HOLY MASSIVE DOWNLOAD ANNOUNCEMENT BATMAN!

More than 30 bands were promised for the latest Download Festival line-up announcement, and more than 30 have been delivered. A titanic 37, in fact. And so now, courtesy of Metal Hammer for alphabetising them, here are all 37 in their respective glories.

Airbourne
Amon Amarth
Asking Alexandria
Black Dogs
Buffalo Summer
Cancer Bats
Converge
Down
Earthtone 9
Enter Shikari
Five Finger Death Punch
Goldsboro
Hacktivist
Hardcore Superstar
Heaven’s Basement
HellYeah
The Hives
Huntress
I AM I
In This Moment
Jimmy Eat World
Korn
Last Witness
Limp Bizkit
Motionless In White
Parkway Drive
The Sword
Three Doors Down
UFO
Vision of Disorder
Walking Papers
Young Guns



Don't try and tell me there isn't a single band in that list that makes you happy enough for a little bit of wee to come out. I DARES YE. And there's no BVB, so yay. 
Here's the official poster, to remind you of the rest of the freaking awesome line-up.

SURPRISE SURPRISE.

The Mayans have just completed the world's biggest and most ancient trolling, so epic that they didn't even exist when it happened. Well done guys, there were more than a handful of gullible sods out there. So now, let the mighty AxeWound begin the partay with a live version (at Radio 1's Maida Vale studio) of the oh-so appropriately titled Post Apocalyptic Party. Liam (Cormier, vocalist for Cancer Bats) absolutely nails the vocals here. Perfect.

CANCER BATS PENTAGRAM TOUR

The Canadian angry merchants' tour of London begins tomorrow; in short, they will play 6 gigs, in 5 venues, in ONE DAY. That's gonna be one hectic bloody day. The venues, on a map of London (roughly) are in the shape of a pentagram, which is just bloody cool if you ask me.

If you're not going, like me, (because the tickets sold out in minutes) you can follow the gigs on Twitter at #pentagramtour, and hear stuff ranging from live recordings to interviews and all sorts, go to;

http://www.hasslerecords.com/pentagramtour/

Incidentally, check out their new album Dead Set On Living which I intend to review in the next few days, when I don't have essays to write. Speaking of which, should probably be doing that now, so...