Your Demise - The Kids We Used To Be...Hardcore metal punksters Your Demise have shared a track with us from their eagerly awaited new album “The Kids We Used to Be…”, released through Visible Noise on 20th September 2010. This album is the first with new front man, Ed McRae at the helm after the parting of previous vocalist, George Noble in July 2009.

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Amia Venera Landscape EPDiscovering great new music is a passion here at TINAS Towers, we get endless amounts of EPs, albums and demos through the door and occasionally buried within them is a true gem. The “Amia Venera Landscape EP” from Italian outfit Amia Venera Landscape is one of those gems!

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Rash Decision - Temporary Worker (Clause 4.1)Cornwall is known for a lot of things, pasties, seagulls and maybe even a bit of surfing but it certainly isn’t on the map for producing top drawer thrash punk bands… That is until now! Rash Decision got together four years ago and began to formulate their plan for world domination. This plan combined the use of face-ripping thrash riffs, toxic punk vocals and body shaking beats, and then unleashing it to the masses. Having already conquered the local scene they are about to spew their noxious melodies on the rest of us.

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ION DISSONANCE - CursedCanadian extreme metal outfit, ION DISSONANCE return with their fourth studio album, “Cursed”, released through Basick Records. ION DISSONANCE were formed back in 2002 when 5 friends got a band together with the aim of creating extreme technical metal, which at the time was still very much in its infancy. Over the next five years ION DISSONANCE released three full length studio albums and played over 750 shows in support of these records. In 2007 the band went into hiatus, concentrating on their personal lives, whilst also reinvigorating their desire to create more ground-breaking extreme metal.

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Pay No Respect - Moving OnPay No Respect are a four-piece Hardcore band, formed in 2007 in Kent. They are the UK’s answer to Hardcore, citing influences such as Terror, Death Before Dishonour and First Blood. Over the last year, Pay No Respect have been on the road, spreading their message, playing shows and festivals such as Open Air Festival, in Poland and Hevy Festival in the UK. With tours to come alongside Death Before Dishonour and Knuckledust, a support slot with the timeless Agnostic Front and an appearance at the Hellfire Club Festival will take Pay No Respect to the next echelon.

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Godsized - Brothers in Arms EPFresh from their immense performance at the Download Festival and the equally brilliant recent show at Eddies Bar in Birmingham it was high time we let you know our thoughts on Godsized’s “Brothers In Arms EP”.  Expectations were very high after witnessing these shows. So did the power and energy from the live set transfer well to the recorded format?

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Rock City, Nottingham was the setting for Oaf’s penultimate show on this leg of the Botheration Word Tour. I say World Tour as Stoke, London, Nottingham and Peterborough were all part of the world the last time I looked at an Atlas. Yes, that Atlas was from 1983, still containing the likes of the USSR and Yugoslavia but I can absolutely guarantee that the above mentioned places were in there…

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What The Night Brings are a hardcore/metalcore band formed in deepest, darkest Buckinghamshire towards the end of 2008 and since that moment have been steadily gaining momentum within the flourishing British music scene. Over the last two years What The Night Brings have shared the stage with bands such as Protest The Hero, Devil Sold His Soul, Your Demise, The Eyes Of A Traitor and The Arusha Accord.

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Blue Gillespie - SynesthesiaNewport’s Blue Gillespie are a progressive metal band, formed in November 2007, who take influence from artists such as Meshuggah, Tool, Portishead and Down, along with many others. Taking these influences they have steadily developed their own style of music which is ‘aimed at music fans of all ages who are dissatisfied or have some pessimistic demons to exorcise’.

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Heights - From Sea to SkyTowards the end of 2006, three like-minded friends, Al Heslop, John Hopkin and Jay Postones (TesseracT), got together and began to jam out a few ideas and to expand on the compositions that Al Heslop had previously put together. It didn’t take long for them to realise that they had created something very special… Heights were born!

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