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UNBELIEVABLE: Knocked loose | History Defined

"When we were playing like 100 capacity rooms, as soon as it kicked in, people were in danger, like people could die." How Knocked Loose wrote Counting Worms as a terrifying set interlude and scored a viral hit

If vocalist Bryan Garris hadn't decided to bark like a dog on this 2016 song, their career path could have turned out very differently

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Watch Gojira’s emotional performance of rare classic Global Warming during 2025 tour of France

The French metal titans celebrated 20 years of From Mars To Sirius by playing a number of fan-favourite tracks

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Ozzy’s retirement, belly dancers, and whales flying around an arena: the best metal concerts of 2025, as picked by Metal Hammer’s writers

The Hammer team name their greatest gigs of the year, from stadium extravaganzas to sweaty basement dust-ups

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"I'm packing all my stuff and Courtney's like, 'Amy Lee wants to meet you.' We never expected any of this to happen." From getting arrested at BLM protests to hanging with Evanescence and Limp Bizkit icons, the story of rising metalcore stars Dying Wish

Dying Wish are one of the hottest bands in metalcore right now - and if you disagree, take it up with Courtney LaPlante, Amy Lee and Fred Durst

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System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Evanescence and more to play insanely stacked Sick New World 2026 events in Las Vegas and Texas

Sick New World has announced two unbelievable lineups in different States for 2026

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Metallica announce one of their most intimate shows ever, playing to just 250 people later this month – and you can win a ticket

The biggest band in metal will play their smallest gig in decades on August 28

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Metallica announce stacked UK and Europe tour with Gojira, Knocked Loose and more

The biggest band in metal will be supported by a mammoth lineup when they hit Europe in summer 2026

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“There’s a sleek look to bands like Loathe, Spiritbox or Knocked Loose. Spiky shapes are engrained in our values – we want to wear our influences on our sleeves”: Employed To Serve are re-embracing metal guitars –but dropping amps

Preparing to tour fifth album Fallen Star, guitarists Sammy Urwin and David Porter talk Scandi influences, trading offsets for baritones and amp modelers, and breaking down musical tribalism

Guitar World

Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting

Slayer are coming to a venue near you, but only if that venue is Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania

Metal Hammer

“Absolutely wicked night!” Halsey went to see hardcore breakout stars Knocked Loose live last night

Noted metalcore fan Halsey has joined Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato in revealing they love a bit of Knocked Loose

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"The second we got the offer for Jimmy Kimmel I said, 'I'm gonna pig squeal on national television!'" Knocked Loose singer Bryan Garris on the Grammys, THAT performance with Poppy and conquering a phobia to bring heavy music to the mainstream

Bryan Garris discusses one of the most viral moments in metal last year

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“If it scared you, good”: Knocked Loose singer responds to playing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! – and to the haters

“For a long time now our goal has been to see how far we could squeeze this band into places where we don’t fit and I think this may be the biggest one”

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“People who listen to this have no room to complain about crying babies or screaming two-year-olds!” Knocked Loose’s Jimmy Kimmel performance annoyed all the boring Facebook parents you’d expect it to

Metalheads loved it when Knocked Loose and Poppy destroyed Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week. These people didn’t…

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“By the third or fourth 'JUNT' from the guitars my son was in tears”: Knocked Loose and Poppy shock late-night TV viewers with hell-raising performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The rapidly rising band delivered a pyrotechnic, mosh pit-fueled set that shone a bright spotlight on modern hardcore genres. But the late-night TV beatdown wasn't to everyone's tastes

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Turnstile to headline newly launched Outbreak Festival London in 2025

The Manchester festival will be starting an offshoot in the UK capital as of next year, with Knocked Loose, Alex G and others also populating the bill

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Watch Knocked Loose and Poppy destroy Jimmy Kimmel Live! with the heaviest talk show performance in history

The Knocked Loose and Poppy team-up was recently nominated for a Grammy Award For Best Metal Performance

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"I remember getting offstage like, ‘I feel like Dave Grohl right now!'" From sweaty basement shows to Coachella, Madison Square Garden and Fred Durst: how Scowl became the most exciting new band in hardcore

Scowl could well be the next hardore band to break out of the scene

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Knocked Loose's Latest Album Receives Rave Reviews From Critics

Knocked Loose's 'You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To' album delivers intense metalcore brilliance and sets a high standard in the heavy music scene.

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“I care about my guitar’s wellbeing, but they’re meant to be sacrificed”: Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale on how his new “hell tone”, a custom Ibanez and ancient mathematics helped the Slipknot support picks reinvent heavy guitar for 2024

Sticking with drop A and passive pickups, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed sees Hale push his chain to its limit via a prototype Überschall amp – and he’s seeing the music reach unsuspecting new listeners

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"The mainstream has no idea what’s about to hit it." Demi Lovato and Billie Eilish might love them, but Knocked Loose haven't cashed in on You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To - they've made their heaviest album ever

Blowing up on TikTok and getting namechecked by pop stars hasn't affected Knocked Loose's ability to produce top-tier hardcore brutality

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Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review – hardcore punk’s dark stars go supermassive

The Kentucky metalcore quintet cleverly channel pop – and even reggaeton grooves – to create an album of crushing intensity and vast scope

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Slipknot announce enormous 2024 Here Comes The Pain tour, celebrating 25 years of their debut album

The Nine will trek across North America this summer and autumn, joined by Knocked Loose, Orbit Culture and Vended

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"It allowed us to push the boundaries of what we thought was feasible." Listen to Knocked Loose and Poppy's outrageously heavy new single, Suffocate

Knocked Loose and Poppy have teamed up for one of the coolest collaborations of 2024

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"On this kind of form, and with this momentum, surely nothing is going to stop Knocked Loose." Hardcore's most exciting band just decimated London's 2,500-capacity Forum

Hardcore music has never been bigger, and Knocked Loose are making sure it stays true to its savagely heavy roots

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