The initial lineup has been revealed for the 2021 UK Download Festival. The event will take place at Donington Park on June 4-6 and it will feature System Of A Down, KISS, Biffy Clyro, and more.
Here’s the daily lineups:
June 4:
Main Stage:
Kiss
A Day To Remember
Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes
Black Veil Brides
Theory Of A Deadman
Wayward Sons
Second Stage:
The Distillers
Airbourne
Lacuna Coil
Myles Kennedy & Company
Hatari
Avalanche Stage:
Sleep Token
Tiny Moving Parts
Hot Milk
Gender Roles
Press Club
Wargasm
The Dogtooth Stage:
Electric Wizard
Blues Pills
Bokasa
Tempt
A.A. Williams
Cellar Door Moon Crow
JJ Wilde
June 5:
Main Stage:
Biffy Clyro
Deftones
Gojira
The Pretty Reckless
Those Damn Crows
Second Stage:
Killswitch Engage
Mastodon
Daughtry
Bush
The Wildhearts
Poppy
Stone Broken
Avalanche Stage:
Funeral For A Friend
Creeper
The Faim
Employed To Serve
Holding Absence
Loathe
Puppy
Blackout Problems
The Dogtooth Stage:
Sepultura
Obituary
Dying Fetus
Bleed From Within
Will Haven
Higher Power
Joyous Wolf
Lotus Eater
Dead Label
June 6:
Main Stage:
System Of A Down
Korn
Volbeat
Rise Against
Alestorm
Powerwolf
Wage War
Second Stage:
Steel Panther
The Darkness
Skillet
Baroness
Of Mice & Men
P.O.D.
The Last Internationale
Control The Storm
Avalanche Stage:
Marianas Trench
Jamie Lenman
The Hara
Cemetery Sun
Dead Posey
The Dogtooth Stage:
Myles Kennedy (acoustic set)
Haken
Twin Temple
Spiritbox
Kill The Lights
Modern Error
Phoxjaw
Anchor Lane
Temples On Mars
The lineup has been confirmed for the 2021 Hellfest Open Air festival in Clisson, France. The event will take place on June 18-20, 2021 and it will feature a majority of the bands that were previously booked for the scrapped 2020 edition.
Volbeat’s 2013 album “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies” has officially been certified gold by the RIAA. The record received the honor after shifting 500,000 units in the U.S.
Volbeat will be streaming their June 24, 2016 set at the Tinderbox festival in Odense, Denmark on July 1 at 10:00 a.m. ET. It will then remain on YouTube for one week only. Notably, this will be the first time that performance has been made available since airing on DR TV in Denmark in 2016.
Charlie Benante (Anthrax), Rob Caggiano (Volbeat, ex-Anthrax) and Roberto “Ra” Diaz (Suicidal Tendencies) recently joined forces with Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels for a RUN-D.M.C. medley. You can see footage of that below. The track is also available to download via Bandcamp with proceeds set to go towards MusicUnites.org.
Benante commented:
“I always wanted to do a medley of RUN DMC songs, so back in March I decided to put an arrangement together and asked these amazing people to be a part of it.
How can you do a RUN DMC medley without the KING of ROCK- Darryl McDaniels DMC. I have been a RUN DMC fan from back when I first heard “It’s Like That/Sucker MCs” they had my attention immediately! It’s no secret that our “I’m the Man” song was inspired by RUN DMC and the Beastie boys…that’s how much we loved them.
I asked RA once again because he has the groove and creativity to adapt to any song. I love how he placed a familiar line at the end of the song that Just fit so well. I asked Rob Caggiano because I always loved his style.
I love the way he attacks his guitar and plays the tastiest shit. He throws this great Black metal riff in here that raises the tune to another level. We all came together to create this piece of music that makes US move.
I hope it YOU move! Maybe it inspires you to make music, play your instrument, write lyrics…”
The 2020 Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals were previously cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it looks like organizers were able to book the same headliners for 2021. Green Day, System Of A Down, and Volbeat have all been confirmed for the events, which are scheduled to take place in Germany on June 11-13. Rock am Ring will be held in Nurburgring, while Rock im Park will be held in Nurnberg.
Volbeat have been using their coronavirus downtime to work on new music and during a recent interview with “Whiplash,” the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, Michael Poulsen discussed the musical direction that the band are currently heading in. According to him, “there’s a lot of heavy stuff in some of the new songs.”
Poulsen said the following:
“Now that I have all the time at home, there’s a lot of time to reflect on your whole career and what you’ve been doing in the past and what you’re doing now and what you wanted to do with the music, so I’m very much inspired right now, so I’m writing a lot of VOLBEAT songs at this very moment. And let me tell you, I can’t wait to start working on these songs in the studio when the time is right, because there’s a certain energy that really, really takes me back to the beginning. There’s a lot of heavy stuff in some of the new songs that I’ve got.”
He continued after being asked how the new material compares to “Rewind, Replay, Rebound”:
“I know for sure that what I’m writing right now is not really similar. That’s gonna be another different VOLBEAT album, because if I was writing an album like that again, I would be old before I want to. So right now I’m doing a lot of spontaneous VOLBEAT songs that have really a lot of… [It’s] uptempo, it’s heavy, it’s very riffy, there’s even thrash songs, but again, there’s also these really huge rock songs. Right now, I’m in a place where I’m kind of revisiting some of more uptempo and more heavy stuff. So I’m very excited about my whole situation when it comes to writing for VOLBEAT.”
