Firstly, ‘One of Us Is The Killer’ retains everything listeners would expect from New Jersey noise-artists The Dillinger Escape Plan. Their fifth full-length is filled with mismatched time signatures, insatiable drum patters, brutal riffs and distinctive growls. It also follows suit from predecessor ‘Option Paralysis’ by injecting the occasional rest-bite through menacing instrumentals and brooding [...]

When you think about it, New Found Glory covering The Ramones makes plenty of sense. The way both bands hop between chords isn’t that dissimilar, and you can sure as hell count The Ramones in the influences of Jordan Pundik & co. What’s obvious immediately here is that New Found Glory are doing this for [...]

The latest wave of the pop punk revolution has been in full swing for a good few years now. Some bands have come and gone, but others have managed to hold on by developing their sound and keeping it fresh. The Wonder Years are most definitely one of the latter group. Looking back at recent [...]

Despite the fact that melody and metal have had a long and winding history, the almost pop punk levels of autotuned slickness that crashes into metalcore style br00tal breakdowns in bands like Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! is just about where you’d imagine there’s a line drawn in the sand between the current and previous generations [...]

Tonight the mighty Bring Me The Horizon return to Cardiff for the first time since the release of their glorious new album ‘Sempiternal’. Solus is a fairly intimate venue for them to play, and if they’d wanted to, they could’ve upgraded easily, but the whole point is to keep this tour fairly small and sweaty [...]

Do line-ups get much better than this? Not often. Once in a blue moon you’ll see some great bands come together, but for the most part, this is one of the strongest you’ll see all year. Tonight, two of the most influential, consistent and just plain best acts in metal go head-to-head at the legendary [...]

Pennsylvanian native Koji has spent the past few years building a dedicated fan base on the back of EPs like ‘Some Small Way’ and his split with Into It/Over it. ‘Crooked In My Mind’ is his debut album. Opening with the simple acoustic strumming of ‘Chasing A Ghost’, Koji blends easy melody with dark and [...]

Sharks are a band that really have had it all to battle against at home in the UK. Despite the relative quality of last release ‘No Gods’, they’ve still failed to really make an impact on this side of the pond, and with ‘Selfhood’ they’ll probably hit the same wall. Though ‘Selfhood’ carries all the [...]

Recent Fat Wreck signing Night Birds’ latest EP ‘Maimed For The Masses’ will put the band’s dirty brand of surf punk in front of a lot of news ears, and with Dead Kennedys and Ceremony blending with early Offspring and Bad Religion in the band’s fairly old school sound and production, it’ll appeal to a [...]

Festival season kicked off with the biggest of bangs in April in Nottingham, and Hit The Deck has now seen itself transform into the first big weekender that the UK has to offer by expanding to Bristol. Punktastic was out in force over the weekend. SATURDAY – Bristol Great Cynics are one of the fastest [...]