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From Thursday 03 June 2021

Boss Keloid – ‘Family The Smiling Thrush’

Boss Keloid are a tricky band to pin down. Are they a doom band? A prog band? Something else entirely? The answer is yes – they’re all of those things and more. In recent years they’ve blended together so many styles that it’s almost impossible to put a single

Tuesday 01 June 2021

Our Hollow, Our Home – ‘Burn in the Flood’

The UK has long since been known for being home to some of the strongest metalcore bands. From While She Sleeps, to Bring Me the Horizon, to Bury Tomorrow and everything in between, our little island seems to be able to do no wrong when it comes

Friday 28 May 2021

Perturbator – ‘Lustful Sacraments’

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug. The microcosm of microgenres that exploded onto the electronic scene in the 2010’s, idolising the sounds of decades past, washed over all aspects of online culture like… well, like a wave, and chief among them was the ever popular synthwave:

Monday 24 May 2021

Twenty One Pilots – ‘Scaled and Icy’

If there’s anything we’ve learnt about Twenty One Pilots over the past few years, it’s to never take anything they do at face value. What seems like one thing will usually be something else entirely and it’s this that makes Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun such a

Thursday 20 May 2021

We Were Sharks – ‘New Low’

Amidst a pop punk revival and a Tik Tok generation breathing a strange lease of life into the genre, it’s been a long time coming since so many eyes and ears have been drawn to a scene full of bright colours, big choruses and downtuned guitars. While some bands

Tuesday 18 May 2021

Fiddlehead – ‘Between The Richness’

With their roots in emo and hardcore, it’s no surprise Fiddlehead’s sound has always embraced elements of post-hardcore, post-punk, and indie rock. When compared to the projects they are better known for, which include Have Heart and Basement, 2018’s debut full-length, ‘Springtime and Blind’, showcased a more melodic side. At its

Saturday 15 May 2021

Bala – ‘MALEZA’

It may be a while since you last went to a gig but if you close your eyes, you can probably remember the beery air and the crackle of feedback. If you can, imagine the lights going down, the crowd going quiet and then a huge, dirty de-tuned note,

Thursday 13 May 2021

Fightmilk – ‘Contender’

Imagine if, after every failed relationship of your 20s, you wrote down all your emotions and thoughts about it. How would you feel? Would it be a cathartic experience, or would it be something you’d cringe at in years to come, and would any of it make any sense?

Friday 07 May 2021

Ghost Iris – ‘Comatose’

Denmark isn’t the first country that comes to mind when you think of metal, but it’s produced its fair share of talent over the years. Legendary acts like Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Volbeat, Mnemic, and more recently bands like the stunning Møl and the crushingly heavy Cabal –

Friday 30 April 2021

Last Hyena – ‘How Soon Is Mars?’

There are several very different sides to progressive instrumental music, all equally as impressive and indulgent as the other. One is bursting with delicate and ambient dreamscapes, weaving a pattern with a variety of sonic textures that are able to whisk you away to another world and soothe