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When Russian president Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, it shocked the world. In the months since, Within Temptation have become one of the [...]

On a blisteringly hot day at 2023's Sick New World festival in Las Vegas, a huge crowd await Kittie's arrival. In the throng, rabid Gen Z-ers, ready to witness the [...]

Amaranthe's Elize Ryd and Olof Morck can clearly remember the night they met. It was 2005 during an evening at Gothenburg's now-defunct Diamond Dogs rock bar. At the time, Elize [...]

Kat Moss stands in the middle of the hurricane, surveying her kingdom. It's Manchester, June 2023, and her band, Scowl, are playing an early afternoon set at Outbreak Festival in [...]

WHEN WE CATCH up with Lzzy Hale, she's sitting in her closet. 'I'm adulting and I don't like it,' the Halestorm vocalist and guitarist tells us, midway through house renovations [...]

EVERY BAND THAT makes it has that one album. That career-changing moment that propels them to the next level. And for While She Sleeps, it was their third release, 2017's [...]

Hannah Collins, aka Scene Queen, stares up at the camera with a mischievous glint in her eye. She's lying back on satin sheets, wearing pink lingerie, a stuffed Pink Panther [...]

WHEN LINKIN PARK stepped onstage at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena on July 6, 2017, no one could have imagined it would be their last performance with beloved vocalist Chester Bennington. Two [...]

At a party somewhere in London, the clock was creeping towards dawn, but Milkie Way and Sam Matlock weren't ready to call it a night. So they did what any [...]

In September 2008, Within Temptation visited Kherson, a port city in the south of Ukraine, just north of the Crimean Peninsula. The Dutch metallers were nearing the end of a [...]

Tarja Turunen can remember the first time she set foot on Antigua. It was 2007, and a 'chaotic' period in the Finnish soprano's life: two years after her very public, [...]

IN THIS MOMENT singer and visionary Maria Brink is a survivor. After experiencing loss and abuse in her childhood, she moved to Los Angeles in her early 20s as a [...]

DOWNLOAD 2023 DONINGTON PARK, DONINGTON Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon and Slipknot headline an unforgettable 20th birthday blowout THURSDAY With more than 100,000 metal fans set to descend upon Castle [...]

Fred Durst is standing with his hand on the detonator, counting down to oblivion. It's May 1999, and MTV have invited Limp Bizkit to the Bahamas for Blow The Boat: [...]

Walking around the backstage area of Oslo's Inferno Festival in 2010, Sahil 'Demonstealer' Makhija wanted to pinch himself. After a decade of hard slog, his extreme metal band Demonic Resurrection [...]

For Amy Lee, life was only ever going to go one of two ways. 'My back-up plan was being Danny Elfman and my top plan was being a mega rock [...]

Hybrid Theory was a genre-defining juggernaut. Released in 2000, Linkin Park's debut album was a jagged blend of metal, hip hop, electronica and irresistible pop choruses, which pushed nu metal [...]

BICURIOUS Your Life is Over Now... BIG SCARY MONSTERS Dublin's mercurial alt rockers bring a twist to 00s nostalgia Bicurious's shape-shifting sound transports you back to the alt clubs of [...]

CRIMSON VEIL Hex REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC Former progressive rockers swear themselves to the shadows Crimson Veil have already caused quite a stir. Born from the ashes of their previous band, [...]

LADY RAGE Hear Me Screaming SELF-RELEASED London firebrands turn their racket up a notch It's taken Lady Rage a while to get to this point. Formed in 2019, numerous line-up [...]

CASSYETTE This World Fucking Sucks 23 RECORDINGS Nu gen's superstar-in-waiting justifies the hype THE LAST FEW years have seen a wave of zeitgeist-grabbing artists united by an 'anything goes', genre-bending [...]

FOO FIGHTERS LONDON STADIUM, LONDON Dave Grohl's revered alt rockers undergo an emotional metamorphosis IT STARTS THE way it means to carry on. 'GUESS WHAT?!' Dave Grohl screams at a [...]

BY 2012, KILLSWITCH Engage were facing an uncertain future. The Massachusetts quintet had released two era-defining records--2002's stratospheric breakthrough Alive Or Just Breathing, recorded with original singer Jesse Leach, and [...]

50 MESHUGGAH Immutable ATOMIC FIRE Immutable played with Meshuggah's long-established, peerless sound, from Tomas Haake's percussive persistence and Fredrik Thordendal's dial-up-connection solos to Jens Kidman's mecha-rasp. Each track was a [...]

Teenage rebellion looked very different for Hawxx vocalist and guitarist Anna Papadimitriou. 'Some people join punk bands, shave their heads or take drugs,' she says. 'My thing was becoming a [...]

