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Top 20 Albums of 2025: Out Of Rage Picks

As a long and tumultuous year draws itself to a close, we all tend to look back across that very year and reminisce. For some, they may look back at wonderful memories of their friends or family, or perhaps a beautiful place they visited, or even a brilliant new experience they had - but here at Out Of Rage, we don't care at all about any of that. We scrapped the family photos, forgot the weekends away, and don't recall a single experience OTHER than listening to all of the best music that came...
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New Blood and New Perspectives: The Best of Out of Rage 2025

2025 has been a massive year for Out of Rage; we've had larger shows, broader coverage, and most importantly, a whole host of new contributors joining us, many of whom had their first experience shooting gigs or writing album reviews. As the end of the year draws close, we asked our new writers and photographers: what's been their favourite part about joining Out of Rage?Joining Out of Rage has given me so much experience as a writer and photographer. It's opened my eyes to a whole new world wit...
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Gig Review: Wheatus / Thomas Nicholas - SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow (26th November 2025)

For the past 25 years, WHEATUS have been living with the strange blessing and curse of writing a song that never goes away. Rather than shy away from it, they have turned their ‘25th Anniversary’ tour into a celebration of the debut album that started it all, playing it in full each night and filling the rest of the set with whatever the room feels like hearing. The result was a loose, charming night that felt as much like a neighbourhood party as a gig.The evening opened with THOMAS NICHOLAS, b...
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Gig Review: Three Days Grace / Badflower – O2 Academy, Glasgow (10th December 2025)

Wednesday night at the O2 Academy had that familiar midweek gig energy: a crowd that clearly knew it was in for a fun night, but still needed the first band to properly switch things on. Badflower took on that role and did a solid job of easing everyone into the night without feeling like background noise.They opened with “Drop Dead” and had people clapping along almost straight away, which is never guaranteed for a support act. Their sound draws inspiration from classic rock and even post-grung...
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Album Review: Bad Sam - Trauma

BAD SAM’s new album Trauma lands with the force of a derailed freight train, all jagged metal and unfiltered rage, but what sits underneath all that racket is a pair of artists who have spent decades turning chaos into craft. The Newport duo, consisting of DEAN BEDDIS and RICHARD GLOVER, have stripped back their operation down to its barest components: one voice carved out of social frustration and lived history, and one musician responsible for the dense, warped engine driving everything forwar...
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EP Review: NOWHERE2RUN - BLOODRAVE

NOWHERE2RUN’s surprise release, BLOODRAVE, feels like an invitation down a staircase most people don’t notice until the bass leaking through the concrete gives it away. JAMI MORGAN and ERIC “SHADE” BALDEROSE have built something that sits several floors beneath the neon polish of mainstream techno music. The EP conjures the atmosphere of a sleazy, sweaty, underground industrial club, the kind where the air tastes metallic and the lights never settle long enough for you to get comfortable. It doe...
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Album Review: Home Front - Watch It Die

HOME FRONT’s Watch It Die turns grief and disillusionment into something vital. The Edmonton duo GRAEME MACKINNON and CLINT FRAZIER have always worked at the crossroads of punk grit and synth-pop shimmer, but this record feels like a leap forward. It’s sharper, bolder, and more alive, shaped by the experience of becoming a fully-fledged live band after their earlier albums, Think of the Lie and Games of Power.Where Games of Power felt cold and intentionally claustrophobic, Watch It Die carries a...
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Album Review: False Reality - Faded Intentions

London’s FALSE REALITY are not a band interested in half-measures. Since their formation in 2023, they’ve become one of the city’s most explosive live forces. Their upcoming debut album, Faded Intentions, is a record that finds clarity through chaos, shaped by years of immersion in the scene and unafraid to rip up its rulebook. Pulling together threads of every corner of the alternative ecosystem, from beatdown and thrash, to grunge and even shoegaze, hardcore rarely feels this cinematic.Speakin...
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Rage Reviews: Recent Releases, October 2025

