There’s a solid case to be made that Gojira are the heaviest band to ever headline venues like the Cardiff International Arena. Uncompromising and incomparable, the French quartet have earned their status as a band of this size through the consistent quality of their music and their reputation as a water-tight live band. As one…
With one of the most anticipated UK Metal releases of the year, Employed to Serve set off on an intimate UK tour to launch their fourth album Conquering. We sent our photographer Connor Morris down to the down to the Leeds show to capture the action as Employed to Serve and Hidden Mothers tore Key…
In honour of International Women’s Day 2020, we have put together a playlist of Female Artists who rock the world! Featuring some of our favourites, some old classics and songs that just straight up kick ass!! turn it up loud and come celebrate all the badass rocking ladies out there!!
Blood Youth are one of the most exciting bands in British metal right now. Their current album Starve struck a nerve with audiences upon release and fans have really embraced them off the back of it. 2019 saw Blood Youth go from strength to strength with some incredible highs along the way including European Festival…
As 2019 draws to a close and the decade of the 2010’s starts drawing its final breath, we can end it knowing that the state of British Metal is in very safe hands. Bills like this don’t come along very often which makes tonight’s show and on a larger scale this tour all the more…
Continuing with our annual tradition of the End Of Year Awards, we’re delighted to welcome back Metal Hammer / Stereoboard scribe and recently appointed Prog Magazine News Editor Matt Mills as a special guest for his second involvement in the awards. He’s got some cracking picks, so read on! Album of the Year: We Never…
Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.
When it comes to riffs in heavy music, you see the same names crop up time and again, and frankly there is so much out there that needs championing but doesn’t get a look in.
Following on from our highlights of the first two days of ArcTanGent 2019, here’s a quick round up of the best bits of the final day. A full review of ArcTanGent 2019 is to follow soon! Maybe it’s our bias talking, or more likely it’s the fact that The St Pierre Snake Invasion are one…
Lucky number seven so they say. Now in its seventh year as Britain’s premiere summer home for all things mathcore, progressive, explorative, post-anything, whatever off kilter subsection of music you desire, ArcTanGent has not only lived up to the audience’s lofty expectations, but it’s fair to say shattered them into slack-jawed disbelief. Having hosted a…
It’s time once again for Slam Dunk to kick off the festival season. Returning to Hatfield house with its biggest line up yet, Slam Dunk looked set to get the season going with a bang and it did not disappoint. Whether it was the traditional pop-punk bands, NOFX’s Punk In Drublic festival or the amazing hardcore bands on…
It’s that time of year again, Slam Dunk Festival is back to kick off festival season, bringing their biggest line up yet. Alongside returning to Hatfield House for the second year, the festival has also moved to a brand new site in Leeds at Temple Newsam Park. Other changes this year include alternating stages meaning…
