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4 days ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade |Liz Scarlett
It's Glasto week, people! The world's most famous music festival touches back down at Worthy Farm this Wednesday for another five days of music, art, creativity and chaos, with Pyramid Stage headliners The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo heading up another stacked bill of the very biggest and best in pop, rock, dance, hip hop, reggae and just about everything in between. 'But where are the 'proper' alternative bands?!' I hear you yell.
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Liz Scarlett |Paul Brannigan |Rich Hobson
The UK's premier doom/stoner/sludge/psych-metal festival took over London's Camden Town once again from May 16-18, offering those in attendance the opportunity to turn up, tune in, and trip out with some of the world's heaviest, freakiest and fuzziest Purveyors Of The Riff. And as ever, it was a fucking blast. Here are seven bands who defined the weekend for us.
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Liz Scarlett
With their 2024 debut Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Manzadaran, London's Lowen established themselves as a bright new force in prog metal. Nina Saeidi's towering vocals mixed with crashing riffs, the band drawing on everything from Iranian folklore and extreme metal to create something vibrant and isntantly compelling. Little surprise then, that Nina's personal music tastes would be just as broad.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Liz Scarlett
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysWhen you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. With their 2024 debut Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Manzadaran, London's Lowen established themselves as a bright new force in prog metal.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Liz Scarlett
NowMarvel’s Thunderbolts* – the asterisk’s meaning now revealed, so spoiler alert that I discuss it below – from director Jake Schreier continues to rule the start of summer movie season, with a sophomore session striking approximately $75 million worldwide in its second weekend at the box …
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2 months ago | 
loudersound.com | Liz Scarlett
Ghost have unveiled the new single, Peacefield, lifted from their forthcoming new album, Skeletá, which is due out on April 25, via Loma Vista. Peacefield is the third track to arrive from the album, following Satanized and Lachryma, the latter of which was released earlier this month. Heavily-80s coded and featuring a power stance-inducing chorus, Peacefield lands somewhere between Journey, Alice Cooper and Kiss, with a triumphant melody and a hard-hitting hair metal guitar riff.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Liz Scarlett
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysWhen you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ghost have unveiled the new single, Peacefield, lifted from their forthcoming new album, Skeletá, which is due out on April 25, via Loma Vista.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Liz Scarlett
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2 months ago | 
loudersound.com | Liz Scarlett
Walking into the light, a robed, long-haired man steps out from his seat, arms-outstretched to the crowd before him, sparking a deafening round of applause. ‘Jesus has returned!’ shouts a corpse-painted nun. On this (un)holiest of Easter weekends, the O2 arena finds itself transformed into a biblical fever dream, as throngs of vestment-clad glitter-covered devotees await the arrival of their true idol of worship, Tobias Forge, the frontman of visionary occult party-rockers Ghost.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Liz Scarlett
“He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship as far as he was concerned”: The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fameDire Straits were one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s, making 1985’s world-beating Brothers In Arms album before guitarist and leader …
