There will be no Supersonic Festival in 2016. The experimental music weekender that has hosted acts as varied as Q And Not U, Venetian Snares, Melt Banana and Merzbow for over a decade now will take a break this year, although with every intention of returning in 2017. Lisa Meyer, one of the directors of Capsule, the company that stages […]
Read moreIt’s no secret that Greg Puciato has a genuine fondness for music that’s pretty far removed from his day job as the frontman for metal firebrands The Dillinger Escape Plan. Check any interview- you can read it in the way he talks glowingly about the invention and experimentation of Trent Reznor and hear it in the way he sings his […]
Read moreOh, so close. That cover art really could have been special- the photography, style and design is great and goes a long way to setting up the moody, instrumental metal behind it. But then French four-piece Abysse had to go and use that font combination and it’s like finding a bug in your favourite meal. You can’t judge a book […]
Read moreBe very very quiet, we’re hunting ‘Animals’. If you listen carefully there’s a chance you can still hear the distant, discordant echo of Red Heat’s first two EPs but this is a different beast altogether. Opener ‘Liquor Store’ is a confrontational, coiled spring of a song. A wall of noise thins just enough to reveal the first spiky, lurching riff […]
Read moreThis is ‘Prayers/Triangles’ from the band’s new album, ‘Gore’, due out via Reprise in April. Big vibes on this one. I genuinely don’t know how they manage to sound like no one else, only themselves.
Read moreThere are some bands that you buy a ticket for every single time they come to town. Glassjaw are one of mine. It hasn’t always ended well, the Long Island outfit have looked worn out before now and the last time they were over for Reading Festival there was just a hint of a band bored of their material and […]
Read moreSour news. Former Sense Field, Further Seems Forever and Reason To Believe vocalist Jon Bunch has died at the ridiculously young age of 45. Tributes have appeared online from around the music world including notes from Sick Of It All, Jimmy Eat World and Hayley Williams of Paramore. Williams tweeted “Rest in peace… Your voice sang me to sleep many […]
Read moreThis feels like it has been a long time coming. Explosions in the Sky have announced that their new album, their first since 2011’s ‘Take Care…’, will be out via Temporary Residence on April 1st. It will be called ‘The Wilderness’, and the existence of artwork and a tracklisting (both below) pretty much guarantees this isn’t an April Fools. Right? […]
Read moreThis is great. No, like really great. When Frank Carter left Gallows and pursed less aggressive, more, ahem, palatable sounds, it seemed as if his taste for the power and violence of punk rock had gone too. ‘Blossom’ undeniably proves otherwise. This record finds Carter roaring white-hot rage over barreling metallic riffs (‘Juggernaut’), magnetic, melodic punk (‘Trouble’, ‘Fangs’), and brutal, […]
Read moreIt’s that time of year again. Again? Man, I can hardly keep up. Below are Moderate Rock’s albums of 2015. 11 because Spinal Tap: 11. SABREPULSE- ‘Paragon’ 10. FAILURE- ‘The Heart Is a Monster’ 9. NO DEVOTION- ‘Permanence’ 8. BARONESS- ‘Purple’ 7. FOALS- ‘What Went Down’ 6. ROLO TOMASSI- ‘Grievances’ 5. CASPIAN- ‘Dust and Disquiet’ 4. DISASTERPEACE- ‘It Follows’ 3. VESSELS- […]
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