Reviews

Celebrating 20 years of northern darkness, Damnation Festival delivers its biggest, boldest edition to date, with Napalm Death, Corrosion Of Conformity, Deafheaven, Perturbator and a whole lot more raising hell in Manchester…

The big review: Damnation 2025

Enduring California metallers Of Mice & Men get fired up on anthemic ninth album, Another Miracle.

Album review: Of Mice & Men – Another Miracle

British metalcore heavyweights Malevolence hit the north with their friends and family at their biggest headline show to date.

Live review: Malevolence, Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse

Rising Brit metalcore stars Caskets wear their hearts on their sleeves on character-defining third album.

Album review: Caskets – The Only Heaven You’ll Know

Set It Off’s defiant sixth album finds them not just metamorphosing into their most fluid form ever, but celebrating themselves all over again.

Album review: Set It Off – Set It Off

Pupil Slicer continue to roll along the razor’s edge, packing third album Fleshwork with a mindblowing assortment of brutality.

Album review: Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork

Nice warehouse, we’ll take it! Manchester sees stars as Baltimore hardcore supremos Turnstile smash their biggest UK headline show to date.

Live review: Turnstile, Manchester Depot Mayfield

Eastbourne extremists Believe In Nothing pummel heaps of putrefaction on disgustingly heavy first album, Rot.

Album review: Believe In Nothing – Rot

New kids on the Tampa Bay block Cold Steel revive hardcore thrash on likably hard-as-nails debut.

Album review: Cold Steel – Discipline & Punish

Spinkicks, stage dives and a whole lotta love: Drain cement their status as the Nicest Band In Hardcore with third album …Is Your Friend.

Album review: Drain – …Is Your Friend

Aussie melodic hardcore band Bloom threw themselves out into the international scene with 2024 debut Maybe In Another Life – and are exploring some new sounds on its follow-up…

Album review: Bloom – The Light We Chase

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian shares a sonic scrapbook spanning the far recesses of his creativity, with varying results.

Album review: Serj Tankian – Covers, Collaborations & Collages

Neck braces at the ready! A predictably chunky exercise in breathless brutality from Californian quartet Spite on album number five.

Album review: Spite – NEW WORLD KILLER

Hull’s most vicious band Mastiff serve up a healthy dose of brutally charged sludge.

Album review: Mastiff – For All The Dead Dreams

Carry on screaming! Creeper return with their fangs on full display for bigger, brassier, bloodier Sanguivore sequel.

Album review: Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death

Swedish metal jesters Avatar hit double figures in macabre, OTT style on raucous new album.

Album review: Avatar – Don’t Go In The Forest

News

Watch the video for MOTHICA’s new single EVERGREEN MISERY, which is influenced by her love of metalcore growing up as well as bands like Nine Inch Nails, BMTH and Evanescence.

MOTHICA returns with new single EVERGREEN MISERY: “I knew I wanted to step into a heavier era”

Joey Valence & Brae will headline next year’s Monster Energy Outbreak Tour in the States, before crossing the pond in the spring to continue their HYPERYOUTH era…

Joey Valence & Brae reveal 2026 North American, UK and European tour dates

Alt.metal legends Deftones will headline Outbreak in Victoria Park next August, supported by the likes of IDLES, Amyl and Deafheaven.

Deftones to headline Outbreak London alongside IDLES, Amyl And The Sniffers and more

Features

Former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka has returned with a new band, and a new song, In The Darkness. He takes K! behind the scenes of their epic new video, and explains how, after being at the bottom, he’s found his spark again.

“I was on my own. It became a powerful moment of growth”: Inside Joel Hokka’s new band, HOKKA

Hayley Williams’ Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party tour – which runs between March and June 2026, and will hit venues in North America, Europe and the UK – is for the fans…

Hayley Williams announces 2026 solo tour, with face value tickets and a plan to combat scalpers

Following in the footsteps of bandmate Damiano David, Måneskin guitarist Thomas Raggi is gearing up to release his debut solo album next month, with a little help from Rage Against The Machine legend and all-round good dude Tom Morello. In this world-exclusive first interview, the two Toms take us inside new record Masquerade, its incredible collaborations, and bringing real rock’n’roll back to the masses…

“It’s a flagship to turn the next generation on to the greatness of rock’n’roll”: Tom Morello and Thomas Raggi take us inside their new collaborative album

Taken from his new forever and always deluxe edition, EKKSTACY has unveiled new track Chemicals.

Listen to EKKSTACY’s dreamy new single, Chemicals

“There’s something for every fan of every stage of this band…” Trash Boat will drop an EP in January, with first single Get By Or Die coming on November 14.

Trash Boat announce new EP, Even If I Never Get There

Due to frontman Tyson Ritter needing vocal rest, The All-American Rejects have dropped out of the Jonas Brothers’ JONAS20 Greetings From Your Hometown tour.

The All-American Rejects cancel remaining dates on Jonas Brothers’ tour

Watch the video for LØLØ’s super-honest new single, which is about “that gut-wrenching feeling when you realise someone doesn’t feel the same way about you anymore”.

LØLØ shares new single, me with no shirt on

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