The current single from The New Flesh has a cold heart and an old soul. With its echoes of Depeche Mode and Gary Numan the bleak electronica is guaranteed to take the over 50s listener back to their youth, but this Polish duo aren’t resolutely stuck in the past.
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Watch: Afternoon Astronauts share new video for ‘Times Like These’ ahead of debut album
Afternoon Astronauts is a relatively new name for 2025, but ahead of the release of their debut album, their single ‘Times Like These’ suggests that the band are about to click with an audience of melodic, heavy riff lovers in a rather big way.
Watch: Check out ‘A Stone’s Throw’, the new video from Soho Dukes (featuring Spike Gray)
At the beginning of October 2025, Soho Dukes released ‘Sunday Magazines’, an unashamedly British sounding single that celebrated the past with a namecheck for Whispering Bob Harris and a rollocking arrangement that borrowed liberally from Mott The Hoople and early Quireboys. With a vocal hook on loan from Cockney Rebel, it was anything but subtle, but in terms of pushing those “feel good” buttons, the Dukes served up a winner.
Listen: The Last Bastion deliver a rallying cry on new single ‘Legion of The Damned’
In June 2025, Brit metallers The Last Bastion released their debut album ‘Who We Are’, a collection of songs driven by defiantly old school riffs. The songs may well have paid homage to the genre’s forefathers, and the material often sounded like something from the late 80s, but at its heart, the album had a lot of power. The ghosts of the slower, black album era Metallica cut through some of ‘Screaming In Silence’s heavier moments; a massive twin lead guitar creating a vital musical hook during ‘Medusa’ drew influence from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal but, when presented with a slower, heavier edge, also gave a nod to Slayer’s slow numbers, and that track’s featured solo showed how tight the band could be when delivering a raft of fretboard melting sounds. Perhaps most importantly, the huge crunch present during the slower parts of ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ suggested The Last Bastion would be a force of nature in a live setting.
Acid Bath to play in the UK for the first time ever!
In 1994, just before the arrival of KoRn and the rise of what would soon be dubbed “nu metal”, the US metal scene was already thriving. Thrash had started to wain, but a whole world of band’s plying doom, sludge and hardcore elements helped to keep music fans of a heavier persuasion more than entertained.