Month: August 2026

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News

Defects join Allegaeon and GOROD on September UK Tour!

Defects Join Allegaeon and GOROD on September UK Tour! Tickets are available HERE. New Album Artificial Icons released 16 October via Mascot Records. Pre-order/pre-save HERE.  Check out the videos for ‘Signs’ ft. Matt Heafy |   Artificial Icons |  Heresy | All For Nothing  Following the release of their latest single, ‘Signs’ ft. Matt Heafy, [more…]

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Live Reviews

Firevolt Festival – A Pre-Party To Ease Into Some Face Melting Rock Music  

Where – Whitebottom Farm, Etherow Country Estate, Stockport  When – 6th/9th August 2026   Review and photographs by Linda McDermott    The Pre-Party 6th August 2026  There’s something special about getting to a festival the day before it officially kicks off. Maybe it’s taking the stress out of getting all set up, meeting friends you’ve not seen for ages for pre-festival drinks or simply relaxing into the weekend and forgetting all about work. Firevolt Festival caters for [more…]

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News

ALISON MOYET LAUNCHES CATALOGUE CAMPAIGN FEATURING LIMITED EDITION REISSUES OF FIVE STUDIO ALBUMS FROM 2002-2017

  ‘HOMETIME’, ‘VOICE’, ‘THE TURN’, ‘the minutes’ AND ‘OTHER’ALL RE-RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 25THPRE-ORDER HERE ALL ALBUMS ARE EXPLORED IN DEPTH IN AN UPCOMING TEN-PART PODCAST SERIES Alison Moyet’s 2024 career-spanning reworks album ‘Key’ earned critical adoration and saw her recent return to the Top 10 album chart.  Cooking Vinyl are now re-releasing a limited edition, five-album reissue series of ‘Hometime’, ‘Voice’, ‘The Turn’, ‘the minutes’ and‘Other’ on heavyweight colour vinyl and deluxe CD [more…]

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News

LINKIN PARK: UNSHATTER

LIMITED RUN COMING TO CINEMAS WORLDWIDE STARTING SEPTEMBER 30; GLOBAL EXPANSION IN SELECT CITIES TO FOLLOW WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER HERE FILM SOUNDTRACK UNSHATTER (LIVE IN SÃO PAULO) ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 25; AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW HERE “SOMEWHERE I BELONG (LIVE IN SÃO PAULO)” OUT NOW LISTEN HERE FILM TO BE PRESENTED IN SCREENX, 4DX [more…]

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Interviews

Nova Riot Interview

Nova Riot Interview  By Lily O’Delia  Nova Riot is an Oklahoma and Texas duo that blends pop hooks, nu metal  synths, and horror spectacle into what they call “bubblegum alternative metal,” and their debut album, Blood, Lies & Lullabies, wastes no time proving it. From the first track, it swings between melody and menace without [more…]

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News

French Modern Progressive Metal 5-piece Dualisis release and stream debut EP ‘Us. Out now on digital tourgh all platforms.

Ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘Us’ scheduled this month, French progressive metal act Dualisis brings both previously released singles back into focus “Us” and “The Deep” – revealing them not as isolated tracks, but as interconnected fragments of a larger emotional and sonic narrative.      ‘Us ‘is out [more…]

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Black Water Redemption Release New Single ‘Walk Beside You’ Ahead of Self-Titled Debut Album

Download/Stream HERE  Black Water Redemption have released their heartfelt new single, ‘Walk Beside You’, taken from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, Black Water Redemption, due for release on 2 October 2026. Following the release of recent single ‘Ride Or Die’, the band continue to showcase the depth and diversity of the record. For guitarist Tyler [more…]