{"id":589834,"date":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589834\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:26:12","slug":"german-thrash-metal-british-metalcore-and-american-nu-metal-all-the-best-bits-from-sonic-temple-2026-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589834\/","title":{"rendered":"German thrash metal, British metalcore and American nu metal: all the best bits from Sonic Temple 2026 day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thunder and lightning might delay the start of play by an hour, but when the Saturday of Sonic Temple starts the energy is\u00a0all the more\u00a0rabid for it.\u00a0Snot<\/a>\u00a0get\u00a0a massive turnout on the Altar stage and bodies fly over the barriers in a constant stream, the band\u2019s bounding\u00a0riffs\u00a0and spring-loaded energy just what we need to shake off two days\u2019\u00a0fatigue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kicking off their set with\u00a0Sway, Coal Chamber<\/a> are bringing out the big guns early on. The churning bass lines and fault-line grooves\u00a0bypass the brain to get bodies moving, and\u00a0its\u00a0as if the morning\u2019s weather snafu never happened when the sun suddenly blazes out as the band stomp through\u00a0Big Truck.\u00a0By the time they finish on a\u00a0crushing\u00a0Loco\u00a0\u2013\u00a0introduced by vocalist Dez Fafara as \u201ca song we wrote in 1992 \u2013 long before any of these\u00a0nu\u00a0metal bands came about\u201d – it feels like CC are long overdue\u00a0their own reappraisal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Vindication\u00a0seems to be\u00a0the theme of the day on the\u00a0main-stage. Black Veil Brides, Motionless\u00a0In\u00a0White<\/a> and Bring Me\u00a0The\u00a0Horizon<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0all copped shit from gatekeepers in the\u00a0past, but\u00a0prove the haters wrong with respective triumphant sets. \u201cA lot of people used to talk shit about us,\u201d acknowledges Andy Biersack. \u201cSo\u00a0we wrote this one for them \u2013 it’s called\u00a0Revenger.\u201d\u00a0The rediscovery of their metalcore roots certainly\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0hurt in making BVB\u2019s set feel ferocious, new album\u00a0Vindicate\u00a0dominating\u00a0a set that is punctuated with blasts of pyro and feels suitably massive for the big crowd the band draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Kreator<\/a> are already well-acknowledged as one of \u2013 if not\u00a0the\u00a0\u2013 best legacy thrash<\/a> bands around in Europe, but word is slow making its way across the Atlantic. They might not pull as big a crowd as some of the\u00a0nu\u00a0metal nostalgia acts\u00a0that\u2019ve\u00a0popped up on the Altar Stage, but the bodies that do show up go\u00a0hard,\u00a0sprinting about in a joyously hostile frenzy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The veterans have barely finished opener\u00a0Seven Serpents\u00a0when Mille Petrozza demands a wall of death, and the fact the stage stands on concrete does nothing to deter\u00a0a massive pit breaking out, bodies clattering to the ground with joyous abandon\u00a0as they thunder through a selection of modern thrash anthems \u2013\u00a0Hate Uber Alles,\u00a0Enemy Of God, Violent Revolution \u2013\u00a0that thankfully sees their audience grow massively by the end of the set.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Bring Me\u00a0The\u00a0Horizon headlining the main stage, fellow British metalcore stalwarts Architects<\/a> are clearly feeling fired up with their own big-league aspirations.\u00a0Any worries their status as one of Britain\u2019s\u00a0best bands would be lost in translation somewhere over the pond are allayed\u00a0by the absolute massive turnout the boys from Brighton greet.<\/p>\n

More than that though, their audience is united in utter devotion, screaming and howling along to every song like their lives depend on it. The gentle intro to\u00a0Elegy\u00a0gives way to some serious propulsive energy, and the big screens surrounding the band lend a striking visual accompaniment to a set that feels genuinely massive.\u00a0With\u00a0absolutely colossal\u00a0tunes like\u00a0Doomsday\u00a0and\u00a0Animals\u00a0dropping in the latter half of the set,\u00a0you\u2019d\u00a0best believe\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0feeling some serious national pride\u00a0as the final notes fade out and the crowd\u00a0surges\u00a0over to Bring Me\u00a0The\u00a0Horizon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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