The Tidal Sleep: “We chose ‘Be Water’ as a reminder to let everything flow”

LIVE: Descendents / Abrasive Wheels @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

They’re the proud, and they may indeed be the few, but Descendents are far from being alone tonight. The godfathers of pop punk and hardcore capitalized on their nerdy aesthetic early on their career, which has proven to be globally influential. Last time they come to London in 2011,

LIVE: Employed To Serve / We Never Learned To Live / Conjurer / Eulogy @ Old Blue Last, London

It’s almost been five years since Employed To Serve formed, and have subsequently earned their place as one of the heaviest, and hardest working bands in the UK. While hardcore is probably the easiest blanket term to define ETS, shows put on by bands on Holy Roar are now

LIVE: We Built The World And Miss The Stars Fest IV, Berlin

For people who complain about there being not much to do in their hometown, the answer has, and always will be to travel elsewhere. This is especially the case for screamo. While Miss The Stars Fest is still relatively underground, the hype and buzz for the event has been

LIVE: Groezrock Festival 2017, Meerhout, Belgium

Unlike in the UK, Groezrock is one of the very few pre-summer festivals than can boast about its fantastic line up before the year has really begun. With last year’s icy cold weather dampening festival goers spirits, the atmosphere this time was mostly appropriate for t shirts and kakhi

I Hate Sex – ‘World Of Grief’

If you ever think that heavy bands tend to lose a sense of ‘rawness’ or ‘grittiness’ when it comes to releasing their first album, ‘World Of Grief’ takes away all preconceptions of compromise. The Canadian skramz outfit previously released split EPs with the likes of fellow western screamo Algae

No Zodiac – ‘Altars Of Impurity’

With only one original member left since their formation in 2009, the Chicago based hardcore group have ditched their beatdown sound for a more traditional death metal approach on their latest record. Unfortunately, for the most part, the overly clean production on ‘Altars Of Impurity’ means that some of

Pet Library unveil two track EP ‘Chalk Farm/Blame’

Having finished recording their debut LP, the two piece group from Hertfordshire wrote both of these songs during a 6 hour practice session in Camden. Although the songs were originally meant to be part of split, Pet Library showcase their more experimental side with these tracks just under 4

LIVE: Slowdive @ The Art School, Glasgow

It hasn’t always been a smooth ride of success for Slowdive. During their heyday, certain music critics didn’t take too kindly to their 1993 debut ‘Souvlaki’, and were dropped by Creation Records a week after the release of ‘Pygmalion.’ Dave Simpson who wrote for Melody Maker even stated that

Redwood: “I’ve been obsessed with the Redwood forest for as long as I can remember.”