FEATURES

Nottingham's Mangata Festival returns for a fifth year. Over the years they have hosted some Noizze favourites such as Hidden Mothers, Boss Keloid, Cage Fight & more. But who are the 9 bands we think you should see this weekend? Words by Pete Wall.

Now we're all recovered from ArcTanGent (we'll miss you, Fernhill Farm) it's time to look back on all the great new music that released over the past fortnight!

Back with a vengeance on their second LP, The World Splits Open, we sat down with punk-metallers Hawxx to discuss the themes and topics found within the incendiary and radically political release.

It's been a scorching few days so we figured, why not add to the heat? Here's the best tracks you need to hear from the last two weeks.

The new single and video from DazGak! feels like kick-flipping into oncoming traffic and waking up in the year 2010. We’re stoked to premiere it.

This year saw the Outbreak team expand their event calendar from a three-day festival in Manchester to also hosting a one-off all-dayer with Bring Me The Horizon. If that wasn’t enough, they are now set to bring Deftones to the All Points East site. The line-up is wildly stacked, and, while most attendees will be there to catch headliners Deftones and IDLES, there are five acts we think you should make a point of seeing.

It’s August, which means this year’s ArcTanGent is finally upon us. In the words of a certain someone, we go again.

Featuring everything from gnarly crossover thrash to sunny ambience, heavy metal to glitchy hyperpop metalcore, here's our top 12 tunes of the week you should add to your playlists.

Radar Festival takes over Manchester's Victoria Warehouse from 31 July - 2 August. We've picked out the bands you won't want to miss across this weekend! Words by Andy Calderbank and Vee Richardson.

If you saw this last week, no you didn't - but here's a catch up of all the best tracks from the last fortnight!

The newly formed Soft Curse lay a dark curtain of gloom metal upon Santa Rosa, California. Ahead of the release of their debut album Liminal Ritual, we sat down with vocalist/guitarist Jonny Andrew to talk about the origins of the band and why they chose to push themselves in this new direction.

If you were at 2000 Trees melting in the heat, or if you were simply at home melting in the heat, here's some more heat, but the good kind. Our picks of the best tracks from the last fortnight.