Album Review: The Fire and I – Double Kamikaze
These days, a comparison of a Scottish band with downtuned grungey riffs and an adventurous sense of dynamics to Biffy Clyro is just as tiresome
These days, a comparison of a Scottish band with downtuned grungey riffs and an adventurous sense of dynamics to Biffy Clyro is just as tiresome
Direct Effect is a raw and noisy hardcore punk band. Their latest offering, ‘Sunburn’, is an album of 13 noisy hardcore punk tracks. Torn through
Alaya are the latest shiny new product from Los Angeles: a city responsible for delivering unto the world outstanding music in the past, but equally
Since their debut release back in 2006, Brighton’s Architects’ status have gradually risen release after release to the point now where their sixth album is
Comeback Kid have attained a large fanbase due to their ability to pull together two fast and furious genres of music as seamlessly as only
When it comes to French musical exports, offerings of a heavier ilk have always been rather thin on the ground. The nu-metal sextet Pleymo enjoyed
Formed just last summer, and consisting of former/current members of Dinosaur Pile-Up, Leftover Crack, Castrovalva and Martyr Defiled, Leeds quartet Brawlers have quickly built a
Without trying to over-generalise, hardcore is a genre that doesn’t see a lot of innovation. A few fantastic bands here and there will push the
If there is one musical contradiction that is difficult to explain, it’s the ability of a band with little musical ability to become great or
It feels as though I’ve heard this record, or something similar, a lot lately. Riffs on riffs and the gruff, melodic vocals one expects to
Alt. rock foursome Swim Good, split between London & Surrey, have let loose their debut self-tilted EP to the masses off the back of a
In the continued prosperity of South Coast city Brighton as a fertile ground for bands, In Dynamics are the next in line from a seemingly endless conveyor
While I didn’t expect to like an EP described as “experimental heavy music”, Egos At The Door’s new self-titled EP has proven that even something
There are a group of UK bands that can justifiably be described as ‘festival fodder’. They seem to appear on at least two or three
If you’re reading this website, you most likely know who Nai Harvest are. I, like most fans of the UK DIY music scene, have followed
I really wanted to like this ‘Split’ between Joie De Vivre and Prawn, and on the first note of Joie De Vivre’s opening track ‘Martin
Few records tick all the boxes, which makes it all the nicer when you hear one that hits a winning streak across the board. The
By now Baltimore/Chicago quartet Diamond Youth are no more the side-project they were once known as. Having shaken of that tag and having seemingly become
There are some singers whose voices you love unconditionally, who make you tingle and you would love them singing even something as mundane as the
With their first offering since downsizing to a three piece, Welsh rockers Straight Lines have gone a bit stratospheric in scale with new EP ‘Reflect’.
It’s been a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. ‘Wilt And Rise’, the debut full-length by Cornish screamo band Vales, has been one
Adding themselves to the every growing list of polished heavy rock bands from the colder, northern expanses of Europe, Wolves Like Us now have a
Born from the ashes of Never Means Maybe, Essex’s Villains are determined to forge a new history as a new band. So they’ve got a
While Edinburgh may be Scotland’s capital, in terms of musical prestige, it’s considered well and truly in the shadow of Glasgow – if the two
Creative Adult come from a rich and diverse scene of punk rock from Northern California and its definitely not hard to see the influence of