Eight years after their last tour in support of Behind the Devil’s Back, Fightstar have announced their return in 2024 to celebrate 20 years since their formation with a special show at London’s OVO Wembley Arena. Joining them in celebrating their anniversary at their biggest show yet, are Scottish rockers Twin Atlantic and rapidly rising…
*Update* Sometime between 10:30 and 11:00pm on the 5th of November (UK time), Slipknot deleted all social posts relating to the departure of Jay Weinburg. This is similar to what happened when Craig Jones left Slipknot earlier this year. Posts relating to Jones’ departure were online for a few hours, then deleted. If this follows…
Considering how active they’ve been since their formation in 2018, and how quickly they’ve risen to the top of the crop of Britain’s latest wave of modern rock and metal, one may be surprised to learn that Wargasm only released their first EP in 2022. After an intensive year supporting the release of Explicit: The…
Trip-hop group Massive Attack, who experienced huge cross-genre appeal with their 1998 albim Mezzanine, have sadly announced the death of long term touring and session guitarist, Angelo Bruschini on social media earlier today. Bruschini first joined Massive Attack‘s touring line-up in 1995 shortly after the release of Protection, going on to perform guitar on subsequent…
Reunited 90s alt-rockers Dogstar have released the second single from their upcoming comeback, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees, out 6th October via Dillon Street Records. Contrasted with laid back first single “Everything Turns Around“, “Breach” is a more hard-rock leaning track from the trio of Robert Mailhouse, Keanu Reeves and Bret Domrose….
Genre-defying cyberpunk duo Rabbit Junk have collaborated with eclectic electronic label FiXT (home of acts such as The Algorithm, The Qemists and Becko) to release their latest single. Entitled “Fight Me, Erebus”, the track is set to feature on the FiXT’s latest Radium Future Rock Compilation alongside acts suck as Toronto Is Broken, with more…
Since their reunion in 2014, Collapsed Lung have committed to doing things their own way at their own pace. Content with performing for the sheer fun of it rather than recreating the success of mid-90s Top 20 hit “Eat My Goal”, the self-proclaimed “Zero Hours Band” released their comeback album in 2018. Following a period…
Since the release of their 2018 EP Korekara no Menkata Cottelee no Hanashi wo Shiyou, Maximum the Hormone have been fairly quiet on the recording front. A hectic touring schedule which included a rare jaunt through Europe in 2022. As well as a handful of standalone releases and tracks specifically released for major anime series…
The Japanese scene has exploded in the last decade with acts such as Babymetal, Lovebites and Band-Maid making waves around the world. The latest act hoping to make their international breakthrough are BRIDEAR, who signed to Setsuzoku Records last year and this summer released their latest effort, Aegis of Athena. Ahead of their September tour…
Neue Deutsche Härte legends Rammstein have dropped the first single from their upcoming 8th studio album. With touring put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic, the sextet once again united with producer Olsen Involtini at La Fabrique Studios in Saint Rémy de Provence to record Zeit (translation: “Time”), the follow up to their much anticipated…
It’s been a testing few years for Korn. From the death and loss that spurred 2019’s The Nothing, to the isolation and uncertainty triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be perfectly understandable if Jonathan Davis and Co. took things to even darker places on their next outing, particularly with the hiatus of bassist Fieldy…
Since their inception in 2005, the mysterious French black metallers Celeste have become something of a cult band in extreme metal circles, blending black metal with various different genres, chiefly post-hardcore and sludge metal. Their 2013 effort Animale(s) in particular cemented their status as one of the scene’s most interesting propositions, and last year their…
