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The big review: Louder Than Life 2025

Kentucky fries as Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Slayer, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Knocked Loose and more hit Louisville for four days of noise and sun at America’s hottest festival.

Meet Me @ The Altar return with new single, Straight Up (Needy)

After going independent and announcing a line-up change earlier this year, Meet Me @ The Altar are now back with new single Straight Up (Needy) from their upcoming EP Worried Sick.

VOWER announce second EP, A Storm Lined With Silver

Following last year’s apricity, VOWER will release their second EP in November, and it’s “about finding divinity, purity and positivity within chaos, madness and uncertainty”.

EP review: PRESIDENT – King Of Terrors

Mysterious alt. metallers PRESIDENT set out a compelling strategy to win hearts and minds with their enthralling first manifesto…

Watch YUNGBLUD perform Zombie on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Fresh from wrapping up the North American leg of his Idols World Tour, YUNGBLUD hit Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform Zombie.

Hear Judas Priest’s charity version of War Pigs with Ozzy Osbourne

Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne’s epic cover of War Pigs is raising money for The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s.

“There are no borders when it comes to music”: The story of BABYMETAL’s breakthrough

Before BABYMETAL took over the galaxy, they were three kids and a fox. With the release of their debut album and first tour with Lady Gaga, they began to break the shackles of the Earth, counting Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica as fans. The birth of a phenomenon? The start of an entirely new shape of things to come…

Artio have announced their new album, Soul Rot

Fresh from the release of their Cody Frost collab The Devil You Know earlier this month, Artio have confirmed they’ll be releasing a new record at the start of 2026.

BEX drops new single: “The loudest and most aggressive track I’ve ever created”

Listen to BEX’s new single silence, a song that “isn’t about being quiet – it’s an act of defiance”.

Album review: Dying Wish – Flesh Stays Together

Dying Wish come of age on engrossingly nihilistic third album, Flesh Stays Together.

“The thought of not doing this anymore became f*cking terrifying”: Why YONAKA are stronger than ever

YONAKA have just made their emphatic return with new single Problems. But as vocalist Theresa Jarvis reveals, the band have gone through some “rocky patches” to get here. Now, she promises, this is “just the beginning…”

Ghost filmed the final two dates of their 2025 Skeletour

Wrapping up this year’s Skeletour with two nights in Mexico City, Ghost have revealed that these shows were filmed “for the rest of the world to see at some point…”

Listen to Creeper’s new single, Prey For The Night

With Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on the horizon, Creeper have just unveiled the album’s latest single, Prey For The Night.

“There is still work to be done. We press forward”: PRESIDENT release debut EP, King Of Terrors

Listen to PRESIDENT’s new EP King Of Terrors, which was “Forged in solitude. Shaped by memory…”

Silly Goose unleash massive new single, Split

“It showcases a different side of what we’re capable of…” Listen to rap-rockers Silly Goose’s new single Split, taken from next month’s Keys To The City LP.

Dayseeker unveil “eerie and chaotic” single, Bloodlust

We’ve got less than a month to go now until Creature In The Black Night, and Dayseeker have just dropped “one of the more eerie and chaotic tracks on the record…”

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