Features The 20 greatest Limp Bizkit songs – ranked Whether you’ve been limping with the Bizkit since day one, or you were bowled over by their riotous Woodstock ’99 footage, here we countdown the 20 songs from the nu-metal OGs...
Reviews EP review: Burner – A Vision Of The End Viciously bleak debut EP from South London four-piece Burner offers up some truly apocalyptic sounds.
Reviews Album review: Alexisonfire – Otherness Canadian post-hardcore godfathers Alexisonfire return with their first new album in almost 13 years. It’s very, very good…
Features 5 reasons why you need to check out Harbinger If their name doesn’t give it away, Harbinger have one of the darkest, most brutal sounds that the UK metal scene has to offer. Proceed with caution…
Reviews EP review: BLACKGOLD – BLACKGOLD Unrestrained, genre-crossing debut EP from mysterious UK ‘nu-metal’ crew BLACKGOLD…
Features “People turn up expecting to see one of the greatest shows of their lives”: How My Chemical Romance took over the UK Right from the start, the UK fell in love with My Chemical Romance. And they with us. Fittingly, our fair isle became the site of many of their greatest victories, from Brixton to headlining Reading & Leeds. We look back at how New Jersey’s finest built their empire on British soil…
Features Growth, grunge and going against the grain: How Ocean Grove became an “antidote to the mundane” As Melbourne shapeshifters Ocean Grove prepare to release third album Up In The Air Forever, vocalist Dale Tanner reflects on the band’s unexpected journey…
Reviews Album review: Bob Vylan – Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life Uncompromisingly vicious call to revolution by brilliant London grime-punk-noise duo Bob Vylan…
Music Inside Cold Years’ Goodbye To Misery: “We finally wrote the record we wanted and needed to write” Following excellent 2020 debut Paradise, Cold Years have broken free from the “constraints” of punk rock with glorious second album Goodbye To Misery. And with dream tour slots also on the horizon, everything is falling into place…
Reviews Album review: Greyhaven – This Bright And Beautiful World Misnamed third album from Kentucky progressive post-hardcore outfit Greyhaven explores humanity’s bleakest aspects…
The Cover Story HEALTH: “We always thought we were making music for a post-Skynet landscape” Through corruption, climate change, coronavirus and corporate greed, life in the 2020s is edging toward the kind of dystopian future we see in movies. Providing the soundtrack to the end of the world are Cali cult heroes HEALTH, who have called on some friends to bask in our existential dread…
Reviews The big review: PUP – The Unraveling Of PUPTHEBAND Canadian punks PUP take issue with themselves on fourth record The Unraveling Of PUPTHEBAND – and win!
Features Chuck Ragan: My life in 10 songs Hot Water Music frontman Chuck Ragan talks family, survival, brotherhood and “crummy homemade tattoos” as he looks back over almost 30 years of punk rock brilliance.
The Cover Story Drug Church: “I don’t think I’m pessimistic at all, I think I’m actually almost foolishly optimistic” Is an artist really who we think they are, or are we merely projecting our own ideas onto imperfect creators? It’s something Drug Church frontman Patrick Kindlon reckons with regularly, and ahead of new album Hygiene, he explores in-depth just why we need to find and maintain space between art and artist.
Features Chris Carrabba: My life in 10 songs Dashboard Confessional visionary Chris Carrabba reflects on the 10 songs that symbolise the ever-changing landscape of his creativity…
Features Neck Deep: “We’re proud of where we’ve come from and how we’ve got here – we’ve never rested on our laurels” Wrexham? It almost killed ’em. On a £250 budget flight to Florida, Neck Deep broke out of their Welsh hometown and found a place for themselves in the States. Now, having sold pop-punk back to America and become mates with blink-182, they’re about to return home for their biggest tour to date. Ben Barlow and Matt West recall their rise across the pond…
