Going up!

The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection

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

The human experience is hard. One of life’s pleasures for Eureka Machines is “having these little tunes, at gigs, that give people a couple of hours to get out of their heads”.

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

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