Line Up

Linkin Park

Currently holed in the studio recording their eagerly-awaited fourth studio album, Linkin Park are merely hibernating, waiting for the summer festival season to arrive so they once again lay claim to headling their only UK show at the legendary Knebworth. Linkin Park are that rare breed of rock band that supersedes trends. With a catalogue of hits that found fans well beyond the boundaries of the genre of rap-rock, Linkin Park’s legacy as one of the great bands of the new millennium is already assured. Their now-infamous collaborations with Jay-Z on their Collision Course EP, gave rap-metal the respectability it craved, ...

Metallica

One of the defining heavy metal bands of all time, Metallica’s dedication to snarling riffs, savage solo shreds and pure, unadulterated volume ensured that their logo has been scrawled on exercise books and rucksacks for the last 26 years. Shunning the big hair gimmicks that characterised so much of 1980s rock, Lars Ulrich & co helped kickstart the entire genre of thrash metal. Metallica demonstrated to the heavy metal world and beyond that you can be lightning fast, steadfastly uncompromising, hugely successful and even sometimes dabble in the mainstream. From their 1986 classic, Master of Puppets, still sounding as exciting now as ...