Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

Wiry monochrome intensity from indie veterans fully focused on the present

Ursine-obsessed heavyweights hit a deathcore landmark in London

ST. AGNES / FLESH PLANET

STATIC DRESS / STICK TO YOUR GUNS

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”