ORANSSI PAZUZU / SIJJIN

Dir Dean Puckett, UK 2025 On digital platforms Folk horror has been a thing for a long time, but it’s an over-used term these days. In film terms it appears to mean something heavily influenced by Wit

Cassidy Paris: the wet leather look. IAN RITTER/PRESS ...

MESSA / HIGH PARASITE

Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont

…you’ll find one of the most exciting metal bands of 2025. They are Orbit Culture, and they’ve lured us to their hometown in deepest, darkest Sweden