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What Now – ‘Move Like A Sinner’

‘Move Like a Sinner’ is the latest offering from South African rock trio What Now. The band grew up in Ballito, a little town by the beach, and later re-located to the UK to – in their own words – “get big”. The end result is thirteen tracks of

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Let’s Talk Daggers – ‘Fantastic Contraption’

With angular riffs and explosive vocals Let’s Talk Daggers tear at the hardcore scene with uncompromising ferocity. Having toured with Your Demise, Letlive and Lower Than Atlantis, they are swiftly establishing themselves as serious players on the live circuit. Recently they entered the studio with The James Cleaver Quintet’s

Friday 15 March 2013

The Smoking Hearts – Victory

The Smoking Hearts may be a band you’ve come across at some point. They’ve been doing the rounds for a while now, but for some reason their punk influenced rock n’ roll has remained largely off any mainstream radar. Luckily for them their debut album ‘Victory’ might just go

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Senses Fail – ‘Renacer’

Taken from the Spanish ‘to be reborn’ or ‘to revive’, ‘Renacer’ smacks of a band desperate to try something new. This is not necessarily a bad thing – Senses Fail are taking an obvious step outside of their norm with a considerable increase in heavy guitar riffs and unclean

Thursday 28 February 2013

RVIVR – ‘The Beauty Between’

A slew of fantastic albums have been arriving so far this year (almost standing up to 2012’s impressive opening quarter), and a late contender for the 2013 Q1 crown is RVIVR’s ‘The Beauty Between’. Up until now, RVIVR have been releasing pretty great releases with particularly great tracks on them,

Wednesday 27 February 2013

The Rockingbirds – The Return of the Rockingbirds

The Rockingbirds don’t hail from Nashville or Austin but that hasn’t stopped these plucky north Londoners from being compared to alt-country greats. A career spanning two decades, their third album ( and their first in 17 years) sees these pedal steel guitar veterans returning to what made them so

Sunday 24 February 2013

Texas Is The Reason – ‘Do You Know Who You Are? The Complete Collection’

So, band reunions. What a crock of shit. At The Drive-In, Refused and Sunny Day Real Estate reformed to play a few shows then promptly disappeared again. Returns of the Pixies, Pavement and Public Enemy prompted cries of ‘Meh…’ up and down the land. Small Brown Bike came back

Thursday 14 February 2013

Wounds – ‘Die Young’

Irish noise merchants Wounds have been doing the rounds for a while at their own pace, and ‘Die Young’ sees them take a step up to the plate in a big way. Largely, ‘Die Young’, is great. It’s full of vitriol, great riffs and dominating vocals from Aidan Coogan, and

Wednesday 06 February 2013

Hatebreed – ‘The Divinity Of Purpose’

Being a band like Hatebreed usually means one or two things – firstly, plenty of people are going to find their way to you from other bands and, secondly, some people just aren’t ever going to like you. Being a band like Hatebreed also means you can pretty much

Tuesday 05 February 2013

My Chemical Romance – ‘Conventional Weapons’

My Chemical Romance’s “lost” album ‘Conventional Weapons’ has resurfaced over the last few months in two track bursts, and this week saw ‘Part 5’ completing the pentalogy. The overall sound won’t be a surprise if you’ve been checking it out in parts, and it’s split down the middle in terms