Listener’s ‘talk music’ has been described as aural marmite. You either love it or you hate it. Well, adoration overflows in Basingstoke tonight. This gig is sold out, and the crowd eat it up. As enigmatic punk poet Dan Smith takes to the stage, accompanied by his massively bearded, multi-instrumentalist main hombre Christin Nelson and now a drummer, a hush […]
Read moreHas your faith in music been wavering? Fear not, salvation is at hand. Deftones have announced that their seventh studio album, ‘Koi No Yokan’, will be released via Reprise on November 12th. Hallelujah. There is no literal English translation for that Japanese title but it’s “the sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to […]
Read moreBark, bite, blood, and everything in between. The third full-length from Salt Lake City sludgecore crew Gaza is a furious, feral, cornered wild animal of a record. Cuts and bruises inflicted by bad tours, bad blood, betrayal, politics, war, and the never-ending trudge of human existence haven’t beaten the band down but made them stronger, harder, more cynical. And they’ve […]
Read moreDue October 8th via Rise Records, album number six from The Acacia Strain will look a little something like this. 1. Doomblade 2. Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow 3. Go To Sleep 4. Brain Death 5. The Mouth of the River 6. Dust and the Helix 7. Victims of the Cave 8. Time and Death and God 9. The Chambered […]
Read moreThis is space rock. A message from the gods. A map of the mind. No, not a map, an invitation. Old Man Gloom, the musical council made up of members of Cave In, Converge and Isis, have reconvened after eight years of silence to stretch music, pull sound, and shape something new. None of the band’s signature moves are missing […]
Read moreYou have to be up close to this to feel the heat. Oh yeah, despite that band name there’s definitely a fire here, but the debut album from Guildford five-piece Polar is a little too small, a little too samey to truly impress. Opener ‘K.C.M.’ is all teeth and claws and killer guitar tone, ‘Bruiser’, actually one of the less […]
Read moreThis is a burly record. A brawny record. London five-piece Pariso might have been caught up in the UK swell and toured with plenty of emo and screamo outfits but ‘Nothing Beyond Everything After’ sounds like it wants to punch a hole in your face. There’s a weight to this thing, an emotional one sure (you don’t get more emotional […]
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