2019’s Alien saw Northlane pushed further through the smoke than ever before. An intensely personal album for vocalist Marcus Bridge, their last record added layers of nu metal, industrial and electronic music to their established sound. Turning the dials up on the emotion and expansion within Northlane proved to be a great success for them…
Light The Torch had a less than Auspicious start to their career. Despite delivering two solid albums under their original guise Devil You Know, they largely went under the surface. After rebranding themselves in 2017, they seem to have truly roared to life. You Will Be The Death Of Me, their second album as Light…
10 years ago THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA released what many consider to be their best work with the ZOMBIE EP. At a time when US metalcore was becoming so watered down and bland, this EP was something far more exciting. Darker and heavier than anything their peers were doing at the time, it gathered a…
Over the course of the last 14 years Bury Tomorrow have molded themselves into one of the most exciting and consistent in the UK metal scene. Their last album Black Flame propelled them to new heights and is considered by many as a modern classic. With success comes the weight of expectation, and as such…
The Key Club is something of a staple in the north of the United Kingdom. Many bands of varying degrees of notability and notoriety have trodden the boards of the hallowed stage and created raucous rackets through the PA, generally going down as one of the better nights of their various tours.
Some peers of the genre have moved on however, and it feels as though modern metalcore has had its day in the sun. Sticking mostly to the formula, The Devil Wears Prada bring us their seventh LP, The Act.
It’s notable that there seems to be something of an identity crisis apparent on this record.
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 &…
