Think back to June 2021. The Download Pilot festival took place in front of 10,000 lucky and willing festival going test subjects, as part of the first Government Pilot aimed at getting the UK live music scene back on its feet after the various lockdowns. Those in attendance, and thousands more at home living the…
Ask anyone with a pre-existing relationship with MALEVOLENCE and their music and they will tell you they’re one of the most underrated bands to come out in the 2010s. Whilst they’ve always been beloved in their circles, keeping up their momentum has been their biggest hurdle but the tides are starting to turn. After reaching…
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…
We start the playlist this week on a more sombre note in memory of Taylor Hawkins, who sadly passed away just over a week ago. Hawkins was one of the best drummers in rock and we felt that ‘Low‘ off of Foo Fighters fourth album is a perfect example of why he was held in…
It’s Tuesday which means we have another new playlist for you lot! We’re opening things up with new music from Sheffield’s Malevolence who have been turning a lot of heads recently and are due to release their third album later this year. This will certainly be one to look out for! A number of tours…
After having to cancel their last show of 2021 and reschedule it to early February ’22, While She Sleeps played an epic hometown show at Sheffield’s O2 Academy with support from Malevolence, Wargasm and Havelocke. Photographer Emma Stone captured the carnage, check out the gallery below… While She Sleeps Wargasm Havelocke
Trivium have sadly announced the postponement of their imminent UK tour. Scheduled to tour the UK in early November before moving onto a full European tour, practical and logistical issues related to the COVID pandemic mean that it is no longer realistic for them to make the trip. The UK part of the tour, now…
Out on the road for one of the final ‘must-see’ and completely sold out tours of 2019 are Knocked Loose, and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, you’ll know that they’ve been making waves in the metal and hardcore communites with the release of their sophomore album “A Different Shade…
With their second album Self Supremacy finally released. Malevolence set off on a headline tour of the UK so remind everyone exactly why they were one of the most talked about hardcore bands when they first emerged. As the tour made it’s way to London, Rock Sins caught the action. No Zodiac (6) fill the main support slot…
In the second part of our coverage of Download Festival 2014’s middle Saturday, our hardcore / metalcore specialist Sam caught several bands that Jamie has not already covered in the first part of our Saturday review (read that here if you’ve missed it for coverage of the likes of Linkin Park, Killswitch Engage, Fozzy, Bowling…