SONISPHERE KNEBWORTH has announced a further eleven acts for its 2012 event.


Exactly ten years to the date after its original release, Long Island hardcore innovators glassjaw will perform their landmark “Worship & Tribute” album in its entirety exclusively at Sonisphere. Formed in 1993, glassjaw took their hardcore and punk influences and DIY attitude to create a genre defying sound entirely their own.


Over the years the band has brought their art to the public through undisclosed elaborate algorithms and sequential coding which up to now has baffled modern day


mathematicians, scientists and fans alike. So, with releases such as 8/8, 9/9, 10/10, 11/11, 12/12, 01/01/11 and 07,07,07, one questions how, 10 years later, another significant sequential date of 8/7 could have been planned out with such accuracy. The Mayan calendar doesn’t have anything on these guys. Now, glassjaw play the historic Knebworth, a fitting site for this pioneering collective from Long Island, NY with a punk rock ethos and a desire to challenge the boundaries of guitar music.


Another ten year anniversary comes in the form of HUNDRED REASONS’ “Ideas Above Our Station”, which the Aldershot quintet will perform in full in Bohemia on the Friday. From the moment the band played their first show at London’s Kingston Peel, it was obvious Hundred Reasons were gong to make a name for themselves. Within months they were being offered high- profile support slots, plastered all over Kerrang! Magazine and generally creating a buzz wherever


they went.


Earning a Top 10 (#6) chart position on its release in May 2002, “Ideas Above Our Station” is HUNDRED REASONS’ biggest selling album to date. Featuring chart topping singles including “If I Could”, Silver” and “Falter”, Hundred Reasons will see a packed out Bohemia relive a magical moment in music’s history. Says guitarist Larry Hibbitt: “We are galactically excited to be playing Sonisphere Festival 2012. It's been way too long and we can't wait to get back to doing exactly what we do best. See you at the front." BLACK STONE CHERRY makes their Sonisphere debut on the Apollo stage on the Friday. With last year’s


“Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”


rapturously received by a rock loving public, crashing into


number 1 in the UK Rock


Charts, the rapidly rising


Kentucky quartet shows no sign of slowing down as they kick off a sold out UK tour.


“Now we can check off another goal on the ole BSC "wanna do it" list!” says guitarist Ben Wells. “We can't wait to make our debut at Sonisphere 2012!!”


With gargantuan riffs and even bigger hooks, songs like “Rain Wizard” and “Blind Man” to dish out, Sonisphere is serving the hottest piece of the Black Stone Cherry pie so far. If there’s one man capable of


getting 60,000 music fans to go loco it’s SKINDRED’s Benji Webbe. The charismatic frontman has led his raga-punk troupe since 1998, earning a reputation as one of the best live acts around today. With an instantly recognisable sound totally their own, their musical mix of metal, reggae, dance and punk is at it’s height, as they headline the sold-out Jagermeister Music tour next month. Says Benji: “We've built this band on being a solid, tight live act, and what more of a perfect platform can one ask for other than Sonisphere Festival Knebworth 2012. We are so thankful and honoured to be invited back once again! We are gunna get this place rocking. We are gunna get this place bouncing.” Whether it’s a packed out club or a huge festival field the size of Knebworth, one can be certain that everybody in sight will have no option but to let the music take over, and their set on Sonisphere Saturn stage will be one of Saturday’s highlights. Legendary post-punk heroes NEW MODEL ARMY join the Sonisphere cast for a very special late night set on Friday night in Bohemia after headliners KISS wrap up the Apollo stage. Forming in Bradford in 1980, NMA earned a highly dedicated and impassioned fanbase through their combination of angry punk, modern-day protest folk and anthemic political chanting, which included the likes of Brazilian metallers Sepultura who covered “The Hunt”. Their set in Bohemia will be highly anticipated, and serve to


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