What Lies Beneath

We round up the latest and greatest from heavy music’s underground. This month: sludge, death metal, plenty of doom, and some weirdness…

From Brazilian speed metal to Italian doom: This month’s highlights from the underground

Reviews

Slipknot’s mega-fest goes down under, with a little help from A Day To Remember, Enter Shikari, BABYMETAL and more…

The big review: Knotfest Sydney

New York prog overlords Coheed And Cambria find beauty beyond the event horizon on epic 11th album…

Album review: Coheed And Cambria – Vaxis – Act III: The Father Of Make Believe

VUKOVI conquer their biggest room yet in a victorious, emotional display at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town…

Live review: VUKOVI, London O2 Forum Kentish Town

Californian prog extremists Dawn Of Ouroboros delve deeper and burn brighter of ravaging, radiant third album Bioluminescence…

Album review: Dawn Of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence

British alt. rock firebrand Billy Morrison ransacks his all-star Rolodex on the deluxe edition of monstrous collaboration album The Morrison Project…

Album review: Billy Morrison – The Morrison Project: Deluxe Edition

Can Spiritbox match the success of their debut? Hold our beers, say the Canadians, as they bring turbulence (and a little tinkering) to superb and often superior follow-up.

Album review: Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea

Corby’s finest, Raging Speedhorn, invite you to get pissed and bark at the moon on savage seventh album…

Album review: Raging Speedhorn – Night Wolf

Enduring U.S. deathcore stars Whitechapel triumph in darkness on nasty ninth album…

Album review: Whitechapel – Hymns In Dissonance

British rock’s prodigiously gifted godfather Ginger comes back from the brink with The Wildhearts’ 11th album of songs that are like hits from some delicious drug.

Album review: The Wildhearts – Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts

Brighton titans Architects make time for every aspect of their sound on epic 11th album, The Sky, The Earth & All Between.

Album review: Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between

South West nu-gazers Oversize prove full of life on debut long-player Vital Signs…

Album review: OVERSIZE – Vital Signs

Canadian duo cleopatrick soften their edges and turn down the volume on fuzzy second album FAKE MOON.

Album review: cleopatrick – FAKE MOON

Riotous Bristol punks Split Dogs bring a welcome blast of rock’n’roll to the party on second album Here To Destroy…

Album review: Split Dogs – Here To Destroy

Slayer legend Dave Lombardo and his wife Paula team up for beguiling experiment in calmer musical climes.

Album review: Venamoris – To Cross Or To Burn

Japanese rockers ONE OK ROCK seem to have lost the ability to surprise on disappointing 11th album, DETOX.

Album review: ONE OK ROCK – DETOX

News

To mark their 50th anniversary, an official Iron Maiden documentary is coming soon – and it’ll feature everyone from Javier Bardem to Lars Ulrich, as well as the final interview with the late Paul Di’Anno.

Iron Maiden announce official documentary, hitting cinemas this autumn

Poppy will be livestreaming an upcoming U.S. date from her current They’re All Around Us Tour…

Poppy announces global livestream from her They’re All Around Us Tour

Inspired by everyone from The Cranberries to Phoebe Bridgers, Florence Road are introducing themselves with new single Heavy.

Listen to the debut single from Irish teen band Florence Road

Features

Fresh from announcing Corporation P.O.P, Hot Milk invite us into the studio to talk timeless albums, channelling Rage Against The Machine, and, um, “fiddling with knobs…”

In the studio with Hot Milk: “There’s a lot more screams, a lot more energy”

“Some people are going to love this one, some people are going to hate this one…” says vocalist Carson Pace of The Callous Daoboys’ new single Lemon.

Watch the video for The Callous Daoboys’ surprising new single, Lemon

From KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face decoration and themes of anonymity and identity, comedy and tragedy, theatre and ritual, one can uncover a whole world going on beneath their surface, going all the way to the beginning of humanity itself…

Under Cover: How Sleep Token took masks in music to a whole new level

Listen to South Arcade’s new single Supermodels, which the band say is a “really fun track” with “tongue-in-cheek” lyrics.

South Arcade drop new pop-punk banger with an “obnoxious dance break”

The first wave of songs on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is here, with two more rounds coming…

Hear Turnstile, Motörhead, Alice In Chains and more on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 soundtrack

The Kerrang! Chart

The ultimate new music countdown – every Friday!

The Kerrang! Chart: The best new music this week

Watch the video for Witch Fever’s brand-new single Dead To Me – the doom-punks’ first music since 2022’s debut album Congregation.

Witch Fever reintroduce themselves with new single, Dead To Me

Ahead of a busy year including Coachella and supporting System Of A Down in stadiums, Wisp has unveiled a brand-new single…

Wisp has released a new single and video, Sword

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