To see Within Temptation at the moment is to witness a band at the height of their powers, as anyone who caught them on the recent Worlds Collide tour with Evanescence will attest.

As a tasty cut from their forthcoming album 'The Band Rolls On', 'Lie to Me' couldn't be a better, loud and proud declaration that The Quireboys are here to stay and ready to let the music do the talking.

Already much feted by the music press, North Yorkshire rockers This House We Built are gaining a reputation as a band of class and style, the collective having been brought together just two scant years ago.

London’s Dead Writers are so effortlessly cool that they should come with a health warning, their individual mix of rock, blues, soul and twists of Edwardian Goth as addictive as Absinthe.

Black Star Riders have come a long way since first forming in 2012 to be the next chapter of the long running Thin Lizzy story, the band having developed their own firm identity in the intervening decade.

When one of the biggest bands in the world announces not only a new single but a forthcoming album and tour to support it, the ripples are nothing short of seismic.

The time is coming when Dea Matrona become a household name, their rise both inevitable and unstoppable.

Enslaved are preparing to release their 16th studio album 'Heimdal' in March 2023 via Nuclear Blast.

Just when you thought they couldn't get any better, HAWXX have just gone and released what could be THE single of the year.

One of the breakout bands from Bloodstock 2021, London crew Borstal took the huge Ronnie James Dio stage by the scruff of the neck and made it their own.

With a song so insanely catchy and ludicrously popular, it was bound to happen. Rag N Bone Man’s ‘Human’ has been covered in an indulgent and gratifying metal style by American alt-rockers Hearts & Hand Grenades.

October is upon us already and it is the classical month of all things spooky. A perfect fitting for the period is horror punk band Wednesday 13.

2022 has been an exciting year for the underground music scene, mono amounts of wonderfully crafted music has been released which has been inspired and created throughout the pandemic.

Dea Matrona, formed out of a school friendship, are Mollie McGinn and Orlaith Forsythe, who have been honing their skills playing not only gigs, supporting the likes of John Corabi and Status Quo and headlining their own gigs with many filling to capacity, but they have also been busking in between.

Releasing 11 albums since they formed in 1991, Polish extreme metal gods Behemoth are preparing us for their twelve album, ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’ which is due to surface early September.

After the 80’s retro rock stylings of 2018’s ‘Simulation Theory’, Muse have come tearing back with this, one of their most feral tracks to date.