Slapshot played their last gig in Boston on 17 October 2026. For 41 years, Jack “Choke” Kelly had been shouting over fast drums, sick guitar riffs and some of ...

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Night shifts in a hotel in Norway, cheap headphones, "Kezia" going round somewhere between two and five in the morning. That is where PROTEST THE HERO got me.

Deafheaven have unexpectedly released three new songs, and the accompanying film involves a rather remarkable name from outside the metal world. Janusz ...

Fractured, broken, dark, unpredictable. Those are the words that surface first when you press play on the new Tetsuo EP, a four-track record that moves from chaotic hardcore through bedroom lo-fi into ...

Before this album, the band say songs usually started in pieces — a riff here, a few lyrics there — before one or two people would finish them. The EPs worked differently because each song mostly came ...

Antillectual are spending 2026 marking twenty-five years as a band. After anniversary shows in the Netherlands and Canada, their summer run reached Germany and Austria. Another European stretch will ...

I recently attended my fifth Outbreak Festival in Manchester, and it’s hard for me to admit, but it felt different this year. I will preface this article by saying, I have all the love in the world ...

Firestone Elementary disappeared for two decades and came back because teenagers started finding them. The five friends from Painesville, Ohio made their version of emo and post-hardcore in the early ...

SPLIN are a new band made up of people who have already spent years in Polish punk and hardcore through AFTER LAUGHTER, MOIRA, BRUDNE CZYNY, ZAWODY and SLAVENKUST. Each of them came in with an idea ...

Keziah “KZ” Staska was at home, surrounded by peace, love and joy, and had no idea how to write another Dreamwell record. “The first song I wrote for the album was ‘Plath,’ so I started writing this ...

There is a small moment inside “Loss In Space” where Cluv Deego can be heard telling bassist Dudesblood Moonbear when to enter with the layered vocals. Sliimo were tracking the song themselves in ...