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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

"If there was ever a Bluetooth speaker born to play Crazy Train, this is it": Marshall Bromley 450 party speaker review

<p>Scott has spent 35 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving into e-commerce in 2020. Scott keeps Louder’s buyer’s guides up to date, writes about the best deals for music fans, keeps on top of the latest tech releases and reviews headphones, speakers, earplugs and more for Louder. Over the last 10 years, Scott has written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog. He's previously written for publications including IGN, Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to tech reviews, video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, The Tragically Hip, Marillion and Rush.</p>

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Iron Maiden's first ever festival is a triumph and a true celebration of one of heavy metal's most storied bands

<p>Merlin moved into his role as Executive Editor of Louder in early 2022, following over ten years working at Metal Hammer. While there, he served as Online Editor and Deputy Editor, before being promoted to Editor in 2016. Before joining Metal Hammer, Merlin worked as Associate Editor at Terrorizer Magazine and has previously written for the likes of Classic Rock, Rock Sound, eFestivals and others. Across his career he has interviewed legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Metallica, Iron Maiden (including getting a trip on Ed Force One courtesy of Bruce Dickinson), Guns N' Roses, KISS, Slipknot, System Of A Down and Meat Loaf. He has also presented and produced the Metal Hammer Podcast, presented the Metal Hammer Radio Show and is probably responsible for 90% of all nu metal-related content making it onto the site. </p>

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

"I said, 'Look, everyone knows you’ve got vodka in the water bottle. Get it together and get on stage'." The Rolling Stones share their memories of the late Amy Winehouse

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

"It seems pretty evident that he's going to be a major player very soon. We might have a star on our hands." Merging grime, metal and buckets of charisma, Native James showed Download he just might be the future of alternative music

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

"One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

"On our first tour one of the venues burned down, and the cops would shut things down." Police raids, burned down venues and murderous rednecks: The story of the band who defined metalcore for a generation

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

“We soaked up all of this great music and that song has bits of all of that – that open-stringed riff that Sepultura, Machine Head and Slipknot were famous for”: How a group of Florida teenagers wrote the anthem that gave mid-2000s metal a shot in the arm

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

“I was feeling a bit despondent because Free had broken up. I met a lady who was Brazilian and she said: ‘Come down and stay with me’”: How a supergroup formed from the ashes of one of the UK’s greatest bands wrote one of rock’s ultimate outlaw anthems

Bad Company posing for a photograph in the 1970s

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

“I was in an airport and these people went: ‘Hey Steve! Thumbs up, man! Tony Soprano loves Journey!’ It was amazing”: This multi-million selling rock singer disappeared from music for more than 20 years. It took a personal tragedy to bring him back

Steve Perry of Journey posing for a photograph in 1980

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

“My mantra for this record is, ‘Could AI have come up with it?’ If the answer is yes, then I ditch it”: Why Steven Wilson’s new album is designed to be slightly shambolic

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

"When you listen to The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Sabbath, Zeppelin...it would have ruined them!" The one thing from today's music that would have screwed up countless classic albums, according to legendary metal guitarist Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde on a couch next to one of his guitars

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

"They're lining up six hours before the show. They just scream when you go out on stage as if it's Beatlemania." Nine Inch Nails and Korn love them and they might have invented metal's sleaziest subgenre. This is the story of Health

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

“I didn’t expect him to get busted in that bathroom. But his misfortune actually helped us. We couldn’t have asked for more of a buzz!”: How an unexpected arrest accidentally gave Limp Bizkit their big break

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

“We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

"Everyone was talking about the effect that YouTube has had on their life. They were all really fascinated with each other." How a song born out of frustration helped Weezer create a GRAMMY-winning portrait of a pivotal moment in Internet history

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

"We can't wait to see you all" Skunk Anansie, Joan Jett, Interpol & more have been announced as the supports for My Chemical Romance's shows in the UK and Europe next Summer

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

“In America you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on picketing the gigs. I said: ‘Who are they here for?’ And they said: ‘You!’”: The unholy AC/DC classic that riled the religious right – and marked the tragic end of an era

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

"I get a message from my sister: 'Hey, I’m getting chased down the street by the riot patrol. They have the K9 unit.'" From getting the police called on their rabid crowds to becoming Australia's best live band, the incredible rise of Parkway Drive

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

"One guy brought his mom’s ashes in an envelope and asked me to help him spread them after the show." Mortuary science, late night chats with Lemmy and a Butcher Babies exit led Carla Harvey to realise her true calling with The Violent Hour

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

“Me and Taylor sat down, and she says, ‘I can’t sing that line’, cos it was a bit too risqué”: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on duetting with the teenage Taylor Swift on an 80s rock classic - and the raunchy lyric they had to change

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

“There is some really bad-ass stuff on that album”: This legendary alt-metal band are sitting on an album recorded at the height of their success – but it may never come out

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

"Thank you for a lifetime of beauty, horror, love, power, happiness, melancholy." Soundgarden salute the "majestic brilliance" of Black Sabbath, and say they were "super bummed" at not being able to play the band's Back To The Beginning show

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

"Futique is an exploration of ideas, objects or relationships that exist across time." Biffy Clyro announce new album Futique

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

Watch 90s pop crew Vengaboys pull an insane crowd at Download, the UK's biggest rock and metal festival

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

"Number 6. Demanded starting every rehearsal with a 20 minute cowbell sound bath." Ex-Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese shares his 'Top 10 possible reasons Freese got booted from the Foos' list

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 09/04/2025

"Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 31/03/2025

"John Paul Jones' production rounds the edges a little but that's not necessarily a good thing": The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

Gentle Giant share brand new live video for Free Hand ahead of the release Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience in May

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

"There are some things AI can’t replace, and that is drinking two-litre bottles of cider and ****ing yourself in a field." We're going to miss Ithaca dearly, and this interview with Djamila Azzoz shows why

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

“There were death threats flying around. They were burning my effigy at punk bonfires”: The tumultuous story of Peaceville Records, the underground label that helped shape extreme metal

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Rock, Metal, Alternative Music & Culture [Unofficial] @loudersound.com.web.brid.gy · 25/01/2025

“Walk into a strip joint and nine times out of 10 you’ll hear this song. It brings tears to my eyes”: The chaotic story of Girls, Girls, Girls, the album that almost killed Motley Crue

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