From DIY roots to Ipecac Recordings, Cor de Lux discuss the influences behind YEAR OF THE HORSE, their most expansive record yet.

Heavy, urgent and unflinchingly direct: Wealthy Women discuss the influences behind their politically charged new album.

Raw punk energy, dark humour and hard-earned resilience: Slovenians discuss the influences behind Birds of Disgrace.

A very late look back at Roadburn 2026, where redefining heaviness once again meant something different for everyone.

Three days of heavy riffs, psychedelic journeys, crystal-clear rivers, and discovering your next favourite band in the Croatian wilderness. Bear Stone Festival continues to prove that the spirit of desert rock is alive and well, just a little further from the desert.

Doom, shoegaze, noise rock and collaboration collide on (des). Troy the Band shares the influences behind the album in our latest Under the Influence feature.

Bear Stone 2026 is back on the banks of the Mrežnica River in Croatia with Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Altin Gün, Elder, Nightstalker, and more. A psychedelic, stoner, doom-heavy weekend of river-side sets, off-grid vibes, and serious underground discoveries.

A water droplet’s ten-billion-year journey through space, time and transformation. Kilter discusses the influences behind their remarkable new album.

To celebrate the release of Helen Svoboda’s Headwater, Svoboda shares three key influences behind its two-bass, two-voice, electronic tapestry.

In support of Hammock’s new album The Second Coming Was A Moonrise, the duo share the three key influences that guided its sound and themes.

To celebrate the re-release of Kludde’s Langs Scheld- en Denderland, we asked the band for the 3 key influences behind it.

Isabel Pine debuts with Fables, a string-and-field-recorded suite that was released recently on Kranky. We asked Pine break her key musical influences.

The Mon returns with Songs of Embrace, a dark, instrumental, ritual-leaning suite that expands on 2025’s Songs of Abandon. Main man Urlo talks through three releases that helped shape the project.

Sander van den Driesche went to see the excellent mixed bill of loacl(ish) bands at the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh.

Gnaw’s debut EP is a fuzzed-out pop blast—discover the influences behind it in our Under the Influence feature.

Roadburn’s real magic isn’t always the obvious picks — it’s the under-the-radar sets: strange, heavy, danceable, confrontational, and impossible to neatly label. Show up curious, roam freely, and let a random room change your weekend.

With Closed City out soon, Michael Cloud Duguay unpacks the three influences behind their low-brass-laced blend of avant-metal, drone, and orchestral folk world-building.

With Blood & Honey out now, Summer of Hate unpack the 3 influences behind their lush, noise-drenched take on global shoegaze and post-punk.

Sander van den Driesche spoke to Rylan Gleave ahead of Roadburn about All Men Unto Me performing Requiem in full, and the album’s shifting perspectives on identity beyond transition, social perception, and inherited cultural power.

With Super Sonic Rock Saga landing today, Sick Shooters’ Laurens den Haan breaks down the key influences behind the band’s bass-less, hook-loaded garage punk attack.

Montreal-based quartet Bellbird play modern jazz, incorporating stylistic influences including atonal counterpoint, rock grooves, folk melodies, Minimalism, and a reigning (post)punk spirit.