The 2019 festival season may still be in full swing, but one of the newest kids on the block, Call Of The Wild, has already announced some of the acts we can expect to see at next year’s event.
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A punk rock album that uses the story of Dorothy Gale and the Wizard Of Oz to explore the darkest aspects of mental health issues? Doesn’t sound exactly standard stuff, does it? Well, it isn’t… as our man in Kentucky found out when he delved into the weird and wonderful world of cosmic thrill seeking…
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There’s an old saying about spoiling the ship for a ha’p’orth of tar, and unfortunately this album launch show, which had promised so much, especially as it also marked the headliners’ first foray north of the Irish border in something like two years, was marred by one small but very important factor – and that, critically, was the inability to hear a large amount of what was going on… something that would be pretty essential, especially at a metal show, we’re sure you would agree…
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For a while it looked like this week’s chosen audio-visual treat with two clear front-runners battling for the honours. But then, at the last minute (quite literally), Maryland funk ‘n’ rollers Lionize came out of left field, hurdled the fences and raced around the final corner to grab the glory with this quirky clip for new single ‘Loneliest Whale’.
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Considering how much of a washout the week leading up to it had been, the weather had been remarkably cooperative for Download 2019. Sure, it’s muddy, but then you’re standing in a field in England – what else do you expect? So, when Sunday rolls around and the sun actually starts shining through properly for the first time all weekend, it feels like a real triumph to close the weekend on, aided in no small part by the variety on offer for the final day of the festival. If Friday was the classic rock day and Saturday almost the exclusive territory of metal, then Sunday is the day for oddballs and outcasts, a mixture of metal, rock, alt rock and extremity that shows the full span of diversity in our world.
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