Will Marshall

1 day ago | distortedsoundmag.com | Will Marshall

With one scorcher of a day down and minimal rain in sight, Download Festival enters its second day of celebrations, with a slew of bands taking to the stages before another brand new headliner, this time from a band who’ve been around less than a decade, but have made their presence felt not only across the scene but the entire festival, weaving flower garlands into the sound tower and a pop-up merch shop. But before that, there’s another barrage of quality bands to get through.

1 day ago | distortedsoundmag.com | Will Marshall

Scottish stalwarts BLEED FROM WITHIN have been knocking around the scene for a long while, their earliest incarnation as a deathcore band, but it was with a soft-reset of the band and re-debuting with 2013’s Uprising that we got the hint there might be something more.

2 days ago | distortedsoundmag.com | Will Marshall

Following a miserable, sopping wet 2024 fraught with technical difficulties and bands dropping out due to (now terminated) links with Barclays as part of the BSD movement, Download Festival needed to really pull it out of the bag this year. Even more so when considering that not one of this year’s headliners have actually headlined the festival before – even with two of them having long-running careers and arguably having deserved a slot already.

1 week ago | distortedsoundmag.com | Will Marshall

Lifers of the UK metal scene, EMPLOYED TO SERVE have risen from scrappy, mathy hardcore upstarts to a riotous, arena-ready tour de force as they’ve driven more and more into metal territory. 2020’s Conqueringsaw them metamorphose from the metallic hardcore heft of Eternal Forward Motioninto a double-kick fuelled riff machine, and their latest effort Fallen Starsees them push the envelope further still while visually calling back to the early days of The Warmth Of A Dying Sun.

2 weeks ago | distortedsoundmag.com | Will Marshall

Ahead of appearing at this year’s edition of Slam Dunk, Nashville punks WINONA FIGHTER are playing a few warm up shows with tonight’s stop at a sold out, bound to be sweaty Black Heart. “We are not WINONA FIGHTER,” YOUNG FATIGUE grin at the start of their set. The UK punks are from the wrong continent to be them for starters, but stylistically it’s not a million miles away.