Thrash Hits — Both of the major heavy music festivals have announced all of their headliners now. Sonisphere Festival came straight out with Metallica and Linkin Park while the acts appearing at Download Festival 2009 were dripfed to us much more slowly. Claiming ... more info

BBC News - UK — The newly reformed rockers are added to the Donington Park line-up, alongside Slipknot and Def Leppard, making it their only UK tour date. more info

Rolling Stone — In honor of that big Def Leppard and Poison tour that’s coming to your town this summer, this weekend’s Rock List was dedicated to 1980s Hard Rock Songs. We counted the votes, and the song that most made our readers want to apply copious amount o... more info

ContactMusic — POISON drummer RIKKI ROCKETT has dismissed a fall-out with fellow rockers DEF LEPPARD - insisting the bands share a "real mutual respect". Rockett's group was reported to ... more info

Thrash Hits — ….Faith No More - just as we predicted last week. They join Slipknot and Def Leppard as the third Main Stage headliner of the UK’s biggest heavy metal festival. And yes, we are more than a little it excited - this was the band we never thought wo... more info

Kerrang! — K! Dot Com can exclusively reveal that the third headliner for this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival is... Faith No More! The highly-influential Californian quintet originally split in 1998, following their world tour for 1997's Album Of ... more info

Kerrang! — At 8PM (GMT) this evening Kerrang! Dot Com will exclusively reveal just who will be joining Slipknot and Def Leppard as the third headliner of this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival! Also on the bill of THE rock and metal event of the summ... more info

Detroit Free Press — Def Leppard has become a fixture on the touring circuit over the past few summers, and this year is no different. The classic rock group plans to go out on the road again, this time with Poison and Cheap Trick. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Amary/Dalle /Retna Ltd. This week, hair metal staples Poison, stadium-rockers Def Leppard and classic power-poppers Cheap Trick announced they will be embarking on a huge arena tour this summer. In addition, alt-metal weirdos Faith No More an... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Def Leppard [ tickets ] has unveiled a lengthy itinerary of North American dates that has the British rock icons sharing the stage with Poison [ tickets ] and Cheap Trick [ tickets ]. The 40-city trek gets underway June 23 in Camden, ... more info