Album review: The Word Alive – Hard ResetArizona metalcore outfit The Word Alive navigate uncertain futures and inner doubts on their fresh yet ferocious seventh album, Hard Reset.
The big review: ArcTanGent 2023Heilung, Converge, Devin Townsend and many more hit Fernhill Farm for four days of artistic celebration and musical madness at ArcTanGent Festival…
Album review: The XCERTS – Learning How To Live And Let GoThe XCERTS drop everything else to rediscover the exuberance and experimentation of early youth on infectious fifth album…
Album review: Bearings – The Best Part About Being HumanOttawa’s Bearings punch hard with the most wholesome pop-punk around...
Album review: Caskets – ReflectionsBrit metalcore collective Caskets come of age on brilliant second album…
The big review: Bloodstock 2023Welly boots, wild weather and neck-wreckage: Catton Hall once again hosts the heaviest weekend of the summer. This is Bloodstock Open Air 2023…
Album review: Fiddlehead – Death Is Nothing To UsOn their sublime third album, post-hardcore supergroup Fiddlehead finally start coming to terms with death…
Album review: Movements – RUCKUS!SoCal post-hardcore outfit Movements navigate how it feels to fall in love whilst battling your own self doubt on their third studio album, RUCKUS!
Album review: To Kill Achilles – RecoveryScottish post-hardcore contenders To Kill Achilles up the energy and the emotion on honest and heavy third album.
Album review: Urne – A Feast On SorrowBrilliant London metal trio Urne face up to grief and loss on emotional second album A Feast On Sorrow...
Album review: Creak – Depth PerceptionNewcastle-Upon-Tyne upstarts Creak delve fearlessly into fathomless darkness on soul-shuddering first album Depth Perception.
Album review: Skindred – SmileRagga-metal mainstays Skindred crank the attitude and stack up a few more anthems on irrepressible eighth album Smile…
Album review: Teenage Wrist – Still LoveTeenage Wrist craft murky yet beautiful sounds on their third album, Still Love…
Album review: Mammoth WVH – Mammoth IIUber-talented guitarist and frontman Wolfgang Van Halen redefines the notion of ‘big’ on Mammoth WVH’s massive-sounding follow-up album…
Book review: Geoff Rickly – Someone Who Isn’t MeThursday singer Geoff Rickly explores the darkest recesses of his psyche and his life on his sublime debut novel…