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From Tuesday 16 September 2025

Soulkeeper – ‘JOIN US IN CREATING EXCELLENCE’

You’re walking down the road and a car whizzes past. They’re listening to music, loudly. They must be, you hear a blast of garbled noise and wonder what they’re actually listening to. Another car passes, a different noise, and another. The music is in different styles, heading

Thursday 04 September 2025

Cheerbleederz – ‘(PROVE ME WRONG)’

You know the feeling, that creeping certainty that things are changing. The seasons are shifting, the summer is ending, you’re well on your way to toward winter. Cheerbleederz know it too well and with their new four-track EP ‘(Prove Me Wrong)’ they’ve captured it perfectly. A

Friday 04 July 2025

Gaupa – ‘FYR’

Time. You’re thinking about time. Thinking about it running down, thinking about out it running out. Memento Mori; Remember you will die. It starts so simply. Feedback squeals through the speakers, then the ticking sound of drumsticks. It’s a constant, a stressful reminder, time is slipping

Thursday 12 June 2025

The Young Hearts – ‘THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE REST OF US’

Age, like many things, creeps up on you. According to Spotify, The Young Hearts’ first release is a decade old. Slowly, they’ve grown into their band name, quietly doing their thing until they realised one thing, they were “never going to make it.” As the sadness of

Friday 30 May 2025

Illuminati Hotties – ‘Nickel On The Fountain Floor’

‘Nickel On The Fountain Floor’ is the latest release from LA band Illuminati Hotties, whose last release, ‘Power’ was named by Rolling Stone as one of the top 100 albums of last year. Illuminati Hotties is the passion project of producer Sarah Tudzin, who describes her approach as

Anger Party – ‘OPEN UP MY BRAIN’

Anger is important. It’s powerful. Like any emotion you have to be careful how and when you deploy it. In ‘The Avengers’, the Incredible Hulk has a secret; he’s always angry. That’s what he’s hiding. He’s only powerful when he allows himself to open up. Anger Party

Wednesday 16 April 2025

Newshapes – ‘A CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF’

Self-awareness is important. The ability to talk to yourself, to assess your actions and improve is vital. Scottish upstarts Newshapes know this. In fact, their new EP is called ‘A Conversation With Myself’ making it explicit; they know what they have made, they know what works, they

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Church Tongue – ‘You’ll Know It Was Me’ EP

Metalcore is an incredibly exciting genre to be a fan of, especially in recent years. Bands like Chamber, Boundaries and God Complex are just some of the names that come to mind, all lending a hand to reignite the fire the genre had in its golden years and carving

Tuesday 04 February 2025

Dead Air – ‘ELEMENTS’

Time moves on. Bands form and fold. Songs that once meant something fade into the past. As you grow older and tastes change, sounds go in and out of style but there’s a time that’s your era. A time where everything is new and exciting, that defines

Monday 20 January 2025

State of You – ‘On A Knife’s Edge’

Introductions are important. If you’re introduced to a band and told they’re ‘Hardcore’s most exciting newcomers’, you’re going to have a very different opinion to if you’re told ‘They Suck’. State Of You do not suck. Hyperbole aside, this is a band with pedigree. It’s made