That sound you hear? Disappointment. It’s the collective sigh unleashed with the news that the latest Pelican record is only four tracks and 18 minutes of music. After three years since the last album see, people will want more, a lot more. Hell, it used to be that 18 minutes was only enough time for a single gargantuan epic from […]
Read moreThe new album from San Francisco five-piece Ceremony got its name when frontman Ross Farrar realised just how much time we all spend watching each other, viewing each other, and that we are all living in a human zoo. But it could have just as easily been a direct comment on the sound of his band’s fourth full-length. This thing […]
Read moreYou most likely already know how you feel about this. Emmure ain’t gone changin’ in the 14 months since their last record (since their 2007 debut really) so if beefy vocals, big riffs and bigger breakdowns are your thing then you’ll still dig what they’re doing but if you think metalcore is the worst thing to ever happen to music, […]
Read moreThis is good. Of course it is, Every Time I Die haven’t released a bad record, like, ever. But the New Yorkers’ sixth full-length feels a little jittery, busy, awkward even. Oh, ‘Ex Lives’ is marked with quality, but, unlike what you may have heard, it’s not the band’s return to the raw punk of old that most rules. Sure, […]
Read moreTonight is real. This gig is legit. These bands mean it. From the first sandpaper scream to the last rattling cry, this is raw, honest, emotional stuff, and it’s outstanding. The sombre mood and dark music might make it permanently serious inside the Face Bar this evening, dour even, but slick hair, clean riffs and clever puns can wait, this […]
Read moreAfter a 14-year break the Vans Warped Tour appears set to return to London in November. There are no further details yet but updates will arrive at www.vanswarpedtouruk.com.
Read moreThe tracklisting and cover art for Fear Factory’s ‘The Industrialist’ has arrived online. The band’s eighth (despite feeling like they should at least be in double figures by now) full-length is due out through Candlelight in the first week of June and will look a little something like this… ‘The Industrialist’ ‘Recharger’ ‘New Messiah’ ‘God Eater’ ‘Depraved Mind Murder’ ‘Virus Of Faith’ ‘Difference Engine’ ‘Dissemble’ ‘Religion […]
Read moreMarilyn Manson is back. Whether we get stomping industrial pop and top quality weirdness or clichéd wailing from a weird uncle remains to be seen (heard?) but the cover art and tracklisting for new album ‘Born Villain’ looks a little something like this… ‘Hey Cruel World…’ ‘No Reflection’ ‘Pistol Whipped’ ‘Overneath the Path of Misery’ ‘Slo Mo Tion’ ‘The Gardener’ […]
Read moreMost of Hundredth’s songs are about hope, pushing forward, and moving on. The few that aren’t tend to deal with escaping small towns and the people, practises and attitudes within them. It might seem more like punishment than reward then, to play a show on a gloomy Thursday in Reading. But if the South Carolina outfit feel any twinge of […]
Read moreApparently rumours of the end of Remembering Never have been greatly exaggerated as The Florida outfit continue to reveal progress on their long-awaited album ‘This Hell Is Home’. The brilliantly bitter ‘All Praise The Victims Of The Middle Passage’ is now available for streaming over at their Reverbnation page. Skills.
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