Tonight sees Memphis May Fire return to the UK for an intimate headline show at the Underworld before their stint at Slam Dunk over the next few days. It’s a rightfully sold out show, and main support comes from House Vs Hurricane, who have come all the way from Australia. They manage to warm up [...]

Tour Bros Photo From The Arcane Roots Facebook Tonight, Arcane Roots are doing a victory lap around the release of their fantastic new album ‘Blood & Chemistry’, choosing to host the party in London’s Angel, landing at the scuzzy underbelly of The Electrowerkz. First up tonight in the rather dark venue is Baby Godzilla, and [...]

Today sees the return of Takedown Festival to the University of Southampton, and it is an utter triumph. There’s a fantastic turnout for all bands and it’s slickly organised. The only flaws of today are that some bands run over, meaning that most stage times are slightly delayed, and there are some sound issues on [...]

Following their destructive set at Belgium’s recent Groezrock Festival, Narrows return to London for only their third show in the nation’s capital. Hot on the heels of the release of the seminal ‘Sister Faith’, Coliseum join as main support with London’s own Pariso kicking things off. With all three bands renowned for brutal high energy [...]

With Punktastic favourites Masked Intruder and The Front Bottoms both playing before mid morning, it is regrettable that our late arrival results in us missing these excellent bands. You would be hard pushed to find a British festival that starts at 10:00AM on the Sunday! The Flatliners take the main stage for an lunchtime injection [...]

Belgium may not be the obvious venue for Europe’s premier punk-rock festival. Far removed from the waffles, chocolate, beautiful architecture and European politics, the eastern village of Meerhout is once again invaded by hordes of music fans from around the globe. Evolving from a comparably small affair over twenty years ago, Groezrock now offers a [...]

Ever since The Story So Far released their debut album ‘Under Soil and Dirt’ their stock has been steadily rising. So much so that they are quite clearly at the forefront of the pop punk revolution that has seemingly taken place over the last three or so years. They’ve even managed to survive the much [...]

Tonight the mighty Bring Me The Horizon return to Cardiff for the first time since the release of their glorious new album ‘Sempiternal’. Solus is a fairly intimate venue for them to play, and if they’d wanted to, they could’ve upgraded easily, but the whole point is to keep this tour fairly small and sweaty [...]

Do line-ups get much better than this? Not often. Once in a blue moon you’ll see some great bands come together, but for the most part, this is one of the strongest you’ll see all year. Tonight, two of the most influential, consistent and just plain best acts in metal go head-to-head at the legendary [...]

Festival season kicked off with the biggest of bangs in April in Nottingham, and Hit The Deck has now seen itself transform into the first big weekender that the UK has to offer by expanding to Bristol. Punktastic was out in force over the weekend. SATURDAY – Bristol Great Cynics are one of the fastest [...]