Tag: Skindred

With even more artists yet to be announced across the NME/Radio 1, BBC Radio 1 Dance, Lock Up/Rock, Festival Republic, BBC Radio 1Xtra Alternative and BBC Introducing Stages, the line-up just keeps getting bigger and better for 2013!

Voted ‘Best Festival’ at the NME Awards, this year’s Reading & Leeds Festivals are officially set to be better than ever! Reading & Leeds guarantee exclusive performances, huge headliners and rising stars and are the only place to spend the August Bank Holiday weekend with friends this summer.

Joining headliners Green Day, Eminem, and Biffy Clyro will be Lower Than Atlantis, We Are The In Crowd and Bury Tomorrow.

Having toured across Europe playing hundreds upon hundreds of shows alongside bands such as Papa Roach, Shinedown, Buckcherry, Black Stone Cherry and appearing at festivals such as Sonisphere and Download, Heaven’s Basement are a band who’ve built their reputation on a setting Britain’s underground alight and then taking that energy to bigger stages across Europe.

Their desire to leave an everlasting impression on rock music is fueled by one sole ambition between them; to reach the summit of their potential and to be regarded alongside the bands that inspired them.

“We’re proud to come from the country that has without doubt produced some of the greatest rock n roll bands of all time. There’s now a void that needs filling. Everything we do revolves around filling that void”

The Metal Hammer Golden God Awards took place on Monday 13 June, 2011. It is always a great event and the motley crue of artists and industry people flock from Download festival every year to attend the awards. It is a great way to finish the weekend.

The HMS Hammer, took its maiden voyage down the Thames to the ninth annual awards ceremony which took place at the Indigo2, London.

With legends like Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Twisted Sister and Judas Priest in attendance, this year’s Golden God awards was a feast of metal that celebrated everything that’s great about metal in 2011!

This nominations for this year’s ceremony are out and this event will also mark the magazine’s 25th anniversary. Leading the way this year are Rob Zombie and Skindred, who both receive two nominations.

Metal Hammer publisher Chris Ingham said: “A whole quarter of a century ago, Metal Hammer magazine began and in that time we’ve worked with some of the biggest and best names in metal and rock music. Some of those names will be joining us for the Metal Hammer Golden Gods and, whether they’re icons or rising stars, their tireless efforts to stay true to the most loyal fanbase around is a massive achievement and one we are thrilled to honour”.

The awards this year will also include a new category – “metal as fuck” – for acts “who have remained ‘metal’ in the face of adversity”. In total there are nine categories up for public vote, as well as nine categories that will be decided by readers of the magazine.

They are known as one of the most powerful, chaotic and brutal bands to destroy a rock stage, and they have an extensive tour history and a solid reputation to back that up. They have toured with major music heavy weights such as Mudvayne, Sevendust, Skindred, Disturbed, Drowning Pool and Buckcherry. Guitarist Zach Broderick sits down with State to discuss the new album and the plans to conquer Europe.

So Zach how are you doing today?

I am doing very well. We just got in from the states a few hours ago and we are feeling great. I am a little tired and trying to get our heads together before we play Download. The weather is amazing and I am just really excited to be here and play at a festival where most of my heroes have played.