Yasmine Summan
Latest articles by Yasmine Summan

Brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in May 2024
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

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
By Rich Hobson published
Rising metalcore stars As Everything Unfolds, Scottish alt-trio Healthyliving, ambitious Ukrainian prog metallers Ignea and electro-infused metalcore troupe World Gone Cold: these are the bands you need to hear in November 2023

"You can be a girl boss and a sugar baby at the same time": Scene Queen lays down the law on Bimbocore, the UK and being pitted against other women
By Yasmine Summan published
As Scene Queen, Hannah Collins is the pioneer of Bimbocore - and one of metal's hottest newcomers

"All the people that I looked up to are now considered my peers." Meet nothing,nowhere.: the former Soundcloud rapper collaborating with Lorna Shore, Fall Out Boy and more to bring Myspace vibes back to alternative music
By Yasmine Summan published
Joe Mulherin is emerging as one of the most unique alternative artists of his generation

"We have to bring people together not divide them": Electric Callboy don't mind being tagged a 'novelty' band so long as they can make metalheads smile
By Yasmine Summan published
German 'dance' metal crew Electric Callboy answer your questions on rebranding, dance anthems and going viral with songs like Pump It and Hypa Hypa

Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds: the songs that changed my life
By Yasmine Summan published
From The Prodigy and Hundred Reasons to Gloria Jones and Tchaikovsky, these are the songs that have meant the most to the Enter Shikari frontman

Every track on Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal album ranked from worst to best
By Yasmine Summan published
With Bring Me The Horizon's landmark fourth album Sempiternal turning 10 this week, we've cheekily rearranged its tracklisting to rank it in order of greatness

Skarlett Riot won’t let the pandemic stop them
By Yasmine Summan published
Meet the small town heroes that won’t let a worldwide pandemic stop their charge into heavy metal

Spiritbox: the post-metalcore trio set to own 2021
By Yasmine Summan published
Genre-fluid Canadians Spiritbox are channelling all sorts of horror into their ever-evolving sound

Tallah: the nu-core rabble-rousers on a mission to make metal disturbing again
By Yasmine Summan published
2020 is the year nu metal is making its comeback. And Tallah are leading the charge

Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk: “We don’t have any guarantees about our future”
By Yasmine Summan published
You ask the questions, Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk answers them.
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