Lucy Dunnet

On a mission to present the more nuanced, humanised face of sex work to the public, National Ugly Mugs recently hosted an exhibition at the Vagina Museum, showcasing visual art, photography and zines from former and current sex workers.

The needle on COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS’ musical compass has been flickering in their expansive pursuit of self, but with their latest studio album, With All That’s Left, it is clear that a constantly evolving, experimental soundscape is where these Danish alt metallers thrive.

Tonight is about celebrating three generations of Hardcore history, tracing back to one of the Hardcore Punk greats: Gorilla Biscuits, along with their very special guests Terror, No Pressure and Dynamite.

Meet Yasmine Liverneaux, the Face Yourself vocalist who turned catcalls to do ‘corset Metal’ into comparisons to Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos, as the band fast become a sharp staple of the modern Deathcore age. Face Yourself’s latest EP, Fury, is a detonation of extremes: down-tuned breakdowns, behemothic vocals, and gut punches at every turn, triggering an immediate obsession with their brutal blend of Deathcore. But the heart of this band lies in their friendship, their jokes, and their joy at mak...

Finding yourself naked at a party, on a walk in the woods or on stage in front of hundreds of people sounds like the topic of a recurring nightmare. To some. But to Jenny Eells, Estelle Keeber and The Bare Project creators, these are activities that had a life-changing impact on the way they view their bodies.

Body image, especially female body image, is a topic that the media always has at least one eye on.

Whether its TikTok trends promoting largely unhealthy skinny ideals or AI being used to create unrealistic naked beauty standards, women are bombarded with images of what one person’s fantasy female looks like but are presented less often with what other “real women” actually look like.

The solution is simple. Girls, it’s time to get naked.

Harbinger’s 10-year anniversary is an emotionally-charged, furious display of what the UK’s heavy music scene is all about. Obeyer, Hounds Of War, and Black Coast join Harbinger for their 10-year anniversary, their differing sounds testament to Harbinger’s own genre-crossing concoctions and refusal to fit in. Whether you relish the complimentary infusion of Hardcore violence with Nu Metal ethereality in the span of one night, or err on the side of predictability, the night is a turbulent celebra...

Greg Burgess of Allegaeon reveals how the band, which is like “a marriage with five dudes”, balance their desires for extreme technicality versus emotion, while ensuring there is always time for wholesome band bonding sessions over beers and jigsaw puzzles.Allegaeon, the ManBearPigs of Death Metal, have been “shooting themselves in the foot” when it comes to genre definition since 2008. This quirky new band descriptor is courtesy of guitarist Greg Burgess’ wife, in an attempt to better embody th...

The monstrous idea of a female beast and why gender bias, desirability politics and commercial profitability won’t let her exist.

One small squat for women, one giant leap for peequality. Peequal is the world’s first women’s urinal, and it has already done wonders for women’s festival experiences by reducing the dreaded queues for the toilets by a third. Not to mention, Peequal spaces – which support women, AFAB and trans people – are parties in themselves. 


Bathrooms and who should have access to them has been a topic of great debate since the UK Supreme Court ruled on 16 April that the terms “women” and “sex” in the E...

Of all the animals in the underwater kingdom, sharks are definitely one of the most Metal. Their menacing, monochrome exteriors and love of a mosh pit (a.k.a. a sharknado), as well as the vital role they play as apex predators in marine ecosystems, screams Metalhead. So it is no wonder that Netflix’s latest reality competition series, All The Sharks, where contestants try to photograph as many sharks as they can, is hosted by the world’s only Heavy Metal marine biologist, Tom “The Blowfish” Hird...