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From 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

Friday 18 March 2022

Hot Water Music – ‘Feel The Void’

Nothing makes you feel old like your beloved bands celebrating anniversaries. When Hot Water Music passed over their 25th year in 2019, it’s one of those moments that transport you back to those sweat-filled basement clubs that are now sadly no more, before catapulting you into the present to

Monday 14 March 2022

Drug Church – ‘Hygiene’

For the past decade, Albany and Los Angeles five-piece outfit Drug Church have been a band making music fearlessly, not afraid to tred the delicate lines between aggressive post-hardcore and blazing post-punk. Never backing down from their voice – one that shouts about life’s dark moments and

Ghost – ‘Impera’

At the risk of alienating our international readers in the first sentence, Ghost are like Marmite. What we mean by this is that most rock fans have a strong, firmly held opinion of them, one way or another. While legions of fans around the world adore their unashamedly cheesy pop-rock,

Thursday 10 March 2022

Ho99o9 – ‘Skin’

Whoever came up with the name Ho99o9 was a genius. The letters and numbers are a fusion of two things that don’t belong together, the word means something frightening and, just as it implies, they’re a nightmare to write about. The three-piece actively push against your expectations, they defy

Tuesday 08 March 2022

Vein.fm – ‘This World Is Going To Ruin You’

The new wave of hardcore has produced some incredibly exciting bands over the last few years, and there isn’t one that sounds even slightly as unhinged like Vein.fm. Their new album ‘This World Is Going To Ruin You’ is both a statement and a warning, and it’s one

Wednesday 23 February 2022

Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell

Teenage diaries covered in Sharpie pen band names. A 128mb mp3 player with files entitled ‘papa_roach_last_resort_live_version.mp3’. A cracked jewel case CDR copy of Taking Back Sunday’s ‘Tell All Your Friends’. It is easy to see these staples of early 2000s emo culture as artefacts of a bygone age. On