Mastodon are the prog metallers that it’s ok for everyone to like. Selling two million copies of their last album proves this. They have a new one - Crack The Skye - coming out in 2009. Hugh Platt stopped by to chat to them about it.

“I didn’t drink any blood this year. Did you?” Mastodon [...]

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Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has unleashed his own punk rock band, Jackson United. George Fernandez has a chat to him about being the frontman now and dodgy tattoo-oriented ‘facts’ on the internet.

You are in and have been in several bands of varying stature but Jackson United seems to be the one where you are [...]

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After explaining just why Paramore’s Hayley Williams is ace, the next installment of Hell’s Belles sees Emma Edmondson pondering the disappearance of one of the staples of a rock show’s backstage: the groupie.

Sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. It’s an age-old sought after dream more weathered and decrepid than Jordan’s shrinking silicone tits. Boys [...]

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Bloodstock is the perfect excuse to roll around in a field listening to heavy metal and swilling paper cups of crap lager. Hugh Platt reports from the fattest, ugliest and most ridiculous festival in the UK.

“It’s a European-style festival, only in the UK,” is how Vicky Gregory, one of the Directors of Bloodstock, describes the [...]

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With the football season fast approaching, Gareth Dobson takes it upon himself to ponder the numerous parallels between the English Premier League’s finest and the rock world’s… finest. Some bands might call it soccer.

Following on from Part 1, quite naturally, is The 2009 Premier League vs Thrash Hits XX – Part 2.
We are mere hours [...]

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It’s been a great year for crossover rock/dance combo Pendulum. Having hit the charts and all the festivals with their latest album, Gillian Leschasin talks to Gareth McGrillen about life in one of the success stories of 2008.

If you’re heading to Halton, Reading, or Leeds next weekend then chances are you’re going to come across [...]

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Witchsorrow are one of those bands where you either like what they do or you have no idea that they exist. Mark McQueen talks to frontman Necroskull about what it is that they do and why.

It is perfectly understandable if you haven’t heard of Witchsorrow, they aren’t quite on the cover of Q magazine, or [...]

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It’s almost the end of the summer and the UK’s only proper metal festival is upon us again. Hugh Platt looks at the Bloodstock Open Air lineup and picks his top tips for the coming weekend’s musical mayhem.

BLOODSTOCK – even just written down, the word looks like it want to punch you in the face.
The [...]

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Bring Me The Horizon have always been fond of a little tour-time tomfoolery. Ryan Williams talks to them about life on the road and their new record, Suicide Season. Plus, watch the new video to ‘The Comedown’.

This autumn will see a deluge of brand new heavy metal albums. Slipknot and Trivium have been stealing all [...]

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Way back in spring 1999, once Kid Rock had already gone multi-platinum Stateside, the ‘All Summer Long’ star made his first trip to London. Ben Myers was there to conduct Kid Rock’s first ever UK interview.

What can you tell me about your early years as a crack dealer?
I was very fucking small time. I was [...]

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