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Bloodstock Festival 2025 has announced its first wave of bands for the 2025 festival. The 3 day British music festival in which is being held August 7th-11th 2025 in Catton Park in Derbyshire Uk. The Festival which is being headlined by Trivium , Machine Head and Gojira. More bands announced on the line up included Lacuna Coil , Lord Of The Lost , The Black Dahlia Murder , Orange Goblin , kublai Khan , Creeper , Feuerschwanz , August Burns Red . Also announced for the on the Sophie Lancaster Stage has announced Me And That Man , Kataklysm , Static-x , Obituary , 3 Inches Of Blood , Breed 77 and All For Metal .  The festival will be held between August 7th -11th 2025 and early bird tickets can be found here . More names to be announced in the coming months. Check out the Festival Sponsors that include; Kerrang! , ESP , Planet Rock , AGF , Nordic Spirit , Red Bull , Studio Master , Coca Cola , Carlsbro and EMP

Each week we share our top 10 songs on our playlist From Heavy Metal to Pop to what comes on our playlist each week! Electric Call Boy - Hypa Hypa Electronicore, Metal. Taken from the 2021 album MMXX. A Song to really get your week in a groove! 2. Falling Below - No Way Back Alternative Metal. The bands latest single from 2024. Will have you drumming your fingers along to the beat! 3. Memphis May Fire - Necessary Evil Metal, Nu Metal, Post-Hardcore, Alternative Metal The latest single from the Texas metal band. This song will get you screaming at the top of your lungs! 4. All For Metal - Year Of The Dragon Metal, Heavy Metal Having just realised there brand new album Gods of Metal (Year Of The Dragon) get ready to be taken on a brand new adventure of musical talents! 5. Lacuna Coil - In The Mean Time (ft. Ash Costello) Gothic Metal, Alternative Metal Soul Powerful vocals, Get ready to bang your head! 6. The Plot In You - Been Here Before Metal, Metalcore, Post-Hardcore The song that will get you up and moving around the room! Touring soon! 7. All Time Low - Dear Maria, Count Me In (ATL's Version) Rock, Pop-Punk, Alternative, Emo Cough, The new version of a classic moment of our emo hearts. Get ready to sing along to this emo moment! 8. Falling In Reverse - Prequal Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Rap Metal, Electronica, Hard Rock Get ready to rap along to the latest album from Falling in Reverse with powerful vocals! 9. Biffy Clyro - The Captain Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, Post-Grunge, Post-Hardcore Having just performed for the first time in two years this classic has had us grabbing our rum and singing our hearts out to this classic Biffy Clyro song! 10. Dead Pony - Rainbows Alternative indie, Dance, Electronica. After a fantastic weekend at Leeds and Reding Festival this tune is perfect to be stuck in your head after a long bank holiday weekend! Check out our Spotify list which will be updated weekly with all the new tune! Want to be included on this list? Drop us a message on social media!

It's Saturday Night of August Bank Holiday weekend 2024. Fat Boy Slim is getting ready to perform a long two hour show with support coming from local DJ and Producer Meg Ward . As Fans pour in to The Piece Hall in Halifax ready for a night of Lights, Dancing and a hot night out. Meg Ward Kicking off the set Meg Ward gets the growing audience up and moving. Hands flying and the crowd is active and warmed up! Meg was the perfect opener and crowd with perfectly timed tunes and sound that keeps the audience in high spirts and gets the party started for the show! Fat Boy Slim Fat Boy Slim take to the stage the show flows so seamless between his and meg wards set but you know when he comes on as the crowd is cheering and screaming! Hands are up and dancing is happening. Classic hits such as 'Praise You' and 'Right Here, Right Now' and a mix of dance floor hits. Fat Boy Slim's set was full of power, fun and the crowd absolutely loved it even reacting and getting down to 'Sinner winner' with the crowd getting low to the ground before jumping back up. The simple stage with an led screen set up showed a range of images throughout the set and focused on the crowd multiple times. It was a fun exciting night from Fat Boy Slim and was a night to remember! Where you on barrier take a look through our gallery and see if you spot yourself!

