Album review: Enter Shikari – Lose Your SelfSurprise! Enter Shikari head on a mission through the darkness to find any kind of light and connection as they drop their brilliant eighth album out of nowhere.
Album review: Broadside – Nowhere, At LastBroadside deliver existential pop-rock bangers for feeling your woes and dancing through them at the same time.
Album review: Tigercub – Nets To Catch The WindA typically heavyweight fourth offering from Brighton riff gods Tigercub showcases the trio at their most menacing.
Album review: Love Rarely – Pain TravelsMathy Leeds quintet Love Rarely’s superb debut album travels straight to the gut, the heart and the feels.
Album review: As Everything Unfolds – DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?Following the death of drummer Jamie Gowers, As Everything Unfolds empty a well of pain across their raw, urgent third album.
The big review: Takedown Festival 2026The south coast gets loud as Takedown returns, and PRESIDENT, Therapy?, The Wildhearts, WARGASM, As It Is and plenty more raise the roof in Portsmouth.
Album review: Melvins with Napalm Death – Savage Imperial Death MarchRampaging riffs and unabashed weirdness characterise a collaboration between veteran noise-makers Melvins and Napalm Death.
Live review: Muse, London O2 Academy BrixtonMuse don’t miss as they give the first broadcast of The Wow! Signal at intimate show in the capital…
Album review: LavaLove – Tan LinesLavaLove’s sun-drenched debut album grabs your hands and runs to the beach with you, but occasionally risks becoming over-saccharine.
Album review: Sunn O))) – Sunn O)))Drone rangers! Legendary avant-doom duo Sunn O))) draw out the tones of the great outdoors on eponymous return…
Album review: Knumears – DirectionsSoCal three piece Knumears are bringing skramz back to the mainstream on statement-making debut.
Album review: Masca – Love LettersGet acquainted with weird and wonderful trio Masca as they mash joy and chaos together through fuzzy guitars and whimsical rhythms.
Album review: Defying Decay – Synthetic SympathyThai alt. metallers Defying Decay reject the rot on strikingly polished third album Synthetic Sympathy.
Album review: Winterfylleth – The Unyielding SeasonBrit black metal icons Winterfylleth bow to no man as they mark two decades of devastation with The Unyielding Season
Album review: Heaven & Hell – Breaking Out Of Heaven 2007 – 2009Black Sabbath’s Dio reunion gets repressed with added stunning live stuff, in glorious Heaven & Hell mega boxset.
Album review: Black Label Society – Engines Of DemolitionMeet the new boss, same as the old boss: 12th Black Label Society release maintains big riffing standards…