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Download Festival makes special announcement for 2026 lineup

Download Festival has announced a second wave of acts for its 2026 line-up, scheduled to run from 10th to 14th June. New additions to the bill include A Day To Remember, Daughtry, Hot Milk, and Creeper. These acts join previously confirmed headliners such as Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses, and…

The Independent UK

Metal, pop punk, Final Fantasy and Miss World Chile: the list of new bands joining Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park and more at Download this year has a lot going on

The UK's biggest rock festival just got bigger as day splits are officially announced

Metal Hammer

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 8-14 includes Michael B. Jordan and Laura Dern

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Feb. 8-14 include actor Michael B

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Full List Of 2026 Grammy Winners (Updating Live)

Here are all the winners at the 2026 Grammys.

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How To Watch Your Music Faves Win Trophies At The 2026 Grammy Awards In Australia

The Grammy Awards are back on and running. Here's how you can watch the show in Australia, as well as what time it starts.

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Stranger Things Villain Vecna Reimagined as a Linkin Park-Era Rapper in Viral AI Videos

Viral AI fan edits reimagine Stranger Things villain Vecna as a Linkin Park rapper, blending nu-metal nostalgia with early-2000s music video aesthetics.

International Business Times UK

“I’d have to stop, gather myself, get through two lines, start crying, leave the room, come back in”: When Linkin Park exposed a different side of themselves with Breaking The Habit

Originally written by Mike Shinoda, this shining moment from 2003’s Meteora moved Chester Bennington to tears and helped Linkin Park break out of the nu metal bubble

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"There were a few people in the band who were like, ‘Hey, stupid, this is a big deal. It’s Michael Bay, don’t be an idiot.'" How one of Linkin Park's biggest songs solidified their place as an essential part of the Transformers film franchise

At a pivotal moment in their career, a certain song took Linkin Park into a whole new world in more ways than one

Louder

"It’s about those times when you’ve got no feeling left or you just don’t care." The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era - and that got a new lease of life courtesy of one rap megastar

Few bands have two separate versions of one song celebrated equally as classics, but Linkin Park did that

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Nu metal kids, rejoice! Full videos of classic Deftones and Linkin Park festival sets have just been released online

Dutch festival Pinkpop has released pro-shot footage of Deftones’ 2006 show and Linkin Park’s 2012 headline set

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Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)

Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4

Louder

2026 Grammy Nominations: All The Savage Snubs, Wild Surprises & History-Making Moments

The 2026 Grammy nominations delivered snubs and surprise wins, with Lorde and The Weeknd shut out as Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga dominated.

Pedestrian.tv

Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on February 1

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A female-fronted band finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time

As a woman who's grown up in the metal scene, knowing that Emily Armstrong will walk out on stage with Linkin Park as a headliner feels like a pivotal moment

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Evening Standard

Download Festival 2026: Keanu Reeves and Cypress Hill join Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park in line-up

The John Wick and Matrix actor will perform with his band Dogstar at the UK’s biggest rock and metal event, joining hip-hop heavyweights Cypress Hill and a trio of blockbuster headliners

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Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup

Next year's Download lineup has officially been revealed and it's packing rock icons, nu metal legends and a lot more

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The story of every metal album to hit number one in the UK

From Iron Maiden to Sleep Token, here's every single time metal topped the album charts in the UK

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Hear Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante sing electro-metal banger Ties That Bind, from the soundtrack of new fighting game 2XKO

The song follows developer Riot Games’ recent collaborations with Polyphia and Linkin Park

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“I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics

It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994

MusicRadar

“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams

Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

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10 terrible early 00s movies with killer nu metal soundtracks

Looking for rare System Of A Down and Limp Bizkit songs? Early 00s Hollywood had ’em

Guitar World

“All of a sudden, some of the other guitars weren’t really doing it”: Why Linkin Park’s new singer forced Mike Shinoda to change guitars

When Emily Armstrong was brought onboard, Shinoda had to go through his guitar collection to find one that would complement her register

Creative Bloq

"It's more important than ever": Deftones designer Frank Maddocks on the enduring power of the album cover

Here's why iconic album art still matters

LiveScience

Meet Robot Drummer: Scientists train an AI to drum like Linkin Park and AC/DC — but it sounds like it has plenty of practice to do

Robot Drummer is a simulated program able to learn pop, rock, and jazz songs with reinforcement learning.

MusicRadar

“I love this band and I love the people and the music… it's an oddly fulfilling experience": Colin Brittain on life behind the kit with Linkin Park

Drummer was previously a producer and composer

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