“The singer is in tears as the final chords ring, and who can blame her?”: The most outspoken British metalcore band of the decade just played their last show

Ithaca singer Djamila Azzouz onstage in 2025.

There’s a big part of me that doesn’t want Ithaca to take the stage today. That’s because I know, the second they step back off in 30 minutes, I’ll have to deal with the emotion of knowing I’ll never see them again. I’m not ready.

Since debuting with 2019 album The Language Of Injury, and especially following the release of 2022 magnum opus They Fear Us, these London dissidents have been lauded as one of the UK’s most forthright bands. They’ve stood up to Nazis, racists and sexists and never done anything to compromise their values. Last year, they backed out of the show of a lifetime at Download, protesting the festival’s then-sponsorship from Barclaycard, who have ties to the Israeli military.