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From Tuesday 27 October 2020

Salem – ‘Salem’

When creating concept albums, you could be forgiven for thinking that artists can often feel all-consumed by their ideas, and sometimes need the option of that big ‘ejector seat’ button which allows them to break out for a while. For example, at the boiling point of

Monday 26 October 2020

Chamber – Cost Of Sacrifice

Modern metal is rife with sub-genres. So many ideas come and go, trends rise and fall, and we all seem to find it impossible not to try and fit a band into some sort of mould as soon as we hear them. Every now and again, though, a

Sugar Horse release new single ‘The Great Shame’

Bristol-based post-grunge sad bois Sugar Horse have just released ‘The Great Shame’, accompanied by a bloody bleak music video. You can check it out below. Rather than try and sum it up, here’s what Sugar Horse frontman Ashley Tubb had to say about it: “The idea for The Great Shame started

Sunday 25 October 2020

GUEST PLAYLIST: Other Half

With the release of their debut album, ‘Big Twenty’ in August, Other Half are here to tell us their influences. The songs that make them tick and the tracks that inspired their punchy sound. Accompanied by an extended playlist, Cal Hudson breaks down twelve tracks that are instrumental to

Thursday 22 October 2020

Pallbearer – ‘Forgotten Days’

Three years on from their previous release, Arkansas doom rockers Pallbearer are back with their fourth studio album ‘Forgotten Days’, which sees a return to their earlier doom roots and heavy, crushing sound. Although written last year, the darker themes of the album feel particularly apt as a reflection

Hands Like Houses – ‘Hands Like Houses’

When Aussie quintet Hands Like Houses released fourth album ‘Anon.’ in 2018, the response from fans was, to put it mildly, a bit marmite. Considering the marked shift in sound that album represented, the reaction probably wasn’t too surprising; think of any release by a band who’ve made even

Tuesday 20 October 2020

CLT DRP – “I don’t care how much you love Harry Potter”

If I could encapsulate Brighton-based electro-punk trio CLT DRP in one word, that word would be “provocative”. From the radio unfriendly band name (pronounced ‘Clit Drip’), to the risqué cover art of the band’s latest release ‘Without The Eyes’ (there are pubes on it), to the unapologetic lyrical content

iDKHOW – ‘Razzmatazz’

The princes of funk-rock have, finally, dropped their debut album ‘Razzmatazz’. I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (or iDKHOW for short), have been making waves ever since lead singer Dallon Weekes introduced the band at an LA bar in 2016. Now, two years since

Monday 19 October 2020

Fever 333 – WRONG GENERATION

From a global pandemic threatening everything we knew as normal, to civil unrest based on race, sexuality and belief, 2020 will go down as one of the hardest years in human history. Throughout these trying times, the music industry has been one of the hardest hit –

Sunday 18 October 2020

Kingdom Of Giants – ‘Passenger’

Californian metal outfit Kingdom Of Giants have returned to our ears to bring us their brand new record, ‘Passenger’. After years of hard graft and seemingly continuous touring with bands like Born Of Osiris and Fit For A King, they’ve amassed a legion of loyal followers – yet