Style is everything. Bowie constantly reinvented himself, Creeper burned their stage costumes after their album tour, and The Black Parade is as much about the uniforms as the music. When creating ...

If there was a competition for the least Google-friendly name in history, A would score pretty highly. Back in 1993, it wouldn’t have been a problem but subsequently searching for ‘A Band’ proved ...

I used to spend hours sitting on my bedroom floor, cranking this record and trying to learn every part. When this came out, they were completely changing the sound of the scene. The production is raw ...

Islington Assembly Hall hasn’t been this packed since the last local elections, or perhaps a wedding between two people with very large families. It’s an odd choice of venue for modern vampires ...

Sometimes you just need a break, a rock to clamber onto in the middle of a raging river, and that’s exactly what The Flatliners have provided in the form of ‘Cold World’. By their standards, the ...

Eight years ago, Basement released ‘Beside Myself’. The band took a break after this release, extended into uncertainty by successive lockdowns. In one world, this could have been the last anyone ever ...

“I invoke war” roars Frozen Soul’s powerhouse vocalist Chad Green on the second track of ‘No Place For Warmth’, the band’s mammoth third full-length album. One can’t help but hear it as a battle cry, ...

Piper: Poison The Well was a gateway for me into heavier music that still felt dynamic and expressive. The way they blend melody with chaos, and structure with unpredictability, really influenced how ...