Outbreak has gone all out for their 15th anniversary, taking over the nation with festivals, pop-ups, and re-release showcases celebrating some of hardcore’s most prominent bands and their humble beginnings. The cycle begins anew as Outbreak gave the stage to up-and-coming SHOWING TEETH on their history-making debut headline show at The Barfly, Camden, having flown across an entire ocean to prove without a doubt they can command any stage anywhere. EXIT DREAM are no strangers

Emerging from the fertile underground of Bogotá, Colombia, comes the burgeoning crossover heavyweights POISON THE PREACHER with their latest EP Things I Want. The four track release is inspired by ambition, obsession, and unattainable dreams, and has the heaviness to discuss all of those topics with all the gravity necessary. The EP’s artwork mirrors those themes as it features a mutilated Daruma doll, a traditional Japanese symbol of perseverance and fulfilled goals, but wit

In the Birmingham music scene, something has been brewing for a long while. In the birthplace of heavy metal, a new generation of musicians has been on the rise, with small independent venues popping up across the city at a steady rate since COVID and more artists stepping out onto the scene to fill them up. Blending hardcore with punk, pop, jazz and metal, FLESH CREEP are easily amongst the best and brightest out there at the minute, and their new EP Glimmer is not shy about

From humble beginnings recording in bedrooms to cultivating a sound that shouts emphatically across genres, RILEY! have defied their red state belt origins to bring progression, vulnerability, and hardened edge in their debut EP To Live And Die In The American South. RILEY! channel their life experiences, the feelings of being left behind and the contradiction of wanting to be seen whilst hiding away from the world, into classically Midwest Emo melodies with explosive drums a

After almost ten years as a band, half of which involved intensive construction work, EXPLORING BIRDSONG are finally ready to let us step into the world of their debut album, Every House We Built. This material might be the strongest they’ve had on show yet, as it keeps the core BIRDSONG sound, but exploring and developing its depths and corners - a sentiment that is also fully shared by all of the band members. Lynsey, Jonny and Matt take us through their own journey, talkin

RADAR returns to Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse from July 31st to August 2nd, and if you’ve never been, prepare to have your expectations reset. What started as a new festival in 2019 has grown into one of the UK’s most beloved alternative gatherings, built on a no-clash schedule and a knack for booking whoever’s about to blow up before anyone else catches on. This year’s line-up is stacked across three distinct days. Friday is the heaviest of the bunch, closing out with

“I was trying to create a world of mine that was similar to those games that I love,” explained Braydon Hill, the creative force behind dark shoegaze project ZERUEL. Now that the long awaited Ruin;Rebirth has arrived, we sat down with Hill to talk about the road that led there. Going from delving into the difficulties of creating music as a side-project to the unexpected creative opportunities that came within the COVID-19 lockdowns, our conversation explored the making of th

“How did we get here?” These are the blistering first words and explosive energy on NO CURE’s latest frenzied album It Is Going To Get Dark, an album that boils over with insurrectionary meaning and fury laden through its rhythms as NO CURE examine the world we live in and practically scream “Is anyone else seeing this shit?”. While the recording process saw the four-piece withdraw to a remote cabin as their musical sanctuary, this calm remoteness instead fuelled the intensit

Emerging from the unknown and compelling listeners to dance along, London based quartet MOUTH ULCERS are resurfacing the art of darkness in their EP, Silent Pictures. Reviving the sound and aesthetic of 1980s goth, MOUTH ULCERS have carved out a dedicated following with a series of singles that showcase their dark atmospheric sound. With recent live debuts, their success has been captured through sold-out shows across the UK and the Netherlands. Their debut EP, MOUTH ULCERS s

ROZEMARY have moved fast. Formed on the Wirral in 2023, the band went from unreleased local buzz to a widely praised debut EP, the lies they made me believe, in the space of about a year. They've picked up comparisons to LOATHE along the way, building a reputation as one of Merseyside's most exciting heavy exports. it's harder now to breathe arrives less than a year on from that debut, and the title alone hints at a band digging further into the tension that made their debut

When SHOOTING DAGGERS headlined charity fundraiser, Punks For Palestine, less than a month ago, it was clear that shouting about the issues that matter to them was their oxygen. The release of their new seven-song, twenty-minute ‘mini-album’ The Real Life Thing is no exception to this rule. The abrasive London trio live and breathe supporting their community, uplifting queer voices and taking the fight to the underground. In their most genre-diverse and experimental release y

WREX aren’t just refusing to slow down, they’re torpedoing through the nu-metal-alt scene at breakneck speed, with the release of their new EP SADWORLD. Following a year of non-stop grafting and touring and the promise of another stacked year, whilst finding the time around their 2025 touring slots and everyday life to record the tracks, SADWORLD isn’t just an impressive feat of the band’s production skills and ability to think outside of the box, it’s a journey of emotions f