News Iron Maiden celebrate The Trooper being used in the Stranger Things finale “Eddie got his moment!” Iron Maiden’s The Trooper was used in the perfect way in the Stranger Things finale, Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up.
News Listen to Cavetown’s new single with chloe moriondo Hear Cavetown team up with chloe moriondo on new single Sailboat, taken from this month’s Running With Scissors album.
Features From Fall Out Boy to Frank Carter: The 20 greatest moments in Slam Dunk Festival history With Slam Dunk celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026, K! takes a trip down memory lane – from the festival’s surprising, humble beginnings, to becoming a UK go-to every single year…
Features “If it’s not fun, then what are you doing?” Making a scene with Michael Clifford and Awsten Knight 2025 gave us a lot of things, including a long-awaited – and absolutely spot-on – collab between Michael Clifford and Awsten Knight. So we brought the 5SOS and Waterparks frontmen together to talk chemistry, creativity and cooking (sort of)…
Features “Heavy music is having another moment right now”: How Malevolence put on the best hardcore tour of 2025 Malevolence, Speed, Dying Wish and PSYCHO-FRAME: Bands from different ends of the world and heavy music, but all united by values forged in hardcore. Riding the wave of a global resurgence, the tourmates explain how mutual admiration, broken flutes and paying it forward fuelled one of the biggest tours of the year and made this moment possible…
Features “Fifty years is a long time, it’s an achievement. And long may it continue!” A note from Steve Harris on Iron Maiden’s 50th birthday Half a century ago today, ’Arry formed Iron Maiden. “It’s pretty incredible,” he ponders. “Retirement’s coming, but I’m not thinking about it…”
Features 10 reasons why you need False Reality in your life London crew False Reality are one of the most exciting prospects in UK hardcore. As they unleash their debut album FADED INTENTIONS, they tell us about the importance of community, getting the nod from Speed, and ’80s metal tour bus sing-alongs…
Features Phoebe Lunny’s 2025: “People got sober after my last NYE party. This year I want a million beers, a million ciggies, Robbie Williams and a kebab” Phoebe Lunny looks back on Lambrini Girls’ stuffed year – one that’s taken in endless touring, being a voice for the voiceless, and “selling out by not destroying any lighting rigs”. There’s only a few days’ festive rest, but that won’t stop them throwing a, frankly, ludicrous New Year’s bash…
Features The Darkness: “I don’t want to be ‘relevant’ in a world of banal, homogenised bullsh*t. I’d rather be irrelevant – and irreverent” Dropping a killer Cliff Richard cover to celebrate the blockbuster success of eighth album Dreams On Toast, while preparing to romp back into UK arenas and play main support at Iron Maiden’s 50th anniversary celebrations in the new year, it’s set to be a bumper Christmas for The Darkness. Crackers in hand, we caught up with frontman Justin Hawkins for a rollercoaster 2025 rundown...
Reviews Live review: Imminence, London Roundhouse A lesson in violins! Swedish metallers Imminence bring a string quartet and cinematic epicness to London, just in time for Christmas.
Features “It’s the album where I found my purpose”: Sam McTrusty celebrates 10 years of Twin Atlantic’s Great Divide Saturating UK airwaves through much of 2014 and 2015, for a glorious moment in time, landmark third album Great Divide made Twin Atlantic one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Belated celebrations for that record’s 10th birthday are less about nostalgia, though, and more seeing how it’s soundtracked listeners’ lives, and why its megawatt glow is once again lighting the road ahead...
Features Meet The Molotovs: The London punks going off with a bang Explosive, deadly, dangerous – London-based rock’n’roll siblings The Molotovs are already living up to their name. Selling 1,000 tickets with no album out? Easy. Not bad for a band who started out busking, and are about to head to the nation’s biggest arenas with YUNGBLUD…
Features Alex Taylor’s 2025: “It’s been our most successful year by far. Now we’re relaxing. I’ve had a Christmas dinner already” 2025 was the year Malevolence well and truly carved their name into British metal. As he takes a well-earned rest, Alex Taylor looks back at making one of the albums of the year, working with British cinema’s hardest man, and having people gawking at the band’s big faces on the side of their tour bus.
Features Will Ramos’ 2025: “We’ve been away so much, for Christmas I just want to get to spend some quality time with my family” Lorna Shore frontman Will Ramos is going to spend Crimbo with his nearest and dearest, “partying like a bunch of crazy Puerto Ricans”. With the year he’s had, he’s earned it…
Reviews Live review: Neck Deep, London O2 Academy Brixton It’s a Christmas cracker! Wrexham pop-punk heroes Neck Deep celebrate 10 years of Life’s Not Out To Get You in true party fashion.
Features Nova Twins’ 2025: “We’ve done quite a few bucket-list things this year. We’re enjoying the process of it all” For Nova Twins, 2025 started big and then got even bigger. As they approach an end-of-year break, they’ve earned a rest. Here the band take us inside their mammoth 12 months, and how they’re planning to “spend Christmas lounging around in our pyjamas”.
