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From Wednesday 18 April 2012

Blacklisters – BLKLSTRS

‘BLKLSTRS’ plays as if four guys got together to fuck with time signatures. There is not a single moment on the forty minutes on offer that uses conventional song structure. The result is a barrage of noise which neither takes on a hardcore personality nor touches on the edges

Tuesday 17 April 2012

POLAR – Iron Lungs

POLAR occupy a bit of an odd space for a British band. They’ve appeared on numerous bills with far “less heavy” bands as well as the more staple hardcore mobs, and it’s a sign of the times and their wider appeal that they can appear on a range of

Saturday 14 April 2012

Holy State – Electric Picture Palace

What does every self-respecting indie band do after bagging the support slot with scene titans BIFFY CLYRO, releasing a well-received debut EP and sitting on the verge of stardom with their first full-length? If the band is HOLY STATE they announce that they are going to split. ‘Electric Picture

Thursday 12 April 2012

Halestorm – The Strange Case Of…

Right, so sidestepping the whole “women in rock” shtick entirely, ‘The Strange Case Of…’ from Halestorm is the band’s second album, and where it manages to be consistent in it’s early stage, it’s not a terrible listen. The production is perfect to the point of being sickly, and at

Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast

For those who’ve arrived wondering whether the latest Municipal Waste album has seen the party thrash pioneers take a serious turn and tackle mature themes and advanced song structures, we have an answer for you: No. ‘The Fatal Feast’ is Muni Waste being Muni Waste through and through, and though

The Dead Wretched – Anchors Down

Formed by two former members of Welsh metal outfit BOYS WITH X-RAY EYES, and including a handpicked selection of musicians from the British metalcore scene, THE DEAD WRETCHED more than pack a punch on their debut album ‘Anchors Down’. Like many bands, this five-piece vow to reimagine the current

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight – Going Home

Second album ‘Going Home’, from trio TRIPPY WICKED & THE COSMIC CHILDREN OF THE KNIGHT, is nine songs heavily woven with fierce instrumentals and grunge laden vocals. It’s a very stoner rock affair, and that’ll instantly put off a few, but it’s definitely worth digging a little deeper for the

Hopeless Heroic – Become The Monster

Taking two years to make, ‘Become The Monster’, HOPELESS HEROIC’s first full length feature is a grand achievement. A Sterling ten track album with a combination of up and down tempo tracks, with hints of rock, punk and rap influences. This quartet start off their album with classical violins during

Tuesday 10 April 2012

You Slut! – Medium Bastard

You Slut! are our kind of lads. Cheeky Northern chappies with a sense of a humour, some tasty artwork, an amusingly disgusting press shot involving gym whites and milk…oh and an enormous barrage of incredible guitar music to bludgeon you round the head until you submit. Their distinct brand of

Monday 09 April 2012

We’ll Go Machete – Six Plus Ten

At sixteen tracks, if you can hang on through to the end of this one you probably have a longer attention span than 95% of the general population, which is a depressing yet accurate statement. Having said that, ‘Six Plus Ten’ is 16 tracks of intelligently crafted post-hardcore that