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High On Fire: “It feels like a storm has been building… and now sh*t’s hitting the fan”

After 25 years, High On Fire have little left to prove. Roaring back with ferocious ninth album Cometh The Storm, however, frontman Matt Pike and bassist Jeff Matz tell us about why they’ve got to keep pushing limits, learning Turkish instruments, and how the state of the world continues to feed their music…

“I challenged myself to let the song kill me”: Infant Island on their crushing new album, fighting apathy with activism, and an unlikely blood ritual

Meet Infant Island: the Virginian blackgaze crew who’ve just dropped an apocalyptic new album and – quite literally – leave their blood on the stage...

NOAHFINNCE: “There’s always going to be people that can’t see me as anything more than an influencer, but they’re not worth worrying about”

Having spent nearly a decade baring his soul online, now NOAHFINNCE is finally ready to do it through his music. And with debut album GROWING UP ON THE INTERNET he’s pulling no punches, showing the world that he was born to do this while opening up about everything from transphobia to mental health…

In pictures: You Me At Six’s intimate BRITs Week 24 for War Child show

Here’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 underground

For 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 hands

When 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 Pace

Carson 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 heroes

Bloom 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 TANGK

Dancing, 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 shtty, because there are shtty 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 life

Militarie 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…

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