It’s that time of the year again when music lovers gather in a field to celebrate the thing they love: live music.

There are all sorts of festivals to cater for all sorts of musical tastes in all four corners of the world. The main ones kick off at this time of year and hecklerspray is here to tell you all you need to know about each festival, who the essential people are to see and which act to avoid so you can queue up for the overflowing shit-filled portaloos.

As the sun sneaks out from behind one of his many clouds, the hot weather looks like it may arrive for one of the festivals that kick starts them all. Download is the chance for 75,000 people to gather together and rock out to leather clad men drenched in tattoos and piercings. Sounds like a bit ropey if you ask us.

Ever heard of a band called Deicide?

If your answer is 'no', then chances are you're not a military prisoner being held by the United States in Iraq. Out there, you see, Deicide are massive. Huge. Seriously - literally every bomb-strapped insurgent worth his salt just can't get enough of them. Well ... we say 'can't get enough of them'. What we actually mean is 'forced to listen to them at terrifying volume in order to be beaten into submission.'

For your information, Deicide are a death-metal band from Florida whose work to date includes such party classics as Homage For Satan, Fuck Your God, Scars Of The Crucifix and Granny's favourite Kill The Christian. They're named after the peculiar act of killing a divine being - something which hecklerspray presumes is quite a rare occurrence, save for that time our mate Dave was driving home drunk and accidentally ran over that bearded guy with the holes in his hands. 

Anyway. After selling upwards of 500,000 records to their hardcore fanbase, Deicide have now launched a new career: they're officially the band whose music is used the most to torture Iraqi war prisoners. Yay!