MoshMallow release “Hey, Little Rotting Rat” video ahead of Pretoria Wacken heat
Southern African metal supergroup Ductone launch debut single “Apostles Of A Cancer”
All This For Nothing will not play Baileys Bedfordview tonight
Maddox Theory share video for “The Veil Unfolds When I Speak”
Myrath release ‘Wilderness of Mirrors’
Poisoned Blood: “Metal is no longer just a Western-world thing.”
Devil Empire: “We had to create our own space”
Into the Evernight on home ground, two-city nights, and where Casablanca metal stands now
Cantrel on playing Nirvana: “No one could ever sound like Kurt again”
Old School: Morocco’s metal veterans ready to ignite Tracktour
Pretoria steps up: Wacken Metal Battle hits Railways
Aandklas awaits: Three bands step into Cape Town’s next Wacken Battle
Souhaib Louati on 2Worlds Speaks Metal and giving Arab bands the coverage they deserve
Rumours Heat: Four bands on what they are bringing into Johannesburg’s next Wacken battle
Low End Violence proves smaller, intimate Metal Gigs are worth going to
“I always play unique solos”: Tim Harbour on finding his voice through guitar in Mad God
Primordial Black’s Yasser Mahammedi Bouzina: “I needed to build my own sonic world”
“Many ideas begin when I’m alone with a guitar” – Raven S. E. on building his sound in Pagan Ulver
Libya’s Jonathan Steel and the sound of release
Tinariwen “Hoggar”
Chovu “Ufalme Wa Mali”
Tombstone “Spiders Sting Harder Than Their Masters”
Poisoned Blood “African Metal United”
Lomor “Sabouk rouge”
All Nine Yards find the heart of “Violet”
Tårfödd: “Music should never be replaced by AI. It is something I am strongly against, and honestly afraid of.”
RIKET give Sweden’s buried history a voice
“The riffs decide”: Marcus Hammarstrom on Sterbhaus and ‘Next Akin to Chaos’
Soultrace on “Ghost of Liberty”, unequal worlds, and writing with purpose
