In pictures: You Me At Six’s intimate BRITs Week 24 for War Child showHere’s a little look at You Me At Six’s special headline date at Brighton’s Concorde II for War Child earlier this week.
Pest Control: “We said, ‘Let’s go for it: let’s do the thrash band that we’d always talked about’”With their incendiary Don’t Test The Pest album, Leeds ragers Pest Control have made the finest UK thrash debut in aeons. Balancing their hardcore roots with a foot in the metal world, they’re a band big on both riffs and smiles…
“It’s about having a good time, doing cool shows and getting people together”: How London Doom Collective are feeding the capital’s heavy music undergroundFor fans of all things slow and heavy, London Doom Collective are a key part of the city’s scene. Ahead of the third of their Masters Of The Riff fests, they explain how a lockdown compilation turned into a growing DIY community…
Employed To Serve x Pupil Slicer: How new British metal is in the best of handsWhen Employed To Serve and Pupil Slicer hit the road together recently, it was one of the heaviest pairings we’d seen for ages. And if you’re looking for a reading on the health of British metal, you’ve come to the right place. We tracked down singers Justine Jones and Kate Davies in Glasgow to learn about touring life, crap showers, getting pumped up watching each other every night, and bad pictures with Jack Black…
“I got stabbed by a mail cart”: 13 Questions with The Callous Daoboys’ Carson PaceCarson Pace loves energy drink, hates bad John Mayer covers, and got a gnarly injury in the least likely job for it. Join The Callous Daoboys frontman as he faces K!’s 13 Questions…
Who are Enter Shikari’s fans?We head to the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester for the second of Enter Shikari’s two-night run to find out who their fans actually are, and what they love about the homegrown electro noisemakers…
Bloom: Meet the youthful quintet blossoming into Australia’s next metalcore heroesBloom have spent two years carefully crafting their debut album. As it drops, they tell us about the road here, ambition, and the vital importance of Nerf toys…
Unprocessed: “We don’t want it to be a nerdy proggy show where you just sit and watch. It’s rock’n’roll!”Unprocessed have been touted as the next Polyphia. They’ve even had them on their album. As they hit the UK with TesseracT, we meet the band giving tech-metal a kick up the backside...
Crawlers: “You give less of a f*ck as you get older… You start realising life’s too short”Throughout various stages of life, we’ve all been guilty of changing who we are just to fit in. Crawlers, however, are having none of it. On spectacular debut album The Mess We Seem To Make, they offer a space for the outsiders, celebrate our differences, and – as they explain in their first-ever K! cover – show why you should always be your true, unapologetic self…
IDLES’ track-by-track guide to new album TANGKDancing, cycling, getting nicked: IDLES frontman Joe Talbot talks us through their new album TANGK, one song at a time.
Laura Jane Grace: “Sometimes punk is sh*tty, because there are sh*tty punks. But at its best, punk is rad people doing radical things”To make her new solo album Hole In My Head, Laura Jane Grace upped sticks and found herself in St Louis, asking some very big questions. She reflects on shedding skin, moving forward, rediscovering the power of punk, and when Against Me! could possibly power up again…
10 reasons why you need Militarie Gun in your lifeMilitarie Gun’s name has fast become one of the most talked-about in hardcore. Having started over lockdown, the U.S. quintet are unexpectedly giving things a shot of energy and creativity. Frontman Ian Shelton steers us round his band to get you up to speed. Shoot…
Mimi Barks: “I’m in love with the pain. I’m in love with my broken heart”Having just announced debut album THIS IS DOOM TRAP and dropped lead single FSU while gearing up for a huge UK tour, we catch up with alt. ghoul Mimi Barks to learn how she’s harnessing every ounce of passion and pain to fuel her bold new era, and how “there’s a lot of crazy shit coming up” for 2024…
SNAYX’s track-by-track guide to new EP, Better DaysFrom questioning the nine-to-five rat-race to dealing with the pressure of social expectations, SNAYX unpack all that goes on within Better Days…
Higher Power: “We were seeking validation in what other people thought… we had to learn to find that in ourselves”Surging into 2024, Leeds melodic-hardcore faves Higher Power have signed to Nuclear Blast and released beautiful new single Absolute Bloom. We caught up with frontman Jimmy Wizard to talk going back to basics, breaking free from expectation, and finding self-belief deep within…
Frozen Soul: “Life is cold… so let’s stay together, let’s be warm to the people close to us, let’s lift each other up”As rising Texan death-metallers Frozen Soul gear up for a first-ever UK headline tour, we caught up with frontman Chad Green to find out how their frostbitten fury is built on a foundation of fun, friendship and finding common-ground to navigate the bitter realities of modern existence…
