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From Tuesday 17 July 2018

LIVE: Touché Amoré / Gender Roles @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham

Festival season is officially upon us, and so is the slew of side-shows and one-offs the international bands use to make their trips to our shores more worthwhile. Tonight, before they journey down south for their performance at 2000 Trees Festival, Los Angeles post-hardcore sweethearts Touché Amoré stop off

Tuesday 10 July 2018

Real Friends – ‘Composure’

Pop punk regularly gets a bad rap from alternative music purists, mostly because it’s often aimed at a younger audience and therefore seen as a lesser medium. Every so often, though, a band releases a record of such undeniably high quality that the gatekeepers have no choice but to

Monday 09 July 2018

LIVE: Modern Life Is War / Svalbard / Swain / Who Cares? @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Trust Modern Life Is War, one of the darkest, moodiest bands in hardcore, to arrive in the UK smack-bang in the middle of a seemingly endless heatwave. The beer garden at the front of the Brudenell is positively packed out with moshers in sunglasses enjoying an ice-cold beer. Unfortunately

Thursday 31 May 2018

LIVE: Employed To Serve / Conjurer / God Complex / Hundred Year Old Man @ The Parish, Huddersfield

The heavy music scene in the UK is extremely healthy right now, and tonight is a showcase of some of the most exciting young bands our nation currently has to offer. Leeds post-metal sextet Hundred Year Old Man are gathering attention at a rate of knots, and from the intensity

Tuesday 15 May 2018

Boss Keloid – ‘Melted On The Inch’

Wigan quintet Boss Keloid’s latest release, ‘Melted On The Inch’, is an incredibly difficult album to write about. There’s no need to tell you it’s good, because if it wasn’t then it wouldn’t have the Holy Roar Records baby staring at you from its back cover. That logo is

Friday 11 May 2018

Wiedgedood – ‘De Doden Hebben Het Goed III’

Black / extreme metal trio Wiedgedood are not in the business of wasting time. This is their third album since their inception a mere four years ago, and they’ve somehow managed that whilst sharing members with Amenra and Oathbreaker; both busy bands until the end of last year when

Thursday 10 May 2018

Melvins – ‘Pinkus Abortion Technician’

Melvins have been going since 1983. Just let that sink in for a minute. For thirty-five years, Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover have been completely ignoring trends and doing their own thing, which has put them in that rare position of being an iconic and monumentally influential band whilst

Tuesday 01 May 2018

LIVE: Converge / Crowbar / Thou @ Electric Ballroom, London

Massachusetts hardcore legends Converge are a bit beyond introduction at this point. Over the last three decades they’ve cemented themselves as an absolutely essential band, both on record and in a live environment. Following the release of 2017’s sublime ‘The Dusk In Us’, Converge are treating the UK to

Friday 20 April 2018

Coldbones – ‘Where It All Began’

Post-rock, beautiful and captivating though it may be, can be a bit predictable. The earth will always travel round the sun, metal fans will always love arguing on the internet, and post-rock bands will always have long songs with drawn out, gently-drummed quiet sections that gradually build into massive

Monday 16 April 2018

LIVE: Rolo Tomassi / Palm Reader / Cryptodira @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester

Rolo Tomassi must be feeling pretty damn smug right now. They’re just back from a successful run of European shows, all five of their UK headline shows are advance sell-outs, and their latest album ‘Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It’ is already being named Album Of The