News Kneecap announce new album: “It’s a more sinister sound… because these are sinister times” Kneecap’s new album FENIAN will drop in April, but before that the Belfast trio have unleashed lead single Liars Tale.
The Cover Story MOTHICA: “My goal used to be selling out Wembley. Now I just want to wake up and enjoy the people I’m around in my everyday life” In the 18 months since her debut Kerrang! Cover Story, McKenzie Ellis has faced addiction, rehab and cancelled tour dates. For a while, she even contemplated packing in music entirely. Now on the other side and with a dazzling EP on the way, she introduces a whole new era of MOTHICA…
News Motionless In White unveil new single and video, Afraid Of The Dark “For those of you who have been with us for any part of the last 20 years, this one is for you…” Watch the video for Motionless In White’s new single Afraid Of The Dark.
News Hear Sprints cover Le Tigre’s Deceptacon “A dance punk classic, a constant in the tour van, and a cover we used to throw into festival sets for fun…” Listen to Sprints’ cover of Le Tigre’s Deceptacon.
News Listen to Tooth’s debut single, The Age Of Innocence Ahead of tomorrow’s sold-out London gig, local alt. newcomers Tooth have properly unveiled their first single: The Age Of Innocence.
News Placebo compose “darkly seductive and deeply theatrical” score for 2026 Royal Shakespeare Company play Premiering this April, Placebo will soundtrack the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
News Against The Current reveal 15-year anniversary shows Against The Current are going all over the place – to London, Amsterdam, Cologne, Paris, New York and Los Angeles – to celebrate their 15th anniversary…
News Waterparks unleash raging, political new song, ICE Awsten Knight isn’t holding back on Waterparks’ timely new track ICE, which was recorded only this week.
Reviews Album review: Shields – Death & Connection British metalcore survivors Shields make their boundary-pushing return with bold and occasionally brilliant new album Death & Connection.
News The XCERTS return with new single: “We wanted it to feel uncomfortable, honest and human” “There’s a desperate urgency about this song…” Watch the video for The XCERTS’ new single do it to myself.
News Papa Roach have released one of their “most raw, emotional songs” ever Listen to Papa Roach’s new single Wake Up Calling, which vocalist Jacoby Shaddix says is “about standing on the edge of disaster…”
News Black Veil Brides announce North American headline tour Hot on the heels of new single Certainty, Black Veil Brides have revealed details of a North American headline tour with From Ashes To New, TX2 and As December Falls.
Reviews Album review: RONKER – Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever Belgian noiseniks RONKER cook up a head-swivelling frenzy on their second album while dipping into darker, more existential places.
News Watch the video for Held.’s New You Anthem, featuring Frank Iero Held. and My Chemical Romance man Frank Iero team up for New You Anthem, taken from the trio’s forthcoming debut album GREY.
News Halestorm’s Lzzy and Joe are doing an Unplugged tour Halestorm’s Lzzy & Joe Unplugged run will see the pair hit Glasgow, Southampton, London, Dublin and Belfast following the band’s Opus Stage set at Download in June.
News Enter Shikari reveal giant 2026 UK arena tour Enter Shikari are hitting the road later this year with Holding Absence and The Callous Daoboys for their biggest tour yet: “I can tell you now it will be our most thrilling…”
