Ginger Wildheart, Spy Catcher, Mad Dog, James Cleaver Quintet, Feed The Rhino, Witchsorrow, squeeze on the bill with just one weekend to go before the world's greatest touring rock festival hits Knebworth. With the two main APOLLO and SATURN ARENA stages timed to ensure no clashes, no one need miss ...

Meet Sid Wilson, Slipknot's resident DJ and purveyor of scratching and background noise. Some say he's known to be the "worst behaved' member of the band (at least in the early days, according to Wikipedia). Who'd have thought that from this video footage? As you can see, as well as making noise, Si ...

A decaying skeleton in a spacesuit, a skull-faced warlock absorbing power from a glowing orb and a sinister crow from another dimension. Each year cult artist Godmachine creates these exclusive works of Sonisphere-related art to go on t-shirts. Here, he talks to us about festivals, drawing women and ...

Sonisphere is thrilled to unveil this year's Knebworth event t-shirts, with a choice of two stunning designs on the front and all the bands (including The Big Four and Slipknot) on the back - the ultimate record of what is certain to be a seriously special year for this festival. You can pre-order y ...

The track Deathbound picked up off the Crack The Skye cutting room floor is the soundtrack Mastodon's awsome new video. Riffing off parodies of fraggle rock, doozers and general muppetry, Magic land is invaded from another world and the coming of a new dark age with fluffy toy armageddon. Filmed at ...

SONISPHERE will host SLIPKNOT's first UK performance since the tragic passing of bass player PAUL GRAY, at KNEBWORTH on July 10th, where they close the APOLLO ARENA stage. The band would like to invite all the maggots in attendance to join them in paying their respects. At 2pm on the Sunday, a two m ...

Taking place at the iconic Imola motor-racing circuit in 35 degree heat, Sonisphere Italy was a scorcher from start to finish. The first day set the bar pretty damned high with Iron Maiden and Slipknot treating their bare-skinned latin fans to the same treatment they had both dished out the previous ...