Caleb Shomo: “There’s no changing the past, there’s just going through the journey and dealing with the present.”

Highly Suspect, The Picturebooks @ o2 Forum Kentish Town, London

LIVE: Highly Suspect @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

A Highly Suspect show is very much a family affair. The crowd is scattered with balding dads taking their teenagers to their first rock show and, to their credit, it’s a good choice for a first experience. When they’re on form, Highly Suspect are a rock band who deserve

Shower Of Teeth – ‘Eternal Gut Rot’

With a name like Shower Of Teeth, the expectation is a terrifically dark deathcore band with plenty of songs detailing the macabre and haunting aspects of life and death. Likewise, ‘Eternal Gut Rot’, their latest album, evokes similar imagery, and that’s without pointing out the album cover

Grove Street – ‘The Path To Righteousness’

It’s been a long time coming for Grove Street (formerly Grove Street Families). The GTA inspired Southampton crew have danced around the fringes of the scene for years now, but have at last returned to us with a full-length release, moving beyond pastiche into fully fledged metaldom

Black Stone Cherry – ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’

Black Stone Cherry have progressed far beyond blaming it on the boom boom. Now, with an average age of forty, they’ve reached maturity and managed to compress a Southern thunderstorm into a twelve song package. ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’ introduces not only Steve Jewell Jr. on bass (formerly a

Sleep Theory – ‘PAPER HEARTS’

Sleep Theory are on the defensive and it’s not hard to see why. Listen to their debut single ‘Numb’ or its follow-up ‘Another Way‘  and you’ll be struck by how confident, accessible and full their sound is. Naturally – irritatingly – they’ve been tarred with the label

LIVE: Reading Festival – Saturday + Sunday

As another day of Reading Festival dawns, the girls in bikinis have switched to tracksuits for comfort and the need for coffee becomes more urgent. Fortunately, a day of hardcore awaits with enough heat to blister paint, let alone merely drive off autumnal chills. Words: Kate Allvey. Images: Abbi Draper-Scott All

Interview: Kids in Glass Houses

Code Orange – ‘The Above’

Code Orange are one of the world’s most brutally exciting metal bands, and that’s largely due to their relentless capacity to shock their audience. This is a band that likes to keep their listeners on their toes and never takes the easiest creative choice. When you press play on