With 2017’s After the Party The Menzingers cemented themselves as one of the best bands in modern punk rock. After building up a real dedicated fan base that album saw them explode to another level. This put a fair bit of pressure on them when it came to a follow up. Fortunately with Hello Exile, The…
In a world where subgenres seem to grow more and more homogenised, GosT stands out from the crowd with their own take on the wonder of 80s film making, uniquely assaulting the listener with the ugly side of art.
It is an album so relentlessly stuck in the past that it probably would have voted to leave the EU.
I often forget other people like Danko Jones too. They are one of the few bands that I can say I’ve loved since the first album and even fewer bands that I can say I’ve loved every album, so it’s a real treat to be able to see them rock the shit out of Brixton…
Creature are looking to broaden their palate of influences and show that they can live up to the sky high expectations being pushed upon them.
Tonight is not simply a performance of music; it is a demonstration of ‘survivor anthems’.
Of Mice & Men have had a somewhat turbulent existence with several ups & downs, but it seems as though things may have finally settled for them. Not that their latest album EARTHANDSKY shows any signs of them living a peaceful life. In many ways, this feels like the distillation of everything Of Mice &…
Opeth have always been a cut above everyone else. This is after all, the band that took death metal and infused it heart and brains, and took challenging progressive metal to Guardian readers. They even reinvented 70’s prog rock in their own image, with varying results. This is a band that has always walked to…
I feel like at this point, you know exactly what you are going to get with Wednesday 13. Big riffs, movie samples, horror lyrics and imagery, but also tons of fun.That’s not to say The Duke of Spook has run out of ideas though, as proved by his new album Necrophaze. Any album that starts…
Surely any band with the gall to call their album True North would likely be following the cast iron tenets of black metal. Right?
