Sunday at Bloodstock feels like the last big push, the point where tired bodies somehow find new reserves of energy. The ...

Saturday at Bloodstock hums with mid-festival energy; campsites buzzing, bars busy, and fans shaking off hangovers or diving ...

It feels like it’s been a lifetime since we’ve heard some chunky output from the Dinosaur Pile-Up boys and to some extent, it has been. Six years since their last release, ‘Celebrity Mansions’, the ...

The morning breaks with gold‑dust sunshine and the restless buzz of a metal congregation rousing itself. As the gates part, Catton Park became a ritual gathering. After Thursday’s warm-up, BOA 2025 ...

The album kicks off with ‘Moving to Bed Bug Island’, which drifts in like fog before slamming into ‘And a Big Load’ (fun fact – this was allegedly so named by the band so that any press articles ...

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have spent over fifteen years establishing themselves as one of the core pillars of emo revivalism. ‘Dreams Of Being Dust’, the band’s ...

Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2023, Brighton alt-rockers really big really clever have established themselves as a rip-roaring live act, playing alongside the likes of Sweet ...

It’s gonna be whatever you want to make of it,” warns the silver-tongued narrator on the opening of Good Charlotte’s ‘Motel Du Cap’. While in the guise of a hotel check in, that phrase would be a ...

The delightful theatrics that accompany his live shows are here in spades, from a superfan meeting their grizzly end at the hands of Jason Voorhees [‘He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)’], to a ...

Ten albums into their career, Rise Against are ready for something new. To find new way to express themselves. Something fresh. They don’t want to become unrecognisable, but they do want to try ...

Festivals seem to be the duo’s natural environment as Lake Malice have been spreading their hyper-pop-meets-metal-blend across the fields of the UK and Europe all summer. “Yeah. I’m kind of sick of ...

Title track ‘Everest’ completes the trio of teasers; a straightforward, retro chanter, it drips in promise of the reward at the end of the struggle. So far, so heavy. But then we’re hit with ‘Like A ...