Ice Nine Kills’ recently announced UK (& European) tour has had several venues upgraded and added a second date at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester have all been upgraded venues to give even more fans a chance to come and see the horrors that they have in store. “After the killer…
Everybody has their ‘gateways’ that got them invested in the world of heavy music. Whether it was an attention-grabbing magazine cover, a captivating live performance or the act of playing a highly successful rhythm game series with a plastic guitar in hand, they’re a huge part of bringing new blood into the family. For every…
Sunday was anything but a day of rest for the people of Bristol who descended on the O2 Academy in the city centre. Sold out months in advance, it was finally time to get put through the wringer once again by the mighty Meshuggah. Dragging behind them their reputation as a one of a kind…
As Mark Tremonti himself says, growing up in the States it’s impossible to ignore the music of ‘Old Blue Eyes’. Whether it’s around the house, the Christmas period or at the movies, the music of Frank Sinatra plays a big part in a lot of people’s lives whether they realise it or not. For Mark…
Ask anyone with a pre-existing relationship with MALEVOLENCE and their music and they will tell you they’re one of the most underrated bands to come out in the 2010s. Whilst they’ve always been beloved in their circles, keeping up their momentum has been their biggest hurdle but the tides are starting to turn. After reaching…
Finally back on UK shores for their first tour over here in over a decade, TOOL shows will always have a lot to live up to. Though they did stop off at Download in 2019, this was the first real taste of TOOL’s legendary arena show. It was also a chance to hear some of…
The Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff was one big positivity filled room on Thursday night. One date ahead of their return to Alexandra Palace, ARCHITECTS arrived in the Welsh capital on their postponed For Those That Wish To Exist tour. With a stacked 3-band bill and all of their new material that the majority of the…
2019’s Alien saw Northlane pushed further through the smoke than ever before. An intensely personal album for vocalist Marcus Bridge, their last record added layers of nu metal, industrial and electronic music to their established sound. Turning the dials up on the emotion and expansion within Northlane proved to be a great success for them…
Architects have released a new song titled when we were young, which premiered on Clara Amfo’s BBC Radio 1 Future Sounds as the ‘Hottest Record in the World’. Accompanied by a 360-degree rotating video, the track follows on from the ground Architects paved on their 2021 release For Those That Wish To Exist. The first…
Download Festival 2022 is nearly upon us but the announcements are still coming with updates to the site itself as well as five names being added to the line-up with some reshuffling. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes will be filling the Friday second-stage headliner spot after their headline set at last year’s Download Pilot. Also…
Immutable, meaning unchanging over time, is a word that’s at odds with itself when used in relation to Meshuggah. Since their debut, Contradictions Collapse (1991), the band have certainly gone through stages of evolution but the reason they are respected as one of the most significant bands in the history of heavy music is because…
On Good Friday, a night of ghoulish fun descended on Birmingham for the final night of Ghost’s Imperatour in the UK. After already playing their biggest show to date on these shores at the O2 Arena a few days before, the birthplace of metal provided one last chance to party with the papa in celebration…
