Turbulent Music

With the band rounding out their UK tour to promote their fifth and perhaps most diverse album, "Loss," the mixed crowd is telling of just how far Gaerea have evolved, from their black metal origins to a wider appeal incorporating clean, atmospheric vocals and melodies, while still giving long-time fans their fill of blast beats and heavy vocals.

Winter At Sea's performance wasn't about volume, spectacle or instant gratification. It was about patience, interplay and atmosphere. In the intimate surroundings of The Camden Club, those qualities found exactly the space they needed.

The Fierce & The Dead - Regional Theatre album review. Sixteen years into their career, The Fierce & The Dead remain gloriously difficult to categorise. Regional Theatre finds the London quintet at their heaviest and most melodic, combining dense riffs with experimental textures without sacrificing their trademark unpredictability.

Winter At Sea - Hearts EP Review. Across one 20-minute release divided into five movements, the London collective Winter At Sea move between eerie stillness and mounting turbulence, producing their most assured and ambitious work to date.

Four days of glorious alternative music and a number of farewells as ArcTanGent is hosted at Fernhill Farm for the last time. Photos by Charlotte Bates @turbulent_music ArcTangent gallery link here Across four days at Fernhill Farm, the UK’s most adventurous heavy festival again proved that its greatest strength is not simply its booking of big names but also the way those names sit beside the obscure, the experimental, the devastatingly heavy and the utterly unique without

Westside Cowboy – 'It Goes On' Album Review. For a band crowned one of Britain’s most exciting new guitar prospects after winning Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition and building a tremendous reputation on the live circuit, the temptation to overcomplicate their debut must have been substantial. Instead, the Manchester quartet have delivered an album that understands the power of good guitar, a memorable melody and four musicians who genuinely sound like they have a dee

2000trees 2026 review. Four days, a very sunburnt community and countless hidden gems. Welcome back to 2000trees After another year of amazing live music, 2000Trees refused to let anything dampen the weekend, including temperatures hitting a scorching 36 degrees. If anything, it reinforced why this festival has become the gold standard for alternative music in the UK.

From multiple Grammy wins to anonymity, we speak with SusAF about the vision behind it ahead of the release of the latest track.