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From Thursday 23 February 2017

Power Trip – ‘Nightmare Logic’

Power Trip sure know how to keep people waiting. Four years ago they released their stellar debut, ‘Manifest Decimation’, which raised the bar for metallic hardcore tenfold. Through a heavy touring schedule that has taken them all over the world, the Texan band have grown into an unstoppable force,

Wednesday 22 February 2017

King Woman – ‘Created In The Image Of Suffering’

With the title ‘Created In The Image Suffering’, and a glance at the track titles that make up King Woman’s debut album, it was always going to make for uneasy listening. Not in the sense that it is unlistenable, in as much as it is a deeply personal, hard-hitting

Decade – ‘Pleasantries’

“You are just a human being,” Decade remind us in the opening track (‘Human Being’) of their new release ‘Pleasantries’. Simple advice it may seem, but a message we need reminding of more often than we might think. The refrain is accompanied by a sunny chorus, not dissimilar from

Tuesday 21 February 2017

The History Of Colour TV – ‘Something Like Eternity’

When it comes to shoegaze, the genre can be somewhat difficult to talk about without mentioning the genre’s pioneers; namely, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus And The Mary Chain etc., simply because its a very distinct sound to mimic. Artists like Ringo Deathstarr and DIIV proudly replicate their ’90s

Danny Worsnop – ‘The Long Road Home’

Recently returned lead singer of Asking Alexandria Danny Worsnop makes a drastic change of direction with his first solo album. Country albums are normally filled with tales of bars, whiskey and girls and, as you’d expect, Worsnop has more than a few of those. The album itself gets of to

Monday 20 February 2017

Meat Wave – ‘The Incessant’

Chris Sutter seems to be looking over his shoulder a lot. There’s something matching his footsteps, something that he can’t quite place, an “anxious doom” demanding “payment due,” shapelessly shifting, “coming for you”. It’s nameless, but he calls it ‘The Incessant,’ on the title track of this

Thursday 16 February 2017

Ghost Iris – ‘Blind World’

Danish quartet Ghost Iris return with ‘Blind World’, a ten-track masterclass in tech-metal that combines the polar opposites of crunching heaviness with soaring melody to form irresistible vocal hooks wrapped around brutally massive riffs. Wasting absolutely no time getting stuck in, first track ‘Gods of Neglect’ is blisteringly heavy. The

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Ghost Key – ‘If I Don’t Make It’

Ghost Key, as a hardcore band, are already in a saturated market but ‘If I Don’t Make It’ is set to label them as ones to watch and it won’t be long before they’re wriggling above the flood of other similar artists and surfing safely

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Darko ‘Bonsai Mammoth’

‘Life Forms’ is a delicate start to a punk rock album but the ferocious dual guitar and punching drums quickly bring about the musical substance fit for a narrative that is surmised by ‘I don’t wanna be a part of it, I don’t fucking care’, an ode to the

Friday 10 February 2017

Group Of Man – ‘World Peace Champions’

‘We Are Good People’, claimed the title of UK post-hardcore troupe Group Of Man’s 2015 debut EP. Its follow up, released in January 2017, goes by the name ‘World Peace Champions’. It seems that Group Of Man have quite the high opinions of themselves (or are just