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Rock

Buckcherry Bring the Boom with “Roar Like Thunder” — A Raw, Relentless Rock Revival

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Review By Glen Parkes By the time Buckcherry drop their eleventh studio album Roar Like Thunder on June 13, 2025, they’ll have long outlived the hype of their 2006 heyday — and blown straight past it. This latest release is a turbocharged reminder that few bands do sweat-drenched, party-starting, unapologetic hard rock [more…]

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Live Reviews

Download Father’s Day Mayhem

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Review and Photos by Dave Martin From there, the tempo only climbed. Bleed From Within tore through the main stage like a storm let loose. Pyrotechnics, wall-to-wall crowd surfers, and a circle pit that seemed to devour the field—it was Scottish metalcore done right, raw and triumphant. On the Opus Stage, VOWWS [more…]

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Rock

A Sonic Salute to the Unsung: DARKO’s “Canvas” Is a Progressive Punk Masterclass EP

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Release Date: July 18, 2025 | Label: Lockjaw Records Review By Halina Wegner In an era where punk often teeters between commercial polish and basement purity, Surrey’s DARKO plant their flag firmly in the fertile soil of the grassroots scene. With Canvas, the final piece of a thematically interconnected trilogy alongside Greyscale [more…]

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Live Reviews

Brave Rival at the Tuesday Night Music Club , Coulsdon

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Brave Rival at the Tuesday Night Music Club , Coulsdon Arriving just after 6pm at the Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon, I was relieved to see only a small queue forming under the late afternoon sun. less than a dozen people, in fact. That could only mean one thing, a prime [more…]

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Live Reviews

Day Two at Copenhell 2025: A Wild Ride Through Music, Chaos, and Celebration Copenhagen’s most explosive festival

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Review by Mark Chapman Copenhell 2025: A Wild Ride Through Music, Chaos, and Celebration Copenhagen’s most explosive festival is back, and this year’s Copenhell felt more like a massive alternative music celebration than just another rock and metal gathering. As Denmark’s largest rock and metal festival, Copenhell has consistently raised the bar. [more…]

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Metal

Lift-Off Achieved: Mission Jupiter Find Their Voice and Vision on ‘Aftermath’

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Review By Ian Walker In a world where genre lines blur and geographical borders dissolve in the digital ether, it’s bands like Mission Jupiter that remind us of rock’s power to both transcend and transform. Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, this alternative metal collective has flown just under the radar—until now. With their [more…]

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Live Reviews

Download Festival 2025 – Saturday at Donington: Fresh Blood, Big Statements & Strange Energy

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Review and Images by Dave Martin Download Festival 2025: Saturday’s Storm Brews Beneath the SurfaceBy Jace Media Music After Friday’s euphoric mayhem—the surreal mix of sunburnt ghouls, punk rock icons, and Green Day’s historic headliner debut—Saturday at Download Festival 2025 began with a different kind of energy. Where Friday raged like a [more…]

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Metal

Yesterday Meets Tomorrow: Rust N’ Rage Light Up the Future with ‘Songs of Yesterday’

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Review By Glen Parkes for Jace Media Music If you ever wondered whether the glory days of hard rock could be reborn with fresh blood and modern fire, Rust N’ Rage’s new album Songs of Yesterday answers with a deafening, guitar-screaming, fist-pumping yes. Set for release on August 22, 2025 via Frontiers [more…]

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Metal

Defects Ignite a New Chapter with the Devastating “Heresy”

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Halina Wegner for Jace Media Music Defects return with a vengeance on their blistering new single “Heresy” — a sonic battering ram that rips through false hope with surgical fury. From the hypnotic intro riff to Tony Maue’s guttural war cry, “Let’s go!”, the track wastes no time setting fire to comfort [more…]

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Metal

Imperium Delirium: Shadow of Intent Forge the Sound of Modern War

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By Ian Walker for Jace Media Music On their decade milestone, Shadow of Intent return with Imperium Delirium—a merciless yet meticulously crafted album that marks their most brutal and politically charged work yet. Set for release on June 27 via Blood Blast Distribution, this record doesn’t simply expand their signature blend of [more…]

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Metal

Hate – ‘Bellum Regiis’

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Blackened Death Metal Metal Blade Records Release Date – May 2nd 2025 REVIEW BY SMUDGE SMITH Hate have been around since 1990 but changed their name to Hat in 1992. Hailing from Warsaw, Poland they have been pretty prolific in their output since then. Having never heard any of their previous albums [more…]

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Metal

Mudfinger – ‘Amentia’

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Stoner/Sludge Self Release Released – May 17th 2025 REVIEW BY SMUDGE SMITH Mudfinger are a German stoner/doom power trio who formed in 2014. They released their first album ‘Psychonaut’ in 2018 and this is their sophomore effort. ‘Trinity’ opens on some huge easy guitar lines to warm up before the riff gets [more…]