The Denver band’s most recent album ‘Absolute Elsewhere’, released in 2024, saw Blood Incantation decamp to Berlin’s Hansa studios – which boasts David Bowie, Depeche Mode and U2 as its graduates – ...

After the delicious little insight into the history of the band and their time touring together, MBD are off to get ready for their set, leaving the crowd clamouring for their return. What results is ...

The title track rounds off the album with a sense of uncertainty and unease. It might be the longest song on the album but it’s a beautiful conclusion. A slow start building to droning, tribal vocals ...

‘Keep It Quiet’ is as intimate and explosive as a secret.

Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ is not a record from the AFI that play in the memory of every early noughties alt kid. The masters of subtle reinvention, who slid from hardcore basements to MTV screens, ...

‘Death Above Life’ is a dark, powerful metal record, filled with blistering chugging and ominous grooves. It sounds like a mining machine striking gold.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – MySpace era survivors and perennial comeback kids – aren’t going to end up Face Down any time soon. A seven year absence has brought us to ‘X’s For Eyes’, a record that ...

You know the feeling, that creeping certainty that things are changing. The seasons are shifting, the summer is ending, you’re well on your way to toward winter. Cheerbleederz know it too well and ...

It’s been three years since we were last treated to a Nova Twins record, and we already knew it was going to solid bangers from start to finish. ‘Parasites and Butterflies’ feels like the conclusion ...

Sunday at Bloodstock feels like the last big push, the point where tired bodies somehow find new reserves of energy. The arena is buzzing from the off, breakfast beers in hand and pits already forming ...

Saturday at Bloodstock hums with mid-festival energy; campsites buzzing, bars busy, and fans shaking off hangovers or diving straight back into the pit. With Machine Head topping the bill, there’s a ...

It feels like it’s been a lifetime since we’ve heard some chunky output from the Dinosaur Pile-Up boys and to some extent, it has been. Six years since their last release, ‘Celebrity Mansions’, the ...