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Rain City Drive: “We all serendipitously came together… It feels like this was meant to be”

Despite forming in a “funny way”, Rain City Drive are unified in their goal: to become the biggest and best band they can. And they want to make rock the “biggest genre in the world” while they’re at it…

Drug Church: “Don’t look to a musician for secret knowledge – or even intelligent conversation half the time”

With fifth album PRUDE, post-hardcore iconoclasts Drug Church have made an insightful and incisive record about modern life. But don’t try telling frontman Patrick Kindlon that…

Reason To Believe: Crows are still making an important post-punk racket

Crows’ third album Reason Enough finds the London mob adding a more personal touch to their political post-punk. And even if things still feel raw, they’ll never lose the spark that keeps them going…

From emo workwear to spooky jewellery: The best in alternative style this month

Whether you’re looking to celebrate Halloween all month (probably) or just wanting to embrace an all-new autumn wardrobe, here’s the best collabs and collections around right now…

Boston Manor: “It’s arrogant to think that you’re in control of everything, but lazy to think that you’re not in control of anything”

When Boston Manor set out on a two-album journey chronicling the post-pandemic crawl from darkness into light as it unfolded, it was an audacious gamble on their ability to get back on track. Finally crossing the line with sublime second part Sundiver, frontman Henry Cox reflects on the non-linear nature of healing, and how, truly, there is no fate but what we make…

RØRY: “Not everyone gets a second chance in music. I want to treat it with the utmost respect”

RØRY used to feel like she was faking it being onstage. Now, having battled drink and drug abuse, they’re a certified headliner with an eye on the charts. Meet British alt. music’s most surprising success…

Pokémon, unplugging from the internet, and ‘overpowered pop’: Inside Origami Angel’s new album

Washington, D.C. duo Origami Angel are mixing nostalgia with a glorious modern take on emo. Here, Ryland Heagy unpacks the band’s latest offering…

“I don’t understand music. It’s still a mystery to me…” Up close with Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen

Nightwish won’t be touring their new album, Yesterwynde. Instead, Tuomas Holopainen will be spending time reading and Nordic walking. But for the man behind one of Europe’s biggest bands, the music never stops. “I’m thinking about creating stuff constantly.”

Torus are finally ready to take over the world

The members of Torus used to feel like they hated each other. Now, armed with a brilliant album and supporting a vibrant community initiative, their focus has never been more clear…

Sløtface: “There’s so many things that are sh*tty. Being happy and showing joy are the most punk things you can do”

Sløtface are back and bigger than ever. Literally. What was once a typical band is now a collective of creatives. And with a brand-new adventurous album landing imminently, Haley Shea tells us more on the journey to its fruition – from unpacking internalised misogyny to how embracing your not-so-guilty pleasure can set you free…

Heriot: “I want us to bring a new style of metal, with the same values we started with, making heavy, abrasive, immersive music”

Heriot are already a jewel in the crown of British heavy music. It’s why, for the quartet’s debut Kerrang! cover, we brought them to an actual castle. On the eve of release of their highly-anticipated Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell LP, the Swindon stars reflect on the solid foundations they’ve built so far, and why they’ll continue to reign for years to come…

From Alanis Morissette to Sylvia Rivera: The icons who inspired Pale Waves’ Heather Baron-Gracie

Pale Waves singer Heather Baron-Gracie tells us about the poets, activists and music icons that inspire her…

In pictures: Riot Fest 2024

From L.S. Dunes and Lamb Of God to GEL and GWAR, here’s what went down at Chicago’s legendary annual takeover of all things punk, metal and alternative…

In pictures: Slayer return to the stage at Riot Fest for their first show since 2019

Yesterday (September 22), Tom Araya, Kerry King, Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph hit the stage at Chicago’s Douglass Park for the first Slayer show in half a decade. This is what it looked like.

The Black Dahlia Murder: “The grief is always there. You can sit and brew on it, or you keep going and do something new”

Following the death of Trevor Strnad in 2022, there was a real chance that The Black Dahlia Murder would call it a day. Rather than shattering the Michigan melodic death metallers, however, that tragedy bound the surviving members closer together, and spurred them to make 10th album Servitude a crushing statement of their will to endure…

“I don’t want to seem like I’m riding my own coat-tails”: Inside Shavo Odadjian’s new band, Seven Hours After Violet

Shavo Odadjian’s new band Seven Hours After Violet have just released their latest single, Alive. We caught up with the System Of A Down bassist to get the skinny on his new outfit, lucky numbers, and embracing the chance to get creative…

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