Gallows, Funeral For A Friend and Madina Lake are among the acts added to the line-up for this year's Sonisphere Festival. Taking place at Knebworth House between July 30 and August 1, the acts will join the likes of Iron Maiden and Rammstein at the ... more info

NME — Acts will join the likes of Iron Maiden and Rammstein at the Knebworth event more info

Chorus.fm — *Madina Lake* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/madinalake) will be playing the Sonisphere Festival (http://uk.sonispherefestivals.com/) with other bands like* Iron Maiden (http://www.absolutepunk.net/ironmaiden)*, *Gallows* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/g... more info

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Guardian Music — BBC4 documentary Heavy Metal Britannia offers an affectionate look back to a time when the leather-clad likes of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Saxon became Top Of The Pops regulars. But what forces forged the unique alloy that is British metal?"Metal... more info

Metalsucks — Phew! There’s been a lot of news about some great bands’ new releases these past few days. Here’s a quick round-up: Deftones’ new album, Diamond Eyes, will be out May 18. I’m actually not that big a Deftones fan but I know Vince and a lot... more info

Metal Injection — Producer, mixer, and engineer extraordinaire Kevin Shirley has just confirmed that the musical portion of the new Iron Maiden album has been finished.  Shirley, who manned the helms for the band’s most recent film outing, Flight 666, in add... more info

Guardian Music — If Darth Vader was in a band, then this would be his chosen instrumentWhat is it? In our previous column, we looked at synthesisers that pretend to be guitars. Now we take a look at the keytar's evil 1980s twin-synthesisers pretending to be guitars. ... more info

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Pop Candy — The Pop Five is a series of Pop Candy readers' top five lists. Today's contribution comes from -A J-: more info