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DARK SECRETS: Whitechapel org - The Real Truth

The 50 best metal songs of 2025

Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer

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The 10 best death metal albums of 2025

Guts and glory - these are the finest cuts to emerge from the fields of death metal in 2025

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I’m a lifelong deathcore hater, but these five bands are actually giving me faith in the genre

Lorna Shore, Fit For An Autopsy and latter-day Whitechapel are forcing me to respect what used to be the worst style of music in the world

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“If you know me, you know I love Sleep Token”: Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos names the most inspirational singers in metal

From Sleep Token’s Vessel to Whitechapel’s Phil Bozeman, Lorna Shore’s frontman picks his greatest vocal influences

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"With Grizzly, Slaughter To Prevail might complete the Mount Rushmore of great deathcore escapologists." Alex Terrible's mob stake a claim on the best deathcore album of 2025

Slaughter To Prevail prove they can stand toe-to-toe with breakout stars Lorna Shore, Bring Me The Horizon and Whitechapel with new album Grizzly

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Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at the Whitechapel Gallery - 'dangerous, brilliant'

5/5 This late ‘lost YBA’ genius puts you a breath away from death

Evening Standard

"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons

We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album

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"An unhinged arsenal of screams and gutturals as he narrates the tale of a demonic cult." Whitechapel just made one of this year's most brutally intense metal albums

The deathcore veterans have released their heaviest record since This Is Exile

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Architects, Alien Weaponry and Whitechapel are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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NAMM 2025: “A cornucopia of metal guitar specs” – ESP unveils LTD signature models for Slipknot's Mick Thomson, Whitechapel's Alex Wade, Rammstein's Richard Kruspe and more in epic launch

It's that magical time of the year when ESP drop dozens of new models, and once again the metal guitar specialist has gone big with artist collabs

MusicRadar

“Here’s to strengthening and healing. Take care of yourselves and never stay silent on your mental health.” Whitechapel cancel tour dates as frontman addresses mental health issues

Phil Bozeman explains in a video statement that he’s trying to come off antidepressants which he’s used his teenage years

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Mastodon, Within Temptation and Nightwish are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Protest, resistance and dissent: a retrospective of the art of Peter Kennard

The UK’s foremost political artist talks through half a century of his work, on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London

The Guardian - UK

3 under-appreciated shows on Netflix you really shouldn't ignore

As well as the likes of Squid Game and Umbrella Academy, Neflix is home to some real hidden gems – here are 3 to check out.

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The Guardian - UK

Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970-2023 review – fierce and subtle

From post-pop art to late-flowering expressionism, the South African artist is one of his country’s most significant, and this huge survey shows off his extraordinary range

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10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot

From Adrian Erlandsson to Gene Hoglan, these drumming dynamos all have the skills needed to join The Nine

Evening Standard

Life Is More Important Than Art at Whitechapel Gallery review: shows why we need art too

This is a show about the movement of people, about memory, and about human vulnerability

Liverpool Echo

Heavy snow hits Liverpool causing travel chaos with more expected tomorrow

A yellow weather warning remains in place until Sunday

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Liverpool Echo

Liverpool activates Severe Weather Emergency Protocol

Protocal aims to support people sleeping rough on the streets during dangerous and difficult weather

The Guardian - UK

Different strokes: the forgotten women of abstract expressionism

A new exhibition highlights 80 unsung female artists from the grouping that made stars of Rothko and Pollock. But does adding them to the canon deflect from the sexism that stymied their careers?

Liverpool Echo

Concerns over lack of Liverpool homeless shelter as winter bites

Council had approved plans for a main hub for rough sleepers - but plans fell through earlier this year and millions of pounds of funding had to be returned

The Guardian - UK

Rodney Graham obituary

Artist whose complex photographic images and videos featured self-portraits and physical comedy

Manchester Evening News

The Libertines bring back 'the good old days' of early noughties indie to Castlefield Bowl with triumphant Up the Bracket anniversary show

The Whitechapel quartet's Tony Hancock-referencing 2002 debut remains a classic - and distinctly English - salvo from what was once dubbed the garage rock revival.

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Empty shops could be studios for next Bacon or Hirst, says leading curator

Opening up dead retail space to artists could revive town centres and cultural life, says Whitechapel Gallery director

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