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From Brazilian speed metal to Italian doom: This month’s highlights from the underground

We round up the latest and greatest from heavy music’s underground. This month: sludge, death metal, plenty of doom, and some weirdness…

Poppy announces global livestream from her They’re All Around Us Tour

Poppy will be livestreaming an upcoming U.S. date from her current They’re All Around Us Tour…

Iron Maiden announce official documentary, hitting cinemas this autumn

To mark their 50th anniversary, an official Iron Maiden documentary is coming soon – and it’ll feature everyone from Javier Bardem to Lars Ulrich, as well as the final interview with the late Paul Di’Anno.

Listen to the debut single from Irish teen band Florence Road

Inspired by everyone from The Cranberries to Phoebe Bridgers, Florence Road are introducing themselves with new single Heavy.

In the studio with Hot Milk: “There’s a lot more screams, a lot more energy”

Fresh from announcing Corporation P.O.P, Hot Milk invite us into the studio to talk timeless albums, channelling Rage Against The Machine, and, um, “fiddling with knobs…”

Watch the video for The Callous Daoboys’ surprising new single, Lemon

“Some people are going to love this one, some people are going to hate this one…” says vocalist Carson Pace of The Callous Daoboys’ new single Lemon.

Under Cover: How Sleep Token took masks in music to a whole new level

From KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face decoration and themes of anonymity and identity, comedy and tragedy, theatre and ritual, one can uncover a whole world going on beneath their surface, going all the way to the beginning of humanity itself…

South Arcade drop new pop-punk banger with an “obnoxious dance break”

Listen to South Arcade’s new single Supermodels, which the band say is a “really fun track” with “tongue-in-cheek” lyrics.

Hear Turnstile, Motörhead, Alice In Chains and more on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 soundtrack

The first wave of songs on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is here, with two more rounds coming…

Witch Fever reintroduce themselves with new single, Dead To Me

Watch the video for Witch Fever’s brand-new single Dead To Me – the doom-punks’ first music since 2022’s debut album Congregation.

Wisp has released a new single and video, Sword

Ahead of a busy year including Coachella and supporting System Of A Down in stadiums, Wisp has unveiled a brand-new single…

“Our heaviest release yet”: Not Enough Space drop new single, Devil Left Me On Read

Watch the video for Not Enough Space’s new single, Devil Left Me On Read, which the band say was influenced by the likes of Suicide Silence and The Black Dahlia Murder.

Hear Lauren Mayberry team up with IDLES’ Joe Talbot for new collab Sorry, Etc, Etc

Lauren Mayberry joins forces with IDLES frontman Joe Talbot for Sorry, Etc, Etc, an updated track from the CHVRCHES singer’s solo album Vicious Creature.

From old-school hardcore to shimmering shoegaze: Scowl’s Kat Moss on the bands to check out right now

Scowl singer Kat Moss tells us all the new bands you need to hear – from “meat-and-potatoes hardcore punk” to one who’s “underrated as f*ck”.

Dinosaur Pile-Up unleash “five years of pent-up emotion” with comeback single ’Bout To Lose It

Dinosaur Pile-Up are back with their brand-new single, ’Bout To Lose It, which frontman Matt Bigland says is intentionally “intense and visceral”.

How Pest Control’s Leah Massey found her voice in hardcore

Leah Massey didn’t imagine herself as a hardcore singer when she was a kid in Leeds, growing up on pop-punk. Today, she and Pest Control are one of the British underground’s brightest lights. As their infestation grows, she tells us about ambition, grief, imposter syndrome and emo fandom…

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