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From Monday 19 September 2016

Casey – ‘Love Is Not Enough’

Casey have, in recent months, whipped up a frenzy with their emotive, powerful tracks. Successful tours and EP releases have seen them hailed as the next big thing within the UK music scene, a title that hasn’t been thrown at them without good reason. Their self-released EP ‘Fade’ garnered

Sunday 18 September 2016

Nots – ‘Cosmetic’

Memphis four-piece punk rock band Nots have been somewhat under the radar over in Europe, however, making big noise overseas playing the SXSW festival as well as touring America; currently signed to Goner Records in North America and Heavenly in Europe. Full of unpredictable guitars, celestial synths, and punctuated vocals that swirl around

Beach Slang – ‘A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings’

Responsibility is something that creeps up on all of us. Most of us spend the first dozen or so years of our existence free of the sometimes crushing weight life can heap upon our shoulders. It’s only as we start approaching adulthood that the reality of the world and

Saturday 17 September 2016

Scream Out Loud – ‘Scream Out Loud’

Scream Out Loud’s self-titled second album is their first release in four years and it finds them at a point where despite showing promise they are yet to make a real breakthrough. A pop-punk band on the surface, Scream Out Loud draw on some varied influences with flashes of

Friday 16 September 2016

Knocked Loose – ‘Laugh Tracks’

Kentucky’s own Knocked Loose are perhaps the most hyped new band in hardcore, it’s easy to see why after the quality of their first EP and subsequent split release with Damaged Goods. Finally, the debut album ‘Laugh Tracks’ is here and its sole purpose is to take your head

Thursday 15 September 2016

Taking Back Sunday – ‘Tidal Wave’

When Taking Back Sunday stormed back onto the scene with their ‘Tidal Wave’ title track, it hinted at an exciting reawakening. For the first time in their history they even acquired, although reservedly, notions of “punx”. Its short and sharp ferocity equally suited to Against Me!’s new album, notably

Tuesday 13 September 2016

The Brave – ‘Epoch’

“An epoch is a defining moment or event in time that leaves a memorable mark in history, and for us that is exactly what this album is,” explains The Brave’s vocalist Nathan Toussaint. “It’s a significant thing that has taken us from just being a local band having a

Against Me! – ‘Shape Shift With Me’

“I wanna be more real than all the others,” scowls Laura Jane Grace on ‘Delicate, Petite & Other Things I’ll Never Be’, “I wanna be so real, you can see the difference!”. If there ever was a person who had a claim in punk rock on being

Touche Amore – ‘Stage Four’

Without reservation, ‘Displacement’ lays ‘Stage Four’’s cards out on the table. “You died at 69, with a body full of cancer,” Touche Amore’s Jeremy Bolm reveals, going on to simultaneously celebrate and commiserate the passing of his mother; the catalyst behind their fourth full-length release. The theme runs throughout

Sinsaenum – ‘Echoes Of The Tortured’

Sinsaenum are the newly founded supergroup featuring vocalist Sean Zatorsky (Dååth) and Attila Csihar (Mayhem) on vocals, Frédéric Leclercq (DragonForce) on the guitars and Joey Jordison (Slipknot, Vimic, Murderdolls) on drums. As a starting point for death metal this is a fairly good one. It isn’t so wildly abrasive or