With a bit of delay, here is Sander van den Driesche’s review of the recent Roadburn Festival.

Dear Roadburn fans, I apologise for leaving this preview way too late. But what can I say? I suppose life got in the way. As the festival has long sold out, I decided to at least share some of the names with you, names of bands and artists I am definit …

I’ve had this album on near repeat over the last couple of weeks, and it’s a sign of a great album and great songwriting skills when each track creates its own earworm in your head.

It’s as if Årabrot and Eyehategod had a big hairy chested bearded baby.

This demo release is nothing but promising and should stir the underground death metal scene awake. Ageless Summoning have well and truly arrived.

All in all this was a brilliant gig, with all 3 bands playing solid sets, full of energy, riffs, sweat and rock!

Sander van den Driesche was at this year’s Roadburn Festival and shares his thoughts about the bands and artists he’s seen.

Benjamin Bland and Sander van den Driesche highlight 5 performances each, which we think will be pretty special at this year’s Roadburn Festival.

Sander van den Driesche had a long chat with Dave Sweetapple from Tee Pee Records / Outer Battery Records about the San Diego Take Over event which takes place at this year’s Roadburn Festival.

The self-described music collective Une Misère are from Iceland and they play an aggressive, intense style of hardcore music. They will play the upcoming Roadburn Festival twice, which made Sander van den Driesche curious to find out more about this up-and-coming band.

Absolute filth, disgusting, dripping with grease, slowly melting your face during the process of listening to this, evolving your face into a wrinkly, grimacing mass by the end of it.

The perfect purchase for any freakout jamming space rock fan.

I can certainly say this is probably in my top 5 favourite Motorpsycho albums they’ve released to date. ‘The Tower’ is one of their finest releases of recent years.

Sander van den Driesche caught up with Désirée Hanssen from Dutch independent record label Lay Bare Recordings to ask her about the running of her label, and the huge passion she has for the music she releases.

Sander van den Driesche caught up with Elder frontman Nick DiSalvo when the band played in Edinburgh recently. They had a chat about the new album ‘Reflections Of A Floating World’, touring with a 4th band member and how to categorise Elder’s current sound.

Experimental hardcore band Human Future are back with their new album ‘Flat Earth Blues’, which is their first release since 2015’s ‘Spectrum’. Sander van den Driesche caught up with the band to find out more.

Our metal editor Sander van den Driesche went on his second Roadburn Festival pilgrimage. And he completely fell in love with the festival this time.

Our metal editor Sander van den Driesche went to the first instalment of Heavy Scotland, Scotland’s first proper metal festival. Includes photos by Bruce Cowie.

It’s not really adding anything new to the vastly growing post-metal world, but if this type of music has your interest you should definitely give ‘Throes’ a go.

This is post-metal extremely well done. I’ve had multiple listens to this album already and I still discover new layers, sounds and riffs with each listen. Fans of this musical genre should really listen to this band and their new album as you won’t be disappointed.

Sander van den Driesche caught up with Heavy Scotland’s festival director Caitlin Elliot, who’s solely responsible for bringing this new metal festival to Scotland’s capital.