Trivium and In Flames have officially announced a massive UK and European run for spring 2027, and somehow the support lineup makes this thing even crazier: Paleface Swiss and VOLA are coming along for every date.

The breakdown has become one of the defining ingredients of metalcore. Slow the tempo, strip everything back, let the guitars hit like bricks, and suddenly the pit has doubled in size. But some breakdowns are bigger than others. These five didn't just hit hard, they helped define what generations of heavy music would sound and feel like.

Around this time in 1991, Nirvana were in the studio working on what would become Nevermind, an album that didn’t just succeed, it completely flipped the rock world upside down.

Before Blink-182 became one of the defining bands of modern pop-punk, they were just three kids from Southern California with skate parks, cheap gear, and a shared obsession with fast, loud, funny music. Their story isn’t a straight line, it’s full of breakups, reinventions, and some of the most iconic songs of the late ’90s and 2000s.

There are bands that start with a plan, a meeting, maybe even a name before the first note is played. Wasted Society wasn’t one of them.

Before the stadiums, before the headlines, Guns N’ Roses were just another hungry band fighting for attention on the Sunset Strip in mid-’80s Los Angeles.

Music doesn’t survive by playing it safe, and Bring Me the Horizon has built an entire career on proving that. Every time you think you’ve figured them out, they flip the script, change the sound, and somehow come back bigger. This isn’t luck. It’s strategy.

Every band has a starting point, a basement, a few amps, and a reason to play. For Feral Union, that story begins back in 2016.

There was a time when bands made money the “traditional” way: sell records, sell out shows, repeat. Simple. Predictable. Sustainable. That time is gone. Today, streaming dominates the music industry, but for most artists, it’s not paying the bills. In fact, it’s doing the opposite.

Francesca’s story with the guitar started almost before she could walk. Her love for music skyrocketed when a childhood encounter with rock icons turned into a lifelong dream.

Pop-punk never really dies, it just waits for the right moment to come crashing back in. And right now, that moment belongs to New Found Glory.

For more than two decades, the Vans Warped Tour wasn’t just a concert, it was a summer ritual for fans of punk, pop-punk, skate culture, and alternative music. Loud stages, dusty parking lots, and endless lines of band merch created a traveling community that shaped an entire generation of music fans.

The rock and metal world lost one of its most trusted riff architects on March 13, 2026, when Phil Campbell, longtime guitarist of Motörhead, passed away at the age of 64 following complications after a major operation.

Sometimes it’s not the notes that matter most, it’s what happens between them. Meet The Space Between, from Ottawa, Ontario.

With the release of her debut EP Shattered, Taryn Haze isn’t just introducing herself as an artist, she’s opening a deeply personal chapter.

Some artists meticulously plan every note. Others let instinct take the wheel. Derek Morris lives firmly in the second camp, a creator fueled by emotion, raw honesty, and the belief that music can genuinely help people. His sound blends punk rock energy, hip-hop attitude, and acoustic vulnerability into something unmistakably his own.

Walk into any guitar shop, grab a guitar off the wall, plug into an amp… and there it is. That feeling. The uncontrollable urge to play those first few notes. Before you even finish the phrase, you sense it, someone behind the counter looks up. A staff member appears. The air shifts. You stop playing. Congratulations. You’ve just encountered the legend of the Forbidden Riff.

On January 7th 1971, Black Sabbath released Paranoid in the United States, an album that didn’t just follow their debut, but set the blueprint for heavy metal. Originally released in the UK in 1970, Paranoid crossed the Atlantic and quickly established Sabbath as one of the heaviest, most uncompromising bands in rock history.

Justus Hajas found his escape through guitar at a young age, turning chaos into creativity. Blending metal, experimental tones, and unexpected influences like hyperpop, his sound is constantly evolving. From shaping his tone with Soldano amp sims to pushing boundaries with synth pedals, Justus is always chasing the next idea. This artist spotlight dives into his journey, mindset, and what’s fueling his music today.

Hailing from Chico, California, Bloodsugar is an alt-rock band fueled by distortion, vulnerability, and catharsis.