Brian Cook’s bass tone needs no introduction. And even if it did, you wouldn’t hear the words, such is the incredible, inimitable rumble he can conjure. For his latest project though, the former member of Botch and current member of Russian Circles and Sumac, is going solo, and going down the decibels. Under the name Torment & Glory, Cook will […]
Read moreThrice are back. The band have announced that their 11th album will be called ‘Horizons/East’. The follow-up to 2018’s ‘Palms’ was recorded in the band’s own studio and self-produced, and will be released digitally on September 17th this year, with physical formats following a month later. Pre-order at https://thrice.ffm.to/horizonseast. You can get your first taste of the band’s efforts in the form of […]
Read moreI genuinely did not see this coming. 90s UK rock scene stalwarts Hundred Reasons are back, and have booked a tour. What’s more, 90s UK rock scene stalwarts Hell Is For Heroes will be supporting. Good stuff. Now only if we can get the likes of Tubelord or Blakfish to be first on.
Read moreIncaseyouleave describe themselves as “miserable screamo/emo/punk from London” but every listen to the quintet’s fantastically-named debut EP, ‘Time and Why It Doesn’t Deserve Us’ makes me want to throw my arms in the air and smile. There’s some real heavy stuff on the lyric sheet but the words are carried by electrified punk rock, by brilliantly unpredictable rock’n’roll, and by […]
Read moreSince calling it quits in 2015, Maybeshewill have played a farewell tour, been hand-picked by Robert Smith to headline a festival, and then, over a year ago now, the boys in the band teased a slight return with an enigmatic video. I was one of the grown men crying at their final London show but it’s almost like the band […]
Read moreGet crushed! Ahead of the release of their second record, ‘Migration’, next month, Bossk have released a video for the track ‘HTV-3’. Erstwhile Palm Reader frontman Josh McKeown absolutely nails his guest vocal appearance while the band conjure post-metal magic around him. You can pre-order ‘Migration’ here.
Read moreSlow Crush’s 2018 debut album is one worth talking about. And the Belgian shoegazers have quite rightly taken every opportunity to do since its release. There have been a couple of vinyl presses, in a handful of appealing variants, and even a guitar pedal branded with the record’s artwork. Now, with a move to new labels (Church Road and Quiet […]
Read moreAs far as I can tell, Weltraumrauschen is a one-man operation. If so, they make a mighty impressive, cohesive, and complete kind of sound. As far as I can tell, that name translates as space noise. If so, it’s pretty damn apt. Sure, there are some lo-fi burbles, bleak lyrics, and downer jams on the band’s debut album, ‘Nothing to […]
Read moreJoy in Blue formed last year. And that alone should be reason enough to give them a chance- finding like-minded musicians, starting a new band, and devoting time and energy to writing, practicing, and recording your first demos can be hard enough at the best of times, let alone in the middle of a pandemic. The Portsmouth four-piece don’t need […]
Read moreOutstanding post-everything outfit Suffocate For Fuck Sake have been teasing their next album for a month or so now but as of today you can actually hear a new song. Fyra by Suffocate for fuck sake ‘Alone’ is the first taste of the Swedish quartet’s third album, ‘Fyra’, and it’s everything you might hope it to be. Cover art and […]
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