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US math metallers, The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced plans to auction off a signed drumhead, with the band intending on donating proceeds to help aid the medical expenses of Deftones' member Chi Cheng.

In addition to the 17 bands announced last night for the Big Day Out 2012 festival, it has been revealed that Soundgarden, Kanye West and Kasabian are three of the bands set to headline the festival. When Big Day Out was born 20 years ago, a new wave of music was emerging from the American north-west. At the crest of that wave was one of the most incendiary heavy rock bands of our time: Soundgarden. It’s been fifteen years since they last graced our shores and the first time since 1997 Soundgarden will again play outside of the USA! Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd – the Seattle foursome known as Soundgarden have chosen the Big Day Out to mark their triumphant return to the international stage and we are thrilled to welcome them back. “This is one reunited band that can pick up right where it left off” (New York Times). Soundgarden played their first Big Day Out in 1994 – the year the seminal Superunknown was unleashed. In 1997, they returned for seconds, o...