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From Monday 19 June 2023

Lurk – ‘Natural Causes’

Who really enjoys using social media? This is just one of the questions that adventurous Chicago punk rockers Lurk seek to answer on their latest EP, ‘Natural Causes’. For every profile offering cottagecore gardening tips or cat videos, there’s another spreading hate and lies. ”People act as if they’re shielded from

Thursday 15 June 2023

Sicksense – ‘FOOLS TOMORROW’

The last days of nu-metal were a sight to behold. Every established metal band and middle-aged white dude was pulling on a vest, dying their hair blonde and trying their very best to get down with the kids. The market was over-saturated with bands who didn’t realise

Wednesday 07 June 2023

Glass Casket – ‘GLASS CASKET’

Think back seventeen years and imagine what the world was like. Music was very different. Deathcore was very different. Glass Casket last released a record back in 2006 and after so many years of inactivity, you’d think they were dead and buried, but really they’ve been waiting

Tuesday 06 June 2023

American Nightmare – ‘DEDICATED TO THE NEXT WORLD’

Your hard work will get you nothing. No one is equal. Welcome to the American Nightmare. The idea of America as the land of opportunity is one anyone would want to buy into, but not this band from Boston, Massachusetts. They’re flipping that idea, inverting it,

Wednesday 10 May 2023

Happydaze – ‘Full Free Radical’ EP

Think back to a festival you went to when you felt ‘young’. If youth is still on your side, you probably won’t have to think too hard. Maybe it was Reading, or Glastonbury, or a local gathering in a park. If you try and conjure up the feeling of

Wednesday 03 May 2023

Jamie Lenman – ‘IknowyouknowIknow

It feels like an understatement to say that Jamie Lenman is not an artist that follows the path most travelled in his creative endeavours. ‘Muscle Memory’, his first solo album after the dissolution of his band Reuben, was a double album, one disc containing his heaviest material to date,

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Black Coast – ‘BLACK COAST’

You might not have heard of Black Coast – yet – but they’ve been tearing up the underground metal scene with their incendiary live shows. They haven’t quite broken out, but that’s about to change. Their debut album ‘Outworld’ dropped in 2021 and it set the stage,

Thursday 20 April 2023

Picturesque – ‘IYKYK’

As the Steve Miller Band once remarked, ‘time keeps on slippin’ into the future’, and it’s this very concept which concerns Picturesque on their new EP, ‘IYKYK’. However, rather than flying like an eagle to the sea, the quartet from Kentucky are taking the passage of days, hours and

Wednesday 19 April 2023

Atreyu – ‘The Hope Of A Spark’

Everything changes. Over the last 25 years, Atreyu have grown, split-up, reformed and evolved, putting out some great records along the way. ‘The Hope Of A Spark’ is four brand new songs, each no-nonsense and hard-hitting. It’s brief, to the point and just a little bit weird,

Wednesday 12 April 2023

Veiled – ‘The Black Rite’

Metalcore is in a fit state. Whether it’s the seemingly endless slate of albums from new and established bands, or simply Lorna Shore’s digital dominance over the past couple of years, the case could be made that public appetite for metalcore hasn’t been this strong since the