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Album Review: SIIICKBRAIN - HOUNDSTOOTH

With HOUNDSTOOTH, SIIICKBRAIN builds a record that feels like stepping into a dark, sweat-soaked room and letting the walls close around you. It is abrasive, hazy, clubby, vulnerable, and strange in all the right ways, pulling from industrial grit, electronic production, hip-hop beats, alternative pop structures, and something far more instinctive. It never feels interested in sitting neatly within one sound, and that restlessness becomes part of its identity.The album opens with a short, haunti...
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Interview: Catalysis - “It’s not about telling people what to think, but it is about saying these things matter to us."

Their latest EP, Serpentine, lands as the clearest statement yet of what the band is now. Not a continuation of what came before, but something more intentional, more defined, and, crucially, more reflective of the people currently in the room. “We’re not new guys anymore,” vocalist Andrew Downie explains. “This is the first time with the new lineup that we’ve really been able to go, right - this is the CATALYSIS sound.”That sense of identity has been hard-earned. The band’s current lineup came...
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Rage Reviews: Recent Releases, May 6th 2026

Mayday, mayday - we're already in May; time really flies, doesn't it? While some are putting their heads down and getting through their exams, others are hastily shoving folded clothes into their suitcases for the holidays, and here at Out Of Rage, we're prepping for every metalhead's favourite time of year - festival season. What better soundtrack for that than all these new releases? Here's what we've been listening to lately:BLOOD DEALER have been branding their mark in the alt-metal scene wi...
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Album Review: sace6 - brutalist

There’s a fine line between contrast and contradiction, and on brutalist, SACE6 lean fully into the latter. Their whole approach hinges on a simple question: how heavy can something get while still feeling undeniably pop? It’s not about blending genres neatly together, but forcing them to coexist, and more often than not that tension is exactly what makes this debut hit as hard as it does. After making serious waves with 2025’s Limerance, the duo wasted no time in levelling up. Not even a year l...
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Gig Review: Ad Infinitum / Skarlett Riot / Secret Rule - Slay, Glasgow (24th April 2026)

First up, SECRET RULE wasted absolutely no time setting the tone. From the first few moments, it was clear their sound was locked in - big, driving riffs paired with tight, polished instrumentals that filled the room with ease. It’s not always a given that the first band of the night can pull a crowd in properly, but here, the engagement was immediate and genuine. A big part of that came down to the band’s presence on stage. There was a sense of real enjoyment in what they were doing, and it tra...
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Gig Review: Mouth Culture / Overgrown / since2000 - Mash House, Edinburgh (15th April 2026)

By the time Mouth Culture took to the stage, the room was already buzzing, and they capitalised on that immediately with ‘On and On’. It’s always a good sign when the first song off the set list is met with instant singalongs, and that energy didn’t drop for the rest of the night. The set list struck a really satisfying balance between newer material and older tracks, with deeper cuts like ‘Honey’ and ‘15 Missed Calls’ getting particularly strong reactions from the crowd. The latter carried a bi...
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Album Review: HOKKA - Via Miseria IV

When a frontman leaves a band that once felt like a fortress, many would expect his next steps to be a repetition of his previous success, playing it safe and settling back into familiarity. Ex-BLIND CHANNEL Joel Hokka’s debut, under the name HOKKA, chooses to do the complete opposite: Via Miseria IV is a record that looks back without living there, trading the past for something darker, more considered, and theatrically alive. Joined by legendary guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi (THE RASMUS) and “won...
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EP Review: Catalysis - Serpentine

For a band that has spent the last few years grinding away in the UK underground, CATALYSIS sound remarkably unconcerned with subtlety on Serpentine. The Dundee metal outfit’s latest EP is direct, furious, and completely unrelenting, but what makes it stand out is how carefully that intensity is controlled. Across just five tracks, CATALYSIS delivers something that feels sharp and focused rather than bloated: a compact release that wastes no time saying exactly what it wants to say.Given the uph...
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Ones to watch at Slam Dunk Festival 2026

Slam Dunk Festival has long been one of the UK’s most beloved celebrations of alternative music, building its reputation on bringing together the best of pop-punk, hardcore, metalcore, and alternative rock. What started as a relatively small gathering has evolved into a staple of the UK festival circuit, balancing scene legends with the rising acts shaping the future of heavy music.Taking place on Saturday 23rd May in Hatfield and Sunday 24th May in Leeds, this year’s lineup continues that tradi...
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Gig Review: Poppy / Ocean Grove / Fox Lake – SWG3, Glasgow (4th March 2026)

On a cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, SWG3 quickly turned into a pressure cooker of distortion, sweat, and relentless anticipation as three very different acts pulled the crowd deeper into chaos with each passing set.Opening the night, Fox Lake wasted no time in setting the tone. Their intro mimicked the unmistakable startup sound of the PlayStation 2, a playful easter egg that drew knowing cheers before the band launched headfirst into their set. From the very first song, “Go 4 the Throat”, the...
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Out Of Rage Festival Guide 2026

Big names, bigger riffs and battlefield brawls - we're going to claim that summer 2026 has been exceptionally fantastic for live music. Coming to a field near you is a dazzling display of rock, metal, punk, hardcore and alternative music that is ready and waiting to knock your socks off. The best thing about this guide is that it's all on your doorstep, no need to book an expensive holiday abroad, or get stressed about finding your passport. We've got it all here, in Argos catalogue format, for you to browse at your own pleasure. Where will you end up this year?
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Gig Review: DeathbyRomy / KiNG MALA / Jayden Hammer - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow (18th February 2026)

There are certain rooms that seem engineered for intensity, and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut is one of them. Low ceiling, close walls, zero distance between artist and audience. On Wednesday 18th February 2026, that intimacy became fuel as DEATHBYROMY brought her dark-pop spectacle to Glasgow, supported by two openers who understood exactly how to set the temperature.JAYDEN HAMMER stepped out first, with a confidence that made it hard to believe this was her very first tour. She carried herself with a...
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Album Review: Night Ritualz - Time Is A Thief

NIGHT RITUALZ’s second album arrives with a title that sounds almost cliché, until you sit inside it. Time does steal; it steals hours, momentum, youth, clarity. On Time Is A Thief, NIGHT RITUALZ leans into that quiet erosion and turns it into something you can dance to in the dark. Based in San Antonio and releasing his sophomore effort through Metropolis Records, NIGHT RITUALZ continues refining the sound he’s half-jokingly labelled “fuck wave” - a collision of darkwave, EBM, synth-punk, and p...
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Interview: LEAP - Taking the Jump and Never Looking Back

Jack spoke with a mix of warmth and humility that makes LEAP’s recent success feel even more hard-won. When we talked, he was still processing the chaos of the road. “We had quite an eventful day yesterday,” he laughs. “We just played a show in Manchester and we were leaving to go to Glasgow, but twenty minutes in, our van just completely gives up.” Six hours stranded on the roadside later, the band were forced to cancel the Glasgow show, which was a first for them. “We were pretty gutted about...
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Album Review: Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar

JOYCE MANOR has always thrived on compression; not just short songs, but compressed emotions and ideas, whole messy inner lives flattened into something you can shout along to in under two minutes. I Used To Go To This Bar leans fully into that instinct, arriving as another blink-and-you’ll-miss-it record that still feels considered, self-aware, and quietly confident in what the band does best. Clocking in at nine tracks with not a single one crossing the three-minute mark, the album continues a...
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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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