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From Wednesday 28 July 2021

Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – ‘Gone Are The Good Days’

After a five-year blitz which brought three studio albums, Paris-based post-hardcore band Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! have taken their time with album number four. ‘Gone Are The Good Days’ has been a long, drawn-out process that has had all the members toying with what they wanted to create. Pumping out

Tuesday 27 July 2021

Creeper – ‘American Noir’

Robbed of exorcising the demons of the exhausting creative process that yielded critically-acclaimed album ‘Sex, Death and the Infinite Void’ in a celebratory live setting, Creeper do what only Creeper can do – launch an incredibly bold and daring EP. Billed by lead singer William Gould as the “epilogue”

Saturday 24 July 2021

Win a pair of tickets to see Dead Romantic’s first ever London show

Rock newcomers Dead Romantic are playing their first ever London show ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Voices’, out 3rd September and we have 3 pairs of tickets to give away for their Black Heart show on Wednesday 4th August. To enter the competition please RT this

Friday 23 July 2021

Descendents – ‘9th & Walnut’

If you were to create a Mount Rushmore of 80s hardcore punk legends – beings who changed the shape of the genre and influenced the following generations – you’d likely include Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, Brett Gurewitz and Bill Stevenson (if you don’t know any of those names, immediately

Thursday 22 July 2021

Punktastic Picks: Volume 3

After a brief hiatus, like a band who broke up in 2019 only to make an immediate post-lockdown comeback, Punktastic Picks is making its overenthusiastic return to your screens and devices. Hooray! For those who missed our previous editions, (Volume One and Volume Two are still available for

Wednesday 21 July 2021

GUEST PLAYLIST: Holding Absence

Since joining Holding Absence in 2018, Scott Carey has played an integral part in pushing the band forwards, even more so with the band’s new album ‘The Greatest Mistake of My Life’. We sat down with him at the Download Festival Pilot and got him thinking about some of

Tuesday 20 July 2021

GUEST PLAYLIST: Destroy Boys

Starting a band as fifteen-year-old music fans is commonplace. Seeing that band succeed, be respected by older peers, sign to a well known label and have over 40 million streams in the six years since its formation? Less common. But for California natives Destroy Boys, that’s exactly what has

Friday 16 July 2021

Times Of Grace – ‘Songs Of Loss And Separation’

If you’re a fan of modern metal, you’ve likely heard of Killswitch Engage and are completely aware of their masterful take on metalcore, pioneering the genre and leading the way for a lot of today’s scene. What you may not have heard of is Times Of Grace, a

Wednesday 14 July 2021

Yonaka – ‘Seize The Power’

Brighton four-piece Yonaka haven’t really stopped since releasing debut album ‘Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow’ back in 2019. Throughout the enforced break to touring, they’ve been busy writing a lot of new material and played both the May and December stay-at-home Five4FiveFest days in support of the Music Venue Trust’s

LIVE: Holding Absence @ Portland House, Cardiff

It starts with a crackle. The kind you hear when you first gently place the needle down on a record, waiting for the music to kick in. Shots of Cardiff’s Portland House come into view, and already the scene is perfectly set for what has always felt