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From The Underworld to Alexandra Palace. Twenty years of graft, of building, of refusing to stop. Our review of @MIWband's special Valentine's night show at Ally Pally is live now! 🔥🖤 Supports: @dayseeker & @makethemsuffer. Read the full review: ramzine.co.uk/reviews/motion…

Kiss of Death is a ferocious reminder of @myMotorhead's no-frills spirit. Read the news on the 20th anniversary edition of the band's 18th studio album, out 3rd July via BMG with a previously unreleased Lowlands 2007 live LP. ramzine.co.uk/news/motorhead…

It's all very well played and quite clever in places. Our review of Swedish proggers Agusa and their fourth live album Panacea, out 22nd May via @KarismaRecords. ★★★ ramzine.co.uk/reviews/swedis…

Bone-rattling death metal filled with dread and unnamed abominations that has the benefit of sounding out of time and place in the best way possible awaits. Our review of @defiledjapan's new LP Altered State, out June 12th via @SeasonofMist. ★★★★ ramzine.co.uk/reviews/album-…

.@hypocrisyband took to the skies and continued the last stages of their invasion before returning to their homeworld. Swedish melodeath legends were in Manchester with Vomitory and Vried in tow. ramzine.co.uk/reviews/hypocr… 📷: @BananaJazzMedia AKA Chris Ryan ✍🏼: @LamestreamLydia

Hardcore chaos at Aatma Manchester as Full Contact headline a beatdown night with Nelson St., 300 Blackout and Black Mould. "Bruised, bloody (in some cases!), but happy." ramzine.co.uk/reviews/full-c… ✍: @_clickclickbang 📷: Ze // DieVomit Media #UKHC #Hardcore

Erm WHAT... @DragonForce have announced @AWhiteGluz as their newest member and first frontwoman. Debut performances at Welcome To Rockville (May 9) and Sonic Temple (May 17) coincide with the 20th anniversary of Inhuman Rampage. We really like this! 🐉🔥 ramzine.co.uk/news/alissa-wh…

.@MIWband announce new album Decades, out 17th July via Roadrunner Records, and team up with Corey Taylor on ferocious new single 'Playing God'! As soon as the track kicks in, your hair gets blown straight backwards. It's that intense! 🖤😀🤘ramzine.co.uk/news/motionles…

"Proper classic two-tone ska" — Steppin' Razor Blades release their debut album Stay Sharp on 22nd May via Screaming @ScreamingCrowRx Records. Founded by River City Rebels frontman Dan 'Bopper' O'Day. Read the full RAMzine review: ramzine.co.uk/reviews/two-to… #SteppinRazorBlades #Ska

This band gets better with every album they produce — @blackveilbrides return on 8th May with their seventh album Vindicate via @Spinefarm, featuring Robb Flynn of @MfnH and Lilith Czar. Read the full RAMzine review: ramzine.co.uk/reviews/black-… #BlackVeilBrides #Vindicate

"Underoath, Static Dress and Holding Absence have genuinely changed my life." Sydney post-hardcore four-piece Closure on the bands that shaped them. On The Radar with the band behind new single 'Empty Hands' 🖤 ramzine.co.uk/featured/on-th… #Closure #OnTheRadar

It's not long now until @SlamDunkMusic Festival! 👀😁🤘 If you want to tick hearing 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' off your bucket list, get yourself down to Main Stage West, or fear waiting another ten years! ramzine.co.uk/news/slam-dunk…

Issue #3 of This Week in Rock & Metal is live. 📨 Inside: 🤘 Why Iron Maiden's EddFest is the legacy tour blueprint 🎸 Sevendust's first UK headline tour in 8 years 💀 Damnation Festival's stacked 2026 bill 🎁 Win a Bon Jovi Funko Pop Read & subscribe 👇 open.substack.com/pub/ramzine/p/…

Win this 🎁 A Bon Jovi 'Slippery When Wet' Funko Pop is up for grabs in this week's This Week in our Rock & Metal newsletter. Just be subscribed by Sunday 10 May, midnight, and you're in. Subscribe here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/ramzine/p/…

A room full of strangers bellowing lyrics back at a band in unison distils the whole point of live music into its purest form! Our review of @SolenceOfficial at Manchester Academy 3, with support from @DreamStateUK and @writtenbywolves. ramzine.co.uk/reviews/solenc…

North East UK horror punk and rock outfit Hellbound Heist have unleashed their new single 'Santa Carla', a track that leans hard into the band's spookiness whilst showcasing exactly why their underground aesthetic is so distinctive! 🖤 ramzine.co.uk/news/hellbound…

Rock Hard Festival Greece has revealed the first wave of bands confirmed for this year's edition. Angra perform Holy Land, Stratovarius deliver a 90s set, Dirkschneider play ACCEPT tracks. September 2026 in Athens! @RHfestivalGR ramzine.co.uk/news/rock-hard…

Three decades into their career, @godsmack have released a brand new live album. Live at Mohegan Sun, out today via Primary Wave, captures the band's sold out October 2024 performance at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut. ramzine.co.uk/reviews/godsma…

Pop punk trailblazers @maydayparade have released 'Blame It On The Youth', the first taste of the third instalment of their trilogy album series celebrating the band's 20th anniversary. ramzine.co.uk/news/mayday-pa…

GRAMMY-nominated metal icons @Sevendust have unleashed their 15th studio album One, out now via @NapalmRecords. The Atlanta quintet have also confirmed their first UK headline tour in eight years, kicking off this December! ramzine.co.uk/news/sevendust…

.@damnationfest have added three more heavyweight names to their 2026 bill. Post metal standouts Pelican, mathcore extremists Frontierer and black metal experimentalists Krallice all make their festival debut at this year's edition. ramzine.co.uk/news/pelican-f…