Metal Injection — Only a year after their 2012 release I Am Nemesis, German whatever-you-call-them-core Caliban are finishing up work on writing their ninth studio record. According to main songwriter and guitarist for the band Marc Görtz: Songwriting session in Be... more info

Guardian Music — From raps to apps, the Bard is being reimagined for the digital ageThe World of Shakespeare festival is just drawing to a close, but its digital offspring will hopefully be with us for some time. The last few components of the My Shakespeare project,... more info

Guardian Music — New York's Metropolitan Opera's new production of Adès's opera opened earlier this week. Tom Service gives his verdictI must declare my very obvious interest - I have recently published a book of interviews with Thomas Adès: I am close to his music... more info

Guardian Music — (Kitsune)Two Door Cinema Club's boisterous gigs belie the shy, understated young men on stage. Similarly, and like 2010's successful debut, Tourist History, Beacon combines uplifting electro pop with introspective, melancholy undercurrents. The like... more info

Guardian Music — Sales of tracks used in Danny Boyle's opening ceremony have surged, plus five featured songs – including Arctic Monkeys' cover of Beatles' Come Together – will chart in Top 40Over 50 British songs employed in the soundtrack to the opening ceremon... more info

Guardian Music — Serious and silly, subversive and mainstream, high and low: Danny Boyle's bonkers Olympics opening ceremony could only have been made by a British artistThe NHS, gay kisses; the Sex Pistols, Ken Loach; the Windrush, the Suffragette movement. As Danny... more info

Guardian Music — Inventive effort to tell a thousand small stories in event expected to be watched by 1 billion people worldwideFrom a bucolic green and pleasant land via the belching chimney stacks of the Industrial Revolution to the internet age, Danny Boyle's atte... more info

Guardian Music — Director Danny Boyle reveals plans for London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, including village cricket, maypoles and rainA village cricket team, 12 horses, 10 chickens, 70 sheep, a model of Glastonbury Tor, two mosh pits and the largest harmonically ... more info

Metalsucks — In my heart is a cherished memory of this two-day metal festival I attended in like 2001. The big headliners were predictably exciting, but I arrived before lunch to take in sets from then-fledgling acts Dillinger Escape Plan, Shadows Fall, and that... more info

Metalsucks — Veil of Maya, Eluveitie, Corrosion of Conformity and Napalm Death all had big debuts last week, while Asphyx, Caliban, Pallbearer and Christian Mistress all eked into the Current Hard Music Top 100 as well. A good week all around. Let’s take a loo... more info