What better way to announce new music than with huge, crushing riffs and bags of groove? Kent-based COVE have been hidden away writing new material and ‘Solis’ proves that the time has been extremely well spent. 2016’s debut EP ‘We Were Once Lost’ hinted at what the band were capable of, but ‘Solis’ ups the ante with even more intensity and refinement.

The band describe themselves as alternative hardcore and it’s an appropriate classification. You get the aggression and adrenaline of hardcore, thanks to heavy guitars and Ben Shorten’s screamed vocals, but the riffs nod towards an underlying orientation for groove, which brings an alternative dimension. If this is a taster of what’s to come from COVE, we could be in for something special with their next release.