Das Sonisphere Festistival 2011 wird im St. Jakobspark in Basel durchgeführt. Die ersten Bands sind bereits bekannt: Iron Maiden Slipknot Weitere Infos und Bands folgen Anfang Januar! Weitere Infos und Bands folgen Anfang Januar!

Last year Slipknot blasted crowds at Sonisphere Netherlands and Sonisphere Spain, before vocalist Corey Taylor gave one of the best-received daytime sets on the final day of Knebworth with an impressive solo showing. He's returning to Sonisphere UK this year, so Team Sonisphere caught up with him ye ...

Megadeth had a surprise in store for the Swiss crowd during their last song. While ending their set with "Peace Sells", Anthrax's Scott Ian got on stage and joined in the chorus. Earlier in the day Anthrax actually stopped the rain. Before launching into "Indians", Anthrax's lead singer Joey Bellado ...

When heavy metal supergroup Hellyeah took to the Swiss stage the growing crowd were hungry for some hard-rock action. Okay, they might have been a bit muddy, but Devil Driver had just warmed them up with some rousing metal and people were streaming in from the campsite. So, how'd it go? "Awesome du ...

Having pulverised Poland, the Sonisphere steamroller is now in Switzerland. Enjoying glorious sunshine during the first show of the tour meant the pouring rain came as a bit of a shock, but we're sure it's nothing Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax can?t fix, particularly as we've got Motorhead ...

Bored of identikit festival T-shirts? So are we, which is why we've commissioned some very special designs for you this year. First off we, enlisted poster art princess Tara Mcpherson who's a huge Sonisphere fan, exhibits her work in art galleries across the globe and draws and paints some amazing s ...

This is a metal fan's dream. Looking at this, not only as one of the bands playing on the show, which is fucking awesome, but from the point of view of a fan of Slayer and Megadeth and Metallica I just think it's the best show. The guys in the bands have all been talking about the possibility of thi ...