ALBUM REVIEW – SLEEP THEORY: AFTERGLOW

Metalcore is one of the only subgenres of metal that blurs the line between metal and more mainstream music genres such as pop. That is why people either love it or hate it. It is very rare to find a band that innovates metalcore as so many metalcore bands just focus on the catchy choruses […]
It’s over 20 years since Propagandhi unleashed their angry, immature, skate-punk-rooted debut How To Clean Everything; it’s eight years since their last release, the high-energy, thrash-influenced Victory Lap. On my first listen of At Peace, I hear the age and roughness in Chris Hannah’s vocals, and he reflects that sense himself, singing “Behold the cruel […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PROPAGANDHI: AT PEACE

ALBUM REVIEW – MAMALARKY: HEX KEY

“The worst thing you can say about a Mamalarky song is, ‘this sounds like another song of yours’.” Bassist Noor Khan sets out the band’s philosophy and it is one that they adhere to successfully on their latest album, ‘Hex Key’. Whilst it is pertinent to point out that its changes could be more extreme […]
I Got Heaven, the latest album by Mannequin Pussy, sees the band continue to balance radio-friendly alt rock with visceral emotional honesty and in the process come away with some of their most rewarding material. Title track ‘I Got Heaven’ combines gritty, barked verses with a shimmering, gliding chorus that in combination set a great […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MANNEQUIN PUSSY: I GOT HEAVEN

INTRODUCING: CULTURE ABUSE NEWLY SIGNED TO EPITAPH RECORDS – LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘SO BUSTED’

Epitaph Records has welcomed San Francisco Bay Area-band Culture Abuse to the label. New single ‘So Busted’ has recently been shared – a rock and roll love song about “all the stuff you are told you need in life but when it all boils down, all you really want is to feel loved and cared […]
*Guest Editor Pick The Garden are probably one of the strangest acts I’ve ever heard. I know a lot of people say that about anything abit kooky or alternative, but this shit’s in another universe. “Call This # Now” is basically the soundtrack to a 70’s game show, sandwiched between short bursts of DIY punk/hardcore. […]

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