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From Monday 26 January 2026

Sick Joy – ‘MORE FOREVER’

Anticipation is a terrible thing. Anticipation breeds disappointment. So, when Sick Joy announced their first album in three years, it would make sense not to be excited. It would be a bad idea to listen to their incredible ‘Them Days’ EP – or to their debut album

Shields – ‘DEATH & CONNECTION’

If you listen to a lot of contemporary metalcore records, you develop a certain weariness; a low tolerance for trends, copying, spot-the-difference and heard-it-before sounds that leave you wishing for something different. Shields then send you their new record and, well, you asked for it. Shields

Friday 23 January 2026

The Hara – ‘The Fallout’

The Hara are back with their sophomore studio record, and they’re funnelling their fire into personal resistance. Well, “back” is a bit of a stretch as they’ve been releasing a steady string of singles since they dropped ‘Survival Mode’ back in 2023, constantly delivering high energy live shows in

Friday 16 January 2026

Kid Kapichi – ‘Fearless Nature’

It feels like we’re all Kid Kapichi. Roaring out of the pandemic years with their 2021 debut through their political disillusionment and galvanisation of their next two releases, Jack Wilson and Eddie Lewis have channelled our zeitgeist into jagged, quick-witted tunes. ‘Fearless Nature’ sees the duo turning a corner,

Wednesday 10 December 2025

HEALTH – CONFLICT DLC

“No, it’s not just your imagination,” claim HEALTH. “The future is shit and the phone you are reading this on is making it worse.” It’s a suitable epigram for the twelve industrially-tinged and rather downtrodden compositions held within ‘CONFLICT DLC’. The Californian band are an industrious trio, with a

Friday 07 November 2025

Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork

The world has changed a lot in the two years since Pupil Slicer’s last album. And given the band’s claim that “all of the worst things to happen to the human race have been caused by its own members,” the time that has passed wouldn’t appear to have incubated much

Friday 31 October 2025

Creeper – ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’

Of course ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’, Creeper’s song awaited fourth album, is released on Halloween. And the fact it’s centred loosely around a Lost Boys-esque story about a vampire rock band in their eighties is hardly a surprise either. If you’re already a fan of Will Gould and

Wednesday 29 October 2025

PENGSHUi – ‘GUTS’

PENGSHUi have never been a band to do things by halves. London‑born and bred, they started out tearing through pirate radio sets and basement shows, blending the aggression of punk and metal with the bounce of dubstep and electronic chaos. Their debut, ‘Pengshui’, leaned heavily on electronics, while ‘Destroy

Thursday 16 October 2025

Smote – ‘SONGS FROM THE FREE HOUSE’

Daniel Foggin aka Smote holds the unlikely dual-vocation of landscape gardener and purveyor of imperious drones. While these two professions may appear to be wholly disparate, it is his pursuit of the former – which has seen Foggin “more often covered in mud than not” – that has directly

H_ngm_n – ‘Paper Street’

H_ngm_n have been peddling their own take on emo for several years now; stripped back, two-piece and contemporary, yet capable of reaching anthemic highs that evoke mid-2000s pop punk bands like Motion City Soundtrack and Fall Out Boy. ‘Paper Street’ is their debut album – released almost a