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  • MAPHRA’s viral BMTH cover is Number One in Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart

    MAPHRA’s viral Bring Me The Horizon cover is now at the top of Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.

    Sitting at over 9,500,000 views on YouTube since uploading it at the end of January, the rising online star’s rendition of Doomed has made it to Number One in this week’s Hot Hard Rock Songs, ahead of Motionless In White​’s Afraid Of The Dark, Bilmuri and A Day To Remember​’s collab ALWAYS LET YOU DOWN, Caramel by Sleep Token, and Bad Omens’ Dying To Love.

    Upon the track’s release, MAPHRA reflected that, ​“I’ve always found myself to be a very quiet person. I feel that I’m finally opening up to the world around me and embracing who I am by sharing my voice. It’s not because you’re hearing me sing, it’s that you’re connecting with me and feeling the emotion that I put into each and every lyric. I’ve struggled with depression and my sense of purpose for so long. I can gladly say that I will be dedicating my life to my music career full time and I will never stop. 

    “My team and I are working hard to develop original music that hopefully you will all connect to and feel just as deeply as we do. Again, thank you all for the love and support, and for making my childhood dreams come true!”

    If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the cover below:

    Posted on March 25th 2026, 11:17a.m.

  • “I’d never heard of them before I got the request. But my assistant said they were very good, so I agreed”: The ambition behind Nightwish’s collaboration with Richard Dawkins

    Thomas Holopainen studied biology before a career in music came calling, but never forgot his passion for the subject, or his admiration for the evolutionary biologist

  • åhm Explores Hope And Light In New Single “Eliana Never Sleeps”

    Emerging from the legendary 90s hardcore and indie scenes of Linköping, åhm has released the hauntingly beautiful single

  • Bluntnose Return With Heavy Single “Dhia”

    Hailing from Gloucester, UK, the alternative/hardcore powerhouse Bluntnose has officially released their latest single, “Dhia.” Since forming in

  • Album review: Mallavora – What If Better Never Comes?

    The frequency with which Mallavora have been popping up across the alt.metal landscape of late would suggest a band with their legs firmly under the table, and a grocery list of material to be spewing out on festival stages, European tours and even on TV. So to be reminded that What If Better Never Comes? is in fact their debut album already sets the quartet apart.

    Fronted by the phenomenal Jessica Douek, theirs is a sound that blends her own Jewish-Middle Eastern roots with metalcore, R&B and soul to create an intoxicatingly crushing mix. After a dark and brooding prologue, Smile kicks the walls down in earnest, doling out hypnotically-sung verses and guttural choruses.

    Waste follows a similar formula, with Jessica playing her crystalline cleans and demonic roars off against each other, on a bed of djent-tinged metalcore riffs and thunderous rhythms. Lilith & Esther displayed the most intriguing snapshot of the album when released as a single, and it’s great to see the themes expanded on throughout the record, even if it does feel like they’ve found a certain formula to stick to.

    Hopeless introduces a softer, more measured approach that adds an affecting feather to Mallavora’s cap, heard again later on Make The World Wait and album closer Host. Positioned as palette cleansers, these tracks can feel at odds with those that come before and after, but beyond the issue of sequencing, they reveal another sound that should stay in their repertoire.

    Lyrically, Mallavora shoots from the hip, making the topics on the album hard to misconstrue. Smile is all about Jessica’s life with fibromyalgia and calls for the disabled population to not be cast aside. ​’Time to have the conversation, Access is a human right, Unrestricted liberation,’ she barks out in exasperation.

    All told, What If Better Never Comes? reveals Mallavora as ones to watch in an already bustling alt.metal crowd, and beyond the odd teething issues, is full of promise. You can bet your bottom dollar that their best is yet to come.

    Verdict: 3/5

    For fans of: KNIFE BRIDE, Lake Malice, Dying Wish

    What If Better Never Comes? is released on March 27 via Church Road.

    Posted on March 25th 2026, 11:00a.m.

  • Exploring Birdsong Announce Debut Album ‘Every House We Built’

    Exploring Birdsong have announced the details of their long-awaited debut full-length, set to arrive this Summer.

    Photo by Luke Tatlock


    It will be titled ‘Every House We Built’ and will be released on June 26 via Long Branch Records.

    The artwork looks like this:


    Whilst the tracklisting is a little like this:

    1. Archipelago
    2. 42
    3. Romanticise
    4. Footprints
    5. Arrhythmia
    6. Spy In The House Of Love
    7. I_You
    8. The Warning
    9. You Like it Best When It Hurts
    10. Cartography
    11. Every House We Built
    12. Meadowlands

      Following on from the release of ‘42‘ and ‘Romanticise’, the band have now shared ‘You Like It Best When It Hurts’, and it shows off yet another shade that the record will inhabit.

