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1 Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia

2 LIVE: Incubus @ The O2 Arena

3 LIVE: Ghost @ the O2, London

4 Viagra Boys – ‘viagr aboys’

5 Employed to Serve – ‘Fallen Star’

6 LIVE: Bloodywood @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

7 LIVE: Knocked Loose / Basement / Harm’s Way / Pest Control @ O2 Academy Brixton

8 Bloodywood – ‘Nu Delhi’

9 LIVE: Touché Amoré @ Electric Ballroom, London

10 Spiritbox – ‘Tsunami Sea’

Reviews from Wednesday 14 May 2025

LIVE: Chuck Ragan @ The Garage, London

A lot’s happened for Chuck Ragan since he was last in the UK at the start of 2024. ‘Love and Lore’, his fifth solo album and first in a decade dropped late last year, proving that he still wrestles with the dilemmas caused by the siren song of tour

Tuesday 13 May 2025

LIVE: Hundred Reasons @ The Royal Albert Hall, London

If you’re going to retire as a band after two and a half decades, you may as well do it in style. When Hundred Reasons announced a Royal Albert Hall spectacular last summer, we had no idea that it would be their last- that news would come eight weeks

Monday 12 May 2025

Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia

While Vessel’s identity remains a closely guarded secret, we can say for certain he’s someone who’s fallen in and out of love since 2023’s ‘Take Me Back To Eden’. Loss and longing run through ‘Even In Arcadia’ like scarlet threads, providing the structure that marks an otherwise very lo-fi

Friday 09 May 2025

LIVE: Incubus @ The O2 Arena

While Incubus’ ‘Morning View’ might have been overshadowed by some of 2001’s more iconic releases, it stands as a snapshot of a moment in time for both the band and us. It’s also an album that fundamentally deserves a renaissance, and it seems that time has finally come. After

Mclusky – ‘THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE’

Andrew Falkous deserves your support. He’s an artist. Check out his blog, it’s a treatise on self-sabotage. For better or, more frequently worse, he will make the choice that allows him to make music. His music. He’s never chasing trends or anything really, other than the joy

Saturday 03 May 2025

Knives – ‘GLITTER’

Post-punk can be a difficult genre to get into as a listener. But for Bristol sextet Knives, it’s the perfect place to categorise them. Still a band in their infancy, it’s been 26 months since their first single release but with the release of their debut album,

Thursday 01 May 2025

LIVE: Ghost @ the O2, London

Like so much about Ghost, tonight is shrouded in mystery. With the band’s experimental phone ban meaning that no details about the shows could be shared online, and a dark silken shroud covering the stage, a rare element of total surprise about what Papa V Perpetua and his Nameless

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Regal Cheer – ‘Quite Good’

Brighton duo Regal Cheer have made quite a name for themselves in the local post-pandemic punk scene. Two EPs, an LP, shows played the length and breadth of the country, all powered by a frantic, short attention span punk that ditches the genre’s various hangups to deliver something

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Propagandhi – ‘At Peace’

The award for ‘Most Misleading Album Title of 2025’ has to go to Propagandhi’s ‘At Peace’. The activist Canadian hardcore heroes are still fighting the good fight against the forces of oppression after an eight year recording break, and the good news? They’ve lost none of their spark and

Friday 25 April 2025

LANDMVRKS – ‘The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been’

Marseille’s LANDMVRKS have worked hard to cement their place within the metalcore scene, since their explosion in 2014. Since day one, they’ve been pushing boundaries, marrying raw energy, delightful melodies, and heart-wrenching lyrics. From their first release in 2016 with ‘Hollow’ to 2021’s ‘Lost In the Waves’, alongside numerous

Ghost – ‘Skeletá’

Ghost are moving past their heretical schtick, and this is going to divide the fans. Sure, the deep lore about whether Cardinal Copia counts as a fully-fledged Papa is a big part of the fun – which other band would set up a heretical reliquary at the shows, after

Thursday 24 April 2025

Wednesday 13 – ‘Mid Death Crisis’

What year is it again? With Green Day set to headline Download and the huge Black Sabbath show on the horizon for July, it surely can’t be 2025. Wednesday 13’s timeline seems to be even more in flux than the global one, however. The former Murderdoll channels his early

Heart Attack Man – ‘Joyride the Pale Horse’

As the news cycle speeds between chaos and calamity, the only band that seems to be able to keep up with the creeping existential dread and keep a smile on their faces is Heart Attack Man. Always politically biting and brimming with humour that slices to the heart of

Wednesday 23 April 2025

Viagra Boys – ‘viagr aboys’

Viagra Boys are anything but ordinary. Spam-mail worthy name aside, they’re a band that cast a glancing eye over the rule book, purely so they know what to avoid. It’s that carefree attitude that has adorned them to so many fans over their previous three releases. New album ‘viagr

HIMALAYAS – ‘BAD STAR’

Ten years after their formation, HIMALAYAS’ success has been more of a slow-burn, but in the last couple of years, their well-deserved success has started to materialise. The Welsh rock outfit, comprising of members Joe Williams (lead vocals/guitar), Mike Griffiths (lead guitar/backing vocals), Louis Heaps (bass) and James Goulbourn

Tuesday 22 April 2025

Employed to Serve – ‘Fallen Star’

Since the release of 2017’s ‘The Warmth of a Dying Sun’, Employed to Serve have been one of the UK metal scene’s most consistently high quality acts. Whenever you throw on a new Employed to Serve record, you can be sure of one thing; it’ll be extremely heavy, and

Mayday Parade – ‘Sweet’

Mayday Parade are back with their first release after four long years. ‘Sweet’, the first instalment of a three-part project, marks Mayday Parade’s first album since 2021’s ‘What It Means To Fall Apart’ as well as the band’s first self-released collection. Since releasing ‘What It Means to Fall Apart’, the

Wednesday 16 April 2025

Newshapes – ‘A CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF’

Self-awareness is important. The ability to talk to yourself, to assess your actions and improve is vital. Scottish upstarts Newshapes know this. In fact, their new EP is called ‘A Conversation With Myself’ making it explicit; they know what they have made, they know what works, they

Tuesday 15 April 2025

King Kraken – ‘MARCH OF THE GODS’

In Norse mythology, the Kraken was a sea monster. A mega-sized octopus that would terrorise sailors and imperil ships. Kings are of course powerful and majestic, they have an air of regal grace. This makes King Kraken the ideal name for a band stepping into the Viking

Monday 14 April 2025

LIVE: DITZ, Knives, Staff Party @ Chalk, Brighton

Since their sophomore album, ‘Never Exhale’, released at the end of January, Brighton noise rockers DITZ have been touring non-stop. DITZ themselves describe the record as “the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath”. Tonight marks the end of the first leg of a UK/EU