Knife Skills
‘Drink this eat that, to heal your broken soul’. After what has turned out to be an horrendous few months for our friends Year Of The Knife, for them to unite and release this twenty minute spectacular is a feat...
Category: EP/Album Reviews
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
‘Still reminiscing about the old disgraces, the drunken chases on the staircases, the usual places are gone’. So, I’m a bit late here, I was gigging and then got a stinking cold which knocked the wind out of my sails,...
Album Review: The Gaslight Anthem- History Books
It’s been 9 years since the New Jersey outfit released their last album “Get Hurt” and whilst it received a mixed reception from both fans and critics’, it was hard to argue that they weren’t at the height of their...
Sting Like A Bee
‘And sorry mom I know it wasn’t easy living like this, but we gon’ make it out of the dark times.’ Word on the street is that my friends UNITYTX are back, they bring with them eleven songs of high...
A Nightingale Sang On CCTV
‘I never had the best of British luck.’ The Castle & Falcon, a cosy little establishment in Balsall Heath, scene of a live album to see off all other live albums. I am of course talking about Brummie legends Nightingales,...
The Last Time
‘The more I know men, the more I like dogs’. One of the most amiable, engaging and harmonious voices in the industry belongs to Duncan Reid, always stress -free, full of life and love, homely, and comforting.It is with an...
The Hunter and the Hunted
‘I took the road less travelled, now I don’t know where the fuck I am’. So today I have the latest release from Stitched Up Heart, leading from the front with singer Alecia ‘Mixi’ Demner, they bring songs that are...
Gomorrah Never Comes
‘I once hoped to strive here, I never thought I’d die here.’ Our Death metal cousins Cryptopsy have surfaced after eleven years with a full length album, titled ‘As Gomorrah Burns’ and we can immediately make the connections to the...
Act Of War
It has been five years since the last release from TesseracT, and it is no surprise that as part of the process they link back to ‘Sonder’ and offer up their latest work ‘War of Being’ a colossal chunk of...
The Legacy
‘Eternal fear is a fate worse than death’. Our Australian cousins Polaris have been through the mill of late, suffering the immeasurableloss of guitarist Ryan Siew, our own time on this earth, or what’s left of it is an unknown...