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From Tuesday 06 June 2023

American Nightmare – ‘DEDICATED TO THE NEXT WORLD’

Your hard work will get you nothing. No one is equal. Welcome to the American Nightmare. The idea of America as the land of opportunity is one anyone would want to buy into, but not this band from Boston, Massachusetts. They’re flipping that idea, inverting it,

Wednesday 10 May 2023

Happydaze – ‘Full Free Radical’ EP

Think back to a festival you went to when you felt ‘young’. If youth is still on your side, you probably won’t have to think too hard. Maybe it was Reading, or Glastonbury, or a local gathering in a park. If you try and conjure up the feeling of

Wednesday 03 May 2023

Jamie Lenman – ‘IknowyouknowIknow

It feels like an understatement to say that Jamie Lenman is not an artist that follows the path most travelled in his creative endeavours. ‘Muscle Memory’, his first solo album after the dissolution of his band Reuben, was a double album, one disc containing his heaviest material to date,

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Black Coast – ‘BLACK COAST’

You might not have heard of Black Coast – yet – but they’ve been tearing up the underground metal scene with their incendiary live shows. They haven’t quite broken out, but that’s about to change. Their debut album ‘Outworld’ dropped in 2021 and it set the stage,

Thursday 20 April 2023

Picturesque – ‘IYKYK’

As the Steve Miller Band once remarked, ‘time keeps on slippin’ into the future’, and it’s this very concept which concerns Picturesque on their new EP, ‘IYKYK’. However, rather than flying like an eagle to the sea, the quartet from Kentucky are taking the passage of days, hours and

Wednesday 19 April 2023

Atreyu – ‘The Hope Of A Spark’

Everything changes. Over the last 25 years, Atreyu have grown, split-up, reformed and evolved, putting out some great records along the way. ‘The Hope Of A Spark’ is four brand new songs, each no-nonsense and hard-hitting. It’s brief, to the point and just a little bit weird,

Wednesday 12 April 2023

Veiled – ‘The Black Rite’

Metalcore is in a fit state. Whether it’s the seemingly endless slate of albums from new and established bands, or simply Lorna Shore’s digital dominance over the past couple of years, the case could be made that public appetite for metalcore hasn’t been this strong since the

Tuesday 11 April 2023

Derek Sanders – ‘The Heavy Box’

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when a frontman releases a solo record, there will simultaneously be no surprises and lots of surprises. We could have guessed that Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music would unleash his grizzly bear voice on his solo albums, but that he’d produce amazing

Friday 17 March 2023

Beyond Extinction – ‘Nothing More Wretched’

Beyond Extinction are on something of a tear of late. Having played Bloodstock Festival, toured with the likes of Cancer Bats, Osiah and Viscera, and now gearing up to release their second EP, ‘Nothing More Wretched’, with their very own headline tour across the length and breadth

Wednesday 15 March 2023

World Gone Cold – ‘WORLD GONE COLD’

Imagine the scene, you’re struggling to find a hook to hang your review on, it seems hopeless, but then, you take a swig of a sparkling beverage; it tastes pretty good, it has an unusual flavour, it’s quite refreshing, and then you discover the container is 100%