Album review: Thrice – Horizons/WestDarkness comprehensively conquers light on Thrice’s follow-up to 2021’s Horizons/East.
Album review: Orbit Culture – Death Above LifeBigger, heavier, more ambitious: Orbit Culture bulk up and make a bid for greatness on fifth album.
EP review: Gore. – If You Do Not Fear Me…Dreamy Texas metal outfit Gore. incite all kinds of bitterness, lust and rage on their small but mighty offering.
Album review: Author & Punisher – Nocturnal BirdingIndustrial visionary Author & Punisher sings with the birds as he creates another nightmarish, mechanised musical world, this time borrowing from the sounds of nature.
Album review: Beauty School – From Now OnBeauty School’s heartfelt second album embraces both sunshine and grey skies – and it’ll make you want to time-travel to Slam Dunk immediately.
Album review: Deaf Havana – We’re Never Getting OutThe Veck-Gilodi brothers return with an album of heartfelt honesty and painful truths.
The big review: Louder Than Life 2025Kentucky 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.
EP review: PRESIDENT – King Of TerrorsMysterious alt. metallers PRESIDENT set out a compelling strategy to win hearts and minds with their enthralling first manifesto…
Album review: Dying Wish – Flesh Stays TogetherDying Wish come of age on engrossingly nihilistic third album, Flesh Stays Together.
Album review: Still In Love – Recovery LanguageUKHC supergroup Still In Love prove themselves fluent in the chaos and catharsis of human existence on striking debut.
Album review: Revocation – New Gods, New MastersDeath metallers Revocation once again tie brains in knots with riffs everyone else just wishes they had thought of first.
Album review: Beyond Extinction – Where They GatherDystopian urban decay proves suitable inspiration for downbeat deathcore on Brit maulers Beyond Extinction’s debut album.
Album review: White Reaper – Only Slightly EmptyGarage punks White Reaper lick their wounds following line-up changes via surprisingly tasty fifth blast of scuzzy pop.
Live review: Pierce The Veil, London OVO Arena WembleyDon’t pass the nirvana – pass the champagne! Pierce The Veil’s celebration of their story so far brings deep cuts galore to Wembley, and they’ve rarely sounded better.
Album review: Sprints – All That Is OverHome run! Irish alt.rockers Sprints pick up the pace with stunning second album, All That Is Over.
Conquering all: What happened when Bring Me The Horizon took NeX GEn to Louder Than LifeBring Me The Horizon make everyone else look tiny as they close out Louder Than Life with their staggering NeX GEn spectacular.
