Saturday at Bloodstock hums with mid-festival energy; campsites buzzing, bars busy, and fans shaking off hangovers or diving ...

Sunday at Bloodstock feels like the last big push, the point where tired bodies somehow find new reserves of energy. The ...

Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2023, Brighton alt-rockers really big really clever have established themselves as a rip-roaring live act, playing alongside the likes of Sweet ...

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have spent over fifteen years establishing themselves as one of the core pillars of emo revivalism. ‘Dreams Of Being Dust’, the band’s ...

The morning breaks with gold‑dust sunshine and the restless buzz of a metal congregation rousing itself. As the gates part, Catton Park became a ritual gathering. After Thursday’s warm-up, BOA 2025 ...

It feels like it’s been a lifetime since we’ve heard some chunky output from the Dinosaur Pile-Up boys and to some extent, it has been. Six years since their last release, ‘Celebrity Mansions’, the ...

The resolutely independent As December Falls have returned, and they’re throwing caution to the wind. ‘Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine’ turns vulnerability into pop-punk steel; this is a record ...

The album kicks off with ‘Moving to Bed Bug Island’, which drifts in like fog before slamming into ‘And a Big Load’ (fun fact – this was allegedly so named by the band so that any press articles ...

Halestorm have a lot of soul, and they’re laying it bare for us. As soon as ‘Darkness Always Wins’ dropped as an advance, we knew we were in for something on a geological scale. As it turns out, ...

“It’s gonna be whatever you want to make of it,” warns the silver-tongued narrator on the opening of Good Charlotte’s ‘Motel Du Cap’. While in the guise of a hotel check in, that phrase would be a ...

INTERVIEW: LAKE MALICE The hyper-pop metal duo on emotional honesty, taking on gender expectations, and the notorious 'Chicken Pit'.

Imagine the scene. You have a date, you want to feel refreshed. So you go to the gym, you work out hard, you spend four years lifting weights, eating chicken and rice, and watching your macros until ...