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Yesterday seasoned promoters yet newbie's on the festival scene Eastern Electrics announced the line-up for their summer festival and..... WOW! It reads like a who's who of techno and house artists that we love. For their second foray into the festival circuit EE have pulled out all the stops and secured what looks set to be the UK's most popular electronic music festival line-up. Twitter and Facebook have been going mad. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, there are more acts yet to be announced and they promise to be just as good as the [...]

News/rumours broke yesterday that Sonisphere Festival was cancelled, and now it has been officially confirmed that Sonisphere Knebworth is cancelled.Below is the official statement from the festival organisers: “It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012. Putting the festival together in what is proving to be a very challenging year was more difficult than we anticipated and we have spent the last few months fighting hard to keep Sonisphere in the calendar.Unfortunately circumstances have dictated that we would be unable to run [...]

Well, it's now 100% official - Sonisphere Knebworth 2012 has been cancelled . As we reported yesterday , the rumours surrounding the festival had reached fever pitch, and in light of this, the announcement this morning doesn't come as much of a surprise. Here's Sonisphere's official statement in full, as given over on their official website : It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012. Putting the festival together in what [...]

The word on the internet grapevine is that Sonisphere Festival 2012 has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Yes, this sucks. We love Sonisphere a lot and we love it in the present tense. We've had a few confirmations from people linked to the festival but there's no official word from the festival promoters, Kilimanjaro as of yet. We understand that an official statement will be made tomorrow, so hold tight. Obviously, there are a lot of bands affected - a lot of bands who won't want to work with Kilimanjaro [...]

By our estimation, this has been sitting on Feeder's website for over a week now. OOPS. Has anyone spotted any other festival leaks thanks to bands getting careless with their posted tour dates? Drop us a comment down below.

Sonisphere Festival  have confirmed 11 new bands for their Knebworth bill this July. Heading up this new announcement are Kvelertak, Crowbar, and Electric Wizard, and along with the rest of the new additions to the line-up, brings the total number of bands announced for Sonsphere UK this Summer up to a total of 34 . The other names confirmed to be playing across Sonisphere come July are Skindred, Glassjaw (performing their second album, Worship & Tribute , in full), Hundred Reasons (who'll be performing their breakthrough album, Ideas [...]

Sonisphere Festival  have confirmed Queen (with Adam Lambert), Faith No More, and KISS as the headliners for the UK leg of their European festival franchise. In addition to these three main stage headliners, Sonisphere have confirmed an additional  twenty  other acts for their 2012 UK incarnation, bringing the total of bands announced for Knebworth this summer up to 23 . In addition to the three headliners, the other bands announced for Sonisphere UK 2012 are Evanescence, Wolfmother, Tim Minchin, The Darkness, Flogging Molly, Fields of the Nephilim, Lacuna Coil, Gojira, [...]

We very this close to accepting a bet to ask Chris Jericho of Fozzy to put Raz into The Walls Of Jericho, but then we realised just how dangerous and irresponsible it is to ask a professional wrestler to demonstrate moves on untrained journalists. So we just stuck to chatting about his Mum, and why he [...]

The guys from Vintage Trouble were the first to admit their retro-stylings were a little out of place at Sonisphere Festival 2011, but just like their music did to the crowds earlier, their interview technique more than won over our man Amit. Vintage Trouble @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 setlist Blues Hand Me Down Still And [...]

You know what we thought when we woke up on the final day of Sonisphere Festival 2011? "No bands have told us any stories this weekend about how they double-teamed this girl they met that one time". And then our interview The Ocean Between Us happened. Check out the rest of our Sonisphere Festival 2011 [...]

We like to think we're fairly sharp dressers here at Thrash Hits, but all our delusions of grandeur went out the window backstage at Sonisphere Festival 2011 when Rival Sons broke out their purple loafers. PURPLE LOAFERS, people! We had to go have a lie down. Check out the rest of our Sonisphere Festival 2011 [...]

Exit Ten seem to have been away for aaaaggggeeessss, so it was good to see the crowds at Sonisphere Festival 2011 hadn't forgotten who they were. We cornered them backstage and baffled them with talk of the Reading one-way system, and with debate on the merits of the music from Highlander as suitable funeral music. [...]

We know we've been talking a lot about funerals during our backstage interviews at Sonisphere Festival 2011, but we weren't expecting Glamour Of The Kill to have planned their own send-off in quite so much detail. Whiskey shots and high-5s next to an open coffin? Count us in - sounds a hell of a lot [...]

Sometimes people accuse Thrash Hits of not taking our music journalism seriously. Well, we expect that to change after people see our interview with Sylosis backstage at Sonisphere Festival 2011. Who else is finding out if Reading thrash bands have seen certain TV movie adaptations of Stephen King novels? No-one else, that's who. Sylosis @ [...]

One of the big problems with filming interviews backstage at Sonisphere Festival 2011 is stopping random backstage-types from wandering in front of our camera during filming. Which makes the two times that our man Raz did it during our Black Spiders interview all the more baffling. Black Spiders @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 setlist KISS Tried [...]

What have Pat Metheny and Zinedine Zidane got to do with our old friends Rolo Tomassi headlining the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage at Sonisphere Festival 2011? At the same time as Metallica played the Main Stage, no less? You'll have to watch our interview to find out. Rolo Tomassi @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 setlist [...]

Become the biggest home-grown rock band in Denmark? Check. Release an album that tops the charts all over Europe? Check. Tour North America opening up for Metallica? Check. So what does Michael Poulsen from Volbeat have to aim for now? We went to find out, backstage at Sonisphere Festival 2011. Volbeat @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 [...]

On the one hand, with a name like "Arcane Roots" we're disappointed that the London-based 3-piece aren't some messed-up blackened doom band. On the other hand, we're pleased at the variety of facial hair styles they display. We reckon that balances it out. Arcane Roots @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 c/o Ben Gibson Check out the [...]

Yeah, yeah - that's a promo picture of The Wildhearts, when technically it was just "Ginger Wildheart" performing. It's the nicest photo we've got of him. Maybe we should've added some corpse-paint with photoshop though, to match his stage-attire for his Sonisphere Festival performance? Ginger Wildheart @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 c/o Cochi Esse Ginger Wildheart [...]

It's perversely refreshing to see that in amongst all the young turks filling up the Bohemia Stage line-up, someone somewhere in the Sonishpere booking team values the talent and dependability of the British rock institution that is Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 c/o Cochi Esse Paradise Lost @ Sonisphere Festival 2011 setlist [...]