Album review: Acid Throne – Kingdom’s DeathRising East Anglian crossover-doomsters Acid Throne demand you bend the knee on crushing debut Kingdom’s Death.
The big review: Damnation Festival 2023From Enslaved to Electric Wizard, Unearth to Undeath, Damnation Festival 2023 unequivocally underlined its status as the destination for all things extreme at the tail end of the European festival season. As always, we were there for every brilliantly gnarly body blow across a truly wild weekend...
Album review: Sophie Lloyd – Imposter SyndromeBritish shred sensation Sophie Lloyd cements her rocket-fast rise with headbanging debut that features an A-Z of famous friends…
Album review: Helmet – LeftUnderwhelming return from NYC noise rock legends Helmet on lacklustre ninth album…
Album review: The Struts – Pretty ViciousPouting, pretty, not especially vicious and occasionally dark return from Derby rock’n’rollers The Struts on glimmering fourth album…
Album review: Silent Planet – SUPERBLOOMCalifornia metalcore mob Silent Planet mix djent, electro and shoegaze to intoxicating effect on fascinating fifth album SUPERBLOOM.
Album review: Hollow Front – The Fear Of Letting GoMichigan marauders Hollow Front begin a new chapter on excellent, emphatic third album.
Album review: Green Lung – This Heathen LandStoner occultists Green Lung raise doom claws to paganism, nature and witchcraft on brilliant coming-of-age third album…
Album review: Fuming Mouth – Last Day Of SunCrusty New England death dealers Fuming Mouth return in raging form on second album…
Mixtape review: Magnolia Park – Halloween Mixtape IIThe Orlando pop-punkers’ newest release is a box of tricks with maybe not enough treats…
Album review: Poppy – ZigShe’s explored the possibilities of punk, metal and even bubblegum pop… but what will Poppy do next? Electronica, it turns out. And what’s more, she’s bloody good at it.
Album review: END – The Sin Of Human FrailtyU.S. extreme supergroup END blend metal and noise on second full-length and punch holes in your head…
Album review: WARGASM – VenomSam Matlock and Milkie Way rage all over again – and branch out while they’re at it – on WARGASM’s fiery full-length debut.
Album review: Year Of The Knife – No Love LostMetallic hardcore four-piece Year Of The Knife emerge from the darkness in a blaze of glory on the brilliant No Love Lost…
Album review: RILE – PessimistSalt Lake City’s morose metalcore mob RILE strip skin from bone to reveal the misery inside on excoriating debut Pessimist.
Album review: Taking Back Sunday – 152Taking Back Sunday return after seven years with their eighth – and possibly best – album.
