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In the studio with Waterparks: “Being in such a bizarre, immersive space really shifts how I approach music”

Over two years since their last album, Texas trio Waterparks are deep into the making of their next full-length. Recording in a fun-house with Barbie-themed rooms and a life-sized Predator, mastermind Awsten Knight reveals what’s been going down…

“It’s another layer of something new and vulnerable for us”: Inside Greyhaven’s new album Keep It Quiet

From Radiohead-inspired opener Prelude: Evening Star to closer Cemetery Sun – which is “collectively our favourite song we’ve written as band” – dig into Greyhaven’s new album Keep It Quiet.

Nova Twins: “There’s nothing like the feeling of exchanging energy. It’s an amazing thing to be able to bring people together”

Nova Twins have gone supernova all over again with new album Parasites & Butterflies. We joined Georgia South and Amy Love in the heart of the storm at Boomtown Fair, just one mega-show in a summer of madness, to get a better look as they continue to explode…

“We decided, ‘Let’s put in everything we’ve got and move forward’”: How BABYMETAL overcame adversity and shot for the stars

And then there were two. Following the departure of YUIMETAL, a question mark hung over BABYMETAL. Fox knows what was going on, but SU-METAL and MOAMETAL continued apace. As they approached their 10th anniversary and entered the METAL GALAXY, though, it was clear that whatever the Fox God’s plans were, they weren’t being put off, as the band were reborn, and gained a new member, MOMOMETAL…

“I wondered if the universe was telling me something”: How Holy Wars turned pain into hope

As Holy Wars unleash their powerful new single Metamorphosis, vocalist Kat Leon opens up about the devastating losses in her family that inspired the “deep, personal lyrics” behind the track, and how she’s more focussed on healing than ever…

Perturbator: “It’s like what Watain would sound like if they played Justice songs. My friends were baffled”

Growing up in the Parisian underground, synthwave innovator and smoking enthusiast Perturbator has gone on to pioneer an entire electronic movement. On the eve of new album Age Of Aquarius, we head across The Channel to meet the man behind the machine, and discover how the usually reserved James Kent found his true self in the shadows…

In pictures: The biggest, most jaw-dropping Aftershock ever

From Bring Me The Horizon’s final show of the year to Deftones’ epic homecoming, here’s what went down in Sacramento for Aftershock 2025.

Remembering the biggest shows of BABYMETAL’s lives: “We want to do new things that no other Japanese band has done”

By 2016, the BABYMETAL prophecies were already beginning to come true. As K! joined them in Japan for a set of enormous shows at Tokyo Dome, we witnessed in real-time a giant standing up before us. After that year’s METAL RESISTANCE album made them one of the biggest bands in the universe, things looked perfect. But the golden path would eventually be beset with difficulty…

clipping.: “It’s violent music, but fans are cherishing going to a dark place in this exuberant, sonically masterful way”

Industrial hip-hop outsiders clipping. are back with an expanded new album, imagining dystopian landscapes that have never felt more real. They talk to K! about their cyberpunk influences, fighting censorship and finding hope…

“I hated my life. I was blacking out to cope. Now I feel like a different person”: How James Veck-Gilodi started again and found peace

Between drinking too much, a finished relationship and being bored of music, Deaf Havana singer James Veck-Gilodi thought he was done. Having documented the implosion on their best album in years, We’re Never Getting Out, he’s shed a lot of skin, and found himself in a much better, healthier place.

“Things have happened so fast. This album became a therapeutic outlet”: How Orbit Culture are navigating becoming one of metal’s hottest bands

Orbit Culture have suddenly found themselves on some of metal’s biggest stages. For the Swedish brutalists, it’s an opportunity and an adjustment. But, says frontman Niklas Karlsson as they prepare to release their killer Death Above Life album, they’re taking every chance they get.

Meet Native James: A fireball waiting to burn a hole in the UK rock scene

Native James is ready to explode with his ferocious mix of grime snarl and metal power. “It’s like two aggressors at a dinner table.” Get ready to chow down…

AFI: “I’m sending a message to anyone who wants something more, that you have people out there who are with you”

Going into the making of AFI’s 12th album, Davey Havok felt “daunted” for the first time in forever. Taking inspiration from British musical icons, not to mention the post-truth world we’re living in, he’s now ready to share himself with their ever-loyal followers all over again on Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…

Mario Kart, pizza payments and questionable farts: Life on the road with Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall

Having been touring for more than two decades now, Parkway Drive leader Winston McCall has learned a thing or two along the way. Like phoning his wife, moshing in the sea, and laying off the coffee before hitting the stage…

“Whatever you’re going through, this is pure escapism”: Inside LEAP’s debut album Entropy

As rising rock’n’roll quartet LEAP gear up to drop their debut album Entropy this Friday, the band unpack what’s going on throughout its 11 tracks…

VENUS GRRRLS: “We’ve not had a conventional journey… We’re all just really proud to still be here doing this”

In the same way their namesake planet spins in the opposite direction to most, Leeds-based witchy rock outfit VENUS GRRRLS are anything but normal. As they head out on their biggest tour to date, they tell us how beating cancer and being slowed by the pandemic have only made them ambitiously “stubborn”…

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