Distorted Sound Magazine

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.

5 days ago | distortedsoundmag.com | James Weaver

THE RAVEN AGE have released a brand new song!The new song, titled Hangman, is the brand new single from the British modern metal band and follows on from their previous single, The Guillotine, which was released in December last year. Speaking about the new single, guitarist George Harris says, “Hangman is a song I’m really looking forward to playing live. It’s heavy, but groovy and open – a super fun one to jam. To be honest, I wrote the riff when I should’ve been practising.

5 days ago | distortedsoundmag.com | James Weaver

END IT have announced their debut album!Titled Wrong Side Of Heaven, the upcoming album from the Baltimore-based hardcore band is their debut full-length album, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Flatspot Records. Entering Salad Days Studio with renowned producer Brian McTernan [TURNSTILE, SNAPCASE, HOT WATER MUSIC] the band came in with a few demos and wrote the majority of the album during the two month recording process in early 2025.