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From Wednesday 21 September 2016

Giraffe Tongue Orchestra – ‘Broken Lines’

If you’ll allow us to put on our cynical hat for just a moment, it would be very easy to look upon Giraffe Tongue Orchestra as Ben Weinman’s retirement plan. Though the alt-metal supergroup’s very existence has been rumoured for many years, it’s hard to see it as simple

Sunday 18 September 2016

Beach Slang – ‘A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings’

Responsibility is something that creeps up on all of us. Most of us spend the first dozen or so years of our existence free of the sometimes crushing weight life can heap upon our shoulders. It’s only as we start approaching adulthood that the reality of the world and

Thursday 08 September 2016

Less Deceived – ‘We Could Find New Ways To Walk Home’

There’s a lyric in the second song (and lead single) of Kingston Upon Hull punks Less Deceived’s new EP that very succinctly sums up a great deal about the band’s worldview, and also provides this release with its title. The line goes, “We could find new ways to walk

Monday 13 June 2016

Fallujah – ‘Dreamless’

The terms ‘atmospheric’ and ‘death metal’ might not sound like they belong together to most people. Generally, when one pictures death metal, the mental image painted is one of rotting corpses, blood-splattered medical tools and ominous hellscapes filled with any number of demonic beasts ready to savagely pummel you

Thursday 09 June 2016

Kvelertak – ‘Nattesferd’

Sometimes you don’t know what you need until you hear it. The mixture of frost-bitten Norwegian black metal and AC/DC-style rock’n’roll sounds, on paper at least, like an awful idea. And yet, in 2010 an as-then-unheard-of band named Kvelertak appeared as if from nowhere bringing exactly that ungodly concoction

Thursday 12 May 2016

Verdun – ‘The Eternal Drift’s Canticles’

There’s something bad in the water in Montpellier, France. Something tainted and evil, that corrupts the mind and soul of anyone who dares drink from it. Something inky and black that turns normal people into vessels of sadness, despair and raging fury. The previous statements are all complete lies,

Wednesday 11 May 2016

LIVE: Rotten Sound / Abigail Williams / Cult Leader / Razoreater @ Boston Music Rooms, London

Monday night is pretty much the worst night of the week when it comes to being in the mood for a night of savage metal. The weekend seems aeons away, you’re still suffering from the previous weekend, it’s just the least rock and roll time of the week. And

Tuesday 03 May 2016

Terrible Love – ‘Change Nothing’

There’s a weight of expectation attached when a new band appears that could be considered a ‘supergroup’. On the plus side, you can almost guarantee a certain level of attention, as fans of the members’ other bands (not to mention booking agents, press, etc.) will be eagerly awaiting new

Friday 29 April 2016

Plebeian Grandstand – ‘False Highs, True Lows’

Throatruiner Records are fast becoming one of the most reliable labels in the world for putting out stellar, genre-defining hardcore and metal. Like Deathwish Inc, Southern Lord or Holy Roar, merely seeing the label’s logo on the back of an album is enough to instil confidence that the music

Wednesday 27 April 2016

Britney – ‘Britn3y’

It’s been a long, arduous road of a career for Britney. From the scandalous naughty-schoolgirl music video for ‘…Baby One More Time’ to the infamous head-shaving meltdown of 2007, it’s stunning Ms Spears is still… Wait… No, sorry. That’s not right at all. Apologies. The Britney we’re actually here