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The news for Friday 01 May 2026

GALLERY: INFLUENCES: Roman Candle

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Wednesday 29 April 2026

GALLERY: LIVE: Supersonic Festival 2026, Birmingham

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for underground and experimental music for over two decades. Now earlier in the year than usual and scaled-back to two days, the festival nonetheless continues to champion music and culture indiscriminately. It’s for this reason →
Friday 24 April 2026

GALLERY: Portrayal Of Guilt – ‘…The Beginning Of The End’

Trying to pigeonhole Portrayal Of Guilt’s sound has always been a fruitless task. The Austin threepiece have been releasing their own brand of twisted darkness for nearly a decade now, effortlessly fusing influences as broad as black metal, death metal and noise rock to create their own →
Thursday 23 April 2026

GALLERY: INFLUENCES: Civil Villains

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Wednesday 22 April 2026

GALLERY: Knife Bride – ‘SORRY ABOUT THE PLAGUE’

When the black death struck Europe in the mid-1300’s it was devastating. Maybe there was something in the air. Maybe it was punishment from an angry God. People died. They weren’t ready. They tried to protect themselves with sweet-smelling herbs, they held up charms, and they called →
Friday 17 April 2026

GALLERY: Skindred – ‘You Got This’

A new Skindred record is always a cause for celebration, and doubly so when it’s as crammed with as much self-belief as ‘You Got This’. While their sound has mellowed of late, like on 2023’s ‘Smile’, their latest offering is somewhat of a return to fiery form: just as →
Thursday 16 April 2026

GALLERY: Retrospective: Rage Against The Machine – ‘Evil Empire’

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Wednesday 15 April 2026

GALLERY: Teen Suicide – ‘Nude Descending A Staircase Headless’

The most immediately notable aspect of Teen Suicide’s latest offering – ‘Nude Descending A Staircase Headless’ – is that the production value is great. This is worth pointing out as the band initially made a name for themselves as a lo-fi project; ‘NDASH’ is the first time that Teen →
Tuesday 14 April 2026

GALLERY: Tired Of Fighting – ‘AND THEN SUDDENLY IT HITS YOU’

You’re tired. We’re tired. Everyone is tired. Reading the news or comments from writers can make you ask yourself: Where did the malaise come from? Is it even real?  Was everyone always this tired? Is now actually the tiredest part of history or have we just worn →
Friday 10 April 2026

GALLERY: Palette Knife – ‘KEYFRAME’

Imagine an artist. A painter. Their work, their art, isn’t just about ideas. It’s about expression, the form, the way they paint the picture. Maybe they choose water colours, they might choose to work with oils or acrylic. They might use a brush to apply paint to →

GALLERY: Love Rarely – ‘Pain Travels’

Covering themes of generational trauma and toxic familial relationships, ‘Pain Travels’ seems a particularly apt title for the debut album of Leeds-based mathcore/post-hardcore quintet Love Rarely. Written and recorded by the band over the course of a year, Love Rarely admit themselves that the album took a →
Thursday 09 April 2026

GALLERY: Sugar Horse – ‘NOT A SOUND IN HEAVEN’

It’s time. That slow, creeping sense of dread. The feeling that plans were being made, that schemes were being hatched, and that something evil is brewing in the depths of Brighton. Yes, Sugar Horse are back with their third full-length record. If you’ve followed their career, you’ll →
Wednesday 08 April 2026

GALLERY: As Everything Unfolds – ‘DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?’

Take the time to reflect. Sit a moment with your sadness. Watch a drop of condensation snake its way down a window pane. Imagine the route it will take, the direction it will travel, and observe its path. It seems to be going where you hoped. Until →
Tuesday 07 April 2026

GALLERY: LIVE: Grade 2 @ O2 Islington Academy 2

Sandwiched between a Wagamamas and a Uniqlo is a little slice of old school punk heaven. It’s Grade 2’s album launch show and we’re here to celebrate the music of 1977 with the future of the old school scene. As a crowd, we’re a tight fit into the venue, →
Friday 03 April 2026

GALLERY: SUNN O))) – ‘SUNN O)))’

For almost three decades, SUNN O))) have consistently left listeners struggling to describe the ineffable sounds that Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson create. Genre-wise, most reach for terms like “doom” or “drone” metal, but those are insufficient descriptors. It’s like saying that Dick Van Dyke has a Cockney accent →
Wednesday 01 April 2026

GALLERY: Grade 2 – ‘Talk About It’

Grade 2 are the best kind of young punk heroes. Five albums into their quest from the Isle of Wight to the glittering heights of Campbell, California, the trio have somehow managed to sound more like Rancid than Rancid ever did. It’s more than that though; the trio give →
Friday 27 March 2026

GALLERY: Don Broco – ‘Nightmare Tripping’

Don Broco are now on the Dark Side. Gone is the whimsy that punctuated their earlier albums. They’ve kept the electronic hints, of course, but taken their sound in a distinctly heavier direction on their latest offering, ‘Nightmare Tripping’. It’s hard to believe that ’T-Shirt Song’ was only a →
Thursday 26 March 2026

GALLERY: Winterfylleth – ‘The Unyielding Season’

There’s a cold remoteness that resonates throughout black metal’s complex and not always pleasant history. It’s often the music of isolation, and many of the genre’s most identifiable characteristics – high-pitched screams, brisk tempos and coarse recording qualities – possess an innate relationship with absence; of light, company, temperature, →
Wednesday 25 March 2026

GALLERY: The Casualties – ‘DETONATE’

You hear it all the time. That same phrase. ‘They don’t make music like that anymore.” Honestly, they do. Whatever it is, whatever you like, there is a band out there somewhere doing your thing, you just have to look for it. The Casualties are a hardcore →
Tuesday 24 March 2026

GALLERY: Blush Puppy– ‘HERE YOU DREAM’

Names are important. You can tell a lot from a name. Butch conjures a very different mental picture to Clive. You’d imagine a band called Cannibal Corpse sounding very different to one called Floral Tattoo. Could you imagine REM making it big if they’d stuck with one →

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