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.

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.

Here’s a video of the Sex Pistols from the Isle of Wight Festival, just a few days ago. This way you can get prepared for them…

The Sex Pistols will play Sziget on August 15th.

The line-up for the A38 Stage, the one featuring Eastern European acts, has been posted here. There are quite a few interesting names, including Romanian band Kumm and Modeselektor. Check out their MySpace pages for videos and music.

Another interesting name for this year’s festival are electronic synthpop band MGMT. MGMT will play Sziget on August 13th, on the Main Stage.

“The Finnish prophets of fictional world music”, as they call themselves, will play Sziget Festival this year. Their performance will take place on August 14th, as mentioned on their website.

More good news for metal fans. British Death Metal legends Carcass will play this year’s Sziget Festival. Carcass will play the Hammerworld Stage, on August 17th, starting at 21:00 hours.