You're a massive metal band in various parts of Europe and you?ve been there and seen it all. When you?re touring things can get a little bit jaded. How do you liven things up? Excessive stimulant intake? Done that. Find a different girl at every show? Done that. Silly stage sets involving spaceship ...

Is this hot or what? screams The Prodigy's Maxim Reality midway through a blistering set that threatens to overheat a jumped-up horde of beatnuts in the blazing Sonisphere sunshine. This is the fucking place to be. Indeed, during ?Firestarter? the crowd started doing a meandering moshed-up conga. I ...

Mastodon got here in the end and put in a storming show, while Team Sonisphere got to the bottom of the mystery of why they can’t seem to get anywhere on time. “We woke up in the middle of nowhere and had a busted hose on our bus,” explains bassist Troy Sander’s brother, Dar ...

Team Sonisphere got Lamb of God?s good-time guitar player, Willie Adler, out of bed this morning. Luckily he was in a good mood so we grabbed a minute to talk wives, music and metal fans? Do you know where you are? I have no idea. I?ve just got up. I think we?re in Germany So what?s rocking on ...

Following their no-show in Holland the big question on everybody?s lips backstage is whether the grizzled Southern shredders will make it to the Sonisphere site in time to thrill  the growing crowd here. They?re running late and have switched slots with<strong> Lamb of God</strong> to gi ...

So, Sonisphere rolls back into town. This time our heavy rock circus hits the Hockenheimring, famed for Formula 1. Think high-octane adrenaline! Think metal-heads instead of petrol heads! Think beer jugs, not racing hugs! Think noise! Think noise! Lamb of God and Down are back, Mastodon will turn u ...

Aus produktionstechnischen und Kapazitätsgründen wurde das Veranstaltungsgelände innerhalb des Hockheimrings verlegt. Damit stehen leider die Tribünenplätze nicht mehr zur Verfügung. Als Ausgleich hierfür bietet der Veranstalter für alle Tribünenkartenbesitzer einen separaten Bereich in Bühnennähe ( ...