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From Friday 30 June 2023

LIVE: Download Festival 2023 – Saturday

Dust. That’s the name of the game. On the hottest day of the weekend, with not a drop of rain in site and tens of thousands of people making tracks towards the water and merch lines now fighting for their life, Donington has gone from a verdant green field

Thursday 06 April 2023

LIVE: Beartooth / Motionless In White / Stray From The Path @ Wembley Arena, London

Static and blinding lights call out from behind a blank sheet until a logo flares across like the bat signal. The crowd roars in appreciation as a silhouetted figure, full of coiled spring energy, starts to bounce, bounce, bounce…then the screen drops, confetti flies and the show erupts. This

Thursday 01 December 2022

Top 25 Albums Of The Year

Wednesday 14 September 2022

Stray From The Path – ‘Euthanasia’

Lots of bands are angry, but no one communicates it quite like Stray From The Path. The New York/UK-based band have been an ever-raging fire for over a decade, stoked by capitalism, racism, fascism, political complacency and so much more, and every passing year (or week as it seems

Monday 13 January 2020

LIVE: Stray From The Path / The Devil Wears Prada / Loathe / Gideon @ O2 Academy Islington, London

If there’s one thing that everybody knows about Stray From The Path, it’s that they’re angry. They’re angry about politics, religion, racism, social injustice, abuse and homophobia, and a whole lot more. If Stray From The Path know anything about their audience, it’s that they’re angry too,

Tuesday 17 December 2019

Top 25 Albums of the Year

Tuesday 05 November 2019

Punktastic Presents: Playlist – November ’19

Halloween has to be the most gothic of all holidays, right? Skulls, spiderwebs, and Tim Burton characters everywhere. And this year, of course, we’re lucky enough that this holiday has brought the return of not one, but two of the world’s biggest, most important, and well-loved bands of the last

Thursday 31 October 2019

Stray From The Path – ‘Internal Atomics’

If you’re into gigantic riffs, gurn-worthy bass, pounding drums, and intense, venomous vocal delivery, then you’ve come to the right place – Stray From The Path put a huge tick through all of those boxes. Hailing from New York and Derbyshire (I know, right?), the politically outraged

Wednesday 28 August 2019

Stray From The Path confirm new album details

In news that should come as music to the ears (quite literally, really) of all struggling to process the madness the world has seemingly descended into, New York hardcore powerhouses Stray From The Path have announced that they will be releasing their new studio album on November 1. The album,

Wednesday 24 July 2019

Stray From The Path release new single

As the world’s political situation goes a little bit, shall we say, awry, the return of relentlessly loud Long Island hardcore merchants Stray From The Path with their blistering, groove-laden new single ‘Fortune Teller’ could not be more welcome. The band have described the song as “Musically, a heavily syncopated