Bloodstock Festival 2025 – Friday

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2025 – Friday 

The morning breaks with gold‑dust sunshine and the restless buzz of a metal congregation rousing itself. As the gates part, Catton Park became a ritual gathering. After Thursday’s warm-up, BOA 2025 had officially started. Words: Kathryn Edwards   Photos: Jez Pennington Konvent Over on the Ronnie James Dio Stage, Konvent prove

Hot Mulligan – ‘The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still’

When the tracklist for this album was made public, one Reddit user dubbed it ‘Goofy ass song titles for songs that are about to make me cry’. They weren’t wrong. If Hot Mulligan were a feeling, they’d be that jittery mix of “I just spilled coffee on myself” and

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – ‘Dreams Of Being Dust’

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have spent over fifteen years establishing themselves as one of the core pillars of emo revivalism. ‘Dreams Of Being Dust’, the band’s fifth full-length offering, is filled with the hypnotic atmosphere that fans of

really big really clever – ‘…huh’

Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2023, Brighton alt-rockers really big really clever have established themselves as a rip-roaring live act, playing alongside the likes of Sweet Pill, Have Mercy, and Tigercub. Their sophomore release, ‘…huh’, feels like a serious attempt to grow and develop

Good Charlotte – ‘Motel Du Cap’

“It’s gonna be whatever you want to make of it,” warns the silver-tongued narrator on the opening of Good Charlotte’s ‘Motel Du Cap’. While in the guise of a hotel check in, that phrase would be a little bit ominous to hear, but in the context of a comeback-after-a-comeback

Judas Priest, Alice Cooper @ The O2, London

LIVE: Judas Priest / Alice Cooper @ The O2 Arena

Two of heavy metal’s most seasoned icons performing at London’s biggest venue makes tonight one of the more anticipated gigs of the year for fans of the genre’s heyday, but the magnitude of the show has gained new meaning three days since the announcement of Ozzy Osbourne’s passing. Unsurprisingly,

Rise Against – ‘RICOCHET’

Imagine the scene. You have a date, you want to feel refreshed. So you go to the gym, you work out hard, you spend four years lifting weights, eating chicken and rice, and watching your macros until your body looks like it belongs in a Marvel movie

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