Another three days of prog, hardcore, metal and everything roundabout descends onto Manchester for another stacked RADAR Festival, with headline sets from TesseracT, Leprous and The Midnight, plus Ithaca, Holding Absence, Blood Command, Humanity’s Last Breath, Dirty Loops and plenty more.
In this Review Round-Up, recent EPs from Calling All Captains and Revoid are respectively mixed and mighty, while Mister Misery’s new album falls firmly in the middle.
After a long break, Kittie come back re-energised with an all-purpose metal hit that ensures their return couldn’t be more welcome.
In this Review Round-Up, the new album from Rarity is…alright. What’s much better is another banger from Perennial, and some incredibly strong breakthroughs from Red Vanilla and Cobra The Impaler.
In this Review Round-Up, recent releases from Stretch Arm Strong and Unleash The Archers prove respectively okay and adventurous, while DARKO take some noticeable steps forward on their new EP.
In this Review Round-Up, a just-alright offering from Royal Tusk may be up front, but there’s still good stuff to be found in punk from Noah And The Loners, emo from Big Hug, and folk-metal from Hand Of Kalliach.
Chelsea Wolfe’s insidious merging of the atmospheric and esoteric within industrial and gothic music yields another terrific achievement on her new album.
For our final year-end list of 2023, it’s the big one—the entire Soundboard team come together to scour around the last 12 months, and choose the best albums of 2023.
A dynamic array of neo-prog ingenuity colours yet another startlingly rich and diverse listen from Unprocessed.
In this Review Round-Up, Tarja gets into the festive spirit on her Christmas album, as Post Profit and Call Me Amour both put effort into their gifts, and Wind Walkers deliver an absolute turkey.