Festivals guide | Heavy metal

With the 'big four' thrash bands all playing sonisphere, Louis Pattison steels himself for a summer of metalHeavy metal is back. Of course, true metalheads would say that it has never been away. Metal isn't a trend that comes and goes – it's sturdy and evergreen, like a pine forest. Seasons change, but not metal. Metal is eternal.That said, the late noughties were not a great time to be a metalhead. This was a fallow period for the classic British heavy metal festival, with Monsters Of Rock...

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