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From Wednesday 02 May 2012

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

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