Album review: Nevertel – Start AgainLA alt.metal trio Nevertel are out to redefine themselves and rock music on exciting third album, Start Again.
Album review: Ho99o9 – Tomorrow We EscapeAnarchic duo Ho99o9 are more focussed and exacting than ever on explosive and surprisingly personal third album, Tomorrow We Escape.
Album review: Starset – SilosWait ’til the neighbours are out and get into orbit with this fifth instalment of cinematic genius from futurist alt.rockers Starset.
Album review: Not Enough Space – Weaponize Your Rage‘Moancore’ progenitors Not Enough Space make room for themselves in the metalcore scene on fiery debut.
Album review: Maruja – Pain To PowerSurely one of the year’s most important records: immersive soundscapes and spiritual healing fuel righteous protest on debut album from jazz-punks Maruja.
Album review: Die Spitz – Something To ConsumePunk, thrash and noise-rock collide head-first as relentless Texas troublemakers Die Spitz present a debut album of unpredictable mayhem.
Album review: I See Stars – The WheelI See Stars let the universe guide them through hard times on their first album in nearly a decade.
Album review: The Rasmus – WeirdoUnflappable ’00s chart stars The Rasmus bounce back with tuneful, layered album of professionally steered soft rock.
Album review: Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me“Like latter-day Parkway Drive if someone peeled off all their skin”: Lorna Shore plot a course to the top of the metal mountain with ferocious fifth album.
Album review: FAUN – HexGerman neofolk veterans FAUN weave poppy hooks from pagan memory on bewitching 12th album Hex.
Album review: Black Satellite – AftermathBlack Satellite’s second album wants to be knife-sharp, and sometimes succeeds, but ends up feeling bloated…
Album review: Blessthefall – GallowsBeau Bokan and co.’s metalcore leaves you wanting metal-more, for various reasons, on Blessthefall’s seventh album.
Film review: The Conjuring: Last RitesOne last fright? The Conjuring comes to a close with decent but disappointingly un-bonkers final hurrah.
Album review: Faetooth – LabyrinthineLos Angeles-based ‘fairy doomsters’ Faetooth fill the void with even more dark atmosphere on second album.
Album review: La Dispute – No One Was Driving The CarModern malaise and technological over-reliance weigh heavy on the densely layered, subtly devastating new masterpiece from La Dispute.
The big review: Supersonic 2025Feeling Supersonic! Brum hosts three days of the weird and wonderful as Backxwash, Witch Club Satan, Death Goals and more hit the city’s annual celebration of musical freakery.
