In Photos: Download Festival 2012 @ Donington Park
For interviews, setlists, gossip and even more photos from Downlaod Festival 2012, please visit Thrashhits.com»
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Download 2012: The DiS Review
As the daddy of all rock festivals, Download's reputation is all but sacrosanct... »
Sonisphere 2011: The DiS Review
When Sonisphere first opened its doors to a UK audience in 2009 it was perhaps kind of fitting that it set up camp at Knebworth, the undisputed stately home of Rock.»
Sonisphere 2011: The DiS Preview, Part 1
Here's the first part of Drowned In Sound's Sonisphere 2011 preview, whereby we've put together our guide to ten artists we'll be checking out over the course of this weekend... »
Reading & Leeds 2008: all of our content compiled
From the archive... We spent the last week or more previewing, digesting and sharing Drowned in Sound's experience of Reading and Leeds Festival 2008. Here's all our content, in case you missed anything... now with added Friendly Fires live clip and a report of Day Three»
Sonisphere 2009 - The DiS Review
Or Sonisphere in Five Minutes»
SXSW high-fives from Rolo Tomassi, Fear & Records and Holy Roar Records
Rolo Tomassi went to Austin, Texas and absolutely slayed SXSW. They made noise, made people dance and made people cry. We gathered a gang to drive them across the desert and to score them beer and make sure that they ate enough BBQ. In return, they told us all about their five SXSW musical highlights...»
DiS Festival Guide '09: The Thrash Hits guide to Hard Rock & Heavy Metal
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.»
Guitar Hero: World Tour - Some thoughts
Tom Perry and Christopher Alcxxk recently got a chance to play the new Guitar Hero game, and give their thoughts on it and its genre...»
The fortnight that was: post-relaunch digest
From excellent mixtapes from some of our favourites to in-depth analysis of what makes a band tick, we've broadened our journalistic horizons somewhat since the relaunch. Catch up with this handy digest»
In Pictures: Metallica at London's 02 Dome
DiS photographer Gary Wolstenholme was at the O2 last night to capture every last grip and grimace from rock legends Metallica's fan club Death Magnetic launch party»
Reading/Leeds '08: What Our Writers Thought
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
The Weekly DiScussion: festival fever's early stages
That’s them, lurking, cluttering the horizon line, destroying your credit limit: festivals, assembling line-ups to die for, and just as many to run a mile from. This summer’s one weekend of sunshine will have a pre-determined soundtrack, folks. DiScuss it here»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's anticipated albums
There was us thinking that 2007 was a pretty splendid year for albums, and then we get a look at this little lot. Ahead of feature pieces outlining our acts of the year (to be), here DiS scans a number of upcoming releases»
Festival Preview: Download 2006
The most impressive line-up of the year is upon us this weekend and it’s only June. Download Festival 2006 is hosting a fleet of bands certain to go down in hard rock history flanked by stars of the future is always a good move. DiS will be doing really Heavy Metal things like sporting a mullet, wearing a denim jacket with the sleeves cut off and also generally being smelly. Here are The Top 9 (Nine) Bands You Need To See At Download Festival 2006!!!»
The Carling Weekend 2003: REVIEWED
So we got the motor/rail equivalent of a slave boat and packed in as many DiS writers as we could [Sean Adams, Ollie Appleby, Gareth Dobson, Ellen Forster, Andy Future, Matt Gregory, Mat Hocking, Sara Lovejoy, James Meehan, Ed Mellett, Kate Price, Raziq Rauf, Ollie Russian, Jo Sutton, George Terry, Peter »
Carling Weekender 2003: Main Stage Reviews
DiS went in 2003. This is what we thought...»
Carling Weekend Preview: The Best of Sunday
click here for part 1 and click here for part 2. Sunday 24th August 2003 AKA Reading Festival Day 3/Leeds Festival Day 1 sees over 40 bands play»
Under Age Virgins - Part 1
The first of our two-part survival guide for festival first-timers. Festival prices may be going up, but the age of the average festival goers is going down faster than coked-up soap stars off balconies. Email me valid points you feel may be of interest in the next instalment. IF YOU DON’T HAVE A »
Evanescence At Number One; Or Why the Music Industry is Killing Itself
I've just been scooting around a well known music business discussion board, as you do. And I stumbled across someone - hiding behind a fake name, obviously - moaning about rock kidz (TM) not being happy when one of 'their bands' gets to numero uno in the UK's official singles chart, like Evanescence just»
Mat on the D/L @ Download
So this is it. Donington. This is Donington! Arguably… no, definitely the most legendary heavy metal festival venue in the world. And I’m finally here, witnessing a new chapter in its history as it’s given a new modern facelift. Gone is the stone-age image of heavy metal warriors with denim armour and mul»
Evolution of the Song #1: Metallica's ‘Orion’
In a new monthly column Nick Hagan charts the development of songs and sounds that other artists have been inspired to cover, sample, reimagine and regurgitate.»
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