Sam Law

Celebrating its tenth edition in 2024, Bristol’s ArcTanGent has grown from a defiantly DIY offshoot to one of the world’s great gatherings of alternative artists from far leftfield. Beyond bill-topping heavyweights Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai and Meshuggah, there are countless other weird and…

ArcTanGent brings home the bacon with a stellar 10th edition, as Mogwai, Meshuggah, Electric Wizard and more deliver the more unusual side of music to Bristol’s Fernhill Farm.

blink-182, The Prodigy, Spiritbox, Neck Deep and more bring the noise to Berkshire at Reading Festival 2024.

Swedish brutalists inject nu-metal swagger into their deathcore assault for nightmarishly serrated debut EXCESSIVE GUILT…

As the May bank holiday bonanza of all things pop-punk, emo and alternative begins to announce its biggest, best line-up ever for 2025, we look back on the sets that made Slam Dunk what it is today…

Following the death of Trevor Strnad in 2022, there was a real chance that The Black Dahlia Murder would call it a day. Rather than shattering the Michigan melodic death metallers, however, that tragedy bound the surviving members closer together, and spurred them to make 10th album Servitude a…

Doom trap disruptor Mimi Barks paints her big picture in blood red and burnt black on definitive debut LP THIS IS DOOM TRAP.

When Boston Manor set out on a two-album journey chronicling the post-pandemic crawl from darkness into light as it unfolded, it was an audacious gamble on their ability to get back on track. Finally crossing the line with sublime second part Sundiver, frontman Henry Cox reflects on the non-linear…

Jason Aalon keeps fighting the good fight on FEVER 333's overdue second album DARKER WHITE...

With A Day To Remember set to make their Slam Dunk debut next May, Jeremy McKinnon tells us about their UK return, this year’s mind-blowing headline dates in their home country, and where they’re at with new stuff…