Lots of rumours this week...

Well its been a quiet week once again in terms of new concerts or albums being announced but there has been a lot of rumours coming to the forefront about some of rock and metal's biggest bands with one of the world's biggest alternative music festivals this summer.

For Download, the last few years have been somewhat a disappointment to the metalheads who have been there with bands such as My Chemical Romance disgracing the main stage while bands like Korn were dropped to the second stage.

But for the true metal fans, if all the current rumours swirling about come to fruition, Download may well regain its status atop the tower of festival greatness.

However before going properly into these rumours there has been a few announcements on the gig side of things.

French legends Gojira will be returning to the UK for a full headlining tour along with Bleeding Through announcing a "UK" tour (note the "UK" meaning no Scotland...). And also Cancer Bats have announced they will be playing some headline shows after opening for In Flames on a full UK tour.

Now onto these rumours:

Well, there's a LOT of rumours about a possible reunion for one of Rocks gods, Faith No More, for these rock icons to be back gracing our festival stage, they need another festival to make it worthwhile, so we should be hoping for a few other European festivals with this announcement soon.



There's also been a lot of rumours of surrounding some of metals biggest heavyweights playing festivals;

On a follow up to there hugely successful tour of the UK last year, it is heavily rumoured that Slipknot will be returning to play a huge part in the festival season this year at Download and Reading & Leeds.

Then there's bands who have not been over here in a few years being announced with Rammstein rumoured for Download or any other festival followed by a huge tour.



There's even been some bands self confirming themselves as playing at festivals with Lamb of God set to follow up there huge UK tour in February with an appearance at Download and Heaven and Hell fully self confirming themselves even though there has been no official announcement from Download organisers.

The only downside in all these rumours, it sounds as if Metallica will not be appearing at Donnington Park this year, however they may be playing a whole new festival scheduled to be played at Knebworth at some point in the summer.

Now we can hope for a lot of these to come to fruition, if so, we may see people from afar joining the Download experience.

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