In pictures: The biggest, most jaw-dropping Aftershock everFrom Bring Me The Horizon’s final show of the year to Deftones’ epic homecoming, here’s what went down in Sacramento for Aftershock 2025.
Remembering the biggest shows of BABYMETAL’s lives: “We want to do new things that no other Japanese band has done”By 2016, the BABYMETAL prophecies were already beginning to come true. As K! joined them in Japan for a set of enormous shows at Tokyo Dome, we witnessed in real-time a giant standing up before us. After that year’s METAL RESISTANCE album made them one of the biggest bands in the universe, things looked perfect. But the golden path would eventually be beset with difficulty…
clipping.: “It’s violent music, but fans are cherishing going to a dark place in this exuberant, sonically masterful way”Industrial hip-hop outsiders clipping. are back with an expanded new album, imagining dystopian landscapes that have never felt more real. They talk to K! about their cyberpunk influences, fighting censorship and finding hope…
“I hated my life. I was blacking out to cope. Now I feel like a different person”: How James Veck-Gilodi started again and found peaceBetween drinking too much, a finished relationship and being bored of music, Deaf Havana singer James Veck-Gilodi thought he was done. Having documented the implosion on their best album in years, We’re Never Getting Out, he’s shed a lot of skin, and found himself in a much better, healthier place.
“Things have happened so fast. This album became a therapeutic outlet”: How Orbit Culture are navigating becoming one of metal’s hottest bandsOrbit Culture have suddenly found themselves on some of metal’s biggest stages. For the Swedish brutalists, it’s an opportunity and an adjustment. But, says frontman Niklas Karlsson as they prepare to release their killer Death Above Life album, they’re taking every chance they get.
Meet Native James: A fireball waiting to burn a hole in the UK rock sceneNative James is ready to explode with his ferocious mix of grime snarl and metal power. “It’s like two aggressors at a dinner table.” Get ready to chow down…
AFI: “I’m sending a message to anyone who wants something more, that you have people out there who are with you”Going into the making of AFI’s 12th album, Davey Havok felt “daunted” for the first time in forever. Taking inspiration from British musical icons, not to mention the post-truth world we’re living in, he’s now ready to share himself with their ever-loyal followers all over again on Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…
Mario Kart, pizza payments and questionable farts: Life on the road with Parkway Drive’s Winston McCallHaving been touring for more than two decades now, Parkway Drive leader Winston McCall has learned a thing or two along the way. Like phoning his wife, moshing in the sea, and laying off the coffee before hitting the stage…
“Whatever you’re going through, this is pure escapism”: Inside LEAP’s debut album EntropyAs rising rock’n’roll quartet LEAP gear up to drop their debut album Entropy this Friday, the band unpack what’s going on throughout its 11 tracks…
VENUS GRRRLS: “We’ve not had a conventional journey… We’re all just really proud to still be here doing this”In the same way their namesake planet spins in the opposite direction to most, Leeds-based witchy rock outfit VENUS GRRRLS are anything but normal. As they head out on their biggest tour to date, they tell us how beating cancer and being slowed by the pandemic have only made them ambitiously “stubborn”…
In pictures: Abyssal Festival is the ultimate celebration of the UK stoner and doom undergroundHere’s what went down at this year’s awesome Abyssal Festival, featuring Slomatics, Trippy Wicked, Uncoffined, Mastiff, Vnder A Crvmbling Moon, Sugar Horse and more…
“We were laughing at one of the titles because it was so miserable”: Paradise Lost on three decades of turning woe into iconic metalAfter 35 years, Brit metal legends Paradise Lost still haven’t cheered up. Disarmingly jolly frontman Nick Holmes explains how, on new album Ascension, “it’s misery compounded”, and how he’s actually less like Victor Meldrew than his mates…
Agriculture: “As artists, we’re interested in finding the profound and the divine in everyday life”Agriculture are one of the boldest bands in American black metal, but their grandstanding music is founded in the simple beauty of the world around them. On second album The Spiritual Sound, they’re digging deep through the spectrum of beauty and horror, stress and serenity swirling within…
“We wanna create this universe for people to step into”: How Castle Rat are putting the fantasy back into metalAll hail Castle Rat, the sword-wielding Brooklyn band making larger-than-life heavy metal with glorious gusto. As second album The Bestiary is unleashed, frontwoman Riley Pinkerton tells their story from low-budget beginnings to big-screen ambitions…
“There are no borders when it comes to music”: The story of BABYMETAL’s breakthroughBefore BABYMETAL took over the galaxy, they were three kids and a fox. With the release of their debut album and first tour with Lady Gaga, they began to break the shackles of the Earth, counting Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica as fans. The birth of a phenomenon? The start of an entirely new shape of things to come…
“The thought of not doing this anymore became f*cking terrifying”: Why YONAKA are stronger than everYONAKA have just made their emphatic return with new single Problems. But as vocalist Theresa Jarvis reveals, the band have gone through some “rocky patches” to get here. Now, she promises, this is “just the beginning…”
