With just over 6 weeks until the annual pilgrimage to the Hallowed Donington turf, the Download Festival 2023 team have two big bits of news; more bands, and the stage splits for this year’s festival! New additions include pop punk favourites State Champs, recently reformed emo/post-hardcore favourites Casey and Canadian hardcore punks and longtime friends…
Hot off the heels of their whistle stop UK tour earlier this month, nu-metal legends, Limp Bizkit have just announced a special one off show at London’s Gunnersbury Park on Sunday August 13th! Not content with leaving Wembley’s OVO arena in ruins this April, Fred Durst and Co will be returning to the nation’s capital…
With the previous singles from the forthcoming Sleep Token album, Take Me Back To Eden having already clocked up over 85 million streams in just a few months, the hype surrounding the notoriously secretive group’s third studio release is at an all time high. Not content with taking over Spotify, bagging YouTube’s “Trending Artist On…
Live albums are a curious thing. Usually released to commemorate a touring cycle, anniversary or in some cases a special event. There are some cases where live albums have gone down in history for being iconic moments caught in time, but very rarely do they measure up to actually experiencing a band live. Let’s put…
Kerrang! Magazine is a worldwide rock, metal and heavy music institution. The British publication, which began life as a special spun out of Sounds magazine thanks to rock journalism legend Geoff Barton, quickly grew to be a bi-weekly and then weekly magazine for all things alternative, rock and metal music. It continued that way for…
You have to give Atreyu credit.They have endured for over 2 decades now, and their popularity and persistence has seen them outgrow and extend their reach far beyond the scene that spawned them. Where many of their peers have faded away they are still standing. It’s a testament to them as a band that they…
Plagueboys is the third album by Finnish Rockers Grave Pleasures, (fourth overall if we count Climax by Beastmilk) it comes after a 6 year gap following on from 2017’s Motherblood. Grave Pleasures feel at times like someone got a 70s/80s themed Goth playlist and just hit play on all the songs, which sounds like more…
This is the fifth album of Waterparks’ career and as with FANDOM, they have made another rookie mistake someone left the caps lock on again. Terrible joke out of the way, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY is far from your rookie mistake as frontman Awsten Knight surprises us with new ideas and an unexpected exploration of religion. The…
As Everything Unfolds have had a quite fantastic two years since the release of their debut, Within Each Lies The Other. Festival slots (Download Pilot / Download Festival 2022), tours with Enter Shikari, Trash Boat, Holding Absence and others, special headline shows, extensive press coverage, huge streaming numbers. You name it, they’ve pretty much had…
With a room full of anticipation, staring wide eyed at screens showing a game loading screen, The Hara hit the stage full of energy ready to celebrate their highly anticipated debut album Survival Mode. The night started with awesome support from Call Me Amour and Snayx both giving amazing crowd interaction. From Call Me Amour…
