News “Illumination is imminent”: Download post cryptic teaser videoDownload Festival are continuing to hype their forthcoming 2026 announcement – but does their latest teaser contain any concrete clues?!
Reviews Album review: Orbit Culture – Death Above LifeBigger, heavier, more ambitious: Orbit Culture bulk up and make a bid for greatness on fifth album.
Features Agriculture: “As artists, we’re interested in finding the profound and the divine in everyday life”Agriculture are one of the boldest bands in American black metal, but their grandstanding music is founded in the simple beauty of the world around them. On second album The Spiritual Sound, they’re digging deep through the spectrum of beauty and horror, stress and serenity swirling within…
Features Who are Busted and McFly’s fans?“It never became nostalgic because it was always there…” As Busted and McFly go head-to-head on tour, we meet their fans at London’s OVO Arena Wembley and find out why the two bands are bigger than they’ve ever been.
The Cover Story PRESIDENT: “I’ve sat with these feelings for a long f*cking time… Writing these songs takes a lot out of me”A true whirlwind success story for heavy music this year, PRESIDENT are about to firmly cement themselves with debut EP King Of Terrors. From the absolute DIY nature of the project to it becoming an important vehicle to ask deep and uncomfortable questions, we meet their masked leader to find out how he’s built a breathtaking band worth believing in…
Features “When you’re young, you want to shock everyone, but as you grow up you realise that life feels more beautiful”: How Paleface Swiss found themselvesEvolving rapidly from schlock-obsessed deathcore upstarts to florally-decorated scene leaders, Paleface Swiss are brutalists unlike any others. Meeting singer Marc ‘Zelli’ Zellweger in the mountains outside Zurich, we find out how isolation from the broader scene, no-holds-barred creativity and love for the great outdoors have shaped heavy music’s unexpected new heroes…
Features Fit For A King are ready to rule once againHaving come out the other side of an incredibly difficult few years, Fit For A King’s Ryan Kirby threw his all into the band’s eighth album Lonely God. On the eve of its release, the frontman talks fortitude, family, faith and taking things further than ever before…
The Cover Story Ozzy Osbourne: No ordinary manOnce he’d entered his 70s, Ozzy Osbourne told us that he wanted to “live life to the full”. Now, following the devastating loss of metal’s greatest-ever icon, we look back over exactly that: an incredible lifetime of changing heavy music forever, influencing more bands than anyone can possibly count, and of course causing some memorable mischief along the way…
Features Bleed From Within: “If anyone is qualified to talk about getting f*cked over and coming back, it’s us!”From UK metal’s underground to the world’s biggest stages, Bleed From Within are finally reaping overdue rewards. But strident seventh album Zenith is just the next upward step from a gang of old buddies who always give their best…
Reviews Album review: Bleed From Within – ZenithScottish brutalists Bleed From Within continue their ascent with armour-plated seventh album, Zenith.
Reviews The big review: Knotfest SydneySlipknot’s mega-fest goes down under, with a little help from A Day To Remember, Enter Shikari, BABYMETAL and more…
The Cover Story Papa Roach: “Music can move culture, can inspire and shift momentum in society, and can lift people up from a dark place”A quarter of a century since Infest made them superstars, Papa Roach are still breaking new ground. As they prepare for their biggest ever UK tour, in which they'll become Wembley headliners, we caught up with Jacoby Shaddix and the boys in Germany to hear about the hard road they've walked, and how it's only made them stronger...
The Cover Story Slipknot: “Nothing was a certainty back then… It was us against everyone else. In our hearts, it still is”No band in history felt as confrontational, as dangerous, as downright frightening as Slipknot did when they first burst from the Iowan underground onto the world stage. Concluding 2024’s quarter-century celebrations for their incendiary debut, we join Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan to chart how the horror and beauty, pain and perseverance of that era shaped them…
News “Goodbye friend”: Bad Omens share new video teaserIs there a brand-new single and music video on the way? Bad Omens are definitely starting to gear up towards something big.
Reviews Album review: beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Movesbeabadoobee embraces the sweet sound of self-acceptance on futureproof third LP This Is How Tomorrow Moves.
Features Who are Green Day’s fans?We head to Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester for the first UK date of Green Day’s epic tour celebrating Dookie and American Idiot (and new album Saviors) to find out who their fans are and why they keep coming back for more…