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Download Festival makes special announcement for 2026 lineup

Download Festival has announced a second wave of acts for its 2026 line-up, scheduled to run from 10th to 14th June. New additions to the bill include A Day To Remember, Daughtry, Hot Milk, and Creeper. These acts join previously confirmed headliners such as Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses, and…

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Metal, pop punk, Final Fantasy and Miss World Chile: the list of new bands joining Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park and more at Download this year has a lot going on

The UK's biggest rock festival just got bigger as day splits are officially announced

Metal Hammer

"The vampire make-up slowly melts off during the show, revealing the human beings underneath": Welcome to the blood-drenched, Rocky Horror-inspired world of Creeper

Creeper’s new album is a rich, lascivious feast of vampires and rock’n’roll theatre, Jim Steinman-style. But the real Creeper story starts with shoestring punk gigs, DIY video shoots and community spirit

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"Music is fun when it’s bisexual and sexy and silly and over the top, when an artist struts across the stage like David Bowie." Heavy metal, severed heads and Rocky Horror: an audience with Creeper, Britain's most theatrical band

If Sanguivore was Bat Out Of Hell, Sanguivore II is The Rocky Horror Picture Show with vampires

Metal Hammer

"The hooks are heavier, the peaks are higher, and the pacing is picture-perfect": Creeper drop the performance of their lives on Sanguivore II - Mistress Of Death

British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album

Louder

“They can write an arena-ready anthem with their eyes closed”: Goth’n’roll vampires Creeper are dead and loving it on brilliantly bloody new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death

Creeper are in full fangbanging mode on their excellent fourth album

Metal Hammer

"Hearing them was like hearing Bowie for the first time…" The 10 best songs by AFI, as chosen by Creeper's Will Gould

Creeper frontman Will Gould picks his essential AFI playlist

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Creeper share new single Prey For The Night, another typically understated gem from the goth-punk giants

It’s the latest cut from their forthcoming sequel record Sanguivore II, due out on Halloween next month

Metal Hammer

Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl

Get your claws on a bundle you won’t find anywhere else, before Creeper’s new album drops on October 31

Metal Hammer

Pre-order a gothic purple vinyl of new Creeper album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with an exclusive signed art card – available via the Louder store

Get your claws on a bundle you won’t find anywhere else, before Creeper’s new album drops on October 31

Metal Hammer

British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country

From Black Sabbath’s blockbuster farewell to Sleep Token’s first time as a Download festival headliner, all eyes have been on the British metal scene in recent months. Rightfully so.

Metal Hammer

"Curious true metal fans who came to judge the 'pop punk' band have clearly been won over." Creeper's Bloodstock debut is a dramatic triumph

Creeper would have looked out of place on Bloodstock a few years ago. Today they feel right at home

Metal Hammer

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Trivium, Babymetal and AFI are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

New Creeper single Blood Magick (It's A Ritual) is a cross between Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Ozzy Osbourne's The Ultimate Sin, and Laibach, and if that doesn't get you excited for new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death we give up

Creeper preview new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death with a conjuring from 1987

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The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week

Start your summer right with these new noises from Sabaton, Killswitch Engage, Battle Beast and more, then vote for your favourite

Metal Hammer

Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"

"This is the band at its most over-the-top and unashamedly dramatic." William Von Ghould

Metal Hammer

"It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampires

A history of metal's fascination with the fanged undead, from Slayer to Cradle Of Filth, Type O Negative and Creeper

Metal Hammer

"It's always Halloween around here." Forget Wembley; a sold out Halloween show in Manchester proves Creeper are still Britain's best cult band

Wembley might have had pyro and dancers, but a roaring crowd in Manchester proves Creeper don't need big production to put on a massive show

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"The public needs fantasy and escapism": Creeper are gearing up for Devil's Night and a huge, pomp-filled night in North London

It’ll be fangs, coffins and fake blood at Wembley Arena later this month

Metal Hammer

“Hold onto your socks, it’s gonna be brutal!” Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira to headline stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup

Emperor, Lacuna Coil, Creeper and more have also been announced for the Derbyshire weekender in August 2025

Metal Hammer

10 artists that defined 2000Trees festival 2024

From Bob Vylan's politicised grime-punk to Creeper's macabre theatrics, these are the bands that ruled over this year's epic 2000Trees

Metal Hammer

"The wedding dress? That's long gone. We used to cover it in blood, so it got a little bit mouldy." Five minutes with Creeper keyboardist/vocalist, Hannah Greenwood

Hannah from Creeper talks theatre, life in the countryside and being a shy-ish rock star

Metal Hammer

"This is going to be the best show of our career!" Black Veil Brides and Creeper announce spooktacular co-headline Wembley Arena show

Goth rock BFFs Black Veil Brides and Creeper will team up for a historic show at one of the UK's most legendary venues

Metal Hammer

"The songs, the fans and the firm grasp of their own craft to push them to the biggest stages possible." Creeper just showed Brighton why they're one of the UK's most vital rock bands

South Coast vampire punks Creeper blow Brighton away with an anthem-stacked, fun and emotional set

Metal Hammer

"It sounds like worse Ghost." Watch Creeper send up some of the more outraged comments that greeted them winning Metal Hammer's album of the year in 2023

Some people weren't happy about Creeper winning Hammer's Critics Poll - and the band find it pretty hilarious

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