WHEN LAUREN TATE was a teenager, she felt like an alien. As a lonely kid growing up in Barnsley, she had been making music and singing in her bedroom since [...]

For ALT BLK ERA, pinpointing their highlight of last year is no easy task. Perhaps it was when the Nottingham sisters - 19-year-old rapper Nyrobi and 16-year-old singer Chaya -performed [...]

A spotlight follows Cristina Scabbia as she makes her way through the crowd. The Lacuna Coil vocalist has just asked fans if they'll sit down so she can come and [...]

Under neon pink and green lights, 8,000 fans are going berserk inside Oberhausen's cavernous Rudolf Weber-Arena. As streamers blast into the rafters and fountains of pyro burst upwards, a hardstyle [...]

BOOM, LEEDS Tonight is an attack on the senses in every way. Switzerland's COILGUNS haven't played the UK since 2019, and they're greeted with reverence. Exploding onto Boom's tiny stage [...]

SPINEFARM UK post-grunge rockers keep too much faith with their king We lost Kurt Cobain 20 years ago, but his spirit remains. In recent years, bands like Narrow Head, Soul [...]

REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC Togo's metal/Afrobeat fusionists unleash an exhilarating call to arms HAILING FROM WEST Africa's Togo, Arka'n Asrafokor are becoming figureheads for a diverse African metal scene. In the [...]

SELF-RELEASED London's nu metal upstarts bring the party and the bravado The metal scene is awash right now with bands putting their own stamp on nu metal, but few have [...]

LIGHTWORKER How The Beautiful Decay SOLID STATE San Fran metalcore trio still looking for the true spark of inspiration These days it takes a little more than a screams vs [...]

JINJER Live In Los Angeles NAPALM Ukrainian rising stars imperfectly capture a statement of resistance Jinjer's 2022 US dates were a big deal. The tour was the Ukrainian djent stars' [...]

IMMINENCE The Black BELIEVE Swedish metalcore mob strike a resonant chord at last It's taken Imminence a hot minute, but they've finally realised what makes them special. The Swedes' previous [...]

DEADAUDIOSAINTS Deadaudiosaints SELF-RELEASED Straight outta Yorkshire and counting Nine Inch Nails, Muse and Placebo among their influences, this trio's pulsating space rock blend feels decidedly nostalgic, which, on the crunchy [...]

ALIEN ANT FARM ~mAntras~ MEGAFORCE California's alt metal mischief-makers jump back into the fray AT THE HEIGHT of the early 00s' nu metal boom, it was Alien Ant Farm's tongue-in-cheek [...]

SINCE WILL RAMOS joined Lorna Shore in 2021, the US deathcore band have been on a mission that's seen them leapfrog to the forefront of their scene. Will's mind-boggling vocal [...]

It was October 23, 1997 in Burlington, Vermont, and Limp Bizkit were halfway through a show that was going down like a lead balloon. Four months earlier, their debut album, [...]

It was the mid-90s, and Chester Bennington was sitting in an Arizona State University maths lecture. He wasn't a college student - far from it. By that point, he had [...]

Lzzy Hale learned about the power of using your voice when she was in the first grade. Although, back then, the firebrand rock singer was having none of it. 'We [...]

For 20 years, Download Festival has been the molten heart of the UK metal and rock community, but 2023 might just have been the most memorable year yet. Yes, the [...]

AS MOST BANDS will tell you, one song can change everything. After grinding away for almost two decades in their home country to little international fanfare, Japanese alt-metallers SiM released [...]

In 1999, Jacoby Shaddix was leading a life of extremes. From Friday to Tuesday, he was the vocalist in Papa Roach, a band he'd formed six years prior during high [...]

In December 2020, MWWB were ready to start their next chapter. With their last album, 2019's Yn Ol I Annwn (translated from Welsh as 'Return To The Underworld'), the band [...]

New Delhi is a sensory explosion--a sprawling, frantic mass of people, smells and racket that spills out in every direction. Traversing the city's tangled, jam-packed streets is equal parts frustrating [...]

You can always pinpoint the moment a rumble underfoot becomes a movement. This year, it happened on Saturday July 31, at 6.30pm, at Chicago's Lollapalooza Festival. 'Let me make this [...]

IN 2020, WHEN Spiritbox released their breakthrough single--nu tech rager Holy Roller--they unleashed a tsunami of hype that only built with subsequent singles. By the time their first album, Eternal [...]

IN 2011, HALESTORM were still young guns on the scene. Two years prior, the Pennsylvanian rockers had emerged from playing local malls, marking themselves out as an exciting new noise [...]