Album review: The Devil Wears Prada – FlowersThe Devil Wears Prada’s drive to evolve bears plenty of fruit, but that ambition sometimes gets diluted along the way.
The big review: Damnation 2025Celebrating 20 years of northern darkness, Damnation Festival delivers its biggest, boldest edition to date, with Napalm Death, Corrosion Of Conformity, Deafheaven, Perturbator and a whole lot more raising hell in Manchester…
Album review: Of Mice & Men – Another MiracleEnduring California metallers Of Mice & Men get fired up on anthemic ninth album, Another Miracle.
Live review: Malevolence, Manchester O2 Victoria WarehouseBritish metalcore heavyweights Malevolence hit the north with their friends and family at their biggest headline show to date.
Album review: Caskets – The Only Heaven You’ll KnowRising Brit metalcore stars Caskets wear their hearts on their sleeves on character-defining third album.
Album review: Set It Off – Set It OffSet It Off’s defiant sixth album finds them not just metamorphosing into their most fluid form ever, but celebrating themselves all over again.
Album review: Pupil Slicer – FleshworkPupil Slicer continue to roll along the razor’s edge, packing third album Fleshwork with a mindblowing assortment of brutality.
Live review: Turnstile, Manchester Depot MayfieldNice warehouse, we’ll take it! Manchester sees stars as Baltimore hardcore supremos Turnstile smash their biggest UK headline show to date.
Album review: Believe In Nothing – RotEastbourne extremists Believe In Nothing pummel heaps of putrefaction on disgustingly heavy first album, Rot.
Album review: Cold Steel – Discipline & PunishNew kids on the Tampa Bay block Cold Steel revive hardcore thrash on likably hard-as-nails debut.
Album review: Drain – …Is Your FriendSpinkicks, stage dives and a whole lotta love: Drain cement their status as the Nicest Band In Hardcore with third album …Is Your Friend.
Album review: Bloom – The Light We ChaseAussie melodic hardcore band Bloom threw themselves out into the international scene with 2024 debut Maybe In Another Life – and are exploring some new sounds on its follow-up…
Album review: Serj Tankian – Covers, Collaborations & CollagesSystem Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian shares a sonic scrapbook spanning the far recesses of his creativity, with varying results.
Album review: Spite – NEW WORLD KILLERNeck braces at the ready! A predictably chunky exercise in breathless brutality from Californian quartet Spite on album number five.
Album review: Mastiff – For All The Dead DreamsHull’s most vicious band Mastiff serve up a healthy dose of brutally charged sludge.
Album review: Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress Of DeathCarry on screaming! Creeper return with their fangs on full display for bigger, brassier, bloodier Sanguivore sequel.
