News BABYMETAL team up with Tom Morello for new single, METALI!!Watch the video for BABYMETAL’s single METALI!!, which features Tom Morello and is their first new track with MOMOMETAL.
The Cover Story Holding Absence: “Music is and always has been my life – it’s the only thing that’s ever understood me”Ahead of Holding Absence’s new album, Lucas Woodland is in the midst of a revelation. Using music to confront his perceived weaknesses, we meet the “very emotional person” on a journey of self-discovery, digging deeper than ever before, finding a new beauty in life and the confidence to be the person he believes he can be…
Reviews The big review: Bloodstock 2023Welly boots, wild weather and neck-wreckage: Catton Hall once again hosts the heaviest weekend of the summer. This is Bloodstock Open Air 2023…
Features Urne: “Somebody said this is the most ‘human sounding’ metal record they’ve heard in years. That meant a lot”Reckoning on death, degenerative illness, and the darkening of the mind, Urne’s incredible second album A Feast On Sorrow is one of the most wholly heavy records in recent memory. Frontman Joe Nally explains how the London trio teamed up with Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier to work through one of the darkest periods in his life…
The Cover Story The Armed: “This was always supposed to be magical and bizarre, but never just f*cking pretend”After years as the slipperiest enigma in alternative music, The Armed are finally setting the story straight. Well, kinda. Strapping ourselves to the anarchic collective as they kick off celebrations for fifth LP Perfect Saviors, K! finds there’s still no easy way out once you’ve fallen into their intoxicating tangle of politics and philosophy, muscle and mayhem…
Features Hot Milk: “I want to put a bit of reality back in, a bit of bite, a bit of f*cking attitude…”If you haven’t caught Hot Milk yet, it’s because the Manchester outfit are already zooming upward faster than most can keep up with. Ahead of the release of their debut album, they tell us the story so far: touring with Foo Fighters, writing with blink-182, appearing on America’s biggest talk show, and how they’re preparing to clean up the music industry…
Features Stephen Brodsky: “Mutoid Man helped me find my confidence again as a writer”Growing up in the Massachusetts hardcore scene, a life in music was inevitable for Stephen Brodsky. From his game-changing metalcore outfit Cave In to the heavyweight sludge of Mutoid Man, the lifelong Metallica fan has long become a cult hero. Here he reflects on a life in the loud lane…
The Cover Story Beartooth: “Life is about loving the process, loving all the different seasons and the ups and downs”Ten years in the making, Beartooth’s fifth album finds Caleb Shomo coming face-to-face with something that’s eluded him all this time: self-love. Having always used music as an outlet for his pain and depression, today we find a man at peace with himself, having finally escaped the depths and ready to breach the surface…
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 The Raven Age: “There is a change in the wind with metal music and we want to be a part of that”A new album, new story and a slot supporting one of the world’s biggest bands, The Raven Age are primed and ready to take flight to the next level. We meet them in Hannover to look toward the future of metal and find out why you should give them a chance…
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…
The Cover Story Spiritbox: “We’re still figuring out what we are, and I don’t even know if I want to find out”Two whirlwind years since debut album Eternal Blue, Spiritbox are rolling into the UK stronger than ever with a sold-out tour ahead of them. Barely taking time to breathe, Courtney LaPlante is finally taking time to reflect on their stratospheric rise, the lessons they’ve learned, and why their evolution has only just begun…
Features Who the hell is Deijuvhs?Meet Deijuvhs: the East London breakout star mashing together genres and unapologetically representing the Black working class spirit…
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…
Features 6 things to expect from Iron Maiden’s Future Past UK tourAhead of Iron Maiden’s UK headline tour, we dive into the show itself and spotlight six (six, six!) things to look out for…