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“With five guitarists on stage for the encore, the set could have descended into chaos, but the sound never once lost control.”
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Electron recruit Benji Webbe for new single Taken
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My Chemical Romance expand The Black Parade for 20th anniversary
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Cancer Bats announce Made Of Loud UK tour with Ignite and Knives
Peter Hook & The Light to headline Interzone Festival 2027
Manchester Punk Festival unveils AJJ, King Prawn and The Skinner Brothers
Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter add six UK dates to Anarchy In The U.K. tour
Trivium and In Flames set UK and European arena tour for 2027
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“This has been a masterclass in how to play a stadium gig. Any bands about to play their first stadium show could do a...
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“Matt’s lead guitar playing is bang on, Issey is throwing shapes with the bass, and even battling illness The Molotovs look and sound like...
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“For a two-piece, the sheer scale of their live show is still somewhat ridiculous. Tyler Joseph spends most of the set tearing around the...
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Deftones headline a dusty All Points East as IDLES, Amyl and the Sniffers, Interpol and Mannequin Pussy deliver contrasting festival sets.
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“Maybe that’s what The Hollywood Vampires are: a shit-hot bar band. If so, they’re the second best bar band in the world, because everybody...
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“Whilst there are many younger bands around – and this weekend has certainly provided plenty of evidence of that – few of them seem...
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“Dual lead guitars, theatrical flair, and absolute control—Creeper make it look effortless.”
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“Fifty years in, The Damned still sound loud, sharp and gloriously uncompromising.”
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“Takedown isn’t just warming up the festival season anymore — it’s starting to define it.”
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“Three female-fronted bands proving they don’t just belong in metal — they’re here to take it over.”
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"From cartwheeling mosh pits to gaffa-tape chaos and full-throttle punk rock — this was Brighton at its feral, sweaty best."
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“Sweat, noise and every word sung back — this was The Cribs exactly where they belong.”
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“A sonic maelstrom of riffs, sweat and crowd-surfing chaos.”
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“Punk isn’t a sound—it’s an attitude. And tonight, every band on this bill proved it.”
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“An absolutely incendiary set – the kind of rock ’n’ roll night that reminds you exactly why live music matters.”
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“With Shame forced to cancel, The Bug Club stepped in — and turned the Green Man launch show into a triumphant night of discovery.”
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“Pyro, pints and pandemonium — the Roundhouse turned positively flammable.”
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Leicester noise-rock firestarters Jools bring Violent Delights to Brighton’s Hope & Ruin with a set that swings between rage, tenderness and spoken-word intensity. Support...
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“From metal mayhem to operatic finesse, Tarja turned Shepherd’s Bush Empire into her own electric kingdom.”
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“The band bounced, the crowd bounced back, and the connection was undeniable — even if the means of delivery remained open to debate.”
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"Everything tonight sounds like Gogol Bordello on speed, steroids, and amps turned up to eleven – and that’s a huge compliment.”
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“Fate is the thread running through every song on this album, the belief that what's meant for you is bound to you across time.”
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“We documented a lot of our European tour last year, so decided to use that footage to create a tour diary style music video....
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“I fought a f*cking god and the god lost,” Corey Taylor declares on Slipknot’s bruising new single Arsenal.
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“A more inward-looking record shaped by isolation, fractured relationships, identity and the uneasy distance between present selves and old memories."