Converge lay the London Koko to waste, we send Metal Hammer Podcast host Steve Hill to see it all happen. He came back in one piece and sent us this review....

Yesterday was the first day of Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012, and the opening day’s lineup was absolutely exceptional. The festival’s four stages hosted everyone from Bun B to Converge to Bob Mould to Santigold to Run-DMC to Napalm Death to Against Me! to X to Earth to … oh god, so many more. Photographers [...]

Converge crashed their touring van yesterday after hitting black ice on their way to Seattle

Watch The return of Black Veil Brides (with a concept album, true story), While She Sleeps in London reviewed, Rage Against The Machine, Bullet For My Valentine, Bring Me The Horizon, Converge, Rolo Tomassi, Blood Command, Heights, Soundgarden and much, much more.

This week is a big one for new albums, especially if you like the sounds that electric guitars make when they’re turned up loud. I’m not as besotted with Tame Impala’s new Lonerism as a lot of people seem to be, but the album does a nice job turning ’70s bongwater-psych into a prettily fractal [...]