Sonisphere Festival held at Knebworth House

Sonisphere Festival held at Knebworth House on 8-10 July.

At the Jagermeister stage across the weekend will be Essex rockers Hounds perform on the Friday, superstars Saint Jude, rock’n’rollers The Virgin Mary's, plus UK rockers The Crave and Jettblack on Saturday, who both look forward to the weekend:

"We were lucky enough to play Sonisphere in its very first year here in the UK in 2009” says THE Crave's frontman/guitarist Ryan Burnett. “It was a great atmosphere and a great show from what we can remember, but it was the Jager stage, so we don't remember that much. We look forward to not remembering much from this year’s great performance too. Be there to remind us."

Jettblack bassist Tom Wright enthuses “To be playing one of the biggest metal festivals is one thing, but to be on the same bill as four of the biggest metal bands of all time is fucking amazing!”

Demonic Resurrection, Manchester power trio Amplifier, Welsh thrashers Anterior, and Fletcher eill perform on Sunday with Orange Goblin.

Frontman Ben Ward reckons: “Orange Goblin are delighted and honoured to be a part of Sonisphere 2011. This festival marks the first ever ‘Big 4’ shows on British soil so the weekend will go down in the annuls of metal history! Although, now Orange Goblin are playing I guess it should be re-named the Big 5!!!”

Line Up So Far:

THE BIG 4 - METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX
BIFFY CLYRO
SLIPKNOT

BAD RELIGION
AIRBOURNE
ALESTORM
ALL TIME LOW
AMPLIFIER
THE ANSWER
ANTERIOR
ARCANE ROOTS
ARCH ENEMY
ARCHITECTS
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
BLACK TIDE
CANCER BATS
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
THE CRAVE
DEMONIC RESURRECTION
DIAMOND HEAD
FIREWIND
FLETCHER
FOUR YEAR STRONG
FOZZY
GALLOWS
GLAMOUR OF THE KILL
GOJIRA
GRINSPOON
HAYSEED DIXIE
HOUNDS
HOUSE OF PAIN
IN FLAMES
INME
JETTBLACK
KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES
KILLING JOKE
KYLESA
LIMP BIZKIT
THE MARS VOLTA
MASTODON
ME VS HERO
MOTÖRHEAD
MY PASSION
ONE MINUTE SILENCE
OPETH
ORANGE GOBLIN
PARADISE LOST
PARKWAY DRIVE
PERIPHERY
PROTEST THE HERO
PULLED APART BY HORSES
RICHARD CHEESE
RISE TO REMAIN
ROLO TOMASSI
SAINT JUDE
SIX HOUR SUNDOWN
SUM 41
SYLOSIS
TEK-ONE
TESSERACT
THE SISTERS OF MERCY
THE TREATMENT
TITLE FIGHT
THE VIRGIN MARYS
VOLBEAT
WATAIN
WEEZER
YOU ME AT SIX