Out Of Rage • 1st June 2026

REVIEW: Ancient Rivalry - WHAT LIVES BENEATH

The old-school death metallers in ANCIENT RIVALRY are ready to unleash hell on their debut LP WHAT LIVES BENEATH. Having relocated to Nottingham since forming in London five years ago, the five-piece have developed a reputation for groove-laden death metal that harks back to the 90’s, and they very much back themselves up on a record that screams for bloody gore.Opening on the title track, it’s obvious that their reputation is by no means overstated or undeserved - there’s dirt and bodily fluids...

Kerrang! • 1st June 2026

Album Review: August Burns Red – Season of Surrender

Metalcore icons August Burns Red sound better than ever on album number 11. Maybe it’s the (by their own standards) lengthy break they’ve taken since their last, maybe the stylistic revamp they’ve undertaken, or maybe it’s the huge dose of riffs that can be found on Seasons of Surrender. Whatever it is, this latest venture has more bite than a house cat presented with your ankle, and the persistence of a seagull that’s seen your newly purchased punnet of chips.
Opening on Legions, featuring The...

Out Of Rage • 28th May 2026

REVIEW: Oathbreaker - Rheia (Redux)

When covering a remaster of an album that’s already so utterly brilliant as Rheia, what can be said? OATHBREAKER have long been known to be a stunningly good band, even if they did decide to leave us without new shows or music for a decade. Ten years on from the release of the original version of Rheia and it is as highly appreciated as an album in that scene can get, quite frankly bordering on legendary status - if not already firmly in that top echelon of the blackgaze and post-metal pantheons...

Out Of Rage • 26th May 2026

REVIEW: Kid, Feral - 2019

Coming from Skövde, Sweden is screamo act KID, FERAL. Making a return to recorded music that’s awfully long-awaited - their first album was released in 2018 - follow-up 2019 was recorded all across the period since LP1 and now.The eight tracks across 2019 are shaped by hardships, failed relationships, serious injuries, and personal ruin. Written largely during the band’s youth but released at what they’ve called the ‘dawn of their middle age’, the album reflects years of persistence, frustration...

Out Of Rage • 26th May 2026

REVIEW: Ablation - Lethal Abuse

Consisting of members of some seriously big names in heavy music, ABLATION is the new death metal supergroup that you need to listen to. The iconic NY death metal scene is one that needs no introduction for long-time listeners of extreme metal, and so a band with members from SANGUISUGABOGG, SUFFOCATION and DEHUMANIZED should feel right at home.Their first release, the EP Lethal Abuse, is a six track hit-and-run intent only on causing sonic decimation - luckily enough, the title track (and lead...

Out Of Rage • 20th May 2026

Rage Reviews: Recent Releases, May 20th 2026

After the release of Free, BEARTOOTH marked the start of a new era full of attitude as lead vocalist Caleb Shomo expressed himself as openly as he could. Pure Ecstasy is a violent continuation of that narrative, being unapologetically himself while raining absolute hell on the track. He lets rip with his vocals, screaming through the end of almost every line while insane beats and guitar riffs leave no survivors. The chorus takes a step back to that classic metalcore letting the melodies shine t...

Out Of Rage • 19th May 2026

REVIEW: BEAR - Anhedonia

The uproarious Belgian band BEAR are back and better than ever on latest EP Anhedonia, blending their groovy mind-melting mathcore with moments of calm, and violent whiplash between them. The four-piece recorded the entire thing live in the studio together, as one band playing with every ounce of energy you can feel in the music. Coming off of the back of a fantastic release in Vanta, it was going to be tough to top it but the Belgians have gone hell for leather on the follow-up, and clearly for...

Kerrang! • 5th May 2026

Album review: Portrayal Of Guilt – …Beginning Of The End

Texan underground heroes Portrayal Of Guilt have built a reputation for themselves over the past decade for searing, metallic screamo. Whether it be the slight blackened tint to their debut, or the sludge-imbued heaviness of recent efforts, they’ve always been embedded within that scene, but here they've taken their largest left turn yet on …Beginning Of The End, as they dive into previously untrodden territory and engulf themselves in the claustrophobic world of industrial.
Marking their most u...

