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After taking a break for a few weeks, the Weekly Rock Chart Round-Up has finally returned with a bunch of big new releases to talk about! Let's take a look at how rock's biggest names are fairing across the UK charts... On the albums front, two big names releasing albums in the same week made for a unpredictable race for the top spot of the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart. Pop punk veterans Sum 41 dropped perhaps their heaviest, most overtly metal-influenced album to date with 'Order in Decline', which was preceded by several fairly popular singles yet failed to take the top spot . Forcing Sum 41 to settle for the number 2 position was the pleasure of Swedish power metal outfit Sabaton , whose latest war-obsessed record also managed to debut at an impressive 11 on the main UK Albums Chart. Meanwhile, Sum 41 only just managed to crack the top 30, coming in at 29, significantly lower than 2016's '13 Voices' LP. I usually focus entirely on albums f...

The 2019 edition of Truck Festival is happening this week and I couldn’t be more excited! In anticipation of what will actually be my first-ever festival experience (yes, really), I’ve chosen six of the acts I’m most eager to see and, if you’re going, who you should be sure to see too! This ranges from well-established headlines to future stars and underground favourites, showing why the stacked line-up is perhaps the very best any UK festival has to offer this summer. Wolf Alice Given the mix of indie, hard rock and alternative pop across the Truck bill, Wolf Alice are the perfect choice for a headliner. The indie quartet have enjoyed a meteoric rise in their young career, releasing two critically-acclaimed albums so far, with 2017’s sensational ‘Visions of a Life’, being one of my favourite albums of recent years. Few bands are able to pull off as diverse a sound as Wolf Alice, relaxing you with dreamy indie-pop one minute and slapping you in the face with high-energy punk roc...

In the last five years, few bands in the rock/alt. pop scenes have seen quite as quick a rise to stardom as that of Massachusetts trio PVRIS. Their 2014 debut album White Noise saw the band begin to move away from their early metalcore sound and embrace more electronic and synth-pop elements to pretty significant success. 2017 follow-up All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell saw the band rise to even greater heights as the record broke into the UK top 5 and reaffirmed PVRIS as one of the hottest alternative acts of this decade. After a recent break from the limelight, its safe to say that a third album from the band will be arriving amongst a swarm of anticipation, especially with the first single, 'Death of Me', just dropping last week. The best way I can quickly sum up this brand new track is to describe it as quintessentially PVRIS , and that's definitely a good thing! The band have continued to drop more traditional rock elements like guitar riffs and live dr...

It's been almost two years since Welsh pop punks Neck Deep released their last album, The Peace and the Panic , which proved to be their most successful release to date and firmly positioned them in the upper tier of modern British rock. The band have just dropped a brand new single entitled 'She's a God', so I thought this would be a good opportunity to write my first track review for Sound Mouth. Neck Deep have never been the most revolutionary or experimental band in their genre, so it should be unsurprising that 'She's a God' sees the band stick with the sugary-sweet pop punk sound that put them on the map. However, this lack of innovation isn't necessary a bad thing. The track is very much in the vein of 'In Bloom', the breakout single from The Peace and the Panic , with its hooky, pop-friendly chorus and sentimental lyrics being the defining features. The band obviously know their strengths and play to them , while Ben Barlow's...