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From Monday 07 May 2012

Battle For Paris – Superstar

The raucous display that Battle For Paris invited listeners to with their previous E.P was more than impressive, yet looking back, they still seemed to be somewhat overlooked by many. However, it also seems that debut album ‘Superstar’ will hopefully change all that, where the band have created an

Thursday 03 May 2012

mewithoutYou – Ten Stories

Okay, deep breath. We’ve posted some pretty high scoring albums so far this year. For just a few examples, the new records from Straight Lines, The Tower And The Fool, Blacklisters, Hot Water Music

Aybat Hallar – Something Nice

What can we tell you about Aybat Hallar? They’re Russian, they list Bad Religion, Tom Waits and Slade in their influences and they seem to have a bit of a zombie fixation as most of their artwork is 80’s skate-punk influenced cartoons of dead and/or dying things. They REALLY

Wednesday 02 May 2012

Hot Water Music – Exister

After eight years, the expectations greeting new Hot Water Music material couldn’t be higher. ‘Exister’ sees the band on Rise Records, and short of comparing it to the previous efforts and risk being called wrong – let us just say that they’ve never put out something that isn’t very

Job For A Cowboy – Demonocracy

Ever since debut EP ‘Doom’ knocked the metal community for six back in 2005, Job For A Cowboy have been creating a nice little niche for themselves in this particular genre. With peers like Suicide Silence basically aping early Korn now and with Despised Icon gone, the crown of

Children Of Bodom – 15 Years Of Wasted Youth (Holiday At Lake Bodom)

Joining the pantheon of Finnish exports such as Nokia, ex-Liverpool and Ajax striker Jari Litmanen and, erm, Eurovision song contest winners Lordi, Children Of Bodom here release a career retrospective cataloguing their decade-and-a-half thus far. Named after an infamous unsolved multiple homicide that took place a few miles outside

Exumer – Fire & Damnation

You know that phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”? Sometimes it’s totally okay to do that. With a name like Exumer, releasing an album entitled ‘Fire & Damnation’, you’re already fairly ready for what you’re going to be served up – 2nd generation “Big 4”-era Bay Area

Thursday 26 April 2012

The Tower and The Fool – How Long

It doesn’t happen very often, but every once in a while you stumble upon a band whose music just makes an absolute immediate impact. When I first listened to The Tower and The Fool’s first self-titled EP, this happened to me. I was hooked, it was the amalgamation of

Saturday 21 April 2012

Taproot – The Episodes

I know what you’re thinking. Taproot? Yeah, those dudes are still together, and they’ve just dropped their second release for the notorious Victory Records. Outside of commercial rock nights where it’s ironically acceptable, Nu-Metal undeservedly gets something of a bad rap these days; many of the bands pigeonholed into

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Now, Now – Threads

We have mentioned the very same thing about the band before, but Now, Now really aren’t the usual Punktastic fodder. The band’s distinct female vocal and eerie synth driven mid-tempo alt-indie isn’t going to appeal to all of our readers, but they’re a band that, in essence, are sat