      A beautifully considered blend of billowing synths and crushing breakdowns, it demonstrates how the trio are happy to make things heavy when the time is right. And when it comes to a song steeped in as much frustration as this is, it’s only right that they flex a fresh muscle.

      Vocalist Lynsey Ward had this to say about it, explaining, “You Like It Best… actually began its life as a completely different song, but easily found a way to take the shape that it has now. For as long as we’ve been a band we’ve been proud that our sound has such broad shoulders, so we felt we could really push our influences from heavy music out into the open with this one and create the heaviest Birdsong music to date. Lyrically, it is written about observing a type of person that we have all come across- self-sabotaging and self destructive almost to the point where it seems that they can’t -or don’t want to- break the cycle. More new territory for us, as we’re now equipped to convey anger and aggression convincingly-it felt completely natural to write a bit of a love letter to heavy music whilst channeling our own frustrations.”


      The band will be heading out on the road for a string of headline shows later this year. Here’s where you will be able to catch them.

      SEPTEMBER

      23 – GLASGOW Classic Grand
      24 – LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
      25 – BRISTOL Strange Brew
      26 – MANCHESTER Gorilla

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    1. Gone Stereo’s Cover Of Green Day’s Classic “One For The Razorbacks” Supports No-Kill Animal Rescues

      Long Island punks Gone Stereo have contributed a punchy, modern version of “One For The Razorbacks” to a

    2. Inglorious – Original Line Up Reform For One Off Show

      British rock act Inglorious are pleased to announce a very special one off show in 2026. For one night only the original line-up will be reforming to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their debut album ‘Inglorious‘. The band will play the debut album in full in addition to more tracks from their catalogue. The show […]

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    3. “In pursuing my own fake band I stumbled upon something that had real potential.” The miraculous rise of the modern prog superstars who started out as a joke

      An archive interview with the band whose modern take on progressive rock brought the genre out of the past and gave it a future

    4. Album Review: Miserate – Weaver Of Witchery

      Album Review: Miserate – Weaver Of Witchery

      Reviewed by Dan Barnes

      Mention of Norway and metal extremity would take most people to Black Metal, to church burnings and to all that unpleasantness in August 1993. Yet the country is home to more diverse takes on the extremes of music and doom death outfit, Miserate, is here to show Norwegian heavy metal doesn’t begin and end with corpse paint and Satan.

      Gathering together five seasoned members of the country’s underground music scene, Miserate may be a new name, but the component parts can boast experience with the likes of Feather & Doom, Funeral, To Cast a Stone and The Black Lotus Project, among others. Their journey into melancholy began back in 2024 with the debut EP A Ritual of Doom and is followed by this sophomore platter, Weaver of Witchery.

      It’s four tracks of misery made by a group of musicians inspired by the crushing doom of Peaceville Records’ early Nineties roster. Formative records from the likes of Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema and Katatonia may be a world away from how some of those bands sound today, but the icy doom-laden riffs and gothic atmosphere was a welcome relief from the morass of mediocrity brought about by the Seattle Invasion of the time.

      From the outset, it’s clear Miserate know their onions. Grip of Winter arrives with huge cascading guitars courtesy of Marcus Granlien and Kristian Sigland, who had worked together on The Black Lotus Project as far back as 2010. The atmosphere created is as icy as any of the nation’s blackest metals, its grim bleakness adding an extra layer of darkness and despondence.

      Album Review: Miserate - Weaver Of Witchery

      The EP’s title track is a little more upbeat, more in the vein of Novembers Doom or early Swallow the Sun, while still maintaining the raw and sometimes demonic. Reverb-heavy guitars colour the closing moments, competing with the sound of lashing rain. Behind the Veil of Death slows the pace into an imposing monument to misery. A mid-song descent into melancholy almost reaches a point of singularity and the journey out is hard and fraught. To Cast a Shadow drummer, Kent Helset, hammers the kit like he’s creating an Orc army in the depths of Mordor; Shraphead bassist Will Fossheim is unsung in his bridging of the gap between guitars and percussion.

      Final track, The Endless Light / Hindenburg begins with an ancient scene, as though dawn was breaking over a perfectly still lake. Musically it’s cold and atmospheric, with haunting guitars, leading to a crushing conclusion. Gothic elements give way to a hypnotic, even psychedelic, close, making you wander where those twenty-four minutes have gone?

      Miserate play Weaver of Witchery to perfection: all the elements that make a successful doom death record are here and are laid out by a group of musicians who not only understand their assignment but have an abiding passion for the material. Vocalist Kenneth O. Grimelid voices the record with the prescribed combinations of guttural growls and tortured cries, morosely narrating the voyage through misery.

      Engineered by Karl Daniel Lidén, who’s also worked on projects by Draconian, Bloodbath and Katatonia gives you an idea of the quality involved in Weaver of Witchery. The slow, heavy riffs and overwhelming melancholy come front and centre as Miserate announce themselves as a new and exciting voice in modern doom death.

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