Reviews Album review: Skindred – SmileRagga-metal mainstays Skindred crank the attitude and stack up a few more anthems on irrepressible eighth album Smile…
Features Greta Van Fleet: “The intention is to communicate an idea, to challenge people, to celebrate, to be present, and to heal”Who are Greta Van Fleet? To find out the answer we travelled to Nashville to meet the band and find out why what we thought was a simple question actually one shrouded in fantasy and the duality of self… and a delight in blowing things up.
Reviews Album review: As December Falls – Join The ClubNottingham upstarts As December Falls deliver an irresistible third album that’ll have pop-punk aficionados lining up to Join The Club…
The Cover Story The Dirty Nil: “We despise and cackle at the carnival game that is the music industry”The Dirty Nil are through playing games. After a period of mismanagement and being forced to jump through industry hoops with no actual benefit, they’ve rediscovered what really matters: rock’n’roll. With a newfound lust for loudness, the Canadian punks are back doing things on their own terms and will fight any deity who gets in their way…
Features Code Orange: “The Above comes from a more personal, emotional point of view… it completes the journey we started on I Am King”Three-and-a-half years after dropping stunning third album Underneath into the claustrophobic void of lockdown, Code Orange are primed to unleash its successor The Above into the great wide open. Frontman Jami Morgan and guitarist Reba Meyers explain that, more than simple “sister record”, this is a defining statement from the indomitable Pittsburgh brutalists…
Reviews Album review: Calligram – Position | MomentumLondon-based blackened-hardcore collective Calligram find inspiration in intensity on searing second album…
Culture 5 reasons why abortion must be decriminalised in BritainPetrol Girls vocalist Ren Aldridge and campaigner (and Kerrang! Award winner) Janey Starling break down the reasons why it’s time to decriminalise abortion in Great Britain.
Reviews The big review: 2000trees festival 2023If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for one of the best weekends of the festival calendar as an army of alternative’s brightest lights descend on Upcote Farm for 2000trees…
Features Mimi Barks: “I’ve shaken hands with my demons. Now I know how to take them”Mimi Barks almost lost her mind working in the decadent techno clubs of Berlin. As the doom trap queen’s tour brought her back to the German capital’s most infamous venue, Berghain, K! joined her to see first-hand life with alt. music’s darkest new star, hear tales of nudity and piss drinking, and giving fans surprise tattoos…
Features 20 bands you can’t miss at this weekend’s 2000trees2000trees has grown into one of the most heavyweight weekends of the UK alt. music calendar in recent years. And beyond headliners Bullet For My Valentine, Soft Play and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, there are a host of rising stars you need to highlight on that clashfinder…
The Cover Story Jesus Piece: “Our music calls to something dark in people. It pulls out that primal side”Jesus Piece’s Aaron Heard only truly understood hardcore once he’d thrown himself headlong into its visceral, violent live arena. In the aftermath of their soul-shuddering set at Outbreak, he explains how the focus and ferocity that accompanied new album …So Unknown is taking that cathartic carnage to another level.
Reviews The big review: Outbreak Fest 2023Spin-kick, motherfuckers! Europe’s greatest hardcore gathering gambles on some daring line-up choices and wins big with three days of chaos, camaraderie and karate-chops...
Reviews Live review: Iron Maiden, Glasgow OVO HydroIron Maiden invoke Marty McFly levels of silliness and spectacle as they take Scotland into the vibrant glory of their Future Past…
Reviews Album review: Wytch Hazel – IV: SacramentLancastrian rockers Wytch Hazel continue to mine the body and blood of classic rock revivalism with stirring chapter IV: Congregation.
Reviews Album review: Honey Revenge – RetrovisionLA duo Honey Revenge burst onto the scene in an explosion of colour on debut...
Reviews Album review: Creeping Death – Boundless DomainFast-rising Texan death metal collective Creeping Death introduce you to the fire and brimstone of their Boundless Domain…