That’s what the new Sleeping With Sirens album is; a friend when you’re in need of a helping hand. The arc that they’ve followed over the last two records is completed with ‘An Ending In Itself’ and ...

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 ...

Des Rocs (aka Danny Rocco) is the epitome of focused. The New Yorker is poised to release his third album, ‘To Hell And Back’, and while some might take this as a chance to celebrate, Rocco is already ...

It’s amazing to think there was a time when BIG|BRAVE performed as an acoustic project. During the early 2010s, the then-nascent band were a folk duo. Their evolution since – from duo to trio – has ...

It’s the 1980s, California, and along with bands like Exodus, Slayer and Testament, Metallica were developing a new type of ...

Converge are unlikely to be the first to be musically inspired by the hum, but their influence is informed less by the hum’s aesthetics than it is by the same bleakness experienced by The Listeners’ ...

That exact sensation of walking through your own emotions and trying to unpick the stitches which have compressed you into that argument is the same feeling you’ll get from listening to ‘I Built You A ...

Evanescence are rock survivors. Despite the internet rumour that the entire band died years ago, they are very much alive, and after five years of soul-searching, have emerged from the studio with a ...

From the moment opening face-melter ‘One By One’ unleashes its fury, ‘Armour Of Angels’ is an unrelenting assault of ferocity and show-stopping musical technicality. The guitar work by Jak Madden and ...

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 ...

In four hours time, Mike Davenport will play his first show in the UK for a decade. That might rattle some, and there will be more than a few nervous faces onstage in the Monster Energy tent over the ...

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for underground and experimental music for over two decades. Now earlier in the year ...