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER usher in a new era with Telephone Busy, the third single from their upcoming album EVERYONE’S A STAR, out November 14th 2025. Ahead of a massive world tour kicking off in March 2026, the band tease a sound that bridges their Sounds Good Feels Good and Youngblood eras with a sleek, modern pulse. A shimmering, synth-drenched beat underpins seductive vocals and alt-rock swagger, creating something that feels equal parts like a nightclub anthem and an arena-ready hit. It’s sexy,...
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Album Review: Blindfolded And Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me

There’s a special kind of madness at work in The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me. The new album from New Zealand’s BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS isn’t just heavy, it’s completely possessed. For those who have been paying attention, this record feels like a natural and unsettling evolution of what the band have been building towards. Their 2023 record Rejecting Obliteration proved they could play tech-death with terrifying precision, but here they sound freer, stranger...
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Album Review: Gridfailure - Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III: Acquiring A Taste

With Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III: Acquiring A Taste, GRIDFAILURE deliver the most ambitious and punishing entry yet in their sprawling five-album arc, chronicling humanity’s collapse. At over 80 minutes across 15 tracks, this third installment is both monumental and suffocating, a dense slab of experimental dread that refuses to offer its audience a moment of reprieve. The series, which began with Survivor’s Remorse and As Resources Are Depleted So Are Morals, maps a grim descent throu...
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Album Review: LEAP - Entropy

London rock outfit LEAP have always thrived on chaos. Their live shows are notorious for being incredibly cathartic, with singer Jacky Scott leading the charge like a man with nothing left to lose and everything to give. Now, with the release of their debut album Entropy, out October 3rd 2025, they’ve captured that unruly, euphoric energy on record, distilling years of trauma, resilience, and pure rock’n’roll spirit into eleven tracks that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant.LEAP’...
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Album Review: Mrs Frighthouse - Solitude Over Control

MRS FRIGHTHOUSE, Glasgow-based wife-and-wife duo made up of CARYS and LUNA FRIGHTHOUSE, have slowly but surely been carving a name for themselves in the UK underground scene since 2023, with their singular strain of “sapphic metal” - a collision of industrial noise, gothic dread, and cathartic vocals that simultaneously devastates and uplifts. Their long-awaited debut album, Solitude Over Control, is nothing short of a landmark. Across 11 tracks, MRS FRIGHTHOUSE, confront the realities of misogy...
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Album Review: Jesus on Extasy - Between Despair and Disbelief

When a band re-emerges after a long silence, expectations can be tricky to manage. For fans of JESUS ON EXTASY, the German industrial rock outfit formed in 2005, the announcement of Between Despair and Disbelief marked more than just another release - it was a statement of intent. Following a hiatus in 2014 and only sporadic activity since their 2020 return, this record is the band’s first full-length release in over a decade, and while it isn’t flawless, it is unapologetically theirs - dark, de...
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EP Review: DUSK - Repoka

Costa Rica’s atmospheric industrial black metal project DUSK, active as a full band since 2016, has built a reputation for marrying extreme metal’s raw force with electronic experimentation. Their latest EP, Repoka, condenses that vision into a snappy 15 minutes, delivering four tracks of retro-futuristic violence that feel both mechanical and otherworldly. Rooted in industrial grit yet sharpened with cyber metal intensity, Repoka is a short but jarring experience, thriving on disorientation, dr...
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Rage Reviews: Recent Releases, August 2025

Welcome to Rage Reviews: Recent Releases! Here, we'll be covering some of our favourite recent singles for your convenience, so you can see what we thought was worth a listen! So, without any further ado, please enjoy our first selection with 11 of our favourite tracks from the last couple of weeks or so.A Killer's Confession have delivered their new single, 'Heart Shaped Box', a cover of the classic Nirvana track. This song will be featured on their forthcoming album, Victim 2, which is set for...
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Album Review: DE'WAYNE - june

