Reviews Album review: Tarja – Frisson Noir Original Nightwish singer Tarja Turunen ups the ante on heavier and challengingly ambitious tenth album Frisson Noir
News Electric Callboy and The Offspring link up for zany new single Let The Good Times Roll “Let The Good Times Roll is everything we love about loud, fun and energetic music," say Electric Callboy as they drop their collaboration with The Offspring.
News “What she has done for black music and culture in the UK is immeasurable”: Rock world pays tribute to MOBOs founder Kanya King Kanya King, who created the MOBOs to recognise the cultural significance of music of Black origin, passed away on June 3 from colon cancer.
News “This is just how hard rock should sound”: ASOMVEL announce new album Set Your World On Fire and share title track “This is non-stop hellfire raining down from your turntable delivered by a band teeming with the kind of primeval fury you can hear in every chord," ASOMVEL say as they announce Set Your World On Fire and release its high-octane title track.
News Mimi Barks reconnects with her rap roots on new single Power durch Verrat “If this song was a movie I’d call it The Consequence of Disrespect…” says Mimi Barks as she releases German-language track Power durch Verrat.
Features “I listen to Slipknot to go to sleep!”: Javier Bardem’s lifelong love of metal As Javier Bardem's murderous new series Cape Fear hits Apple TV, we meet the Hollywood headbanger to discuss his love of all things heavy and how he channelled the likes of Linkin Park into his new role as the vengeful Max Cady...
News Honey Revenge announce new album Loving And Losing and share single Butterfly Effect "Try as we might to be in control of every little thing in our lives, sometimes the universe has other plans in mind," Honey Revenge say as they drop new single Butterfly Effect, from the forthcoming new album Loving And Losing.
News As It Is confront the far-right resurgence on new single Live, Laugh, Love, Los Angeles "Trigger warning: America," reads the description of the video for As It Is' new single Live, Laugh, Love, Los Angeles, in which Patty Walters unpacks his relationship to the troubling politics of the country where he grew up.
Reviews The Big Review: Fortress Festival 2026 Darkness falls over Scarborough as Gallowbraid, Dødheimsgard, Black Cilice, Akercocke and more hit town for a weekend of evil. Who'd have Fort' it?
News South Arcade tap into “reckless optimism” on new single DEADMEAT Ahead of their Download main stage appearance next week, South Arcade have dropped a new single DEADMEAT which they say is "a sort of modern Romeo and Juliet story (but with a less depressing ending)."
News Sabaton announce second leg of their Legendary Tour for spring 2027 Sabaton are promising "tons of explosives, epic storytelling and very loud heavy metal" on the second leg of the Legendary Tour, which returns to the UK and Europe next spring...
News Muse channel disco vibes into new single Nightshift Superstar Muse's latest preview of their new album The Wow Signal! is a shimmering slice of OTT disco-rock - check it out here.
News “It’s been way too long!”: Sleeping With Sirens announce UK and Europe tour for 2027 Sleeping With Sirens are returning to some big venues for their first UK/EU headline run in four years, which is in support of their new album An Ending In Itself.
Reviews Album review: Death Cab For Cutie – I Built You A Tower Influential indie rockers Death Cab For Cutie deliver more powerful songs of quiet melancholy on their divorce-inspired 11th album
News “I hear a relentless firestorm of emotions”: Avatar unleash new single, Crying Fire Hear the Swedish metal jesters' new banger ahead of their UK gigs with Metallica
Reviews Album review: Hammok – When Does This Place Become Our Scene Norwegian noiseniks reveal the fruits of their lockdown labours. It’s a lot.
