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From Tuesday 18 October 2022

Boston Manor – ‘Datura’

Boston Manor’s last full-length record was released during a time that is universally agreed to be “the worst time ever” to have been making music. In May 2020, ‘GLUE’ finally reached our ears but the proceeding tour didn’t take place until almost two years later, a wait

Wednesday 12 October 2022

October Drift – ‘I DON’T BELONG ANYWHERE’

An album is more than just the music. It’s a series of choices. The aesthetic, the visuals, everything matters as much as the songs themselves. On all their releases, October Drift use the same type face and the same style of photo and it’s the same on

Press Club – ‘Endless Motion’

Press Club have quite a few things to get off their chest. The Melbourne-based four-piece have watched on in despair as the world has eaten itself. However, in despair comes art and their third LP, ‘Endless Motion’, is another bold step for one of the darlings of Australia’s DIY

Thursday 29 September 2022

Slipknot – ‘The End, So Far’

When Slipknot burst onto the scene in the 1990s, bellowing out furious, impeccably penned anthems about death, rage, and disillusionment, clad in identikit boiler suits and horror masks straight out of a video nasty flick, what really made them stand out was their capacity to shock. So how can

The Wonder Years – ‘The Hum Goes On Forever’

It’s not quite as simple as calling The Wonder Years a pop-punk band anymore, even if they did make their name that way. To many they remain as one of, if not the, greatest pop-punk outfit in the history of the genre. While

Friday 23 September 2022

Kid Kapichi – ‘Here’s What You Could’ve Won’

Sometimes, writing close to a delivery deadline is a dangerous game. As an example, this review has almost certainly breached the guided deadline for submission, and I’ll have to pull strings to get it published in time – this says more about me than anything else. But for a

Thursday 22 September 2022

The Mars Volta – ‘THE MARS VOLTA’

On their album sleeves it reads ‘The Mars Volta is the partnership between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala’. That partnership ended in 2012, abruptly. They quickly reunited, playing in noisy bands Antemasque and At The Drive-In, but it has taken ten years to write that epigraph again.

Wednesday 21 September 2022

The Devil Wears Prada – ‘Color Decay’

When we sat down with The Devil Wears Prada’s guitarist and vocalist Jeremy DePoyster last year around the release of the ‘ZII’ EP, he told us that he and the band wanted to completely rethink the way they approached releasing music. Following in the footsteps of bands like Bring

No Devotion – ‘No Oblivion’

During the 2015 tour No Devotion vocalist Geoff Rickly would proclaim ‘We’re a brand new band’. Riding high on a wave of promise they named their debut album ‘Permanence’ because it was a monument, something to last, a record that staked out their existence. The thing is,

Friday 16 September 2022

Behemoth – ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’

Behemoth is one of metal’s most unlikely success stories. They’re a band that’s found success and crossover appeal that extends well beyond the black and death metal underground while being unflinchingly extreme in their creative approach. They have reached heights that are unprecedented for the genre in recent years,