Islington Assembly Hall hasn’t been this packed since the last local elections, or perhaps a wedding between two people with very large families. It’s an odd choice of venue for modern vampires ...

Sometimes you just need a break, a rock to clamber onto in the middle of a raging river, and that’s exactly what The Flatliners have provided in the form of ‘Cold World’. By their standards, the ...

Title track and lead single ‘WIRED’ presents all the elements of the album’s writing and production that make it work. A jungle-esque beat drives the verses, steely, overdriven bass and cleaner ...

Touché Amoré – ‘Flowers and You’ Piper: Touché Amoré showed me how vulnerability and intensity can coexist without compromising either. The emotional honesty in their writing and how direct and ...

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for ...

Trying to pigeonhole Portrayal Of Guilt’s sound has always been a fruitless task. The Austin threepiece have been releasing their own brand of twisted darkness for nearly a decade now, effortlessly ...

Toby Warren (drums, vocals): On our single ‘High Achievers’, one thing that was really important to me was that there was a point where the drum beat at the end was on its own, providing a bed for the ...

When the black death struck Europe in the mid-1300’s it was devastating. Maybe there was something in the air. Maybe it was punishment from an angry God. People died. They weren’t ready. They tried to ...

A new Skindred record is always a cause for celebration, and doubly so when it’s as crammed with as much self-belief as ‘You Got This’. While their sound has mellowed of late, like on 2023’s ‘Smile’, ...

In 1996, the world was still digesting what Rage Against the Machine had done to it three years earlier. Their self-titled debut album had arrived like a grenade rolled under the door of mainstream ...