Weekly rundown August 15 – 2025

This is a week of both reliability and fringe ideas are able to triumph, even as both the safe and inventive fail in other hands.

Weekly rundown August 08 – 2025

Dark and spiritual underground dwellers are being offset by vibrant, fun-loving mass pleasers this week, and it will no doubt divide the fanbase.

Metalcore makes a big push this week, delivering some solid stuff, but having to share the spotlight with its more brutal and progressive cousins.

Each part of the more extreme reaches of the metal spectrum has something to say this week, and it’s all worth paying attention to.

This week goes light and dark, fast and slow, aggressive and light-hearted, and offers a good deal of surprises.

No way around it, this is a damn short week, but that just means you have more time to pay attention to the small handful of gems in store.

Reaching the height of summer doesn’t always mean that the metal wellspring dries up, as demonstrated by the meaty lineup we’re in for this week.

This week is out to banish the light and warmth of summer, pouring on darkness and anger in clear defiance of sunny optimism.

Stretch your taste and take in the variety of this mixed week, offering fun, danger, sadness and a few cerebral challenges.

A week that will please the brain as much as the heart, and make sure you get a proper neck exercise in.