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earthtone9 Celebrate 25 Years Of Cult-Classic Album ArcTanGent In London

earthtone9 bring fellow Nottingham-based band The Five Hundred to London for the 25th anniversary of ArcTanGent, in an evening where meditative melodies collide with wrenching heaviness and the force of the present beats out the enticing grip of nostalgia.  25 years ago, earthtone9, the British Alternative Metal band that almost rose to the top, released their cult-classic album ArcTanGent. So iconic is this album that not only has it had a festival named after it, but it is also considered to...
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Halloween Burlesque At The Courtyard Theatre Is A Tantalising Treat

There is only one appropriately devilish way to end a treat-filled Halloween weekend: at a burlesque show. Thankfully, the finale to The Courtyard Theatre’s first-ever Horror Festival is a night of Halloween Burlesque, led by host duo Dolly Dark and J’ai Me. They take the audience through a series of performances that capture all the spiciest ingredients of a night of thrilling burlesque. That is, after J’ai Me has removed his Medieval, sack-like robe to reveal a silk white corset and sh...
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Sinsaenum: A Brutally Intimate Display Of Blackened Death Metal

Blackened Death Metal supergroup Sinsaenum stamp their mark on the UK in an intimately brutal return to the stage with their new album In Devastation, four years after the passing of drummer Joey Jordison. Despite the fierce competition Sinsaenum’s London show faced, in the form of clashes with Killswitch Engage and their formidable support lineup, as well as Paradise Lost and Sonata Arctica performing at venues across the capital, their visit to the Underworld is a compact gathering of dedicate...
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Quickfire With Allegaeon: Death Metal Meets Jigsaw Puzzles

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...
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Face Yourself Are Spicing Up Deathcore With Private Jokes And MySpace Era Throwbacks

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...
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Harbinger Celebrate 10 Years Of Uncompromising Riffs At The Dome

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...
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Revocation’s Dave Davidson: “I Wanted To Take ‘No Gods, No Masters’ And Twist It On Its Head”

Few bands push Technical Death Metal into as many exciting, twisted shapes as Revocation. Their new album, New Gods, New Masters, is a torturously charged dystopian soundscape in which the surprises are just as vital as the brutality.Ahead of New Gods, New Masters’ release on 26 September, Revocation’s founder, guitarist and vocalist, Dave Davidson, took a short break from filming playthroughs and catching up with his guitar students to uncover the dystopian horrors fuelling the album, and chat...
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South Carolina Republicans move to ban birth control in new extreme anti-abortion bill

South Carolina Republicans are preparing to fast-track an extreme anti-abortion ban through the legislative process. If passed, the bill would outlaw abortion in almost all cases, including in circumstances of rape and incest, and patients accessing abortion services could face murder charges. The bill further proposes to redefine certain birth control methods as illegal. 


The new Senate Bill 323, also known as “the unborn child protection act”, is scheduled for a hearing on 1 October and wil...
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Dinosaur Pile-Up Make Explosive Return At The Electric Ballroom And It Couldn’t Have Been Better

Alt-rock heroes Dinosaur Pile-Up rip back into touring with a five-date whizz around the UK that ends in a sold-out, rowdy triumph at the Electric Ballroom, London. With support from The XCERTS and snake eyes, this tour was a raging celebration of Dinosaur Pile-Up’s latest album, I’ve Felt Better, and their marked return following frontman Matt Bigland’s six years of health struggles. Before they head off to the USA as support to A Day To Remember, they made this London show extra special by thr...
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Three Days Grace Interview: Matt Walst Talks Alienation And Adam's Return

The multiple platinum record-breaking rock giants Three Days Grace have just released Alienation, their first album since original frontman Adam Gontier returned to the band and joined Matt Walst on shared vocal duties, in a lineup refresh that was as unprecedented as it was significant for the band and their fan base. “It’s been very fortunate that we’re a lot more alike than we aren’t,” Matt said, in response to how Three Days Grace have made what could have been an impossible transition look...
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Bloodstock Festival 2025: The Saturday Review

No matter how your Friday night at Bloodstock 2025 was spent, whether it was competing in bouts of sumo wrestling or consuming excessive amounts of mango cider, Saturday morning was spent in the queues for coffee – queues which almost exceeded the dreaded lines for a shower. The caffeine cravings came close to flying out the unzipped tent hole, however, when the main stage openers, Cage Fight, kicked off their set with the force of a steel-toed boot. And Thrash Metal overlords Warbringer later s...
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Dinosaur Pile-Up’s Matt Bigland: “I Really Love Life And I Love Living”

Dinosaur Pile-Up had grown into one of the most beloved alt-rock bands in the UK before Covid slammed on the brakes to their major 2020 tour plans. Aside from a couple of festival appearances and one London show in 2022, Dinosaur Pile-Up were pretty much silent over the next four and a half years – until December 2024, when frontman Matt Bigland explained in a series of videos the horrific health battles he had been fighting on and off since 2019. Matt displayed a level of vulnerability that is...
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The creators of the world’s first women’s urinal talk bathroom equity and how they're fixing it

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...
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Interview With The World’s Only Heavy Metal Marine Biologist

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...
South West Londoner •

The quiet power of female nakedness

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.
South West Londoner •

Which London borough is the biggest A Court of Thorns and Roses fan?

One of this century’s most popular romantasy series and BookTok phenomena, A Court of Thorns and Roses, celebrated its tenth anniversary on 5 May. The people who think you are referring to “a guitar” in a weird accent are getting harder to find as the popularity of Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series continues to surge ten years after the first book’s publication.
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