Bearfoot Beware have been together for a while now but their second album ‘Sea Magnolia’, released earlier this year, is the first time their spiky, energetic sound has made its way into these ears. Fans of Alpha Male Tea Party, Bear vs. Shark, and other excellent bands with odd names should welcome the Leeds trio into theirs.
Read moreAntier play post-rock. But the Barcelona boys don’t do it quite like anyone else. A defiantly Spanish, proudly poetic, thoroughly dynamic duo, they resist clichés and explore the sound with energy, invention and art. Capable of making a thunderous noise and heartbreaking whisper with equal intensity, their 2016 debut album ‘De la Quimera, el Dolor’, is essential listening.
Read moreOk, so not a lot happens in the video for ‘My Conscience Weighs a Ton’ but, y’know, it’s Glassjaw.
Read moreHoly+Gold is what happens when former members of Norma Jean and The Chariot realise just how much they have left in the tank. This is itchy, scratchy, squirming post-hardcore that wants to get in your head and under your skin and try to prove it’s the best thing the men behind it have ever done. Killer.
Read moreWhat do you get when former members of Jungbluth amplify insistent post-punk sonics with every hardcore trick they ever learned under a latter-day Blood Brothers aesthetic? The compelling cut, thrust and rumble of Criminal Body of course. Into it.
Read moreVoyagers are not hip. Voyagers are not cool. Voyagers play rock music, about as unfiltered as you can get it. But, like Thrice or Sparta or Cave In before them, the Washington State outfit are doing it with brains, brawn and audible honesty. This is music to chop wood to.
Read moreIt’s rare to describe post-metal or doom as immediate. But it takes mere seconds to know that Lesser Glow stand out from the crowd. Built on a familiar foundation of titanic riffs and hoarse screams, the Boston quintet also incorporate serpentine guitar lines, smoky clean vocals, hypnotic melodies, and dark ambience to produce a noise that’s as compelling as it […]
Read moreAt the beginning of the year, Moderate Rock predicted that Thrice would return. Now, two years after ‘To Be Everywhere Is to be Nowhere’ put an end to their hiatus, the California quartet look to be firing into life. Play new single ‘The Grey’ below or over at the recently redesigned thrice.net, it’s an upbeat, chunky number that’s giving me […]
Read moreLirr are so damn good. The German outfit have been together for a couple of years now and toured quite a bit but it took a late-night chance discovery on YouTube for their crossover sound to cross over to my ears… From there I backtracked to the band’s excellent debut album, ‘God’s On Our Side; Welcome To The Jungle’, which, […]
Read moreAs if wasn’t obvious already that Jason Aalon, formerly of Letlive and currently of The Fever, is pissed, the first song by his new project Pressure Cracks is a white hot flare, impossible to ignore. Get some.
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