“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
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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
Apocalyptica have done another stirring album of orchestral Metallica covers - and even St Anger sounds epic
Almost thirty years on from their first Metallica covers record, Apocalyptica have come full circle
Tool review - Resorts World Arena Birmingham May 30 2024
Tool return to the UK for the second time this decade for a masterclass in mind-boggling imagery and prog instrumentals
Umbilical proves Thou are still one of sludge metal's most adventurous and innovative bands
US underground darlings Thou prove there's so much more to them than just sludge on expansive sixth album Umbilical
Bad Omens' Concrete Jungle [The OST] confirms their status as heavy music's next superstars
Bad Omens stretch their boundaries and produce gold with Concrete Jungle [The OST]
"A crowd that likes the idea of The Big Rock Show but find Foo Fighters a bit shouty." Nickelback do exactly what Nickelback do at Birmingham's Utilita Arena - and their fans wouldn't have it any other way
20 years since they first divided opinion, Nickelback prove they've got the last laugh on the haters as they return for more massive UK shows
Portals Festival 2024 review: a genre-splicing two-day triumph
From post-rock idols If These Trees Could Talk to drone metal prospects Big|Brave, this year’s Portals was a consummate celebration of adventurous music
Exodus' new live album gives us a rowdy glimpse into the golden age of thrash
New Exodus live album British Disaster: The Battle Of '89 offers no surprises but plenty of thrashing good fun
Desertfest 2024 review: sludge, thrash and hair-raising volume at London’s stoner rock gathering
Masters Of Reality, Suicidal Tendencies and Godflesh lead a surprisingly eclectic lineup for the annual desert rock weekender
"Bring Me The Horizon don’t care about the expectations of metal – if anything, the guidelines are there to be ridiculed." Post Human: Nex Gen is long, chaotic and antagonistically weird
Bring Me The Horizon's latest album is another dizzying evolution for a band that refuses to stand still
Nordic folk champion Kati Rán explores femininity in Norse mythology on new album Sála
Nine years on from her debut, Kati Rán unveils a sublime new vision of Nordic folk and mythology with Sála
Rotting Christ have just crafted their most accessible - and perhaps most magnificent - album yet
Rotting Christ have written the most immediate hooks of their career without compromising one jot