DE’WAYNE’s latest release, june, arrives as his most ambitious and fully realised project to date. Described by the artist as his “epic rock love album”, it blends equal parts swagger, style, and vulnerability with a sound that refuses to stay within one genre. Rock, funk, soul, and pop all appear across the record, but what stands out the most is the consistency: every song feels purposeful and packed with emotion.The album opens with ‘lady lady’, an introduction that wastes no time setting the...
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Festival Review: 2000Trees 2025 – Zuz’s View

Set against the rolling hills of Upcote Farm, 2000Trees 2025 once again proved why it’s a cornerstone of the UK’s alternative music scene. With a line-up that balanced chaos and catharsis, familiar faces and thrilling newcomers, this year’s edition delivered standout sets across every stage. Here’s a look at just a few of the bands who made a lasting impression.Kid KapichiKid Kapichi’s double-header at 2000Trees felt like the end of an era. With a line-up change imminent, their Wednesday and Thu...
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EP Review: Big Iron - Frontier Living

Edinburgh’s own Big Iron are back with their second EP Frontier Living, releasing July 18th 2025, and it’s a bold step forward that cements their rising status in Scotland’s alternative music scene. While their 2023 debut EP It Gets Bigger laid the groundwork with raw energy and promise, this new release takes things up a notch in both scope and confidence. The band leans further into their distinctive blend of gritty guitar work, evocative lyrics, and dynamic songwriting, delivering a collectio...
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Interview: Meryl Streek at 2000Trees

At a festival packed with voices of resistance and catharsis, Meryl Streek still manages to stand out. Fusing spoken-word with deceptively fun sounding instrumentals, the Dublin artist channels grief, rage, and political urgency into something impossible to ignore. We caught up with him backstage at 2000Trees to talk protest music, personal loss, and what it means to scream into the void, and actually be heard.So for anyone who doesn’t know who you are, can you describe what you do, what your so...
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Album Review: Hot Milk - Corporation P.O.P.

Hot Milk’s second full-length album, Corporation P.O.P., is a thunderous, emotionally raw, and politically charged record. Across 14 sprawling tracks, the Manchester-born band unleashes a barrage of fury and frustration aimed at the powers that be, from broken British institutions to the global machinery of oppression, without ever losing their signature sound - hook-laden, genre-melding, and defiant. Their blend of pop-punk attitudes with post-hardcore intensity has made them a vital force in t...
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Festival Review: Out Of Rage's big Download review 2025

It was clear to see when the first notes of “Blue Eyed Boy” were played that high energy and chaos ensued inside the Avalanche tent. This set wasn’t just for the fans — it was a statement: Trophy Eyes belong at Download, and the Aussies proved that. “Enmore” and “Kill” tore through the speakers, with newcomers and die-hard fans alike, everyone was locked in — the tent was unified. Belting every lyric like it was tattooed to their bones. It was raw. It was real. It was everything this band stands...
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Festival Review: Download Festival (Day 1) – Donington Park (Friday 13th June 2025)

Download Festival returned for yet another weekend full of class acts and great vibes this year, hosting Green Day, Sleep Token, and KoRn as headliners, as well as acts ranging from Vengaboys to Cradle of Filth. For many this is the highlight of their year, with tens of thousands of music fans making their way to Donington to celebrate their favourite artists and consume ungodly amounts of booze in a field. This year was thankfully dry and hot, albeit very dusty, but frankly any weather would’ve...
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Album Review: Ice Nine Kills - I Heard They Kill Live 2

Ice Nine Kills has long carved out their niche in metalcore, with their first album Last Chance to Make Amends due to celebrate its 20th anniversary next year (2026). This band has always had a theatrical twist to it, with their most recent releases drawing inspiration from classic horror films and injecting a macabre sense of humour into their music. With the latest release of their live album I Heard They Kill Live 2, the band revisits some of their most iconic tracks in a way that feels simul...
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