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2 months ago | kerrang.com | David McLaughlin |Ashlea Bea

March 27, 2025Words:David McLaughlinPhoto:Ashlea BeaMore people could do with admitting that they don’t really know what they’re doing. Take Split Chain vocalist Bert Martinez-Cowles, for example, a man at peace with the fact that he and his fellow Bristolians are pretty much winging it, trusting in their guts to lead the way on what feels good and what feels right. So far, it’s worked a charm.

Jun 13, 2024 | kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Ashlea Bea

Fresh from their last-minute addition to the Download bill this weekend, Split Chain have unleashed a brand-new single. The UK nu-gazers have shared Haven along with an accompanying video, with frontman Bert Martinez-Cowles revealing that it’s actually one that the band have “been sitting on for a while, but it now feels like it encompasses everything that Split Chain is, and what it will be”.

Mar 1, 2024 | kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Ashlea Bea

HIMALAYAS have just unleashed a massive new single that wasco-written by AC/DC legend Brian Johnson. The quartet’s latest banger, which goes by the name V.O.V, isdescribed by the band as “a song of resistance and struggle against violence andsuffering.

Jun 27, 2023 | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Ashlea Bea |Nat Wood |Anna Swiechowsk

June 27, 2023Words:Sam LawPhotos:Ashlea Bea, Anna Swiechowsk, Nat WoodFor those who made it out for last year's edition of Outbreak Fest, it felt that, surely, the highlight of England’s hardcore calendar couldn’t possibly get any bigger. Three days of no-barricade mayhem at Manchester’s 5,000-plus capacity Bowler’s Exhibition Centre, headlined by Knocked Loose and Turnstile, it was the kind of gathering that countless bands on the bill had never seen before.

May 16, 2023 | kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Ashlea Bea

Young screamer Harper has unleashed a brand-new single, WeightOf The World. The 11-year-old – who released debut single Falling in 2022 followinga couple of incredibly memorable appearances on America’s Got Talent – hasshared her whirlwind experiences from the past few years in the track, whichwas written by Brand Of Sacrifice’s Leo Valeri and features We Came As Romans’Dave Stephens.