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“When you’ve cheated death, it changes your outlook on life”: Rob Halford takes us inside Judas Priest’s powerful, emotionally real new album

Judas Priest have always taught us to look adversity in the eye. When serious illness hit three of them, they had to do just that. As Rob Halford reveals, it’s fed into new record Invincible Shield. “The survival instinct is there more than on any other album…”

The Chisel are the UK punk band you need right now

Armed with riotous new album What A Fucking Nightmare, London mob The Chisel are taking punk back to its no-frills, in-your-face roots. Look out...

“You’re getting your ears and head assaulted by heavy metal for three f*cking hours”: Matt Tuck and Matt Heafy take us inside the biggest metal tour of 2025

Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are joining forces for an epic 20th anniversary tour, taking things back to where it all began with The Poison and Ascendancy, and, as frontmen Matt Tuck and Matt Heafy explain, it's going to be "absolutely massive"...

“It’s only rock’n’roll. Only it’s not”: This is Inhuman Nature’s relentlessly real tour diary

As they prepare for their UK tour with Crowbar this week, Inhuman Nature bassist Daragh Markham’s tour diary from their last jaunt gives us the sights, sounds and smells of life on the road with the Brit thrash crew…

High On Fire: “It feels like a storm has been building… and now sh*t’s hitting the fan”

After 25 years, High On Fire have little left to prove. Roaring back with ferocious ninth album Cometh The Storm, however, frontman Matt Pike and bassist Jeff Matz tell us about why they’ve got to keep pushing limits, learning Turkish instruments, and how the state of the world continues to feed their music…

“I challenged myself to let the song kill me”: Infant Island on their crushing new album, fighting apathy with activism, and an unlikely blood ritual

Meet Infant Island: the Virginian blackgaze crew who’ve just dropped an apocalyptic new album and – quite literally – leave their blood on the stage...

NOAHFINNCE: “There’s always going to be people that can’t see me as anything more than an influencer, but they’re not worth worrying about”

Having spent nearly a decade baring his soul online, now NOAHFINNCE is finally ready to do it through his music. And with debut album GROWING UP ON THE INTERNET he’s pulling no punches, showing the world that he was born to do this while opening up about everything from transphobia to mental health…

In pictures: You Me At Six’s intimate BRITs Week 24 for War Child show

Here’s a little look at You Me At Six’s special headline date at Brighton’s Concorde II for War Child earlier this week.

Pest Control: “We said, ‘Let’s go for it: let’s do the thrash band that we’d always talked about’”

With their incendiary Don’t Test The Pest album, Leeds ragers Pest Control have made the finest UK thrash debut in aeons. Balancing their hardcore roots with a foot in the metal world, they’re a band big on both riffs and smiles…

“It’s about having a good time, doing cool shows and getting people together”: How London Doom Collective are feeding the capital’s heavy music underground

For fans of all things slow and heavy, London Doom Collective are a key part of the city’s scene. Ahead of the third of their Masters Of The Riff fests, they explain how a lockdown compilation turned into a growing DIY community…

Employed To Serve x Pupil Slicer: How new British metal is in the best of hands

When Employed To Serve and Pupil Slicer hit the road together recently, it was one of the heaviest pairings we’d seen for ages. And if you’re looking for a reading on the health of British metal, you’ve come to the right place. We tracked down singers Justine Jones and Kate Davies in Glasgow to learn about touring life, crap showers, getting pumped up watching each other every night, and bad pictures with Jack Black…

“I got stabbed by a mail cart”: 13 Questions with The Callous Daoboys’ Carson Pace

Carson Pace loves energy drink, hates bad John Mayer covers, and got a gnarly injury in the least likely job for it. Join The Callous Daoboys frontman as he faces K!’s 13 Questions…

Who are Enter Shikari’s fans?

We head to the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester for the second of Enter Shikari’s two-night run to find out who their fans actually are, and what they love about the homegrown electro noisemakers…

Bloom: Meet the youthful quintet blossoming into Australia’s next metalcore heroes

Bloom have spent two years carefully crafting their debut album. As it drops, they tell us about the road here, ambition, and the vital importance of Nerf toys…

Unprocessed: “We don’t want it to be a nerdy proggy show where you just sit and watch. It’s rock’n’roll!”

Unprocessed have been touted as the next Polyphia. They’ve even had them on their album. As they hit the UK with TesseracT, we meet the band giving tech-metal a kick up the backside...

Crawlers: “You give less of a f*ck as you get older… You start realising life’s too short”

Throughout various stages of life, we’ve all been guilty of changing who we are just to fit in. Crawlers, however, are having none of it. On spectacular debut album The Mess We Seem To Make, they offer a space for the outsiders, celebrate our differences, and – as they explain in their first-ever K! cover – show why you should always be your true, unapologetic self…

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