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From Sunday 19 June 2016

LIVE: Every Time I Die / Muck / Blood Youth @ Underworld, London

First on were baby-faced Yorkshire lads Blood Youth. Although they’ve already started making a few splashes here and there the room for their set was rather sparsely populated. Blood Youth are still a little rough around the edges, and some work needs to be done both on their recorded

Thursday 16 June 2016

Waco – ‘Uprise’

Oddball four-piece Waco have been impressing those in and around the UK for a few years now with their inspired, if a little over-the-top brand of punk rock. ‘Uprise’, their second EP, sees them not just surpassing their previous efforts, but looking down on them from a great height and

Wednesday 01 June 2016

LIVE: Handmade Festival 2016: Sunday

See what we made of Saturday here Alpha Male Tea Party prove to be a rip-roaring start to the day. Their experimental, instrumental rock is nothing if not intense (and incredibly loud) and although they could have benefited sonically from having a cleaner, brighter sound, their

LIVE: Handmade Festival 2016: Saturday

Handmade Festival, although relatively young for a festival, has experienced an incredible amount of growth in the last three years. What started as a small collection of venues and shops across Leicester putting on a few bands and having a few art exhibitions over a weekend, has evolved into

Thursday 26 May 2016

LIVE: The Dirty Nil / WACO / Burnt Tapes @ Old Blue Last, London

Opening up the fun for the evening are London-by-way-of-Athens “regret-punk”-ers The Burnt Tapes. Although there can’t have been more than two dozen people watching their set when they started, they nonetheless kicked things off with a welcome blast of energetic, melodic punk. The Burnt Tapes smashed through their set

Wednesday 25 May 2016

Architects – ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’

Jurassic Park 2 was a great movie. There we said it. Yes, it’s not as good as the first one, and yes there are some pretty obvious flaws, but it was still incredibly enjoyable. ‘All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us’, Architects’ seventh album, is to their last

Wednesday 04 May 2016

Aliases – ‘Derangeable’

It hasn’t been the easiest of rides for Aliases. In the five years since their last full length release ‘Safer Than Reality’, guitarist Pin has reformed his “old” band SiKth and done plenty of work with them, and the band have gone through a slew of line-up changes. Finally

Tuesday 26 January 2016

LIVE: Cancer Bats / Palm Reader / Lord Dying @ Rescue Rooms, London

Just think – it’s cold, it’s been raining, it’s a Thursday night in January: what is there to do really? The laundry? Or go and watch a mental hardcore punk show in a small venue in Nottingham? We’ll take the latter. Canadian metal maestros Lord Dying put on a surprisingly

Thursday 15 October 2015

Coldrain – ‘Vena’

Coldrain, hailing from Nagoya, Japan are sometimes likened to their country-mates Crossfaith, which is a bit lazy in all honesty. There is about as much of the electronica-laced metalcore on ‘Vena’ as there is jam in the Atacama Desert. Simply likening them to another band from the same country

Wednesday 23 September 2015

Heart Of A Coward – ‘Deliverance’

Third albums are known to be a bit tricky. By this point you’re supposed to have learned, evolved, progressed, honed your sound to near perfection. Heart Of A Coward have apparently heard of this concept, but when it came to writing album three they simply looked at each