Post Hardcore Archive



ThisIsNotAScene’s Ones To Watch Out For In 2012

 ThisIsNotAScene’s Ones To Watch Out For In 2012 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...

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Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood Of Colour

 Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood Of Colour File this one under “guilty pleasures”. St Albans based post-hardcore outfit Enter Shikari garners praise and sheer loathing in equal measure. They’re especially popular among the hipster youth. Let’s see what the fuzz is all about this band and their third album, entitled “A Flash...

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The Perfect Crime Offer Debut Album For £1

British progressive post-hardcore band, The Perfect Crime are celebrating the first anniversary of their debut full-length release "Everything Else Can Wait" by selling it for just £1 on the bandcamp page!

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News From The Northern Ireland Scene

Mark Asbhy gives us an update on all the happenings in the Northern Ireland scene, including: Trucker Diablo, Sweet Savage, Gacys Threads and many more...

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Retox – Ugly Animals

 Retox – Ugly Animals Southern California band Retox has triggered an enthused excitement in the three months, as short and as blistering as their songs, since their live debut. The fact that a couple of the band also grace The Locust was an intriguing invite to check out the...

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Sleeping With Sirens – Let’s Cheers to This

 Sleeping With Sirens – Let’s Cheers to This The debut album “With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear”, from Florida post hardcore band Sleeping With Sirens, though receiving a mixed response certainly put the band on the map, its solid if formulaic sound stirring a reaction from most. With the release of...

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Holding Sand – On Sleepless Nights EP

 Holding Sand – On Sleepless Nights EP From their beginnings in 2007 French melodic hardcore band Holding Sand has steadily been winning over more and more people and on the back of their debut EP “Ebb & Flow” , a 25 date tour around France, and this, the “On Sleepless Nights EP”, ...

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Troubled Coast – Letters

 Troubled Coast – Letters Between their beginnings in 2009 and this their new album, Californian band Troubled Coast showed much promise with their debut “Vagabonds EP” and mini album “100 Miles From Home”. Now, new release “Letters” stands tall in the aim of furthering their sound and realising that...

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We Are The Ocean – Go Now And Live

 We Are The Ocean – Go Now And Live When London band We Are The Ocean began in 2007 and certainly upon the release of their debut album “Cutting Our Teeth” last year, every review and piece written about them never failed to bring up a comparison and the closeness in sound to Canadian...

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wearewolf – Beginnings

 wearewolf – Beginnings The post hardcore scene is currently littered with bands that, despite an undoubted musical proficiency, simply fall into the same pool of formulaic sound. Strong riffs under creative guitar play, coated in rough shouts alongside whiny clingy clean vocals, and in the worst examples of...

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At The Soundawn – Shifting

 At The Soundawn – Shifting 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...

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The Color Morale – My Devil In Your Eyes

 The Color Morale – My Devil In Your Eyes Any metal release worth its salt, whatever genre it swings the first blow from, should hit hard upon the opening bleedings of sound and the second album from Illinois band The Color Morale is thankfully no exception. ‘My Devil In Your Eyes’ consists of big...

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The Chariot, MyChildren MyBride & Galleons at Rock City, Nottingham

 The Chariot, MyChildren MyBride & Galleons at Rock City, Nottingham Two very different tribes descended upon Rock City on Saturday 19th March 2011 with a distinct dividing line keeping to two apart. The hordes of red and black face painted metal warriors frothing at the mouth to feel the wrath of finish battle metallers Turisas...

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The Perfect Crime stream entire album ‘Everything Else Can Wait’ on MySpace

The Perfect Crime stream the entire album 'Everything Else Can Wait' on their MySpace page.

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Memphis May Fire Release ‘The Hollow’ 2nd May 2011 On Rise Records

Memphis May Fire Release ‘The Hollow’ 2nd May 2011 On Rise Records

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Cyclamen – Senjyu

 Cyclamen – Senjyu Hayato Imanishi, returns with the eagerly awaited debut Cyclamen album, “Senjyu”. Fresh from the success of “Dreamers 2010” EP, Cyclamen have been steadily growing an underground following across the globe.  From the early beginnings as a solo project in a bedroom, Cyclamen has evolved into...

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ACODA – Finding Your Feet

 ACODA – Finding Your Feet Part of the burgeoning UK metal underground, Northamptonshire’s melodic post-hardcore quartet, ACODA, release their their new single ‘Finding Your Feet’ through Small Town Records on 27th September 2010. Since their inception in 2008, ACODA have lived up to their mission of writing great songs with...

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Amia Venera Landscape – Amia Venera Landscape EP

 Amia Venera Landscape – Amia Venera Landscape EP Discovering 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...

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The Perfect Crime – Everything Else Can Wait

 The Perfect Crime – Everything Else Can Wait The small, leafy town of St. Neots in Cambridgeshire is famous for… Well, it’s not actually famous for anything but that may be about the change, certainly if progressive post-hardcore band, The Perfect Crime have anything to do with it! After the relative success of...

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