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Monuments – ‘In Stasis’

One way to put pressure on yourself is to call your band Monuments. It’s a name that makes you think of a towering, dominant band whose music will last the ages, and it’s a name the UK band have spent the last ten years trying to live up to.

Friday 08 April 2022

Out Of Love – ‘So Far, So Good’

Since their inception in 2020, London 5-piece Out Of Love have set out to make their mark at any given opportunity. Releasing a steady stream of music from the off, fans have discovered and enjoyed 2020’s debut EP ‘I Am Not Me’ and the impressive ‘Funny Feeling

Monday 04 April 2022

Meshuggah – ‘Immutable’

Six years out of a game they have been playing for over three decades, Swedish legends Meshuggah are back with their brand new ninth studio album, ‘Immutable’, and after nine albums, this band’s innovative creativity in metal music and consistency to smash through their own expectations is

Friday 01 April 2022

PUP – ‘The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND’

The next release after a successful album can be a tricky one. After two successful albums, it’s even more difficult. For PUP, after releasing three almost flawless albums, they’ve left themselves an absolute mountain to climb to reach the Everest of heights they’ve set their standards at. Fortunately, they’re

Wednesday 30 March 2022

Carpenter Brut – ‘Leather Terror’

Of all the progenitors of that cult-of-neon we call synthwave releasing new records this season, Carpenter Brut may well be the most highly-anticipated. The slasher-inspired icon of the genre has never been one to be satisfied with standing still for too long, with his last full release

Tuesday 29 March 2022

Pillow Queens – ‘Leave The Light On’

Once the darlings of dive bars and DIY venues, Dublin four-piece Pillow Queens now tread the boards of US talk shows, the smoke-filled rooms of the famous SXSW and sold-out shows in LA. Each show allows their star to shine a little brighter and their sophomore record ‘Leave The

Monday 28 March 2022

Placebo – ‘Never Let Me Go’

It’s been close to a decade since we were last treated to new music from the mighty Placebo and just as the world has changed drastically in that time, so, too, have the founding members of this iconic London two-piece – vocalist / guitarist Brian Molko and

Wednesday 23 March 2022

Absent In Body – ‘Plague God’

Language is a strange thing. In the world of doom metal and sludge, words like festering, rotting and disgusting flip their meaning. This is doubly true when discussing Absent In Body’s debut album, ‘Plague God’. It’s good that a record sounds like picking through the ashes of a ruined

Spill Your Guts – ‘The Wrath It Takes’

Spill Your Guts are based in Shanghai, giving them a different perspective to many of other bands you may be listening to. Not to discredit those other bands, but the most recent single from Spill Your Guts, ‘Lift The Curse’, opens with a description of events that happened in

Monday 21 March 2022

Extinction A.D. – ‘Culture of Violence’

Long Island’s Extinction A.D. are a band who never do things by halves. Fusing a brutal blend between ’90s thrash metal and bruising hardcore, the New Yorkers deliver every body of work they have done in the past with hellish heaviness and a no-holding-back attitude. On their