Jen Thomas
Jen is a freelance music writer and radio presenter for Planet Rock with a love for rock and metal, both classic and new. As well as too many tattoos and considering leopard print to be a neutral, Jen has been interviewing bands since the age of 13 after setting up an online magazine (back when MySpace and Geocities was a thing).
Latest articles by Jen Thomas

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Mallavora vocalist Jessica Douek might've lent her impressive talents to Celebrity Traitors, but she's using her platform to highlight the difficulties she faces as a person with a disability

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It's far from their heaviest output, but Marmozets have shown once again why they're one of their generation's very best: killer songs

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The Pretty Reckless singer has learned some extremely useful lessons across her unique career

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They're behind that 'cough-cough' mosh call you've probably seen all over metal TikTok

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Mixing metalcore, EDM and Latin dance music, Calva Louise's influences are as diverse as its members' backgrounds growing up in Venezuela, France and New Zealand

By Rich Hobson Published
From Blood Vulture's gothic-sludge to mysterious masked black metallers Wrath Of Logarius, horrorcore heroes Ward XVI and philosophy-inspired deathcore brutes Thus Spoke Zarathustra, these are the bands you need to hear in December 2025

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Electric Callboy have metalheads singing along to 90s pop classics, and they love it

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The Ice Nine Kills frontman on real vs fictional horror, crazy gig stories and his hard-rocking, 101-year-old grandma

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Nu gen singer-songwriter Bambie Thug gives us a brief but tantalising glimpse into their world

By Rich Hobson Published
From the Bring Me The Horizon and Architects approved Amira Elfeky to Nordic folk metal songstress Sylvaine, nu metalcore stars Uncured and industrial metaller Harpy, these are the metal bands you need to hear in July 2025

By Rich Hobson Published
From NWOBHM-revivalists Tailgunner to existential post-metallers Kollapse, Austrian folk-tinged black metal heroes Perchta and UK hopefuls Defects, these are the new metal bands you need to hear in August 2024

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Charlotte Wessels reinvented herself as a solo artist after leaving Delain in 2021

By Rich Hobson Published
From "Melanin Punks" Oxymorrons to viral metalcore breakouts Resolve, French prog metallers No Terror In The Bang and punishing sludge noisemakers Meth, these are the new bands you need to hear in May 2024
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