INTERVIEW – While She Sleeps

With a new model of fan engagement already launched, and a corresponding album of the same name scheduled for release on 16th April, While She Sleeps are hoping to change the way the music industry works to improve the relationship between bands and their fans. The Sleeps Society aims

Jet Fuel Chemistry – ‘Sign Of The Times’

Dublin based rock and metal newcomers Jet Fuel Chemistry are bursting out of their indie-heavy scene to bring ‘Sign Of The Times’ to your attention, a raucous and stirring EP crammed full of anthemic alternative rock and hard-hitting modern metalcore. If ballsy riffs, unfiltered aggression, infectious melodies and

While She Sleeps, Every Time I Die @ O2 Academy Brixton

LIVE: While She Sleeps / Every Time I Die / Vein @ O2 Academy Brixton

As a headliner, picking support bands must be a tricky process. You want someone who will put in a solid performance and get the crowd warmed up, but not someone who will upstage you. Brave, then, for British melodic metalcore favourites While She Sleeps to have chosen these fucking

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The end of a decade: The most important bands of the past 10 years

2019 is rapidly drawing to a close, which means – somehow – the end of a decade is upon us. The alternative scene has provided us with so much value over the past 10 years, so much so that the Punktastic team couldn’t help but take a moment to reflect

2000Trees Festival 2019 – Thursday

LIVE: 2000Trees Festival 2019 – Thursday

2000trees is advertised as being a ‘medium’ sized festival, but while medium can suggest mediocrity or be misconstrued as ‘average’, nothing about the scorching weekend feels mediocre. With alternative fans from all of the country coming together to celebrate our special scene, 2000trees pens itself as one of the

While She Sleeps announce 2020 tour with Every Time I Die

After both playing triumphant sets at this year’s 2000trees over the last weekend, Sheffield metalcore greats While She Sleeps will be bringing the legendary Every Time I Die to Europe on their biggest tour yet next January. Additional support on the tour will come from Boston’s Vein, with the nine-date

All Points East 2019 @ Victoria Park