• How metal music has stunted its own growth

    You hear a lot about artists in varying genres truly taking their sound or their area of music to a whole other level. Be it through lyrical meaning, album structure or perhaps just their exceptional execution, artists like Kendrick Lamar (for hip hop) or Ed Sheeran (for pop) are...
  • Festival Review: Download 2016

    Last weekend Donington seemed to face the seven plagues of Egypt, or at least enough water to flood a thousand deserts. Despite this, there wasn’t an exodus if anything people flocked to the hallowed grounds. Perhaps due to the opportunity to see some of the greatest metal bands on...
  • Preview: Download Festival 2016

    Returning to the hallowed grounds of Donington for its fourteenth year, the UK’s biggest rock and metal festival looks set to become a three-day haven for everything heavy this June. Boasting the strongest line-up yet across its four stages it is undeniable that there is something for all fans...
  • Our 25 Favourite Album Covers Of 2015

    ‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, so the adage goes – but they never said anything about music. For anyone who saw the marvellous interview Noisey conducted with cover designer Stefan Sagmeister earlier this year, the preciousness and joy in classic album art cannot be underestimated. Stefan himself...