Jack Press, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

Soulfly: Heavy Metal’s Spirit Animal

When Max Cavalera hung up his SEPULTURA boots at Brixton Academy on December 16th 1996, he was stepping into the

With a new prime minister pushing Britain to the brink again, a cost of living crisis that doesn’t seem close

It’s a tale as old as time. A band bursts out the gates, builds a fervorous fanbase, and climbs to

MEGADETH albums are a lot like ordering a pizza. Sometimes they arrive piping hot and cooked to perfection, and other

You might hear the name AVATAR and picture a band parading across a stage dressed as ringmasters conducting a circus.

When you’ve spent eight years building your band’s identity around just that, there’s nothing like a global pandemic to shake

We’re living in weird times. Wars are being waged, politicians are pleading the fifth, and pandemics are still stalling our

When Erinç Sakarya and Hanno Klänhardt of MANTAR unleashed third album The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze on the world in

If you time-travelled back to 2020 and told yourself you’re about to start a band at the height of a

What do you do when you’ve defeated that difficult second album syndrome by dropping a career-defining, chart-invading record during a