The problem is, “That Song” is often the one that doesn’t represent a band’s sound as a whole – think The Stranglers ‘Golden Brown’ – and that was exactly where Rise Against sat in 2005. ‘Swing Life ...

Outbreak Festival 2026 is filled with nostalgia. There is of course the usual array of hardcore and metal bands – some of which are at the genres’ vanguard – but the occasion has an altogether ...

Our experience at the leafy, historic Crystal Palace Park is neither. Instead, we get the best that The Offspring and Dropkick Murphys have been in years; tight, ferocious, devoid of the whimsy that ...

Don’t forget your sunscreen – it’s Download Day Three. A reward for the early risers, Unpeople are here to show off the ...

Clouds threaten, but the only inclement weather on Saturday is ‘November Rain’. Download Day Two sees us fighting for the Fox ...

Nothing holds Download back. Not the mud that covers our boots long before the arena opens, not the 100-metre-long queue for ...

Hence, ‘Every House We Built’ is difficult to classify. Mostly it’s a series of lush soundscapes that border on soft rock, often it’s the kind of ballad you might find on a film soundtrack but ...

Arriving twenty years after 2006’s seminal, genre-defining ‘Watching From A Distance’, to describe ‘Rituals Of Shame’ as “much anticipated” would be the understatement of the century. As one of doom ...

If we have a good chorus, then we have something to build upon.” The Menzingers might be one of the few contemporary punk bands who’ve never changed their lineup, which makes them special on this fact ...

With hindsight, the collaboration between Des Rocs and the Borderlands franchise feels so obvious. Both the artist and the looter-shooter game series channel a renegade energy, whether you’re fighting ...

Let’s say you’ve just had a fight with a loved one: heated emotions, hasty phrases thrown and muscles locked with stress. Then you take a break and really think about what they mean to you, and which ...

Every now and then, a band will release an album that takes them from being mere contenders to cementing them as genre heavyweights; for Manchester’s metallic-hardcore five-piece Guilt Trip, ‘Armour ...