News Lacuna Coil, Deafheaven, Alcest and over 50 others have been added to Wacken 2026Because the German metal extravaganza’s 35th-birthday bill wasn’t quite heaving enough already…
Reviews The big review: Damnation 2025Celebrating 20 years of northern darkness, Damnation Festival delivers its biggest, boldest edition to date, with Napalm Death, Corrosion Of Conformity, Deafheaven, Perturbator and a whole lot more raising hell in Manchester…
Features “It felt like the universe was telling us to play with Bernie Sanders”: The Armed are making music for broken political timesIs The Armed's mind-blowing new album The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed the most prescient noise of 2025? Quite possibly. Still one of the strangest-operating bands on Earth, the mysterious collective are also becoming a sane voice in a confused, broken world. Singer Tony Wolski explains all...
News Deftones reveal 2025 Dia De Los Deftones line-up with Clipse, Deafheaven and moreThe sixth annual Dia De Los Deftones Festival is happening later this year in San Diego, with a hand-picked line-up including Clipse, 2Hollis, Rico Nasty and Deafheaven.
News Deafheaven reveal 25-date UK and European headline tourIn support of latest album Lonely People With Power, Deafheaven will be crossing the pond this winter for a huge string of shows.
Reviews The big review: Outbreak Fest 2025You make us break out! Hardcore mega-fest Outbreak does the double in Manchester and London for a weekend of noise with Knocked Loose, Turnstile, Speed, Pest Control, Denzel Curry and more…
News The Armed announce new album, drop crushing opening trackWatch the video for The Armed’s brutal new single Well Made Play, taken from this summer’s The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed.
News Four more bands have been added to Damnation FestivalNovember’s festival of heaviness and extremity, Damnation, just got even louder – and there’s “so much more to come” to the Manchester bash.
Reviews Album review: Deafheaven – Lonely People With PowerTake the power back: Deafheaven return with unexpectedly heavy and entirely expectedly brilliant sixth album.
The Cover Story Deafheaven: “If power is influence, we have a responsibility to be as understanding, empathetic and knowledgeable as possible”Deafheaven frontman George Clarke has grappled with the self-examination through music for years now. Where his Californian pioneers’ icy blackgaze has often felt like an exercise in abstract deflection, however, awesome sixth album Lonely People With Power finds healing fire in its complex interrogation of human relationships and the art of influence over one another...
News Damnation add Deafheaven, Author & Punisher and more to 2025 line-upDamnation gets even bigger with Deafheaven, Author & Punisher, Necrot and more joining the bill for November...
News Deafheaven have released a new single, HeathenHear Deafheaven’s new single Heathen – the second preview they’ve shared from next month’s Lonely People With Power record.
Features “That spirit of playing fast and hard has been reinvigorated”: Deafheaven take us inside new album Lonely People With PowerCalifornian blackgaze overlords Deafheaven have returned with ear-smashing new single Magnolia to start the engines on imminent sixth album Lonely People With Power. We sat down with frontman George Clarke to find out how falling back in love with heavy music led to the most representative record yet of exactly who they are...
Reviews Live review: Knocked Loose, O2 Institute BirminghamKnocked Loose hit Birmingham hard as they begin their furious new chapter...
Reviews The big review: ArcTanGent 2023Heilung, Converge, Devin Townsend and many more hit Fernhill Farm for four days of artistic celebration and musical madness at ArcTanGent Festival…
News Deafheaven announce 10th anniversary reissue of Sunbather, plus tourDeafheaven’s iconic second album Sunbather will be getting the remix/remaster treatment, and they’ll be touring The States in celebration with Touché Amoré…
News Deafheaven to play Sunbather in full at ArcTanGent 2023ArcTanGent have confirmed over 50 bands for next year’s festival bill – including Deafheaven performing their 2013 classic album Sunbather in full…