In Flames bassist, Peter Iwers, is about to play his first-ever Sonisphere show and he's pretty excited about it: "I'm really looking forward to it. These Sonispheres are going to be great shows." When Team Sonisphere caught up with him he was jamming along on his bass in his dressing room with a be ...

For the last three years cult artist Godmachine has created exclusive, intricate designs for Sonisphere that have had bands banging on the doors of our backstage portacabins begging for t-shirts in their size. This year he's outdone himself. Pull on his crow-based illustration and you're literally w ...

This weekend you could be riding a bike a naked through the streets of London, attempt to break the world's dog-walking record in Leeds or probably get soaked at one of the UK's more prosaic festivals . But if you bought a Sonisphere ticket back in December then you could be watching Iron Maiden hea ...

By Andrew Watson from rockaaa.com Europe's premier touring festival exploded into life in Warsaw, Poland, today with over 8 hours of live bands thrilling the crowds who turned out in their many thousands despite chilly and overcast conditions. A combination of some of the finest live acts from Pol ...

Sonisphere 2011 is up and rolling. For the third summer in a row an unrivalled and rotating line-up of some of the finest musicians to ever let their fingers fly across a fretboard, smack a snare or power-luck a bass string are coming together in celebration of crunching sounds that are hard, heavy ...

Progressive metallers Mastodon spoke of their excitement to be playing in Poland for the first time in their careers today. Drummer Brann Dailor and Guitarist Bill Kelliher told rockaaa.com's Andrew Watson that they are "excited to play all the Sonisphere Festivals" but Poland was extra special due ...

Due unforeseen circumstances, legendary metal-crossover titans One Minute Silence have had to pull out of this year's Sonisphere festival. This was an extremely tough decision for the band to make as they have been itching to get out and fire up the pit once again, but life complexities have simply ...