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Touche Amore – ‘Lament’

It’s been four years since Touche Amore released ‘Stage Four’ – a devastating record built thematically around vocalist Jeremy Bolm losing his mother to cancer, covering all the mourning, regret and hindsight that comes with loss in such painstaking detail that many found it difficult to listen to. New

Wednesday 07 October 2020

Laura Jane Grace – ‘Stay Alive’

In a year that’s been full of nasty surprises, it’s incredibly welcome to have something nice happen for once. Enter punk rock legend Laura Jane Grace, who’s just dropped an unannounced solo album of original acoustic songs. ‘Stay Alive’ is an album that in any normal year may never have

Friday 02 October 2020

KING MOTHERSHIP – ‘The Ritual’

It’s finally here. After years of looming on the horizon the band known as King Mothership have arrived, ready to whisk you away to the strange world of ‘The Ritual’. As the side project of Spencer Sotelo, vocalist of tech-metal band Periphery, you knew this was going to be

Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’

Bristol-based post-crust quartet Svalbard have been an active part of the UK’s underground music scene since 2012, and have been steadily building up their reputation as one of our most exciting exports ever since. 2018’s stellar album ‘It’s Hard To Have Hope’ was critically lauded, most notably for its

Wednesday 30 September 2020

The Hunna – ‘I’d Rather Die Than Let You In’

While it’s not clear as to exactly when it happened, there’s no denying that The Hunna have become one of the biggest names in British rock music. Brixton Academy has all but become their second home, and under normal circumstances, you’d see them sitting on an eclectic

Saturday 26 September 2020

Alpha Wolf – ‘a quiet place to die’

If you’re a devoted lover of heavy music and you keep up to speed with all the new acts rising through the ranks, the chances of you knowing about Alpha Wolf are pretty high. If that’s not a name you recognise it won’t stay that way for long,

Friday 25 September 2020

Pillow Queens – ‘In Waiting’

They say good things come to those who wait – a statement that could not be more accurate for Pillow Queens. Since the release of their ‘Calm Girls’ EP in 2016, they’ve been patiently crafting a sound and solid back catalogue that’s had fans eagerly anticipating their

Thursday 24 September 2020

The Ocean – ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic’

Let’s skip the usual journalistic pussyfooting and get to the point: this band should be fucking massive. An effortless amalgam of the swirling, syncopated rhythms of Tool, the progressive theatrics of Mastodon, and the full-throated post-sludge of Cult Of Luna; The Ocean have been the best kept secret in

Deftones – ‘Ohms’

Deftones burst onto the scene in 1995 with their debut album ‘Adrenaline’, and have been one of the biggest bands in alternative music ever since. They’re a band that people respect even if they aren’t fans, largely because they’ve always forged their own path and have never allowed themselves

Wednesday 23 September 2020

Hidden Mothers – ‘Hidden Mothers’

If you haven’t heard of Sheffield’s newest blackened post-metal crew Hidden Mothers, you’re about to. Their debut self-titled EP is an indulgent and striking journey through the many different sides of loss, shining lights and casting shadows as traverses its delicate territory. The end result is a small