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The Maine – ‘XOXO: From Love & Anxiety in Real Time’

The Maine have been tapping into our deepest, darkest, and most vulnerable thoughts since we were teenagers. Fans have grown with them from their purest pop punk days when the band themselves were still kids, to the wholesome and caring men that they are today, and all

Thursday 01 July 2021

Born Of Osiris – ‘Angel Or Alien’

Progressive metalcore pioneers Born Of Osiris have been rewriting their story and carving out their own path for well over a decade. Alongside bands like Veil Of Maya, Winds Of Plague and After The Burial, they helped the sub-genre rise to prominence and have continued to pave the

Saturday 26 June 2021

Pom Pom Squad – ‘Death Of A Cheerleader’

Here’s a quick concept – The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that creates an illusion where one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound (thanks Wikipedia). It would be like seeing a dog meow but hearing a

Friday 25 June 2021

Free Throw – ‘Piecing It Together’

Having the usual album release-tour cycle put on hold, Free Throw have used their time to write for themselves rather than worrying about their position in the never-ending music rat race. ‘Piecing It Together’ is certainly an apt title for the Nashville quintet’s fourth album. In the past, Cory Castro

Thursday 24 June 2021

Amenra – ‘De Doorn’

How do you begin to review a band like Amenra? To talk about them in the usual terms of instrumentation and production, lyrics and arrangements; it just feels reductive, like trying to write a haiku about the Old Testament. The true Amenra experience is equal parts religious ritual and

Beartooth – ‘Below’

For the past nine years, Beartooth have been tearing stages and eardrums apart with their brand of metallic tinged post-hardcore, fusing big riffs with even bigger choruses. Now arrives their fourth record, ‘Below’, written in part during the lockdown period the world has experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic. Known

Thursday 17 June 2021

Tigercub – ‘As Blue As Indigo’

Catchy albums are great; they pull you in from the very first listen and demand to be played on repeat until you simply can’t stand it anymore. And there’s the crux of it. They always, pretty much without fail, become kind of intolerable after a while. The

Friday 11 June 2021

AFI – ‘Bodies’

When posed the question as to what studio album number 11 means to a band like AFI, bassist Hunter Burgan presciently responds: “Every album is an opportunity to show people a snapshot of our evolution.” And if there was ever a punk rock band unafraid of evolving, its AFI.

Wednesday 09 June 2021

Atreyu – ‘Baptize’

If you were a fan of early noughties metalcore and emo, then Atreyu is likely a very familiar name. Integral in the genre’s surge in popularity and massively adored and respected among both fans and peers, the band have been continuously grinding ever since their return from hiatus

Monday 07 June 2021

Cleopatrick – ‘BUMMER’

Picture this – two young boys, four years old, grow up together. Thick as thieves, their childhood in Hicksville, Nowheretown, cements their friendship and builds an undying and inseparable bond between them. Later, they form a band – a powerhouse duo that becomes an underground phenomenon, touring around the