Martyr Defiled – Young Gods
It could be argued that Deathcore as a genre has become stagnant with bands happy to stay the course whilst offering nothing more than small changes in sound, almost unable or not willing to push...
View ArticleThe Sword – Greetings From…
'Greetings From…' (Universal) is the latest live offering from The Sword. Greetings From… tries to capture the swank and swagger from The Sword’s live show and condense it into album form. It’s a...
View ArticleBlackout – The Horse
Brooklyn’s Blackout is the type of band that likes to lay it on real thick. And that’s not to be mistaken with exaggeration; if Blackout excel at one thing on 'The Horse' (Riding Easy) its putting down...
View ArticleProphets of Rage – Prophets Of Rage
Once in a while, the art that society needs to help it pull through collective dark times comes along right at the precise time. In another life, that album would have been a new album from a reunited...
View ArticleNomasta – House of the Tiger King
House of the Tiger King (Self-Released) is a record that very much wears its influences on its sleeve. Born out of Leeds’ underground DIY scene, the members of Nomasta have put in the legwork over the...
View ArticleLight This City – Terminal Bloom
Sometimes you don't know you miss a band until you remember they've been gone. For California’s Light This City, it’s been over eight years since they broke up. Then they put out a new album in...
View ArticleHigh On Fire – Electric Messiah
I don’t know how Matt Pike does it. Six months since Sleep dropped The Sciences (which is still ace and you should totally buy if you haven’t already) seemingly out of nowhere, the man who has...
View ArticleBen Ward of Orange Goblin Talks UK tour with COC, And More!
When you talk about dream touring packages, very few co-headliners feel like such a glorious match as Corrosion of Conformity and Orange Goblin – the best of the US “Stoner Rock” and the UK’s finest...
View ArticleSlayer – Lamb of God – Anthrax: Live at Arena, Birmingham (UK)
So, this is it then. The end of an era. A bruising, sweaty, and sometimes controversial, earache-inducing era which spanned over three and a half decades ends with the three words I never wanted to...
View ArticleGinger Wildheart – G*A*S*S Mark II
One of the first UK rock musicians to demonstrate how crowd-funding could really be successful in the non-mainstream world with his phenomenally successful 555% (Pledge Music) campaign, in 2014 Ginger...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Tom Ballard of Allfather – Top EP’s of 2018
We have a LOT of time for UK Sludgey Hardcore/Metal act Allfather. Not only is their new album And All Will Be Desolation (Rotting Throne) a beast of a record, they also possess an arsenal of MASSIVE...
View ArticleCloudburst – Cloudburst
One of the most appealing aspects of getting to listen to Cloudburst’s self-titled sophomore (Samstrong Records) effort is learning that they hail from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Through years of tape...
View ArticleKhaidian – Penumbra
London’s Khaidian, while not exactly new to the UK’s DIY metal scene, start 2019 off with ambition to set themselves apart from the herd. Not content to be catalogued as one thing or the other, the...
View ArticleMastiff – Plague
For the better part of the past six years, Hull’s Mastiff has been slowly festering in the underbelly of the UK’s underground scene. A handful of demos and 2016’s 'Wrank' set expectations for the band...
View ArticleOssuarium – Living Tomb
o you remember the scene in Ridley Scott’s Alien in which Harry Dean Stanton’s Brett gets offed by the titular space invader? Our younger readers may want to pull that up on YouTube, but the reason I...
View ArticleStarve To Survive – Have Me To Waste EP
Newcastle’s latest Hardcore reprobates Starve To Survive are back after a whole three years with a new EP, 'Have Me To Waste' (Caliber), hoping to make their own statement of intent and garner some of...
View ArticleMinors – Abject Bodies
When 'Atrophy' came out a year and a little bit ago, Ontario Hardcore outfit Minors made a lasting impression in their twenty-minute onslaught of Converge melancholy and frenetic All Pigs Must Die-like...
View ArticleChrome Waves – A Grief Observed
All the way back in 2010, former members of Wolvhammer, The Gates Of Slumber, and Amiensus formed Chrome Waves, but a focus on other projects meant that the band sat firmly on the backburner for many...
View ArticleNebula – Holy Shit
Holy Shit (Heavy Psych Sounds) is really the album title you want to go with for your fifth LP, Nebula? Okay, I can dig it. Do you know what else I can dig? The sheer variety of riffs and leads being...
View ArticleVictims – The Horse and Sparrow Theory
The Horse and Sparrow Theory (Relapse Records) really wants to let you know that Victims is about that Hardcore and D-beat life. Like every song on this bad boy is pre-loaded with that classic drum...
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