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From Monday 04 September 2017

Death By Shotgun – ‘Life’s A Beach’

Summer is essentially over, but thankfully we have Death By Shotgun’s ‘Life’s A Beach’ to ease us into colder weather and shorter days. Treading the line between pop punk choruses and indie rock build ups, the Bournemouth quartet tackles everyday life challenges in a relatively uplifting manner. The acoustic guitar sections,

Fizzy Blood – ‘Summer of Luv’

Leeds based Fizzy Blood’s new EP ‘Summer of Luv’ delivers a strong array of grunge rock. ‘Pawn’ is hard and dynamic throughout. Introduced by a hi-fi distorted guitar, the track kicks off into full blown monstrosity with chanting and pure acceleration from the drums, and it almost feels as

Wednesday 30 August 2017

Future Lives – ‘This Is Living’

Ross Smithwick of Lonely The Brave is heading out on his own, and his step away from his bandmates has paid off with debut release ‘This Is Living’. While it seems too predictable to compare his solo efforts under moniker Future Lives to his previous work with

Monday 28 August 2017

Ghost Of The Avalanche – ‘Obsessive Compulsive Gender Dysphoria’

With a title like ‘Obsessive Compulsive Gender Dysphoria’ it’s clear that Ghost Of The Avalanche have thrown subtlety to the wind with this, their fourth EP. Sat somewhere between the bass-led dance rock of Death From Above 1979 and the fuzzed-out filth of Pissed Jeans, this duo have crafted

Friday 11 August 2017

First Signs of Frost – ‘The Shape of Things to Come’

Having been dormant for seven years, First Signs of Frost re-emerge with their first new material since 2009’s ‘Atlantis’, as well as three new band members and a change in sound. In their previous incarnation, the band’s frontman was Dan Tompkins, now of Tesseract, and in the years between they’ve

Wednesday 02 August 2017

Counterfeit Culture – ‘Deathwish’

Post-hardcore/metalcore newcomers Counterfeit Culture open their account with three-track EP ‘Deathwish’. In a genre where it can be hard for new bands to make an impression, Counterfeit Culture attempt to freshen things up with a tech-metal-style focus on musicianship and for the most part, it succeeds in giving them

Thursday 27 July 2017

Wot Gorilla? – ‘Angel Numbers’

Since the release of their superb debut album ‘Kebnekaise’ in 2012 it’s been a little too quiet in the Wot Gorilla? camp. They’ve shown enough signs of life to reassure us they’re still a band with two-track release ‘…and then there were three…’ in 2016, as well as singles

Monday 24 July 2017

VISTA – ‘Long Live’

Joined by guitarist Greg Almeida, VISTA is the newest musical project for front woman Hope Vista, following a previous solo career. That career spawned a track called ‘Dominance’ back in 2015 and it pops up again here, in reworked form, as ‘Dominance 2.0’. Aside from a more

Sunday 23 July 2017

Saint Apache – ‘Wolf Machine’

When a press release describes a band as “fiery noise beasts” you expect a procession of searing riffs that would melt your face off if you got too close. Maybe it’s a classic case of going a bit too far with the platitudes, but what Saint Apache

Tuesday 18 July 2017

Sleep Token – ‘Two’

The press release for Sleep Token’s second EP ‘Two’ describes the band as “an entity unlike any encountered before. The mortal representatives of the ancient deity known only as ‘Sleep’, Sleep Token are led by the masked and cloaked figure appointed ‘Vessel’. Encountering Sleep in a dream, Vessel was