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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Sarah Bennett
Are PRESIDENT the new (or new-new) Sleep Token? Well, yes and no. They’re mysterious and masked, of course, with a hell of a crossover fanbase already – many Download-goers crammed at the front of the festival’s Dogtooth Stage are sporting the merch of last night’s headliners. But, as this first-ever live appearance – or inaugural presidential rally, as they call it – confirms, the band are very much their own proposition. More to the point, they’re already ace.
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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Emily Garner |Sam Law |Luke Morton
June 15, 2025Words:Steve Beebee, Emily Garner, Sam Law, Luke Morton, Nick Ruskell, Emma WilkesPhotos:Jenn Five, Andy Ford, Bethan MillerSome bands simply will not accept a destiny out of their own hands. Last time Power Trip played Download's massive main stage, the world was a very different place.
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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Emily Garner |Sam Law |Luke Morton
June 14, 2025Words:Steve Beebee, Emily Garner, Sam Law, Luke Morton, Nick Ruskell, Emma WilkesPhotos:Jenn Five, Andy Ford, Bethan MillerDownload Festival 2025 is go! Stay tuned to Kerrang.com and our socials for reviews from each day of the fest (here’s Friday) and much more – let’s get stuck into all things Saturday…BEX might still be a fresh new name, but already, she's leagues ahead as a performer.
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2 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Emily Garner |Sam Law |Luke Morton
June 13, 2025Words:Steve Beebee, Emily Garner, Sam Law, Luke Morton, Nick Ruskell, Emma WilkesPhotos:Jenn Five, Andy Ford, Bethan MillerDownload Festival 2025 is go! Stay tuned to Kerrang.com for our reviews from each day of the fest and much more – let’s get stuck into all things Friday…It's a tall order being the first artist of the whole festival to step onstage, but Karen Dió was a perfect choice to cut the ribbon on this year's Download.
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2 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |John Stewart
Amyl And The Sniffers have just announced that their London show at Alexandra Palace has been rescheduled. The Aussie rock’n’roll stars will now be playing in the capital on Saturday, October 25 (instead of November 15). Posting a statement on social media, they write: “London, due to a scheduling issue, we are moving the date of our Ally Pally show forward a few weeks to Saturday 25 October. We are so excited for this show, it will be our biggest headline to date.
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4 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Tom Barnes
For more Amity goodness, the band unleashed raging new single All That I Remember yesterday (May 29) – their first with a new line-up comprised of Joel Birch, Dan Brown, Joe Longobardi and Johnathan Reeves. “My mother knew only abuse and isolation, even in death as she cut her own children off,” says vocalist Joel of the meaning behind the track. “She died as she lived, paranoid and alone.”Watch the video for All That I Remember below:
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1 month ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Mynxii White
Following a couple of singles already this year, Rise Against have now just announced details of their brand-new album Ricochet. The follow-up to 2021’s killer Nowhere Generation is due out on August 15 via Loma Vista Recordings, and it hears the Chicago punks teaming up with producer Catherine Marks and mixer Alan Moulder.
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1 month ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Joseph Duarte
The Armed have just announced their brand-new album, The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed. The collective will be dropping their new record on August 1 via Sargent House, with vocalist Tony Wolski calling it “music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine – endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies and images of child amputees in the same feed.
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1 month ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Jonathan Weiner
After teasing what looked to be an upcoming new music video last month, Good Charlotte have now made their big return to the stage after 18 months away. The Maryland pop-punk kings hit the Daytona International Speedway in Florida on Friday night (May 16) for Welcome To Rockville, marking their first show back since October 2023’s When We Were Young. The band treated fans to an undeniable 14-song setlist, including special guest Brendan B.
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1 month ago | 
kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Andrew Stuart
Soundgarden have marked the eighth anniversary of Chris Cornell’s passing with a big hint at their much talked-about unreleased album. Having seemingly – and hopefully – resolved the band’s long-running dispute with Vicky Cornell, bassist Ben Shepherd took to Instagram yesterday (May 18) to reveal that he’d been listening to a song written by the late frontman and drummer Matt Cameron called The Road Less Traveled, which is taken from “our album that has yet to be named”.
