Loathe

Loathe have been making waves in the British underground heavy music scene since their formation in 2014. Debut album 2017’s The Cold Sun put them on the map, landing them nominations for Best New Band at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods and Best UK Breakthrough Band at the Heavy Music Awards. Their intense, visceral multi-media live show marked them out early as a band with broad ambitions. Their second full-length album, 2020's I Let It In and It Took Everything, followed by 2021's The Things They Believe continued to propel the band forward – their gutsy ambitions beginning to be realised.

Rather than existing within one style or taking one approach, Loathe pepper their music with a range of influences and musical motifs that move fluidly. Both Radiohead and The 1975 are cornerstones in the approach they take with their music, partly in a sonic sense, but also in terms of being a band who strive to do whatever they want, cultivating a fan base that will follow them down some deep, experimental rabbit holes. That sense of distressing, Lynchianesotericism is the territory Loathe are intent on occupying, a world where nothing is quite as it seems, curiosity is rewarded, and nothing is laid out in black and white.