Metalcore is a game of two halves. One the one side there is the majesty of the likes of Botch and Converge, on the other, the drab dullards of Asking Alexandria and bands that don’t bare thinking about. While there is some modern metalcore that can inspire great artistic movements, it is few and far…
Volbeat have grown themselves to be one of the biggest rock acts in Europe, a fact that still stuns many if they’re not particularly familiar with the Danish / US quartet. “HOW MANY?!” is often the reaction when people find out they can sell out an almost 50,000 capacity venue in their Danish homeland. Their…
The Bentham brothers, Bobby, Jack and Will, alongside lifelong friend Stuart Newburn – aka Strange Bones – hail from Blackpool, the city that time forgot. Coming from a town that it is fair to say is no longer in its glory days, you would expect the kind of gnarly, aggressive punk that the quartet deliver…
Deathcore is an ugly word and a lazy term designed by self-serving journalists to lump together a group of bands together in a neat package. It’s a buzzword used as clickbait and doesn’t do justice to the bands unfairly tarnished with it. Thy Art Is Murder is one of the bands that were targeted for…
In their near 20-year history as a band The Dollyrots have become a by-word for all that is good and right in the world of Pop-Punk. Their brand of sunny, upbeat anthems have been a huge hit with audiences all over the globe, year after year, album after album. Their legacy is firmly intact and…
The sugar tax isn’t just a controversial piece of Conservative legislation that demeans and drains the capital of the lower classes in society; it’s also the fabulous new EP from Hastings born post-punks, Kid Kapichi. Their sound definitely has more emphasis on the punk side of this descriptor, but the music is far more intricate…
Being taken from the Slavic Old Church word for God, you may go into the new Batushka – The Metal Blade one – album with expectations of something continuing in their ritualistic approach to black metal. You would be correct. With their sophomore release, Batushka continue in the manner that made them such an exciting…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
The hottest ticket of the Summer, literally and figuratively. Almost nine months after the almighty ticket scramble online, Rammstein arrived back in the UK for the first time since Download 2016 for their only UK show of 2019. The unlikely venue of Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, home to the MK Dons, proved to be…
The term ‘covers album’ is undoubtedly a dirty one. Rock covers albums fall into two categories; vanity projects that are utter dross, or Garage Inc. Essentially it’s fair to say that covers albums are a pointless endeavour that only seek to serve an artist’s ego as they relive the music that they love to the…
