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From Monday 10 February 2020

LIVE: Sleep Token / Poisonous Birds / Bledig @ Islington Assembly Hall, London

If you know anything about Sleep Token, you know that their music is undeniably ceremonious. Birthed from a collective that are worshipping a deity themselves, the music is a product of their faith, each song acting as an offering and a display of their appreciation. Music this

Tuesday 04 February 2020

LIVE: Cory Wells / Luke Rainsford @ Gullivers, Manchester

Nothing says Sunday night like a dark, humid room above a pub in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, filled with people in black t-shirts and beanies clutching increasingly warm pints. Well, maybe not to some, but to music fans, this is our odd sort of heaven – and drawing us out

Friday 31 January 2020

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020

LIVE: Twin Atlantic @ Rough Trade East, London

There’s something very strange about attending a full band rock show in a record store. As British customers, we’re used to politely shopping in such places, ensuring we’re not getting in anyone else’s way as we browse through the alphabet in search of our new favourite album.

Monday 27 January 2020

LIVE: Slipknot @ FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield

“Sheffield, where have you been all my life?”, bellows a beaming Corey Taylor. The kings of modern metal are back on English soil, and in rapturous form. Everyone remembers their first Slipknot gig. Whether you were there in the chaos of the Astoria in ‘99, the

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 07 January 2020

LIVE: Bury Tomorrow / Employed To Serve / Blood Youth @ Academy 1, Manchester

British heavy music is in undeniably magnificent shape right now. Not only are there a strong contingent of bands ascending to become the next wave of festival headliners, but also an incredible number of artists breaking out with albums that are making Album Of The Year lists across the

Monday 06 January 2020

LIVE: Clutch @ The Roundhouse, London

A few weeks before tonight’s show, it was announced that Clutch would play not one, not two, but THREE sets at the UK’s Ramblin’ Man Fair in July 2020. Friday will be a headline set of hits from their distinguished back catalogue, Saturday a stripped back semi-acoustic laden groove-fest,

Friday 20 December 2019

LIVE: Holding Absence / Press To Meco / Acres @ Scala, London

Some gigs have ‘do not miss this’ written all over them. The kind of shows where it doesn’t matter how many hours you have to spend on a train or plane, how much you need to beg your boss for time off, or how tired you’re going to be

Wednesday 18 December 2019

LIVE: The Devin Townsend Project / Haken @ The Roundhouse, London.

12th December 2019 is momentous for a couple of reasons in the UK, but mostly because Devin Townsend is making his annual pilgrimage to the big smoke. The Canadian has always been far more appreciated and successful on this side of the pond, and since his days with Strapping