Reviews Album review: Higher Power – There’s Love In This World If You Want ItLeeds supremos Higher Power embrace alt.rock to terrific effect on brilliantly breezy third album There’s Love In This World If You Want It…
Features The story of Ghost’s Impera: “I want to show my kids that all this time playing rock shows had a real purpose”Not even COVID could stand in the way of Ghost as they passed their 10th birthday. Catching up on tour just before the plague hit, we found a rock band now comfortably sitting as one of the most important of their time. As Impera took on the weird world into which it was released, the idea of them being “the next KISS or Maiden” wasn’t a hope: it was happening right in front of us…
Features “Modern society suffers from a serious lack of love”: Inside Higher Power’s surprise new albumDisillusioned with the transactional nature of the music industry and disconnected from life at home after 10 years of hard grind, Higher Power needed to step back, reconfigure and reclaim control. Frontman Jimmy Wizard explains how that decision made superb, surprise-released third album There’s Love In This World If You Want It truly essential…
Features The rise of ADTR, as told through their most important gigsA Day To Remember have been one of the best live bands on the planet for a long, long time now. Despite a “mortifying” first show all the way back in 2003, Jeremy McKinnon reveals – through 10 key gigs – how they’ve shot straight to the top.
Features “The world is a crazy place – come and escape with us”: Inside the glorious return of Motion City SoundtrackAs Motion City Soundtrack reveal details of their long-awaited album The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, Justin Pierre and Joshua Cain talk 2016’s hiatus, overcoming burnout, working with Patrick Stump, and why they’ve always had “f*cking cool” fans…
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2025 – SundayIt’s the last day of Download 2025 – here’s how the final Donington celebration is signing off for another year…
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2025 – SaturdayAt Download 2025’s midway point, this is everything that’s happening on day two at Donington Park…
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2025 – FridayAs it happens, this is everything going down at Donington Park on the first day of Download Festival 2025.
Features Lowen: “I want to explore the edges of discomfort in what we do”Barnstorming breakthrough Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran has already catapulted London prog-doomsters Lowen onto some of metal’s biggest stages. But as bewitching vocalist Nina Saeidi delves into her fascinations with Middle Eastern culture and esoteric teachings, arcane weaponry and the deadly arts, they’ve got fathomless depths still to explore…
News Turnstile announce NEVER ENOUGH U.S. tourTurnstile are hitting the road later this year in support of new album NEVER ENOUGH, and they’re bringing along Amyl And The Sniffers, Speed and more at select dates.
Features “It’s really f*cking hard being young right now”: How Pinkshift are fighting back on new album EarthkeeperPinkshift have had no shortage of outrage to simmer on over the last few years. Rather than blindly raging against the injustices being perpetrated against minorities, the queer community and the broader working classes, however, superb second album Earthkeeper finds the Baltimore crew seeking solace and resolution…
News Badflower drop X-rated new single, SnuffListen to Badflower’s new single Snuff, which is taken from the band’s forthcoming No Place Like Home album and hears Josh Katz on the hunt for ‘Some whips and chains, maybe a shackle or two…’
Reviews The big review: Fortress Festival 2025Oh, we do like to blaspheme beside the seaside! It’s darkness over Yorkshire as two days of black metal hits Scarborough for Fortress Festival…
The Cover Story grandson: “It’s so disappointing when artists feel they need to pick between their morals and their ambitions”Struggling with substance abuse and mental health, Jordan Benjamin has been through the wringer these past few years. But seeing a world on the slide and fans desperate for righteous, dissenting voices rattled the artist known as grandson out of soul-searching introspection, and galvanised the desire to make third album INERTIA a battle cry fit to wake the world…
Features WWE’s Aleister Black: The 10 songs that changed my lifeWWE’s hard-striking anti-hero Aleister Black takes us on a musical journey, from having his young mind blown by Iron Maiden and Cradle Of Filth to using Nails as fuel for the fight and making friends with some of metallic hardcore’s brightest lights…
Reviews Album review: Stray From The Path – ClockworkedStray From The Path find new levels of unease and outrage on explosive 11th – and final – album, Clockworked.