Nick Ruskell

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell

Masters Of The Riff, the London-based festival of all things slow, low and heavy, have announced the first bands for its 2026 edition. Once again taking place at Hackney's Oslo venue, and with extra parties planned at nearby Helgi’s, next year's bash will run from February 27 – March 1. Announced in the first wave of bands are Domkraft, Witchsorrow, Grin, Calligram, The Grey, Longheads, The Lunar Effect, Bear Bones and K L P S.

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell

Simple Plan have announced that a new documentary charting their lives and 25-year career, from young kids in a Canadian rehearsal room to pop-punk royalty, will hit streaming next month. Their Amazon Prime film The Kids In The Crowd will be available from July 8. As well as unseen archive footage, the doc will also have interviews with blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Avril Lavigne, NOFX's Fat Mike, and Dexter Holland and Noodles from The Offspring.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nick Ruskell

The rise of Sleep Token has been one of the biggest and most curious success stories of modern rock. The brainchild of masked, anonymous frontman Vessel, with a band of equally enigmatic, numbered musicians, the British collective have turned the art of tease and mystery into a genuine phenomenon that, apparently, has yet to find a roof. They don't give interviews, and what few vague insights they did offer the press in the earliest days comes to about 1,000 words in total.

2 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Stu Garneys

“If you don’t jump,” Oli Sykes tells a town’s worth of people, “you’re a fucking dickhead.”The more things change, the more they stay the same. Bring Me The Horizon’s current live carnival – an expanded version of last year’s NeX GEn arena extravaganza – is one of the biggest and most engaging spectacles you’ll see in modern rock. It should go without saying, also one of the best.

2 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Adamross Williams

June 8, 2025Words:Nick RuskellPhotos:Adamross WilliamsWhat, reasonably, might one expect from Sleep Token’s first ritual of the Even In Arcadia era? A show that’s the biggest they’ve ever done. Vision? Ambition? Something bigger than normal? Would that it were so simple. Of all this century’s rock phenomena – Linkin Park, My Chem, Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot, twenty one pilots – none have reached this position in such an off-road fashion as Vessel and his cohorts.