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Fresh from the release of their ace new album Soul Rot, Artio will open the Kerrang! Stage on the Saturday of Takedown – getting things nice and warmed up for headliners PRESIDENT…

Takedown Festival 2026 reveal even more bands, announce stage splits

After teaming up with Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano in the summer of 2023, Atom Willard has announced that he’s now parted ways with Alkaline Trio.

Atom Willard parts ways with Alkaline Trio: “Very thankful for the experience”

Despite losing out to Turnstile on the night for Best Metal Performance, Spiritbox absolutely brought it to the 68th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony.

Watch Spiritbox perform Soft Spine at the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony

YUNGBLUD’s Changes cover picked up Best Rock Performance, while Turnstile scored two GRAMMYs and NIN won Best Rock Song…

YUNGBLUD, Turnstile and Nine Inch Nails win at 2026 GRAMMYs

The 30-ish days of Warped are go! With the line-up being drip-fed over the next month, Kevin Lyman reveals that, “Each band gets their moment to introduce or reacquaint themselves to you…”

Vans Warped Tour kick off 30 days of line-up announcements

This week’s UK chart results are in, and Megadeth’s final album sees the thrash heroes going out at Number Three!

Megadeth’s final album is their joint-highest charting ever in the UK

They join Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer and Walls Of Jericho at Europe’s biggest indoor metal jamboree at Manchester BEC in November.

HEALTH and Wolves In The Throne Room have been added to Damnation Festival

Listen to My First Time’s new single Picture Of Health, which is about that figure who lives “vicariously through fitness and financial gurus online…”

My First Time drop new single, announce UK headline shows

Hear Jami Morgan and Eric ‘Shade’ Balderose give Kittie’s classic 2000 single Spit the NOWHERE2RUN treatment…

NOWHERE2RUN have remixed Kittie’s Spit

Codefendants have once again teamed up with The D.O.C. for a new single, and announced their second studio album LIFERS.

“It’s f*cking dope”: Codefendants unveil their second collab with The D.O.C.

Hayley Williams has teamed up with Daniel James for new project Power Snatch, with three different songs already available in bits and pieces online.

Hayley Williams launches new band, Power Snatch

Following previous 2025 singles gore of being and echo sonata, ERRA have been building towards their next studio album…

ERRA have announced their new album, silence outlives the earth

‘A testament to the enduring impact their music has had on a global legion of fans…’ Metallica and Dr. Martens have teamed up for two pairs of boots and one pair of shoes – two of which feature Pushead designs.

Don’t Tread On Me: Metallica release new collab with Dr. Martens

Hear the Magnolia Park x Arrows In Action collab HIGH, taken from the former’s new deluxe album NIGHTS AFTER VAMP.

Magnolia Park drop new single, HIGH, featuring Arrows In Action

Listen to Skindred’s colossal new single This Is The Sound, which as Benji Webbe promises, will make you want to “bang your head and scream along with the chorus…”

Skindred unleash new single: “It pulls together evil dance hall vibes with a booming metal grind”

Five years since Pale Swordsman, black metal entity Këkht Aräkh returns “rawer” and “more honest” on new single Three winters away.

Këkht Aräkh announces new album, Morning Star

Reviews

Norwegian lords of the black Mayhem return once more with a concise lesson in how to tear the world apart.

Album review: Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death

Features

Urne’s 2023 LP A Feast On Sorrow made them the toast of British metal. It was also uncomfortably dark. For their third outing, Setting Fire To The Sky, frontman Joe Nally explains how he looked upward, and decided to celebrate.

Urne: “The last album was bleak. I want people to rejoice to this one. It’s like a religious experience”

Nine albums into their career, Of Mice & Men are as content as they have ever been. Inviting us on a tour of their Californian stomping grounds, the band reveal why home is where the heart is…

Of Mice & Men: “Your home can really be anywhere. It’s about the people you surround yourself with”

Danish post-metal luminaries MØL continue to expand beyond blackgaze on sparkling third album DREAMCRUSH.

Album review: MØL – DREAMCRUSH

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