Din Of Celestial Birds – ‘Takeoffs & Landings’

Music can often feel like a journey. The listener is taken on an emotional ride with the musicians at the helm, inviting us to reflect on our own lived experiences as their music scores the way. The fittingly titled ‘Takeoffs & Landings’ by Leeds-based instrumental post-rockers Din

Show Me The Body – ‘Alone Together’

Hardcore is starting to appear to encompass an ever increasing range of musical styles, but at its heart, hardcore remains more than just a sound; it’s an attitude, a community, a feeling. With their fourth full length release, ‘Alone Together’, Show Me The Body capture this spirit

Warning – ‘Rituals Of Shame’

Arriving twenty years after 2006’s seminal, genre-defining ‘Watching From A Distance’, to describe ‘Rituals Of Shame’ as “much anticipated” would be the understatement of the century. As one of doom metal’s most emotionally affecting and resonant records, ‘Watching From A Distance’ was always going to be a

Guilt Trip – ‘Armour Of Angels’

Every now and then, a band will release an album that takes them from being mere contenders to cementing them as genre heavyweights; for Manchester’s metallic-hardcore five-piece Guilt Trip, ‘Armour Of Angels’ is one such LP. Whilst only being the band’s third full length release, ‘Armour Of Angels’ finds

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Frozen Soul – ‘No Place Of Warmth’

“I invoke war” roars Frozen Soul’s powerhouse vocalist Chad Green on the second track of ‘No Place Of Warmth’, the band’s mammoth third full-length album. One can’t help but hear it as a battle cry, a statement of intent, one that aims to

Portrayal Of Guilt – ‘…The Beginning Of The End’

Trying to pigeonhole Portrayal Of Guilt’s sound has always been a fruitless task. The Austin threepiece have been releasing their own brand of twisted darkness for nearly a decade now, effortlessly fusing influences as broad as black metal, death metal and noise rock to create their own

Love Rarely – ‘Pain Travels’

Covering themes of generational trauma and toxic familial relationships, ‘Pain Travels’ seems a particularly apt title for the debut album of Leeds-based mathcore/post-hardcore quintet Love Rarely. Written and recorded by the band over the course of a year, Love Rarely admit themselves that the album took a