Finally back on UK shores for their first tour over here in over a decade, TOOL shows will always have a lot to live up to. Though they did stop off at Download in 2019, this was the first real taste of TOOL’s legendary arena show. It was also a chance to hear some of…
The Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff was one big positivity filled room on Thursday night. One date ahead of their return to Alexandra Palace, ARCHITECTS arrived in the Welsh capital on their postponed For Those That Wish To Exist tour. With a stacked 3-band bill and all of their new material that the majority of the…
2019’s Alien saw Northlane pushed further through the smoke than ever before. An intensely personal album for vocalist Marcus Bridge, their last record added layers of nu metal, industrial and electronic music to their established sound. Turning the dials up on the emotion and expansion within Northlane proved to be a great success for them…
Architects have released a new song titled when we were young, which premiered on Clara Amfo’s BBC Radio 1 Future Sounds as the ‘Hottest Record in the World’. Accompanied by a 360-degree rotating video, the track follows on from the ground Architects paved on their 2021 release For Those That Wish To Exist. The first…
Download Festival 2022 is nearly upon us but the announcements are still coming with updates to the site itself as well as five names being added to the line-up with some reshuffling. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes will be filling the Friday second-stage headliner spot after their headline set at last year’s Download Pilot. Also…
Immutable, meaning unchanging over time, is a word that’s at odds with itself when used in relation to Meshuggah. Since their debut, Contradictions Collapse (1991), the band have certainly gone through stages of evolution but the reason they are respected as one of the most significant bands in the history of heavy music is because…
On Good Friday, a night of ghoulish fun descended on Birmingham for the final night of Ghost’s Imperatour in the UK. After already playing their biggest show to date on these shores at the O2 Arena a few days before, the birthplace of metal provided one last chance to party with the papa in celebration…
Adding another batch of top artists to an already great line-up, 2000Trees is shaping up to be an unmissable event. With only four months to go until the festivities get underway, You Me At Six, Nova Twins, Twin Atlantic (playing an acoustic session), Boston Manor and Kenny Hoopla have all been added among others. 2000trees…
Gloucester’s Underground Festival returned on March 26th with 30 bands across four stages and three indoor venues. With the weather on their side and free admission to the festival, the stage(s) was set for a brief taster to wet your appetite for what is to come in the summer once festival season gets underway. Cult…
2018’s Prequelle saw Ghost transport its loyal followers to the middle ages, using this setting of plagues and poverty as a framing device for its narrative. Four years on from an album that forced us to survive through a tumultuous time and we have arrived at the other end. The industrial revolution is upon us…
