Pearl Jam live review: Manchester Co-Op Live Arena June 25 2024
Eddie Vedder might be stricken with illness, but a vocal crowd help make Pearl Jam's Manchester show a success against the odds
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Scene Queen's debut album is a naughty, fearless, genre-splicing knockout
Scene Queen has lived up to the hype in salacious style with Hot Singles In Your Area
Bad Breeding know that Britain's ruling class think we're scum
A damning state-of-the-nation address from Stevenage punks who refuse to give up hope
Within Temptation are arena-conquering stars on Worlds Collide Tour: Live In Amsterdam
Recorded during Within Temptation's co-headline tour with Evanescence, Worlds Collide shows a band at the apex of their powers
Alcest: Les Chants De L’Aurore album review
Alcest might have a complicated relationship with blackgaze, but they return to the style with stunning results on new album Les Chants De L'Aurore
New Battlesnake album The Rise And Demise Of The Motorsteeple is proof that you can be metal, silly and excellent
Battlesnake's mix of Aussie daftness and big, memorable tunes is a winner
Ghost's first concert movie Rite Here Rite Now is an instant classic
From its retina-singeing visuals to its stunning camerawork and heartfelt emotional punches, Rite Here Rite Now is a triumph
The Black Dahlia Murder just put on the most vital and emotional set of Download
The Black Dahlia Murder move into an emotional new chapter in glorious fashion at Download
Machine Head remind Download Festival what they've sorely missed
Machine Head finally returned to Download - and how!
Limp Bizkit show Download why they remain metal's greatest party band
Download bears witness to why no one does it quite like Limp Bizkit
Avenged Sevenfold bring Download's most challenging year to a close in style
After a weekend of torrential rain, endless mud and regular sound issues, Avenged Sevenfold remind us all of what Download is really all about
“Download Festival headliners in the making”: While She Sleeps put on yet another metalcore masterclass in Donington
At Download 2024, metalcore maestros While She Sleeps gave the UK’s biggest rock weekender a spectacle of rage, hooks and pyro
Kittie have completed one of modern metal's great comebacks with Fire
Twenty five years on from nu metal breakthrough Spit, Fire proves that Kittie are a vital modern metal band with plenty left to say
Rezn Burden Album Review
Shelved for three years, Burden has finally been dusted off and released, showing a bold new vision for Chicago psych-doomers Rezn
Julie Christmas Ridiculous And Full Of Blood album review
Former Made Out Of Babies and Battle Of Mice vocalist Julie Christmas offers a bizarre, bold new vision on new album Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
Ulcerate’s Cutting The Throat Of God is everything death metal should be in 2024
On album number seven, New Zealand’s Ulcerate raise their own bar and set a new benchmark for death metal releases this year
Weezer and The Smashing Pumpkins kick off their UK co-headline tour at Utilita Arena Birmingham - live review
Live debuts, surprise covers and all the alt rock hits you could ever possibly want - Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins kick off their UK tour in Birmingham
Bring Me The Horizon’s first show of the Nex Gen era was ludicrous, meticulous and surprisingly heavy
At their first concert since the release of new album Post Human: Nex Gen, pop-metal royalty Bring Me The Horizon hosted an extravaganza of pyro, video and once-in-a-lifetime moments
Jacob Bannon's extreme metal supergroup Umbra Vitae have stuck gnarled gold with Light Of Death
One of the best extreme metal albums of 2024 has arrived
