Right then, somebody fetch the smelling salts and check whether our bank account is still breathing, because the Bring Me The Horizon collectors’ market has officially entered its supervillain era. A copy of the limited Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings | Repented “Outbreak” mastered CD has appeared for sale online with an asking […]

Spotify has taken a flamethrower to the digital landfill, revealing that it removed more than 75 million “spammy” tracks from its platform during a single 12-month period. That number is absolutely staggering. Seventy-five. Million. Tracks. That is not a dodgy EP uploaded by someone’s cousin after discovering an AI music generator at three in the […]

Some performances are good. Some performances are brilliant. And then there are those rare moments when an entire room seems to stop breathing, the hairs on your arms stand to attention, and everyone watching realises they’ve just witnessed something genuinely special. Disturbed’s unforgettable performance of “The Sound of Silence” on Conan belongs firmly in that […]

Every band has that one artist who kicked open the door, flicked on the stage lights, and made them think: “Yeah… this is what I want to do with my life.” For Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Black, that band was AFI. The singer has praised the California punk and alternative rock icons for the […]

From nu-metal success and arena-sized riffs to criminal conviction, prison and a legacy permanently buried beneath controversy The early 2000s were a gloriously strange time for heavy music. Jeans were wide enough to shelter a small family, every music video seemed to take place inside an abandoned factory, and bands were mixing metal, electronics and […]

Back in 2014, the world was a very different place. Man buns were running wild. Snapchat dog filters were considered peak entertainment. Every teenager owned at least one item of clothing covered in studs, skulls or mysterious straps that served absolutely no practical purpose. Then Motionless In White arrived with “Reincarnate”—a towering industrial-metalcore anthem accompanied […]

Rock and metal didn’t just appear out of nowhere one rainy Tuesday afternoon while somebody was queuing outside Greggs. Every enormous riff, screaming guitar solo, thunderous breakdown and festival-sized chorus can usually be traced back to another band who kicked open the door first. Music evolves. Bands borrow ideas, twist them into new shapes, turn […]

The Rolling Stones have done it again, butt! 🤘 Just when you think the legendary rock ‘n’ roll icons have nothing left to prove, they go and make history all over again. Their latest album, Foreign Tongues, has officially blasted its way to Number One on the UK Albums Chart, giving the band an astonishing […]

Nearly five decades into their career, Saxon are not merely surviving. They are charging across Europe like a leather-jacketed tank powered by twin guitars, pints of Yorkshire tea and enough heavy metal thunder to shake the fillings out of your teeth. ⚡🎸 With another huge summer of European festival appearances ahead, frontman Biff Byford says […]

Grindcore legends bring blast beats, political fury and a respectful office circle pit to NPR Some musicians arrive at NPR’s famous Tiny Desk armed with acoustic guitars, delicate arrangements and voices softer than the final sausage roll under the Greggs heat lamp. Napalm Death arrived with blast beats. 💥 The British grindcore legends have delivered […]