He also dived deeper into his songwriting process:
“Writing is such an emotional thing — things have to come to you very naturally and then you just have to go with the flow. You can sit down and you can ask yourself, ‘Where am I going with this?’ And if you try to change it, it becomes another monster, and it’s not necessarily a monster you wanna work with. So you just have to go with what your heart tells you. And that’s what I’m doing also right now with the stuff that I’m writing right now, because I think everybody’s kind of getting crazy being locked up in their own home. We have a lot of energy we wanna burn out. Even though I run every morning, I still have a ton of energy that I need to get rid of, and I get all that energy out in the new VOLBEAT music. That’s why I’m saying that what I’m writing right now is more uptempo. I’s very, very, very spontaneous writing, and there’s a lot of energy in it.”
The full lineup for the virtual “Slay At Home” festival has officially been revealed. The event, which was organized by Metal Injection’s Frank Godla, will take place on May 29-30 and it will feature quarantine performances, commissioned music, collaborative covers, and more.
Lineup:
Never Before Seen Performances By:
Suicide Silence
TesseracT
Gavin Rossdale (Bush)
Matt Heafy (Trivium)
Twelve Foot Ninja
Tyler Bates
Steve ‘N’ Seagulls
Darkest Hour
Allegaeon
Entheos
Der Weg einer Freiheit
O’Brother
Khemmis
Silvertomb
Mantar
Astronoid
Employed To Serve
Spirit Adrift
Spotlights
Cadaver
Andy Gillion
Johnny Booth
Panamama
Moon Destroys
Nitesoil
Contracult Collective
Spylacopa
Del Judas
Myrone
Chronus
AA Williams
Angel Vivaldi
GlerAkur
Jo Quail
Commissioned Music By:
“Pallid Veil”:
Luc Lemay (Gorguts)
Dave Davidson (Revocation / Gargoyl)
Liam Wilson (Azusa, ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Elliot Hoffman (Carbomb)
“Digital Ink”:
Ben Weinman (Suicidal Tendencies, ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Billy Rymer (END, ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Brian Sullivan (Thoughtcrimes)
“Solo Set”:
Roy Mayorga (Stone Sour)
“DJ M’s Wacky Attacky”:
Manuel Gagneux (Zeal & Ardor)
Cover Collaborations By:
Pustulus Maximus (GWAR)
Tiziano Volante (Zeal & Ardor)
Trevor Strnad (The Black Dahlia Murder)
Sacha Dunable (Intronaut)
Johnny Kelly (Silvertomb / Type O Negative)
Ash Pearson (Revocation)
Brody Uttely (Rivers Of Nihil)
Gwarsenio Hall (Two Minutes To Late Night)
Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth)
Steve Zing (Samhain/Danzig)
Hank Hell (Silvertomb)
Pepe Clarke (Kyng)
Jesse Korman (The Number Twelve Looks Like You)
Conor Marshall (Sylosis),
Greg Burgess (Allegaeon)
Frank Godla (Metal Injection)
Mrs. Smith
Phil Pendergast (Khemmis)
Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin (Employed To Serve)
Kevin Antreassian (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan)
DJ Scully (The Number Twelve Looks Like You)
Billy Rymer (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Scott Carlson (Repulsion)
Ra Diaz (Suicidal Tendencies)
Phil Demmel (ex-Machine Head)
Marta Demmel (Bleeding Through)
John Tempesta (The Cult, ex-Rob Zombie)
Mike Tempesta (ex-Powerman 5000)
Joey Vera (Armored Saint)
Graham Bonnet (Rainbow / MSG)
Guest Appearances By:
Gost
Don Jamieson (That Metal Show)
Jose Mangin (Sirius XM Liquid Metal)
Brian Slagel (Metal Blade Records)
Charlie Benante (Anthrax)
Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed)
Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste)
Chuck Billy (Testament)
Chef Brian Tsao
Chef Chris Santos
Jessica Pimentel (Orange Is The New Black)
Rob Caggiano (Volbeat)
Art Installations By:
Mario Duplantier (Gojira)
Vincent Castiglia
Trine Grimm
Jodi Cachia
Zein
Carin Hazmat
Nathaniel Shannon
Kevin Wilson
Rodrigo Fredes
Vertebrae 33
Stefan Raduta
Godla commented:
“By keeping the set times between 5 and 15 minutes for each artist, it allows me to not only keep things moving, but mix it up in ways that conventional festivals simply can’t. Every single hour will contain big names and emerging artists right next to each other.
I’m trying to look at the bright side of our current situation, and not only make this an entertaining way to see the artists you love flex their creativity in new ways, but hope this event acts as a place of discovery for every viewer out there.
Finding a band or artist to fall in love with is the mark of a great festival to me, and it’s my honor to share the work of these amazing individuals I curated because I’m passionate about them. I’ve been in touch with all of them every step of the way, and some even managed to throw me a few surprises.
I’m honored and humbled to have all of them part of this, they truly went above and beyond to showcase their craft for the Slay At Home fest, and I can’t wait for the world to see something really special come to life this weekend.”
Money raised from the event will benefit MusiCares and Global Giving.
It looks like Volbeat have been using their coronavirus downtime to work on new music. Bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen recently confirmed the news to “Cutter’s Rockcast,” saying that the new material is “very uptempo.”
Larsen said the following:
“Well, fortunately, we are opening up a little bit here in Denmark, so, actually, my kids are in kindergarten daycare, and my wife’s just started work again. So I am able to be a little bit creative.
We were supposed to be on tour in the U.S. right now. That’s not happening. I’m really bummed out about that. But we are actually writing new music right now. That’s what we can do — the only thing we can do right now.
Every band out there is writing music right now. There will be tons of records next year, maybe even in the later part of this year.”
He went on to say that “all the anxiety and the fear of the future” has provided the band with “a lot of inspiration” for their new album:
“I think the next VOLBEAT album will be quite different from the previous two or three records. It’s very uptempo.”
Volbeat’s 2016 album “Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie” has officially gone 5x multi-platinum in Denmark. The band received the honor for moving 100,000 units in the country.
