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Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork

The world has changed a lot in the two years since Pupil Slicer’s last album. And given the band’s claim that “all of the worst things to happen to the human race have been caused by its own members,” the time that has passed wouldn’t appear to have incubated much

Friday 31 October 2025

Creeper – ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’

Of course ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’, Creeper’s song awaited fourth album, is released on Halloween. And the fact it’s centred loosely around a Lost Boys-esque story about a vampire rock band in their eighties is hardly a surprise either. If you’re already a fan of Will Gould and

Wednesday 29 October 2025

PENGSHUi – ‘GUTS’

PENGSHUi have never been a band to do things by halves. London‑born and bred, they started out tearing through pirate radio sets and basement shows, blending the aggression of punk and metal with the bounce of dubstep and electronic chaos. Their debut, ‘Pengshui’, leaned heavily on electronics, while ‘Destroy

Thursday 16 October 2025

Smote – ‘SONGS FROM THE FREE HOUSE’

Daniel Foggin aka Smote holds the unlikely dual-vocation of landscape gardener and purveyor of imperious drones. While these two professions may appear to be wholly disparate, it is his pursuit of the former – which has seen Foggin “more often covered in mud than not” – that has directly

H_ngm_n – ‘Paper Street’

H_ngm_n have been peddling their own take on emo for several years now; stripped back, two-piece and contemporary, yet capable of reaching anthemic highs that evoke mid-2000s pop punk bands like Motion City Soundtrack and Fall Out Boy. ‘Paper Street’ is their debut album – released almost a

Friday 10 October 2025

PERTURBATOR – ‘Age Of Aquarius’

If there’s anything we know about Perturbator, it’s that the French musician knows how to transport us to a cyber-punkesque land, not too dissimilar from the likes of Tron or Blade Runner. Perturbator is a master at treading a path between an 80s past and a dystopian future; are

Wednesday 08 October 2025

Greyhaven – ‘KEEP IT QUIET’

The word ‘grey’ has plenty of negative connotations. Tarmac is grey, the sky is grey, depression is grey, porridge is grey, the mood is very much grey. Despite it being part of their name, ‘grey’ is the last colour you’d use to describe Greyhaven’s new record. Technically,

Tuesday 07 October 2025

TV CULT – ‘Industry’

German post punks TV CULT describe their music as “somewhere between The Cure and Minor.” Their debut album, 2023’s ‘Colony’, lent hard on their punk influences and led to the band touring with acts such as Ditz and Militarie Gun. ‘Industry’, the sophomore follow-up, sees the band embrace

Thursday 02 October 2025

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – ‘X’s For Eyes’

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – MySpace era survivors and perennial comeback kids – aren’t going to end up Face Down any time soon. A seven year absence has brought us to ‘X’s For Eyes’, a record that puts us back in touch with our inner teens. It would be

Wednesday 01 October 2025

AFI – ‘Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…’

‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ is not a record from the AFI that play in the memory of every early noughties alt kid. The masters of subtle reinvention, who slid from hardcore basements to MTV screens, who flew their Black Sails In The Sunset across a Silver and Cold