon @ The Corporation, Sheffield

In Depth by Gary Wolstenholme

DiS Festival Guide '09: The Thrash Hits guide to Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

If you’re serious about your heavy music, you’ve been following all the lineup releases already and you’ve started thinking which of the three summer festivals you’ll be attending and while it was relatively simple last year, the addition of Sonisphere to the list just makes the decision that bit more difficult explains Thrash Hits' editor Raziq Rauf.»

DiS meets Mastodon

In Depth by Dave Kerr

As part of our Countdown to ATP's A Nightmare Before Christmas DiS caught up with seminal rock behemoths Mastodon who say they “scream like banshees being stuck in the ass with a knife”, but new album Crack the Skye signals a change of tack... »

Hove Festival 2007: the DiS review

In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers

For a whole week, we barely touched a drop: too expensive, too cold, not a thing like what us Brits are used to. A dry county, Hove might as well have been; not a sip, not a tipple. For a week, teetotal. Lies: we just didn’t eat...»

A Review of 2006: DiS is what it's all about, yo

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

2006 has been a year that’s lived up to and exceeded all expectations. With enough fantastic albums to treble the length of my Albums of the Year list, and a gig list long enough to frighten even the hardiest tour manager, I’ve seen plenty of goodness this year. Luckily we’re on hand to jog those memories and help you reminisce about the good times and the couple of sad moments which brought us all back down to Earth with a big bump. This is 2006...»

DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1

In Depth by Mike Diver

Let the DiScussing begin! We’ve been racking brains – prior to pulverising each other’s – at the DiSopolis these past few weeks to come up with our top 66 albums of the past six years; the very best records to see the light of day during DiS’s lifetime (yes, six years). Arguments have been won and lost, a handful of frankly incredible artists have improbably missed the cut through forgetfulness and space constraints, and we’ve all got quite, quite drunk along the way...»

A Month In Records: September 2006

In Depth by Mike Diver

Did you dig September as much as we did? Really, we’ve not known a month like it this year: fantastic releases were flooding through our letterbox near-enough non-stop. From metal to folk, to thunderous post-rock and twisted electronica, many a base was covered and covered brilliantly. So this month’s A Month In Records has been one tough mother to compile...»

Carling Weekend 2006 - Sunday

In Depth by DiS Festivals

Drowned in Sound's coverage of The Carling Weekend 2006 has come to you courtesy of Sean Adams, Sam Corbett, Jordan Dowling, Chris Harris, Ben Jones, Kev Kharas, Christopher Knight, Ben Marwood, Raziq Rauf, Rob Webb and Gary Wolstenholme.»

Carling Weekend 2006 - Sunday

In Depth by DiS Festivals

Carling Weekend: Reading & Leeds festivals - The DiS preview

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

Everyone who knows anything about something about music waits in anxious expectation for the August Bank Holiday weekend. That is when The Carling Weekend descends upon two places in England with loads of bands that are okay and some bands that are bloody wicked and others that are fucking shit. Apparently we’re not allowed to call it Reading Rock anymore 'cause that went out in the 1980s. Whatever. Here are the ten bands that we reckon you should see.»

DiS does ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas

In Depth by DiS Festivals

The road was both long and winding – and not even a road but a railway line, if we’re being entirely accurate – but DiS finally made it back from The Mars Volta-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Only now have we regained strength enough to put our experiences into words; to reassemble the muddled memories into some kind of coherent piece...»