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From Wednesday 08 April 2026

As Everything Unfolds – ‘DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?’

Take the time to reflect. Sit a moment with your sadness. Watch a drop of condensation snake its way down a window pane. Imagine the route it will take, the direction it will travel, and observe its path. It seems to be going where you hoped. Until

Friday 03 April 2026

SUNN O))) – ‘SUNN O)))’

For almost three decades, SUNN O))) have consistently left listeners struggling to describe the ineffable sounds that Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson create. Genre-wise, most reach for terms like “doom” or “drone” metal, but those are insufficient descriptors. It’s like saying that Dick Van Dyke has a Cockney accent

Wednesday 01 April 2026

Grade 2 – ‘Talk About It’

Grade 2 are the best kind of young punk heroes. Five albums into their quest from the Isle of Wight to the glittering heights of Campbell, California, the trio have somehow managed to sound more like Rancid than Rancid ever did. It’s more than that though; the trio give

Friday 27 March 2026

Don Broco – ‘Nightmare Tripping’

Don Broco are now on the Dark Side. Gone is the whimsy that punctuated their earlier albums. They’ve kept the electronic hints, of course, but taken their sound in a distinctly heavier direction on their latest offering, ‘Nightmare Tripping’. It’s hard to believe that ’T-Shirt Song’ was only a

Thursday 26 March 2026

Winterfylleth – ‘The Unyielding Season’

There’s a cold remoteness that resonates throughout black metal’s complex and not always pleasant history. It’s often the music of isolation, and many of the genre’s most identifiable characteristics – high-pitched screams, brisk tempos and coarse recording qualities – possess an innate relationship with absence; of light, company, temperature,

Wednesday 25 March 2026

The Casualties – ‘DETONATE’

You hear it all the time. That same phrase. ‘They don’t make music like that anymore.” Honestly, they do. Whatever it is, whatever you like, there is a band out there somewhere doing your thing, you just have to look for it. The Casualties are a hardcore

Monday 23 March 2026

Free Throw – ‘MOMENTS BEFORE THE WIND’

Honesty is a strange thing. It isn’t the same as lying, but it’s not the same as truth either. A song doesn’t need truth to feel honest, just like how honesty isn’t always true. One of the best things about music is that it’s so conflicting, so

Friday 20 March 2026

Gaerea – ‘Loss’

Black metal is a genre that has an awful lot of stigma attached to it. Murder, arson, cults, more murder – it’s a pretty dark and dingy corner of the music world that seems perpetually incapable of detaching itself from those traits. Well, until you discover Gaerea, that is.

Wednesday 18 March 2026

Poison The Well – ‘Peace In Place’

Poison The Well had a hand in establishing metalcore and its surge of popularity back in the early noughties. Though they never truly got their flowers or reached the same heights as some of their genre peers, their influence on its growth and the bands that it produced is

Thursday 12 March 2026

Sweet Pill – ‘Still There’s A Glow’

Sweet Pill’s sophomore release comes four years after their debut album ‘Where the Heart Is’. These four years have seen the band tour alongside La Dispute and The Wonder Years, head out on their own headline tour, and pick up acclaim from artists across the board. The burnout