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The big review: Download Festival 2025 - Sunday

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.
The big review: Download Festival 2025 - Saturday

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.
The big review: Download Festival 2025 - Friday

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.
The big review: Slam Dunk 2025

1 month ago | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Luke Morton |Rachel Roberts |Nick Ruskell

And we're off – festival season 2025 has begun! And this year, Slam Dunk has gone even harder than normal, finally giving A Day To Remember their headline slot after years of demand, putting mainstays Neck Deep within leaping distance of doing it next time, gathering together legends like New Found Glory, Alkaline Trio, The Used and Less Than Jake, and showing just how exciting the new breed are with more first-timers hitting Hatfield Park and Temple Newsam than ever before.
The big review: Incineration 2025

1 month ago | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Nick Ruskell

May 5, 2025Words:Sam Law, Scott McEwan, Nick RuskellPhotos:Andy FordIncreasingly unmissable as a fixture right at the start of festival season, London’s Incineration is the celebration of all things extreme that sees thousands of underground devotees descending on Camden Town for a weekend of indoor debauchery before they spill out into muddy fields for the rest of the summer. In 2025, it's bigger than ever, having completely sold out.
L.S. Dunes: “Making music together is an intimate relationship. We’re…

Jan 15, 2025 | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Jonathan Weiner

January 15, 2025Words:Sam LawPhotography:Jonathan WeinerL .S. Dunes’ abstract band name remains open to interpretation even within their five-strong gang. Back in 2022, explanations were offered on how these none-more-cultured musicians felt drawn to its rhythmic echo of the authors of great literary works: J.D. Salinger, W.B. Yeats, R.L. Stine… The imagery of shifting sands chimed with the realities of impermanence and change that weigh on men facing down middle-age.
Album review: Paleface Swiss - Cursed

Jan 7, 2025 | kerrang.com | Sam Law

Buy NowWinter 2024Navigation menu for Kerrang!Zurich deathcore upstarts Paleface Swiss blend unhinged brutality and nu-metal revivalism on uneven third album Cursed... January 7, 2025Words:Sam LawOstensibly, Paleface Swiss are on the cutting-edge of heavy music right now.
The Sound Of 2025: The new artists breaking the boundaries of…

Jan 6, 2025 | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Nick Ruskell

New years mean different things to different people. Fresh starts. Well-intentioned resolutions. The bittersweet pull of the road ahead tugging us away from the nostalgia that always comes with last year’s end. Careering into 2025 those feeling are stronger than ever, as we wonder where the hell the first quarter of the 21st century went. But they’re eclipsed by the promise of an alt. scene that's bolder, brighter and more pervasive than perhaps at any point in the history of Kerrang!.
Album review: NECKBREAKKER - Within The Viscera

Dec 6, 2024 | kerrang.com | Sam Law

Never judge a book by its cover. Fresh-faced and spry, Silkeborg youngsters NECKBREAKKER have the look of lithe hardcore kids, more likely to spinkick you in the pit than get mixed up in the beefy, grizzled, neck-expanding world of old-school death metal. The tasteful, monochrome, faintly pretentious artwork for this long-awaited first LP, too, feels far more understated than you’d expect from a genre that revels in revulsion.
Album review: Warpstormer - Warpstormer

Nov 27, 2024 | kerrang.com | Sam Law

Fast, fuzzy and utterly fanatical about all things sci-fi and Warhammer, you could sum up Warpstormer’s uncomplicated core appeal on the back of a postage stamp. Is it ‘stoner-punk’? ‘Speed-sludge’? ‘Thrash-doom’? Frankly, there’s no time to give a fuck as they pull up in their rumbling, hyperdriven spaceship and beckon you to jump aboard.