You can’t – and shouldn’t – call Supersonic Festival a “metal festival”. That description not only falls catastrophically short of describing what the event is about, but it’s also simply not true – Supersonic isn’t a metal festival. Sure, there are metal bands taking part, but the festival features everything from avant-garde jazz and ambient electro, through to drone, doom and grindcore – it’s the one weekend of the year that you can guaran-damn-tee you’ll come away from with having fallen in love with a band that you’d never heard of before attending.

Subsequently, it has also led to one of the weirdest Slaylists we’ve ever put together.

We’re pretty bummed that we’re not going this year. Actually, scratch that – we’re royally pissed off that we’re not going this year. Not only are we missing Godflesh’s first show on UK soil for over 8 years, but we’re also missing Napalm Death, Melt Banana, Fukpig, Drumpcorps, Gnaw, and Necro Deathmort – the excellent fucked-up-noise side-project of Matt Rozeik from Astrohenge.

Listen to our Sunday Spotify Slaylist: Supersonic Festival 2010

ALSO: Spotify is once again open to everyone for free – you don’t need an invite or anything. Okay, so they’ve changed the terms and conditions a little bit so now you can only listen to 20 hours of music a month if you’re not willing to cough up at least a fiver, but that’s more than enough time to wrap your ears around our weekly Slaylists. Get in!

Watch a video of the highlights of Supersonic Festival 2009:

Are you going to Supersonic Festival 2010? Let us know what particularly excellent acts we’ve missed this weekend by leaving a comment down below. And then imagine us sobbing into our keyboards.