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Jupiter Hollow – ‘Odyssey’

In typical prog-rock fashion, Jupiter Hollow begin their futuristic, debut concept EP with a journey through various moods, styles and dynamics. Opening with a driving riff that would’ve been at home on Tool’s ‘10,000 Days’, the track moves into Rush territory thanks to the Geddy Lee-style vocals,

Wednesday 11 January 2017

Gone Is Gone – ‘Echolocation’

The term ‘supergroup’ is one which is banded about all too easily these days. It’s pretty much used to define any band containing members from successful backgrounds. Once in a while a band emerges on to the scene from prestigious beginnings and Gone is Gone are one

Tuesday 10 January 2017

Code Orange – ‘Forever’

It can sometimes take years for a band to find a sound that is truly their own; the type of sound that as soon as you hear it, you know who it is. Code Orange have managed it in a relatively short period of time. While they have progressed

Monday 09 January 2017

Dropkick Murphys – ’11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory’

With drums, strings and whistles heralding the arrival of ‘The Lonesome Boatman’, soon giving way to crushing distorted guitars and gang vocals, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys set the scene for ‘11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory’, their ninth album. Borne out of recent tragedies and the band’s

Sunday 08 January 2017

You Me At Six – ‘Night People’

After the 2014 release of ‘Cavalier Youth’, Surrey quintet You Me At Six went rather quiet. Once the initial album release tours and shows were complete, they seemed to fall off the face of the planet – but they only did so in order to write and record their

Friday 06 January 2017

Chasing Safety – ‘Nomad’

If there was a book called “How to Create Your Debut Album: Post Hardcore Edition”, Chasing Safety’s ‘Nomad’ would undoubtedly be the sample record stuck to the back cover. Across eleven tracks, the band manage to cover everything the genre has become known for in recent years; from strong

Thursday 05 January 2017

Brutai – ‘Born’

Brutai seem to have popped up out of nowhere to a huge round of applause. Aside from those who religiously visit Tech Fest, not many people talked about them, and now here we are: a debut album on Transcend Music, Radio 1 play,

Saturday 17 December 2016

Megosh – ‘Apostasy’

Sometimes you can be oblivious to how bored you are with something until you’re forced into a new experience. If you have a favourite restaurant, for example, it’s natural to gravitate there whenever you want a nice meal, but being taken to a new place instead can open your

Friday 16 December 2016

Beans on Toast – ‘A Spanner In The Works’

Having long gotten rid of the stigma of just being Frank Turner’s mate, Beans on Toast has his own army of fans, and having stuck to his own made rule of a new album every year, released on the same day, the singer refuses to be out of touch

Headstone Horrors – Tales From The Murder House

We know what happened when corpse paint met metal. Some people took things way too seriously and a few Scandinavians even decided to start a church reduction campaign. Thankfully things have calmed down a bit now and we have the splendidly tongue in cheek Evil Scarecrow singing about cyborg