With a stacked bill reaching prog, metalcore, hardcore and beyond, RADAR Festival is bigger and more diverse than ever in 2026, headlined by Thy Art Is Murder, Skindred and Animals As Leaders, and featuring Northlane, ten56., unpeople, Employed To Serve, Graphic Nature and more.
Ceremony’s latest left turn takes them into brittle, hardened post-punk, often with some really compelling results.
A combination of sludge, doom and traditional folk brings out a uniquely captivating vision in heavy music from Crumbling Ghost.
The boldness and zaniness of Electric Callboy has grown even more, losing its way more than preferred, but generating plenty of truly great sparks along the way, too.
In this Review Round-Up, heavy music hits a triplet of winners, thanks to prog-metal from Allt, and varying flavours of hardcore from Negative Frame and Initiate.
Unsurprisingly, Cancer Bats’ new album rips, and thanks to a couple of small but crucial tweaks, maybe even more so than usual.
After an indie misstep last time, Citizen catch themselves with phenomenal deftness for an unquestionable return to form.
Regardless of whether it’s deathcore, meme-slam or some hybrid of the two, Disfiguring The Goddess’ new album isn’t all that good.
The Euro-metalcore standard remains in abundance on Future Palace’s new album, but at least they take a decent stab at it.
In this Review Round-Up, new albums from The Hu and Mayday Parade are both fine enough, but Mimi Barks produces a real disappointment.