Sonisphere Festival sold out this year as each day 60,000 festival-goers from all across Europe made the pilgrimage to Knebworth. Nearly a million people across the world watched the official webcast making Sonisphere the major event in the heavy metal calendar!

Rufus Stone Limited Editions is proud to present the first ever Sonisphere Yearbook Hardkase Edition... a unique photographic look at this years festival from backstage, front of stage, the audience, the technicians, the stars... in fact Sonisphere as you've never seen it before! Our team of photographers were given unrivalled levels of access (not just Knebworth but at all of this year's Sonispheres across Europe!) to bring you a major publishing event. The Hardkase Edition is a specially extended edition of the standard (80 page) version of the yearbook.

So, whether you were there, at home or having to work our Yearbook will give you full access to this years stunning event, with dozens of never-seen-before facing melting shots of Europes biggest metal celebration.

This 200 page plus casebound hardkase edition (HK) features exclusive photography of all the major bands, back stage activity and shots of the fans together with comments from the audience, artists and organisers. Bound in black leather style material with a debossed silver foil graphic and presented in a special Sonisphere hardkase with a free poster and set of plectrums. A unique document of Sonisphere 2011.

This book is now available to pre-order and will be shipped after November 30th in time for Christmas. Pre-order before the release date and you could win a pair of guest tickets for next year.

The Technical Details:
250 Copies worldwide, numbered.
308mm x 308mm square, 200 plus pages.
Black leather style cover and silver embossed logo.
Black leather style slipcase with moulded graphic.
Threadsewn and bound by hand in the UK. 
Free fold out poster.
Set of Sonisphere plectrums.
Supplied in a full, foam lined flightcase with logo on front.

Release Date: End of November 2011 (in time for Christmas!!)