Out Of Rage • 4th May 2026

REVIEW: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Towers of Silence

With a name that references a variety of works - from a song by VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR to a film by Robert Eggers, the band A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS are no strangers to taking influence from across the spectrum of art and culture. Based in Haarlem in the Netherlands, the group has garnered a reputation for unpredictable and intense live shows, all the while collaborating with plenty of other musicians.Now, they’ve come to the point of releasing their debut EP, named Towers of Silence. A t...

Out Of Rage • 4th May 2026

REVIEW: Frozen Soul - No Place of Warmth

The masters of old school death metal worship FROZEN SOUL are back and ready to get nasty. New record No Place of Warmth is all but upon us, so here’s a look into the next stage of life for the Dallas five piece.Opening into the pummelling title track, FROZEN SOUL have pulled all the stops out and, on this introduction to the album, have managed to coerce the iconic Gerard Way of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE to come and spew vitriolic verse. His black metal style is a fantastic departure from what we kno...

Kerrang! • 30th April 2026

Album review: sace6 – brutalist

As ego kicks in, it’s near impossible not to feel the duo shift up a gear. Readily attempting to batter the microphone into submission between soothing melodies, it’s one of the best examples of their incredible duality, followed up by another example in covet. Making a less aggressive start, the song’s intro marks a moment of respite halfway through the record before yet again battering down the studio doors.
Side two continues in this vein, with dolorous and nepenthe both opportunities for sac...

Kerrang! • 24th April 2026

Album review: The Prestige – Isthmos

Following up from last year’s phenomenal Amer, The Prestige clearly only have one intention: to better and batter it. With Isthmos, both aims have been resoundingly achieved. A post-hardcore band at heart, this album is an excursion into sludgy heaviness and post-metal atmosphere that somehow never becomes too much, even as it sits with all the weight of the world on its shoulders.
As delicately as intro Léthé enters, first track proper Debris acts as the wrecking ball to any sense of calm or...

Out Of Rage • 20th April 2026

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Nothing and Hitmen

On a night that joined two bands, one from each of Philadelphia and London, there was NOTHING to see at Hackney’s Moth Club. Supported by local band HITMEN for two nights - this being the second of the two - the American shoegaze icons took to the cosy confines of the East London venue to entertain and impress on equal measure. The gold glittered ceiling sparkled in anticipation as various punters grabbed a Red Stripe on tap as we waited for both bands to step on stage, and as the venue filled a...

Out Of Rage • 9th April 2026

REVIEW: Melvins with Napalm Death - Savage Imperial Death March

Coming to your speakers tomorrow is a true collaboration from two truly legendary acts within heavy music. MELVINS and NAPALM DEATH have joined forces to create a band built out of some of their current members in order to bring to life this amalgam of noise, sludge, unease and riffs. Taking the name Savage Imperial Death March from the two tours of the same name in 2016 and 2025, the album is the first studio project to be given that same moniker. The album was recorded at the MELVINS’ Los Ange...

Kerrang! • 7th April 2026

The big review: Takedown Festival 2026

‘Rest in peace Phil Campbell’ is one of the defining statements of this year’s Takedown Festival. Announced as headliner, then having to withdraw due to illness, before suddenly passing away in a tragically short space of time, the Motörhead legend left an indelible mark on heavy music, so much so that it’s been decided that the Kerrang! Stage that he should have headlined will be named after him on the Friday, in salute.
However, even with such a loss, there is much to celebrate over this weeke...

Kerrang! • 31st March 2026

Album review: Knumears – Directions

The somewhat under-represented skramz scene has been blossoming for some time now, throwing back to the screamo sounds of the ’90s and early 2000s. With this has come the inevitability that a fantastic new band would, eventually, explode out into the wider world of heavy music. Knumears could be that band.
Armed with a plethora of hoarse shrieks and frantic guitar lines, and joined by legendary producer Jack Shirley – most notable for producing Deafheaven’s acclaimed Sunbather – the trio mould t...

Out Of Rage • 23rd March 2026

REVIEW: Chamber - this is goodbye...

