Our experience at the leafy, historic Crystal Palace Park is neither. Instead, we get the best that The Offspring and Dropkick Murphys have been in years; tight, ferocious, devoid of the whimsy that ...

Day two of Outbreak 2026 sees the opening of a larger outdoor stage, which subsequently becomes the festival’s main stage. It’s a mixed blessing given the blistering sun which reflects off the ...

We wave as confetti falls, the ‘end of camp’ energy thick in the air, with crowd surfers stacked on top of crowd surfers, as ...

Clouds threaten, but the only inclement weather on Saturday is ‘November Rain’. Download Day Two sees us fighting for the Fox ...

The problem is, “That Song” is often the one that doesn’t represent a band’s sound as a whole – think The Stranglers ‘Golden Brown’ – and that was exactly where Rise Against sat in 2005. ‘Swing Life ...

Outbreak Festival 2026 is filled with nostalgia. There is of course the usual array of hardcore and metal bands – some of which are at the genres’ vanguard – but the occasion has an altogether ...

It’s a hot day…wait, scratch that. It’s the hottest June day since records began. Where better to go to cool off than packing ourselves into a pit for The Only Band Ever? We’d get the Tube twice as ...

With Sabaton’s “The Legendary Tour” taking them to some of the biggest arenas they’ve ever played on these shores, there was one question that needed answering heading into the first night of the UK ...

Nothing holds Download back. Not the mud that covers our boots long before the arena opens, not the 100-metre-long queue for the merch superstore, and definitely not our heavy heads the morning after ...

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for underground and experimental music for over two decades. Now earlier in the year ...

Armed with a back catalogue of pit starters, blending hardcore energy with nu-metal groove and metalcore ferocity, Philadelphia’s Varials have been consistently, albeit tumultuously, churning out ...

Let’s say you’ve just had a fight with a loved one: heated emotions, hasty phrases thrown and muscles locked with stress. Then you take a break and really think about what they mean to you, and which ...