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ALBUM REVIEW: Noctule – ‘Extinguish Thy Flame’

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  • Posted on September 25, 2026September 25, 2026

Post-Svalbard, Serena Cherry’s melodeath / black-metal album about Elden Ring is packed with real gems, almost surprisingly so.

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PHOTOS: GAEREA – Club Academy, Manchester – 11/09/2026

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  • Posted on September 16, 2026September 16, 2026

As part of their talked-about but undoubtedly huge 2026, GAEREA bring their blackened alt-metal to Manchester’s Club Academy.

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PHOTOS: Chat Pile & Oathbreaker – Arctangent Festival 2026

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  • Posted on August 29, 2026August 29, 2026

At Arctangent Festival, Chat Pile and Oathbreaker represent two distinct sides of heavy music, unconnected in style but as singlemindedly exhilarating as each other.

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FESTIVAL REVIEW + PHOTOS: Download Festival 2026 – Saturday

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  • Posted on June 17, 2026June 18, 2026

A monster of a headline set from Guns N’ Roses caps off the Saturday of Download Festival 2026, along with Trivium, Babymetal, Black Veil Brides, Behemoth, South Arcade and more.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Portrayal Of Guilt – ‘…Beginning Of The End’

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  • Posted on April 22, 2026April 22, 2026

A new vicious, malicious album from Portrayal Of Guilt keeps their position among heavy music’s strongest firmly intact.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: GAEREA, Hellripper, Dry Socket

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  • Posted on March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

In this Review Round-Up, strong black-metal-adjacent work comes courtesy of GAEREA and Hellripper, while Dry Socket are equally great in hardcore.

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PHOTOS: Avatar – Academy, Manchester – 15/02/2026

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  • Posted on February 18, 2026February 18, 2026

The grand, manic theatricality of Avatar’s melodeath arrives at Manchester’s Academy.

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ALBUM REVIEW: MØL – ‘DREAMCRUSH’

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  • Posted on January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

MØL’s hybrid of black-metal, post-metal and shoegaze continues to push and open its boundaries, with tremendously evocative results.

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THE CATCH-UP: Rock In 2025

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  • Posted on December 15, 2025December 15, 2025

2025 is coming to a close, so we’ve gone back through the last 12 months to take a look at all the major rock, metal, punk and alternative releases that we missed.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Pupil Slicer – ‘Fleshwork’

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  • Posted on November 6, 2025November 6, 2025

Expanding from mathcore into the darker, more industrial reaches of metal finds Pupil Slicer at their most crushing, uncompromising, and just plain best.

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