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ThisIsNotAScene’s Ones To Watch Out For In 2012

ThisIsNotAScene’s Ones To Watch Out For In 2012

Posted on January 31, 2012 | No Comments

2011 was a year that saw many impressive returns, an abundance in high quality releases and a strong arrival of new bands that made the metal world take notice. There were also plenty of excellent bands that did not quite find the moment to capture...

This Is Hell – Black Mass

This Is Hell – Black Mass

Posted on January 19, 2012 | No Comments

This Is Hell have been formulating some remarkable hardcore/thrash metal for almost 8 years. They have been ringing the ears, as well as destroying amps in their hometown of Long Island, New York and across the globe. Ready to expose more of their musical talents...

Hawk Eyes – Mindhammers EP

Hawk Eyes – Mindhammers EP

Posted on January 9, 2012 | No Comments

If you’re an avid fan of the underground metal scene, you must have noticed that hardcore has made its long-awaited comeback. Covered in spit, sweat and blood, hardcore bands and their followers have been getting louder and louder in the dark and dingy gig holes...

Black Breath To Unleash Savage Second Album In March

Black Breath To Unleash Savage Second Album In March

Posted on January 7, 2012 | No Comments

Seattle’s barbaric wrecking crew Black Breath have completed their second LP and are preparing to fire it point blank into the public’s face this March. The forthcoming new platter, dubbed “Sentenced to Life,” is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the band’s raging 2010 debut album, “Heavy Breathing,”...

Southern Lord To Reissue Seminal Titles From Poison Idea

Southern Lord To Reissue Seminal Titles From Poison Idea

Posted on December 15, 2011 | No Comments

Southern Lord Recordings are proud to be officially re-releasing several incredible, seminal titles from Portland, Oregon’s explosive punk/hardcore kings, Poison Idea in 2012! Southern Lord will be releasing CD versions of several Poison Idea reissues that TKO Records are currently re-releasing on vinyl. All of the material...

Whitechapel – Recorrupted EP

Whitechapel – Recorrupted EP

Posted on November 23, 2011 | No Comments

My case with Whitechapel is that they are one of those bands that i hear good things about, like what I’ve heard, yet I never get around to giving them a proper amount of attention, so this EP has made a nice little introduction for me. The...

Andrè Suergiu of Gold Kids Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Andrè Suergiu of Gold Kids Talks To ThisIsNotAScene

Posted on October 5, 2011 | No Comments

ThisIsNotAScene‘s Mat Davies put a few questions to Gold Kids‘ vocalist Andrè Suergiu , after hearing and penning a rather favourable review of their “Ode To Youth” EP. They talked about the response to the EP, how Gold Kids got together, dream festival line-ups and much,...

All Pigs Must Die – God Is War

All Pigs Must Die – God Is War

Posted on September 17, 2011 | No Comments

This shit goes above and beyond. When the machines take over, John Connor and the resistance will be bumping All Pigs Must Die‘s “God is War” on a ghetto blaster. Four seasoned veterans of the hardcore scene unleash a non-stop torrent of addictive hate in...

Comply Or Die – Depths

Comply Or Die – Depths

Posted on September 13, 2011 | No Comments

“Depths” is the second full-length album from Belfast hardcore-punk-sludge trio Comply Or Die. The self-released album was unveiled on September 8th 2011 at a launch party, held at the Menagerie Bar in their home town of Belfast. Certainly, opener ‘Official Secrets’ very much draws on...

Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days In An Evil Age

Sleeping Giant – Kingdom Days In An Evil Age

Posted on August 18, 2011 | No Comments

From the opening brief, but urgent and thrusting, ‘Throne Room Militance’ Christian hardcore band Sleeping Giant show they are back with a third explosive slice of aggressive metal, with their new album “Kingdom Days In An Evil Age” via Ain’t No Grave Records. A bomb...

Irish Hardcore/Metal Bruisers Red Enemy Announce Debut EP And UK Tour

Posted on August 13, 2011 | No Comments

Red Enemy are a force to be reckoned with on their home turf with their blend of hardcore / technical metal, and are set to unleash their pummelling EP, ‘What We Are Contained In, Is What We Are Worth’, on the UK on 10 October.

Gacys Threads, Fragments, Dead ‘Til Friday & Splinters – Auntie Annie’s, Belfast

Gacys Threads, Fragments, Dead ‘Til Friday & Splinters – Auntie Annie’s, Belfast

Posted on August 12, 2011 | No Comments

It’s a typical summer evening in Belfast – grey skies, howling winds and the rain lashing down: however, no matter what is happening outside, a few dozen hardcore fans have gathered inside this cramped venue in the heart of the city’s main entertainment district. Relative...

Gold Kids – Ode to Youth

Gold Kids – Ode to Youth

Posted on August 5, 2011 | No Comments

They say that confession is good for the soul, so I should ‘fess up right now. I don’t actually like hardcore. There. I’ve said it. Nope, not really my cup of Jägermeister. It was, therefore, with some nervous trepidation that I came across the Gold...

S.O.S. – I Owe You Nothing

S.O.S. – I Owe You Nothing

Posted on July 13, 2011 | No Comments

S.O.S. has been a long time in the making. Featuring Terror’s Scott Vogel on vocals and Nick Jett on drums, Hatebreed bassist Chris Beattie, former Agnostic Front / Madball guitarist Matt Henderson and Sam Trapkin of Trapped Under Ice on guitars. After the idea had...

With One Last Breath – Self Titled EP/Hell We Create

With One Last Breath – Self Titled EP/Hell We Create

Posted on June 10, 2011 | No Comments

Making a stir since their beginning in 2008, York band With One Last Breath have been opening eyes and ears to their sound through live shows with the likes of Asking Alexandria, Bury Tomorrow, and Glamour Of The Kill, as well as with their debut EP...

Weekend Nachos – Worthless

Weekend Nachos – Worthless

Posted on May 27, 2011 | No Comments

Listening to the third album from Chicago’s Weekend Nachos results in feeling like a version of Edward Munch’s ‘The Scream’ as their sound leaves the immediate surrounding world suddenly unbalanced and shrieking with distraught submission. Though their name suggests some pop punk outfit with songs...

Adept – Death Dealers

Adept – Death Dealers

Posted on May 26, 2011 | No Comments

Progression and evolution are both essential for all bands hoping for a healthy career, though it also carries the risk of alienating already existing fans if that new direction is sudden or more than a gradual change. Swedish band Adept, with their latest album “Death...

As We Fight/The Psyke Project – Ebola

As We Fight/The Psyke Project – Ebola

Posted on May 21, 2011 | No Comments

Recalling the times when split albums featuring two artists were much more prevalent than now, Danish metal bands As We Fight and The Psyke Project join up to release “Ebola”. The album will be released as an extremely limited vinyl version containing 11 songs and...

At The Soundawn – Shifting

At The Soundawn – Shifting

Posted on May 19, 2011 | No Comments

Italian post-rock quintet At The Soundawn’s new album “Shifting” is a rather specific case because the band incorporates some – even for post-rock – unusual elements in their music. There are trumpet sounds, Arabian music (during the very good ‘Drifting Lights’), growls, screams, clean vocals...

Fortune Favours The Brave – Between The Bullets And The Bloodstains

Fortune Favours The Brave – Between The Bullets And The Bloodstains

Posted on May 14, 2011 | No Comments

“Between The Bullets and the Bloodstains” is the debut album from the Essex based quartet, Fortune Favours The Brave, who cite Killswitch Engage, Darkest Hour and Sikth as their main influences. Opening the album is ‘Declare’, an instrumental intro with strings and Jamie Tritton’s drums...