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Yesterday evening saw the first Download 2012 announcement with the news that Metallica will headline on Saturday and play The Black Album in full.
Total Guitar headed down to last weekend's (15 to 17 July) Latitude festival to catch a variety of awesome guitar bands, sample some ciders and laugh with glee at the indignant and colourful sheep.
Download our print-friendly Sonisphere cheat sheet featuring stage times, must-see guitarists and essential festival tips. You'll save a pretty penny too!
The Cumbria Guitar Show will return to the Rheged Exhibition Centre in Penrith on Sunday 28 August.
Gibson Guitars has announced a new competition offering one lucky up-and-coming photographer and one lucky writer the chance to work for them at this year's Sonisphere festival.
Click-through to download TG's Download 2011 cheat sheet in a handy printable format, including full line-up and stage times, essential tips and band recommendations.
A video documenting The Darkness rehearsing for their forthcoming show at Download 2011 has hit the web and you can watch it in the player above.
When it comes to the festival scene, TG has been there, got the T-shirt, covered it in mud and then burnt it in ritualistic sacrifice. With this in mind, we humbly offer you our advice on the basics. Here are our festival season 'dos and don'ts'.
Cast an eye over the sterling line-ups in our Top 10 Festivals For Guitarists and you'll see that not only is the guitar band topping bills all over the country, there's even a new generation of promising six stringers breaking ranks and preparing to make this summer their own.
The Darkness are the top of the latest list of announcements for this year's Download festival, having been invited to appear as special guests of opening headliner Def Leppard.
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