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From Tuesday 03 July 2012

Canterbury – ‘Heavy In The Day’

After a lengthy wait since album number one, Canterbury are back with their sophomore effort ‘Heavy In The Day’ – an album that’s representative of a band that have grown and utilized their influences in every possible way. Opening things up is title track ‘Heavy In The Day’. It’s a

Monday 02 July 2012

The Word Alive – Life Cycles

The current wave of US metalcore is borderline unstoppable at the moment. Born of everything from thrash, grind, post hardcore and nu metal to straight up emo, the technical ability of this generation of guitarists has become eyebrow raising, and though there’s most definitely a level of studio trickery

Pacer – Making Plans

If you frequent punk shows in the UK, you’ll probably be familiar with Pacer. Mark Pavey and Dave House are known faces across the UK from their days in The Steal (and Dave’s solo work), so ‘Making Plans’ is an album that many have been looking forward to hearing

Shadows Fall – Fire From The Sky

Does anyone remember when The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal was a thing? At the start of the 21st century, various publications latched onto the latest wave of American metalcore and pushed it for all it was worth as bands like Killswitch Engage, Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold garnered

Sunday 01 July 2012

This Calamity – ‘I’ll Paint You a Picture if You Promise to Put It Up’

Borrowing largely from progressive emo/hardcore bands, the debut mini-album (six tracks pulling in at just over half an hour) from Plymouth based This Calamity verges on needing a new sub-genre to label – the sweeping atmospherics provided by the spacious guitar and drum sounds hint at a an almost

Friday 29 June 2012

Anti Vigilante – ‘Tempest’

They say that out of adversity comes strength. This certainly seems to be the case for Milton Keynes skacore mob, Anti Vigilante. After a turbulent 18 months, the band has returned with new album ‘Tempest’, a record that’s every bit as poignant as it is impacting. Playing out as

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Anatomy of the Bear- Anatomy of the Bear

A concept band of sorts – originally (and seemingly continuously) writing tracks which relate directly to bears – Anatomy of the Bear match their transient philosophy to their music. In a futile attempt to compare the band to other post-rock outfits (perhaps This Will Destroy You closest to warranting

The Offspring – Days Go By

It’s not often that you get to cite the most cringeworthy track as the most memorable moment of an album, but let’s go ahead and do just that with ‘Cruising California (Bumpin’ In My Trunk)’ from ‘Days Go By’ from The Offspring. Coming from a band that have written some of

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Attention – Tattered Youth

So, everyone’s seen School Of Rock, right? So… in the final Battle of the Bands contest, Jack Black and the schoolkids come up against his old bandmates that kicked him out who now have a new singer and play totally bland, soulless MOR rock, and even though the kids

Bouncing Souls – Comet

No matter how old you are, it’s hard not to know and respect the Bouncing Souls if you call yourself a fan of punk. Greg Attonito’s vocals are instantly recognisable, and the band’s sound can be found threaded through so much of the current breed of punk bands from