Album review: Skating Polly – Chaos County LineSkate expectations! Oklahoma punkas craft a pop-grunge cracker for their sixth album…
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Album review: Church Of Misery – Born Under A Mad SignAnother line-up change, but Japanese doom sickos Church Of Misery continue to observe the Sabbath on riff-tacular seventh album…
Album review: Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…Joshua Homme stares straight into the darkness on Queens Of The Stone Age’s edgy eighth album…
Album review: Royal Thunder – Rebuilding The MountainSix years on, a man down and one rebirth later, psych-dipped Atlanta rockers Royal Thunder rebuild themselves on fourth album…
Album review: Creeping Death – Boundless DomainFast-rising Texan death metal collective Creeping Death introduce you to the fire and brimstone of their Boundless Domain…
What happened when Slipknot headlined Download 2023The Nine hit hard and with frustration at their fifth Download headlining turn…
What happened when Metallica headlined Download 2023… again!They’re just showing off now: the biggest band in the history of heavy metal ensure their 10th appearance on Donington’s hallowed turf is a night none of us will ever forget…
What happened when Bring Me The Horizon headlined Download 2023Blood, fire, success: Sheffield’s finest finally get the Donington prize with pyro-tastic headline showing...
What happened when Metallica headlined Download 2023Fire and fun: Metallica bring the party to Download for the festival’s opening night – and the band’s first of two headline sets this weekend.
The big review: Download Festival 2023Celebrating an incredible 20 years with a whopping anniversary spectacular, here’s all the best stuff from Download Festival.
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Album review: Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But A Dream…Huntington Beach heroes Avenged Sevenfold hurl themselves off the deep end for sublimely batshit eighth album…