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Ebonivory – ‘The Long Dream I’

With their first full-length release ‘The Only Constant’, Ebonivory made a very clear statement to Australian heavy music fans that they were able to hang with even the biggest names in the scene, and it was hard not to believe them. The record wore its varied multitude

Tuesday 09 June 2020

Sports Team – ‘Deep Down Happy’

The world has been turned upside down this year. While a global pandemic is hard to get away from in the media and on the streets, the increasingly talked-about Sports Team provide a thirty minute balance of ironic social commentary and outlandish post-punk that acts as a terrific form

Monday 08 June 2020

Wallflower – ‘Teach Yourself To Swim’

Wallflower have been playing their own brand of emo infused alt-rock for a good few years, popping up on festival bills and touring the UK fairly steadily with a growing collection of singles and EPs under their belt. Their debut album ‘Teach Yourself To Swim’ has been a long

Friday 05 June 2020

Covet – ‘technicolor’

We’re not even half way through 2020 but it’s already shaping up to be a terrifying and overwhelming year, fraught with bad news story after bad news story. If there was ever a time to seek a form of escape, it’s now, despite us not actually being

Currents – ‘The Way It Ends’

Connecticut bruisers Currents are back with their brand new album ‘The Way It Ends’. Eagerly anticipated after the success of their fierce 2017 debut ‘The Place I Feel Safest’ and the ominous 2018 EP ‘I Let The Devil In’, the new album takes their brand of death-infused

Thursday 04 June 2020

The Ghost Inside – ‘The Ghost Inside’

Five years ago, The Ghost Inside went through hell. During their USA Locals Only Tour, giving local up-and-coming artists an incredible opportunity to share a stage with them, their tour bus fatally collided with a tractor-trailer. The devastating collision tore both vehicles to shreds, taking the lives

Monday 01 June 2020

END – ‘Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face’

Unpredictable, unrelenting, crushing, frightening – these are just some of the words that you could use to describe how END sound. For those new to the party, they’re one of extreme music’s most recent supergroups, comprising members of bands from every corner of the heavy community including

Smiling Assassin – ‘Plight of the Millenial’

With their debut album clocking in at just under 16 minutes and featuring a title track that’s just 11 seconds long, Hull-based hardcore newcomers Smiling Assassin are here for a good time, not a long time. As the short runtime suggests, the record is incredibly pacy, and has a

Friday 29 May 2020

Bleed From Within – ‘Fracture’

Glaswegian metal heavy-hitters Bleed From Within are evolving at a phenomenal pace. Long gone are the days of banshee-like screaming and classic deathcore vibes, gently eased into the background in favour of monolithic metal riffs, blistering solos, and menacing, biting vocals. They’ve become like the UK’s answer

Thursday 28 May 2020

Bryde – ‘The Volume Of Things’

Nothing brings life into focus quite like a pandemic. Normalcy becomes an alien concept and queuing to get into your local supermarket is now just the done thing. Friends are now those you confide with through your laptop screen and dating has been reduced to walking in