Mad About Rock

  Brighton three-piece MONOVOID bring a fresh approach to heavy music with a debut built on riffs, experimentation and years of shared musical experience. MONOVOID release their debut album, Dissolving the Brain, on Friday 27th November, with a new video for Ruinous Belief arriving on Friday 20th November. For now, check out their last video for 'Conspirator', here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNAxMEnnuw Formed in Brighton in 2024, Tom Humphrey, Brian Thomas and Guillaume Croizon came together with a simple aim: to get back to playing the heavy music they had once fallen in love with, while using everything they had learned through years of playing, writing and recording. Their music pulls from Mastodon's progressive heaviness, Meshuggah's rhythmic complexity, Converge's aggression and Gojira's weight, while drawing on a much wider range of heavy music. The point has never been to fit neatly into one genre, but to combine the elements they enjoy into som...

  Athens thrash metal band Eternal have premiered the new music video for “Man Down (In the Front Row)”, the latest track taken from their forthcoming debut album, Conspiracy of Warheads, due for release through Floga Records on 2 October 2026. Watch the new video here: https://youtu.be/v7b7tYMsnOU A fast, direct account of the chaos surrounding live music and touring, “Man Down (In the Front Row)” captures crowded venues, loud amplifiers, late nights and the consequences that can follow. The track offers another side of a debut album otherwise driven by themes of war, government manipulation, conformity, violence and psychological pressure. Across ten tracks, Conspiracy of Warheads channels the speed, precision and political distrust of ’80s thrash into a record shaped by Eternal’s own experiences as a young band developing through writing, recording and extensive live performance. Since forming in Athens in 2022, Eternal have shared stages with Suicidal Angels, Amken, Karma Vi...

  Scottish alt-rockers STAY FOR TOMORROW have released their new single and video, 'Nonsense', out now. The track is taken from their forthcoming album, 'When Hope’s Gone', due Friday 25th September. Check out the video for Nonsense, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdj-ROonnQ Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf "I feel a song that has influenced part of our sound and the way we write music is Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf. You might think that’s an unusual choice, but I feel we aim to bring that same anthemic and theatrical feel to our songs, with big production and a sense of scale. No two songs are the same, and we always try to make each one as big and full as possible. We really focus on getting the most out of the production and theatrical elements, which helps give our music its own identity and makes our sound difficult to pin down" - Gemma  Wickham - (Piano/Synth/Bass Synth/Backing Vocals) Blind Man by Black Stone Cherry "Black Stone Cherry have ...

  Brit alternative rock duo LOST VELVET drop their debut album Dark Cells, out on Friday 4th September. Mixed by Michael Patterson, whose credits include Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Puscifer, Dark Cells finds LOST VELVET somewhere between post-rock atmosphere, shoegaze haze and industrial unease — combining distorted guitars, darkwave textures, subtle electronics and intertwined vocals. We exclusively caught up with the band and asked for this track by track breakdown of the album: 2003 “2003” blends shimmering guitar, enthralling piano and commanding drums into an almost euphoric dream-pop pull before collapsing into waves of dark rock, dissonance and unsettling tension. Built around sharp dynamic shifts between light and heavy, the track captures the spiral of unspoken thoughts and the feeling of becoming lost inside your own head." Dark Cells “Dark Cells” is the heaviest and most immersive track on the album, combining thunderous guitars, hypnotic dual vocals and shadow...

  Brit heavyweights XENITH are close to unleashing their debut album, 'To No Avail', on Friday 28th August, which showcases their deadly blend of melodic death metal and thrash. Ahead of the album release, they have dropped new single/video 'Incite The Tragedy'. See the video for the track below. We exclusively asked the band to give us the top five tracks that have greatly influenced their sound and debut offering: Opeth - The Moor "The influence of Opeth on Xenith can’t go overstated. They really showed me  that you can incorporate as many influences as you want into a song and still  make it cohesive. The Moor in particular really inspired us to open our album  with a folky acoustic passage." Panopticon - A Superior Lament "Similar to Opeth, Panopticon is another band that really helped me think less about staying within confined genres. A Superior Lament opens with such a ballsy riff but its also so beautifully melancholic, this was key inspirat...

  British alt-rock icons Mallory Knox have officially released “Afterglow”, their brand new single featuring original frontman Mikey Chapman. Marking their first studio release since original lead vocalist Mikey Chapman rejoined the band, ‘Afterglow’ serves as the opening statement for a forthcoming collection of new material written and recorded over the past year. Marking a bold new era for the band - now comprised of Chapman alongside core members James Gillett and Dave Rawling - “Afterglow" carries deep personal significance for the band, tracing back to the very moment they decided to reunite. "Afterglow is the very first song Dave, James and I jammed out after deciding to write again as a band," shares lead vocalist Mikey. "The song reflects the anticipation, excitement and hope we found in those initial moments as we brought the band back to life. Lyrically, I wanted to embody the mantra that I had been telling myself for some time at that point - that there ...

  You aren’t ready for this! Aussie extreme metal cohort King Parrot, will be returning to European and UK shores, bringing their no holds barred, off kilter live experience in September, supporting their new album “A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot”. The last time we welcomed the quietus quartet, they were decimating stadiums nationwide and all over Europe opening for Pantera and Power Trip in 2025. In the summer of 2026, the boys from down under are excited to announce their return with a late summer run of headline shows all over Europe and the UK. The new album has received a rousing reception by the metal community with tracks like “Fuck You and the Horse You Rode In On” and “It’s A Rort” and their accompanying videos being lapped up by old and new fans alike. King Parrot recently completed a monstrous 39 date US tour alongside Gwar and Soulfly and are firing on all cylinders leading up to their return to the UK and Europe. Most recently the band have enlisted the services...