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From Tuesday 13 September 2016

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

The Decoy – ‘Avalon’

First impressions are tough and you only get one. After listening to ‘Avalon’ – the debut album from Welsh rockers The Decoy – a fair few few times, I’m still struggling to pin down just what exactly these guys are all about. Jumping between mammoth Incubus style choruses and

Sunday 11 September 2016

Columbus – ‘Spring Forever’

Australia alternative punk band Columbus have been busy this last year or so, getting their heads down to record their debut album ‘Spring Forever’ and looking to hit the road with ROAM later on this year. Opening track ‘Summer Dress’ perfectly transitions into the consistent record, offering a fantastic impression

Twin Atlantic – ‘GLA’

“This is a rock and roll show!” I remember hearing Sam McTrusty, Twin Atlantic’s ferocious frontman, screaming into the crowd whilst touring in support of their last album, ‘Great Divide’. I remember unreservedly screaming in response although in retrospect questioning if the melodramatic songs could really be

Friday 09 September 2016

This Wild Life – ‘Low Tides’

When your breakthrough success comes off the back of a Bring Me the Horizon cover, it then becomes a question of how can that success be replicated through the release of your own material? Thankfully for Californian duo This Wild Life, their debut album ‘History’ was welcomed by widespread

Cruel Hand – ‘Your World Won’t Listen’

It’s been almost two years to the day since Portland’s Cruel Hand released an album but now the band are back with album number five. ‘Your World Won’t Listen’, released via Hopeless Records, sees the band experiment with some new ideas and further develop the sound they created with

Thursday 08 September 2016

Doe – ‘Some Things Last Longer Than You’

Above a wall of guitars, crashing drums and waves of white noise, Doe’s primary vocalist and guitarist Nicola Leel growls “If I could, I’d kick you in the face, and I’d feel better!”. Coming smack bang in the bridge of ‘No 1’, the opening track on Doe’s

Tuesday 06 September 2016

Bayside – ‘Vacancy’

Bayside are an intelligent band. The act from Queens, New York have yet again created a record that delivers intense punk rock that has been littered with statements of intent. And the lyrical quality is always drawn from an intellectual brain. Front-man Anthony Raneri takes influence from his life