Call Of The Wild festival is back for 2025 with the first bands being announced. The Weekend festival which is set at Lincolnshire Showground between 29th may to 1st June 2025 and is celebrating its 5th anniversary. So Far Call Of The Wild has announced Michael Monroe , The Commoners , as headliners with Knock Out Kaine (Exclusive Original Line Up Reunion) also Falling Red (Exclusive 2025 Show) Also announced so far are; Tailgunner , Marisa And The Moths , Lucifer Star Machine , Asomvel , Trench Dogs , Pryma , Continental Lovers , Suicide Bombers , Cassidy Paris , Mint , Kite Thief , Black Lakes , Dendera , Harsh , Manors , DeadFire , Crashed Out , Phoenix Lake and This House We Built Vip Tickets are almost Sold out but all other tickets can be found here over at Call Of The Wild Tickets

Ashes Of Ire Loud, heavy and hot can be the way to describe tonight at the Corporation In Sheffield Opening local band Ashes Of Ire, a metalcore/melodic Death Metal band. A powerful setting to the evening of heavy metal that fills the room, Ashes Of Ire sets up the night nicely. Cavalera Conspiracy  Original know as Sepultura and now transforming into Cavalier Conspiracy take to the stage for a night of pure passion. Solid, fast, hard and incredibly soul-power rifts of Cavalier fill the stage, With the occasional moment to breathe before falling back into a crowd of movement This is a show to not forget in a while.  Incredible lighting and the loudest sound. Two screens show the constantly different images throughout the band's show which is an interesting take to the stage show. Watching the fast-paced solos and fast-paced headbanging is an incredible experience within itself with the true talent of this band.  The fans know what they are here for and don't take a break for even a second. If you haven't heard of Cavalera Conspiracy before, I would highly recommend giving them a listen to their Schizophrenia re-recorded album out June 21st, 2024 via Nuclear Blast Records.  Setlist from Cavalera Conspiracy  Bestial Devastation Antichrist Necromancer Warriors Of Death Morbid Visions Mayhem Crucifixion Funeral Rites From The Past Comes The Storms Septic Schizo Inquisition Symphony/ Escape To The Void Refuse/Resist/Territory Troops Of Doom Morbid Devastation / Dead Embryonic Cells / R.I.P (Disclaimer this was written as a piece for another magazine which didn't get published so it has been added to my archived work)

Magic Queen The most exciting and Magical Tribute band in Europe. I was lucky enough to be asked to come down and photograph an amazing show In Loughborough for Magic Queen which was part of the Zinthiya Trust event being held that evening. I wanted to share some of the post Magical Photographs I took that night!

I had the fantastic Honour of going to see Lower LoveDay again after first seeing them in March 2024 and seeing one of the best stage shows, It was amazing to see how much this band have grown in a space of a few months. They completely blew me away again and I'm thankful for the opportunity to work alongside them once again. Here are a selection of my favourite images from that evening!

Now this isn't something you would see everyday. Uprawr Mental health foundation has been raising money for mental health with the help of 1000 musicians. Is was an fantastic opportunity to photograph something which I will properly never get the chance to do again. Being able to not only capture some quirky images from around the arena of close to 200 drummers playing at the same time. But to also get the chance to photograph some extremely talented Take a look through the images below and see if you can see yourself in the crowd! Photographs include, The Blackout, Raiders, Bullet For My Valentine, Defects, As December Falls, Mallory Knox, Funeral For A Friend, Bowling For Soup, Creeper, Dream State, Vallaha Awaits, Bury Tomorrow, From Inside, Stone Broken.

I had the fantastic Opportunity to photograph KoRn and Loathe at The Piece Hall in Halifax as part of the Tk Maxx Presents live events which have been happening all over the summer. Having such an honour to work alongside other photographers in the music scene really made it a special evening. As my review was being done for Metal JunkBox I wanted to share some more of the photographs which didn't get used in that review of just how special that evening was. Loathe Loathe was such a delight to watch this night. None stop moving around the stage and the crowd moving in time to the sound is something you don't often see from looking directly at a band view which is why I can see the amount of love that was for Loathe. I had never heard of them before this night and decided to keep it that way until I saw them live which was an specular moment. Korn KoRn was unforgettable that evening with a fantastic stage and lighting set up. Seeing the famous H.R.Gi gar microphone stand up close is something that you can't forget in a heart beat. From the lights to the sound of the crowd roaring back to watching crowd surfers fall in to the pit and moving around other photographer while watching up-close with how KoRn Performed was a moment to remember for a long time!

Start The Penguin Photography has been around since 2013 and my last website was built in 2016 with almost 8 years difference and a lot of growing. I am please to announce a launch of a new website with Blogs, Reviews and a lot of Photography still yet to come! With Start The Penguin Being 11 years old it was time for some merch ideas and a fresh take on the ever changing industry I'm in 2024 is going to be the year of a lot of growth and changing with some pretty special things happening in 2025!