I feel like I say it every year, but this year it feels worth saying louder than ever. THESE ARE NOT THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR! There’s no way I (or I believe anyone) could write a list that could claim to be correct about that kind of personal, indefinable, impossible thing. There’s been too much music, and not enough […]
Read moreEvery Time I Die defy. The boys from Buffalo have been riffing rebellious and beating the odds since 1998 of course, but ‘Radical’ is something else. They haven’t picked that album title for nothing. Every Time I Die continue to defy their lifespan. This is their ninth album in 20 years. Those are unprecedented numbers for a band that play […]
Read moreEvery Time I Die should never have worked. The band emerged from deepest, darkest Buffalo, New York at the turn of the century with an English teacher on vocals, a circus strongman on guitar, a revolving door of bassists, and a guy called Ratboy on drums. Sure, they played a whip-smart and wicked fast version of metallic hardcore but they […]
Read moreThis might never have happened. Since 2014’s ‘From Parts Unknown’ the line-up and lives of Every Time I Die have been overturned. The band are used to upheaval of course, they’ve barely gone two years without changing at least one member, but real life kicked in their door with dumb, ugly force at the end of last year. Out on […]
Read moreIt’s all about what stays with you, right? You could be listening to some of the busiest, best new metal of the year or losing yourself in wordless soundscapes, but unless it sticks somehow, makes some kind of mark, it might not be remembered later that day, nevermind six months after the fact. This year, for me, these are the records […]
Read moreEvery Time I Die’s last album was… intense. Ok, so the boys from Buffalo aren’t exactly known for taking things easy but ‘Ex Lives’ was tense and dense and in desperate need of someone telling the band to take a deep breath every once in a while. It broke exciting new ground with a couple of grungy numbers but was […]
Read moreThe last time they were here, Every Time I Die only teased latest album ‘Ex Lives’. Now they can rub it in the UK’s collective face in all its spiky glory. Get some. 24.10.12 Brook, SOUTHAMPTON 25.10.12 Fleece, BRISTOL 26.10.12 White Rabbit, PLYMOUTH 27.10.12 Haunt, BRIGHTON 28.10.12 Solus, CARDIFF 29.10.12 Electric Ballroom, LONDON 30.10.12 Slade Rooms, WOLVERHAMPTON 31.10.12 Academy II, […]
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 moreEvery Time I Die don’t do anything by halves. And that includes internet updates. The Buffalo band have revealed that the title of the next album will be ‘Ex Lives’, and will emerge via Epitaph on March 6th. Album art, tracklisting, and a Keith Buckley-directed video for the fantastically-titled ‘Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space’ laid out below for your eyes […]
Read moreEvery Time I Die are a runaway train. They’re a firestorm, a powerhouse, a prize fighter delivering knockout blow after knockout blow. Brighton has seen all sorts of course but only rarely a crackling, commanding, confident show like this. This is the sound of a band satisfying their fans, certifying their authority and silencing their critics. Because it hasn’t always […]
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