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“We paid someone £400 to drive to Sheffield to get a cable for Mogwai, or we were f*cked”: Kerrang!’s view from the bar at ArcTanGent 2024

Averting disasters, spilling blood, engagements, bogeys, being watched “by a God”, and badgering the organisers for news on next year: here’s what we saw and heard backstage at ArcTanGent over the weekend.

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From Dimebag to David Bowie: The icons who inspired Baroness’ Gina Gleason

When Baroness’ Gina Gleason plays her guitar, you listen. She’s the coolest and the best. Hardly surprising, when she’s looking up to icons as rad as these…

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Baroness and Graveyard reveal UK and European co-headline tour

Baroness and Graveyard are hitting the road with Pallbearer later this year, and they promise that, “Europe will never be the same…”

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Baroness, Blood Command, Imperial Triumphant and more added to ArcTanGent 2024

ArcTanGent have made the final announcement for their upcoming 10th edition, with the likes of Baroness, Scaler, Imperial Triumphant, Blood Command and more all heading to Bristol this summer.

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The 50 best albums of 2023

The Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2023.

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Album review: Baroness – Stone

Colour us shocked: Baroness remain one of the finest bands on the planet on incredible sixth album, Stone.

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Baroness: “Music can take our hurts and allow us to springboard back into the brightness, to enjoy life with all the more dimension and contrast”

Sixth album Stone marks the beginning of a bold new era for prog-metal aristocrats Baroness. As frontman John Dyer Baizley explains, leaving behind the shifting shades of their ‘colour wheel’ series has changed focus to making monumental sounds that will stand proud long after their creators are just dust in the wind…

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Baroness have dropped another new track, Beneath The Rose

It’s the resurrection of an old riff. It’s part of a trilogy of songs. It’s awesome.

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Baroness announce “more alive, more direct” sixth album, Stone

Watch the video for Baroness’ brand-new single Last Word, taken from their just-announced sixth album Stone.

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The big review: Download Festival 2022

Download Festival is back at full-scale for the first time since 2019! Here’s all the action from Donington Park…

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Lamb Of God announce new album Omens; first single arriving this Friday

Lamb Of God are set to unleash new single Nevermore this Friday, with their upcoming album Omens due out in October (and a U.S. tour happening around the same time).

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A Day To Remember, Code Orange, Mastodon and more for Download Festival 2022

Download Festival have announced A Day To Remember, Code Orange, Mastodon and a further 17 bands for 2022, plus day splits!

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10 of the best independent American metal records of the 21st century

In celebration of the United States’ Independence Day this weekend, we revisit 10 of the greatest heavy records dropped outside the major label system this century…

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The 25 greatest three-album runs in rock and metal

From Paramore to Slipknot to Tool, we look at the best back-to-back-to-back classic album triple-headers in the history of rock, punk, metal and beyond…

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11 of the best double-albums in rock and metal

Sometimes just one LP isn’t enough, as these 11 bands demonstrate in their career-defining double-album epics.

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Baroness Are "Working Really Hard To Come Up With New Material And New Ideas"

Baroness guitarist Gina Gleason looks to tonight's Gold & Grey livestream and what the future holds

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The 13 Most Essential Sludge Records

Looking for an introduction to the murky world of sludge? Step this way for the slowest, hardest, heaviest and gnarliest riffs…

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“We paid someone £400 to drive to Sheffield to get a cable for Mogwai, or we were f*cked”: Kerrang!’s view from the bar at ArcTanGent 2024

From Dimebag to David Bowie: The icons who inspired Baroness’ Gina Gleason

Baroness and Graveyard reveal UK and European co-headline tour

Baroness, Blood Command, Imperial Triumphant and more added to ArcTanGent 2024

The 50 best albums of 2023

Album review: Baroness – Stone

Baroness: “Music can take our hurts and allow us to springboard back into the brightness, to enjoy life with all the more dimension and contrast”

Baroness have dropped another new track, Beneath The Rose

Baroness announce “more alive, more direct” sixth album, Stone

The big review: Download Festival 2022

Lamb Of God announce new album Omens; first single arriving this Friday

A Day To Remember, Code Orange, Mastodon and more for Download Festival 2022

10 of the best independent American metal records of the 21st century

The 25 greatest three-album runs in rock and metal

11 of the best double-albums in rock and metal

Baroness Are "Working Really Hard To Come Up With New Material And New Ideas"

The 13 Most Essential Sludge Records

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