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December 1, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: No Bragging Rights – Self Titled

It’s late in the year and you will already be compiling your “best of” lists – but spare a thought and leave a slot for California-based Melodic Hardcore outfit No Bragging Rights. What does it sound like? Well, I’m showing...

November 30, 2021 No Responses

Skam In An I.V.

Skam In An I.V. So, earlier this year our Leicester trio Skam gave us the first episode of an album, divided into two sections, working in cahoots to give us an I.V. that we can attach to our arms and...

November 26, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Ist Ist – The Art Of Lying

Ist Ist’s The Art Of Lying is a clear, coherent and ordered example of consistency – the considerable class and all-round quality are established early and maintained throughout. Is that consistency sustained partly because of a sameness to the materia...

November 25, 2021 No Responses

Life, Death And Everything In Between.

Hello, my friends, hope you are well and still fighting the good fight despite the crater-filling cronyism and nepotism on display right now, causing copious amounts of stress and disturbing even the most altruistic amongst us. Never fear because our...

November 25, 2021 No Responses

Angle of Ascent

Right on cue for Bonfire Night our Queen Vee jumps headfirst into the perpetual furnace that is inequality for women. The battle rages on my friends and not wanting to stray too much into it here, women are still faced...

November 24, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Various Artists – Alice Cooper, Killer – 50 Years Later

There have already been a host of various-artists tribute albums (my own personal favourite is still 2014’s Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life. The recent The Metallica Blacklist contained some sparkling stuff but was perhaps too much of a...

November 23, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Beans on Toast – ‘Survival of the Friendliest’

Beans on Toast are set to release their latest studio album ‘Survival of the Friendliest’ on 1 December via BOT Music. The album was written alongside old friends Blaine Harrison and Jack Flanagan of Mystery Jets and finds Beans, a...

November 22, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: Kid Dad – ‘Bloom’

Germany’s Kid Dad have seen a huge overhaul in their sound in the void of time between their debut release, last year’s ‘In A Box’, and their soon-to-be-unveiled new effort, titled ‘Bloom’. Gone is their penchant for crackling guitars and...

November 18, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Brion Starr – A Night To Remember

New-York based Brion Starr invites you to a nocturnal 1970s-influenced netherworld in this finely-crafted collection. The mood, the atmosphere, the production and the mix (Starr in cahoots with sonic legend Tony Visconti) are spot on – but are the songs....

November 18, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: Like Moths To Flames – Pure Like Porcelain

If you’re looking for a spark of inspiration, there is much to like about this latest EP from US metalcore outfit Like Moths To Flames. The opener, Ameliorate, sets the general tone of epic and tortured, facing up to diseased...

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