St. Anger

NO ENCORE's deep dive into the world of music-related cinema continues with the epic, the bizarre, the hilarious, the tragic, the essential Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Dave Hanratty and David Higgins sit down to try and make sense…

NO ENCORE returns to review a Kanye West album for the very first time, and what an album to start with. Elsewhere, there's live recaps of Forbidden Fruit and Nick Cave - who also gets his very own Listening Guide - some brief metal…

Metallica Hardwired... To Self-Destruct The world has a strange way of producing art that seems to both match and respond to the zeitgeist perfectly. I’m filled with immense gratitude that in recent weeks there’s been a number of…

In Sonic Doom, we delve exclusively into the back catalogue of critically-reviled acts in a bid to discover the odd unstained gem. Back with a vengeance, Conor Donohoe is caught in the middle of two of the most controversial albums of the…