King crimson

Chaos, blood, death, resurrection – Kerry King and Tom Araya look back on the tumultuous journey of the thrash icons who pushed metal to new extremes

The John Hackett Band are celebrating a decade of making music together with their second album, the recently released Red Institution . The four-piece talk about their easy chemistry, songwriting inspiration and those pinch-me moments of performing material originally by King Crimson and the other Hackett.

Spatial surround sound doesn’t restrain their rip-roaring debut album.

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage

With their 2022 debut album, Cardinal Black showed the world how the budding guitar hero in their ranks could thrive in a band environment. Here, Chris Buck explains how its follow-up has taken his playing and songwriting to the next level