The Nashville five-piece CHAMBER are back with a vengeance. Releasing their debut full length Cost Of Sacrifice in 2020 and following up with 2023’s A Love To Kill For, it comes time for their third full length to obliterate the ear drums of any and all in their way. Enter this is goodbye…, a pummelling piece of metallic hardcore mosh music that dares all comers to step to the plate and make a mess of the nearest jaw.Forged in the fire of the daily grind under the permanent uncertainty and lack...

Out Of Rage • 12th March 2026

REVIEW: Lamb Of God - Into Oblivion

There are plenty of bands whose music must constantly evolve to feel noteworthy, or for the band themselves to be able to stay in the public eye. Some acts may feel that their relevance will diminish without constantly updating and reevaluating their sound, as if their identity must be fluid and free to appeal correctly. However, LAMB OF GOD does not. Not only does the band consistently keep their sonic style within the same rough vein as that in which they started, they are very very good at th...

Out Of Rage • 4th March 2026

REVIEW: Grail Guard - Still No Future

Hailing from the West Midlands comes a new British hardcore punk band with something to prove: GRAIL GUARD are steaming out of Coventry with spittle-flecked lyricism, shouting down the ridiculous yet sadly deep-rooted racism found among Britain’s streets, crying out for a change, and hoping for better for everyone who needs it. Debut album Still No Future takes its name from the infamous track No Future - released by the SEX PISTOLS in 1977 and yet still ringing true, it’s a fitting name for an...

Out Of Rage • 25th February 2026

LIVE FROM THE PIT: La Dispute, Vs Self and PIJN

Camden’s Electric Ballroom has been the location for many an amazing show - acts across the entire range of musical sound have played there, with pop and punk and heavy metal and hip hop and more all having been represented within its storied walls. Amongst those genres is post-hardcore, and the Michigan band LA DISPUTE are surely one of the most consistent and well-loved bands within the genre. All the way from their debut full-length in 2006, to the release of what’s become arguably their bigg...

Kerrang! • 24th February 2026

Album review: The Gloom In The Corner – Royal Discordance

At the crossroads between anime intros, guitars the size of mountains, John Wick films and wild storylines, you’ll find Aussies The Gloom In The Corner. Penning a story that has Australia under tyrannical rule, the album continues where previous release Trinity and 2024’s single The Jericho Protocol left off to spin a tale of revolution, death, destruction and revenge across 50 minutes.
Setting up both the in-music story and the sonic journey comes The Problem With Apocalyptic Tyranny, a harsh,...

Out Of Rage • 10th February 2026

REVIEW: Angel Du$t - COLD 2 THE TOUCH

ANGEL DU$T are a true underground gem, having been releasing fantastic music for a decade and playing for even longer. With a roster of current and former members as long as the average football team, they’re a true hardcore punk project of DIY community love, and that exact idea pervades new record COLD 2 THE TOUCH - from new members joining, to old members still helping write, and a number of exquisite guest appearances, the list of contributors is seemingly never ending.New to the fold are gu...

Out Of Rage • 10th February 2026

REVIEW: RONKER - Respect The Hustle, I Won't Be Your Dog Forever

For those unaware of the Belgian heavy music scene, here’s a band worth your time that might help introduce you to some of what’s in store - RONKER play a brand of adrenaline-fuelled punk rock that they’ve labelled speed noise, a pretty apt descriptor for music that’s as fast as it is abrasive. RONKER’s sophomore effort comes in the form of the album Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever, and it’s a great slice of everything both the band, and the Belgian punk scene, have to offer - so...

Out Of Rage • 28th January 2026

LIVE FROM THE PIT: Cryptopsy, 200 Stab Wounds, Inferi and Corpse Pile

Death metal is a much-maligned subgenre outside of heavy circles. Heck, even within heavy music it tends to be the butt of plenty of jokes, and routinely gets overlooked as an unserious sound. However, back in 1996, amidst the strongest period of releases death metal has ever had, CRYPTOPSY released an LP that has since come to define a more niche version of the subgenre - None So Vile became the benchmark for potent technical death metal, and to this day is still hung at the very top of what th...