Reviews In pictures: The music and madness of Desertfest 2023 Desertfest – a three-day celebration of heaviness, fuzz, volume and weirdness – hit Camden once again last weekend. Here’s what we remember…
Reviews Album review: Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden Anonymous cult outfit Sleep Token offer up a third LP of biblical proportions…
Reviews Album review: Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination Dallas diehards Frozen Soul thaw out some more cold-school death metal on second album…
Reviews Album review: DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II Santa Barbara outlaws Devildriver are still wringing righteous thunder from those clouds over California on pummelling 10th album.
Reviews Album review: Drain – Living Proof Everyone’s on about Santa Cruz hardcore mob Drain. This stunning second album shows why…
Reviews Album review: Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous The mighty Unearth are back to their best, and this time they’re bringing a semicolon…
Reviews Album review: Shit Present – What Still Gets Me Westcountry rockers Shit Present mix pop and pain to good effect…
Reviews Album review: Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire Irish alt.rock legends Therapy? explore post-pandemic challenge on reliably rugged, sharply observed 16th album…
Reviews Two nights, 32 songs, 100,000 fans: The full review of Metallica’s M72 opening shows With the second night of Metallica’s M72 Tour Amsterdam double-bill still ringing in our ears, we look back over a long heavy metal weekend for the ages.
Reviews Album review: The St Pierre Snake Invasion – Galore Uneasy listening from experimental, genre-defying, heavy-hitting Bristol quintet The St Pierre Snake Invasion.
Reviews Album review: Crown The Empire – Dogma Crown The Empire blend into the pack on their fifth album, Dogma.
Reviews What happened on the first night of Metallica’s M72 World Tour K! was there for the first night at Amsterdam’s vast Johann Cruyff Arena to witness the kicking-off of Metallica’s career-spanning, globe-trotting M72 Tour…
Reviews EP Review: Swollen Teeth – Swollen Teeth Mysterious masked metallers Swollen Teeth leave 1,000 bloody mouths in their wake with a jaw-loosening debut...
Reviews Album review: As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet Metal hotshots As Everything Unfolds shine a light on their talents with Ultraviolet.
Reviews Album review: RedHook – Postcard From A Living Hell Australian alt.rock quartet RedHook channel their frustrations into an explosive and audacious debut…
Reviews Album review: Enter Shikari – A Kiss For The Whole World Pucker up! St Albans supremos Enter Shikari celebrate life lived loud with irrepressible seventh album…