Here’s a a beautiful video from The Kooks’ performance at Sziget this year, two days ago. Enjoy! We’re waiting for your Sziget stories, before or after the festival, at contact (at) szigetnews.com, through the contact section or via comment.

Here’s a video of Iron Maiden rocking Sziget Festival last night.



Szigetnews is waiting for your Sziget stories. The best ones will be published here on Szigetnews.

 

Only 6 days until Sziget Festival starts. You can get the final official programmation here, so you know exactly what acts you want to see and when.

Our reader ouaso makes an interesting comment, here on Szigetnews. He thinks that “If you are disappointed about the booked bands on this year’s sziget, just look at the sponsors… Warner is one of them and many of the labels artists are on Sziget… I think that’s a reason:-)”. What do you think? Could a label impose artists on the line-up of such a huge festival?

 

The French duo that will play Sziget Festival this year on August 17th, has teamed up with design group Surface2Air to create their personal clothing line, inspired by their own wardrobe. You can already get them at a few retailers (jackets are 790 euros), as well as on Surface2Air’s website…

Bad news for people hoping for a last minute announcement of Rage Against The Machine playing Sziget’s Main Stage this year. The last band on the Main Stage, playing on August 15, at 16:30, will be The Cribs.

Is your backpack ready? Have you bought the tickets? Have you thought about the acts you really want to see? Are these acts overlapping? And if so, which ones and who are you going to choose? How about accommodation? Is staying on the festival grounds in the tent better than living in the city? Szigetnews wants to know what you think about all of this and more!

So feel free to post a comment and tell everybody!

Gary Holt, songwriter and lead guitarist of EXODUS: “After many years in the planning and discussion stage, we have finally completed the re-recording of “Bonded By Blood.” We have decided to call it “Let There Be Blood” and it is our way of paying homage to Paul Baloff by showing how relevant these songs we had written together still are. We aren’t trying to replace the original, that’s impossible anyway. We are just giving these songs the benefit of modern production. It’s something we talked about before Paul’s death and it’s always been important to us to do. We were super excited about entering the studio once again to record these classics, and now it’s back to writing the next studio record!”

The album is a tribute to Paul Ballott, the band’s original vocalist, who died in 2002.

American thrash legends Exodus will play Sziget on August 17th, starting at 20:00 hours, at the Hammerworld Stage.

Amanda Somerville, Epica’s replacement vocalist, has posted a new video blog from the Avantasia world tour, that you can watch below.

Avantasia will rock Sziget on August 13, starting at 21:30 hours, at the Hammerworld Stage.

There’s still no news about who the last act playing on the Main Stage on August 15th will be and whether there will be one.

Until we find out exactly who that will be, you can watch a video of a very interesting band playing Sziget Festival this year, Kultur Shock. The band will play Sziget on August 13th, at the A38 Stage, starting at 23:00 hours.

What about you? Who would you like as the last name on the Main Stage?

For all of you metalheads going to Sziget this year to see Meshuggah, here’s some live footage of the band playing at Hellfest, three days ago.

We’ve had a lot of feedback from you about the line-up poll and most of you (51% - 188 votes) thought it could have been better this year. Still, a closer look at the Main Stage schedule on the official site will rise a question mark.

There is nothing programmed on Friday August 15th, in the spot between URH and Sex Pistols. Will there be a new announcement soon? That is the question.

It it very hard to think that the spot will remain empty or that URH will play for three whole hours.

You can continue to vote in the poll, too.