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Takedown Festival 2026 reveal even more bands, announce stage splits

Fresh from the release of their ace new album Soul Rot, Artio will open the Kerrang! Stage on the Saturday of Takedown – getting things nice and warmed up for headliners PRESIDENT…

Atom Willard parts ways with Alkaline Trio: “Very thankful for the experience”

After teaming up with Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano in the summer of 2023, Atom Willard has announced that he’s now parted ways with Alkaline Trio.

Watch Spiritbox perform Soft Spine at the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony

Despite losing out to Turnstile on the night for Best Metal Performance, Spiritbox absolutely brought it to the 68th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony.

YUNGBLUD, Turnstile and Nine Inch Nails win at 2026 GRAMMYs

YUNGBLUD’s Changes cover picked up Best Rock Performance, while Turnstile scored two GRAMMYs and NIN won Best Rock Song…

Album review: Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death

Norwegian lords of the black Mayhem return once more with a concise lesson in how to tear the world apart.

Vans Warped Tour kick off 30 days of line-up announcements

The 30-ish days of Warped are go! With the line-up being drip-fed over the next month, Kevin Lyman reveals that, “Each band gets their moment to introduce or reacquaint themselves to you…”

Megadeth’s final album is their joint-highest charting ever in the UK

This week’s UK chart results are in, and Megadeth’s final album sees the thrash heroes going out at Number Three!

HEALTH and Wolves In The Throne Room have been added to Damnation Festival

They join Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer and Walls Of Jericho at Europe’s biggest indoor metal jamboree at Manchester BEC in November.

Urne: “The last album was bleak. I want people to rejoice to this one. It’s like a religious experience”

Urne’s 2023 LP A Feast On Sorrow made them the toast of British metal. It was also uncomfortably dark. For their third outing, Setting Fire To The Sky, frontman Joe Nally explains how he looked upward, and decided to celebrate.

My First Time drop new single, announce UK headline shows

Listen to My First Time’s new single Picture Of Health, which is about that figure who lives “vicariously through fitness and financial gurus online…”

Of Mice & Men: “Your home can really be anywhere. It’s about the people you surround yourself with”

Nine albums into their career, Of Mice & Men are as content as they have ever been. Inviting us on a tour of their Californian stomping grounds, the band reveal why home is where the heart is…

Album review: MØL – DREAMCRUSH

Danish post-metal luminaries MØL continue to expand beyond blackgaze on sparkling third album DREAMCRUSH.

Album review: The Molotovs – Wasted On Youth

Hotly-tipped sibling duo The Molotovs live up to the hype with a debut album bursting with punk brilliance.

Possibility, perspective and turning pain into positivity: Inside the return of Shields

As Shields return following their 2018 split, the Brit metalcore crew reflect on the tragedy that led to their break-up, how they came back together with a new line-up, and why new album Death & Connection has ultimately changed who they are going forwards…

NOWHERE2RUN have remixed Kittie’s Spit

Hear Jami Morgan and Eric ‘Shade’ Balderose give Kittie’s classic 2000 single Spit the NOWHERE2RUN treatment…

“It’s f*cking dope”: Codefendants unveil their second collab with The D.O.C.

Codefendants have once again teamed up with The D.O.C. for a new single, and announced their second studio album LIFERS.

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