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Once a year, London’s Southbank Centre locks down a big name to headline and curate its Meltdown Festival, and the big name usually puts together a lineup full of semi-obscure cult favorites and ascendant fringe acts. In the past, that role has gone to legends like David Bowie, Scott Walker, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Robert Smith, and Grace Jones. Last year, UK rapper Little Simz was in change of Meltdown. This year’s Meltdown curator is Harry Styles, one of the biggest pop star on the planet. He has risen to the occasion.
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A 9-date run has been booked for September.
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Posted on April 7th 2026, 4:51p.m.
Reviewed by Rob Barker
Lincoln sludge/doom/stoner trio Mild put out their debut album Boss on April 9th. The world (including myself) having heard nothing of the band before now, all I had to prepare myself was a few short sentences from the bank likening themselves to sludge heavyweights Iron Monkey, post-metal giants Neurosis and stoner-metal very-big-lads Bongzilla. With a promise of something heavy, shouty and riffy I gave Boss a good listen, and then I gave it a few more listens cos, not gonna lie, this delivered what it said it would.
The album kicks off with I.C.P, and we’re straight in with no warning other than the double gunshot of a short couple of drum hits, making way into blistering noise. Vocals chop and change between the black metal screeches of bassist Joe and the more beatdown/hardcore bark of guitarist Mark. This capped off with highly accomplished musicianship from both of the aforementioned, and tribal, abrasive and technical drumming laid down from Scott. The track twists throughout it’s fairly long running time into a very “stoner” inspired riff in comparison to the heavy doom start – this change in direction is delivered with an unexpected subtlety for such a heavy band, and before you know it we’re in full Kyuss mode.
Fission Mailed comes in next with a very harsh slap of a transition in comparison to the groove of the end of I.C.P. Much more of the Neurosis influence coming through with this one, with aggression reminisce of Chat Pile and filthy, discordant guitar making it impossible not to make an ugly frowny stank face and nod along to the nastiness of the groove. Outro riff is just the right mixture of dry, raw, and unpolished, whilst simultaneously having been produced to excellence by Joe Dickinson at Playing Aloud Studios. If I had to pick (and I don’t), this is my favourite track of the album.
Reckless next – shifting to a notable hardcore-punk beat and vibe for the first three-or-so minutes before changing again into an outro that feels more at home back in stoner territory. A conspicuously shorter track in compared to the first two offerings, but by no means less effective or powerful for this.
Drowning in fuzz and scream-along hooks, Dad Brown gives an atmosphere akin to a heavier, more primal reincarnation of Acid Bath. Boss concludes with the plodding, marching beats of Severed Head Syndrome, showcasing an unexpectedly abrupt ending to the album and insisting on repeated listening.
Mild have done a grand job for their first release, and Boss deserves to be listened to and taken seriously. Lyrically, Mild cover a range of topics from capitalism to misogyny, from aging to drink and drug culture, all with a sarcastic and satirical eye on the state of the world we live in. You get a good feel of how fearsome the band will be in a live setting from listening, and it demands to be played loud and obnoxiously on repeat. Good work.
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youbet are releasing their eponymous new album next month. We’ve heard the singles “Ground Kiss,” and “Receive,” both of which are great. But today the Brooklyn band is back with “Undefined,” and it’s even better. “I wrote ‘Undefined’ while waiting for a guitar student and started to work out this interesting melody and chords,” Nick…
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Lamb of God – The Masonic – San Francisco – April 3, 2026
Lamb of God played San Francisco’s 3500 cap venue The Masonic on Friday night and tore it down to its foundation. Perched high atop Nob Hill, The Masonic does double duty when it’s not serving up metal shows as the Grand Lodge for The Masons of California – quite a dichotomy of personalities – especially on this night when thousands of black shirt-wearing metalheads descended on the site.
Lamb of God formed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1994, and there is no better live band for firing up an audience. Proof of this came in the form of security guards – there were twenty guards standing at attention in the pit by the time Lamb of God hit the stage at 9:40pm – the most I’ve ever seen in this size venue, and they were immediately put to use. Crowd surfers started going wild during Kublai Khan TX’s set, and that intense energy only ratcheted up as the night wore on – turning into the most prolific night of crowd surfing one could imagine. Wave after unrelenting wave came, and the security guards never caught a break.
Photographers usually get three songs to do their work up against the stage before being ushered out, so the people who arrive early enough to get up to the front can have an unobstructed view of the stage. Prior to the Lamb of God set, the fifteen photographers at the show were told that in addition to the twenty security guards, there would be ten VIP fans up against the stage where the photographers usually jockey for position, bringing the total amount of people in the pit to forty-five before the crowd surfers were factored in. This had a ripple effect in that nobody (security, VIP, photographers, crowd surfers) had any room to move, and doing so to change positions was dicey with crazed fans raining down from above everywhere you looked.
Vocalist Randy Blythe has an infectious non-stop stage presence that demands attention – he puts out the energy, and you’re inclined to match it. Some artists talk to the audience, asking that they form a mosh pit, or asking to make the pit bigger, or request crowd surfers…there is no such need with Lamb of God – it’s instinctive, and the crowd feeds off Randy’s enormous energy, trying desperately to match it.
This tour is in support of the new album Into Oblivion, the band’s 12th, which was released in March. Two songs from the new album were featured on Friday, “Oblivion” and “Parasocial Christ”, and both went over really well with the San Francisco crowd. Lamb of God is an incredible live band, and by the time the opening notes to “Redneck” kicked in as the last song of the night, both the audience and band had truly put in the work – sweaty, exhausted, and completely satisfied – the perfect night!
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Kublai Khan, TX is a hardcore/metalcore band from Sherman, Texas. They formed in 2009, and have five albums and two EPs. They also kick ass. At the beginning of the night, I asked one of the security guards if he’d heard anything about the night, and what might be expected in the photo pit. He said that it should be fine, but to pay extra attention when Kublai Khan TX hit the stage, as things were likely to go off. It turns out that he had accurate information, because when the lights came up and the down-tuned guitars kicked in, the already fired up crowd went absolutely wild. I’d never seen Kublai Kahn TX before, but was aware of both their music and their reputation for killer shows – their set far exceeded my expectations.
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Fit For an Autopsy was the second band of the night. The deathcore band out of New Jersey was formed in 2008, and were a perfect addition to the lineup. Their brutal brand of metal fit seamlessly with the mood of the night and the audience showed their appreciation by responding enthusiastically in the mosh pit. These guys have been doing it for almost twenty years, and they know what they’re doing. Song after furious song exploded from the stage and the fans loved every second of it. The night’s lineup of bands was great top to bottom, and Fit For an Autopsy more than earned their place on the stage.
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Columbus, Ohio’s Sanguisugabogg was the first of four bands to play, and they started the night off right. While 7:00pm seems a little early to play this brand of metal at ear-shattering volume, Sanguisugabogg had no problem delivering on this. Unlike other cities and fanbases, the San Francisco metalheads showed up early, and the venue had an impressive number of people inside from the start. Expectations from the Lamb of God fanbase were high, and Sanguisugabogg were enthusiastically up to the challenge.
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