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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Magic Of Youth

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Magic Of Youth

Posted on January 14, 2012 | No Comments

Dickie Barrett and the seven other finely dressed chaps that make up The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are back with the ninth album in their long and distinguished career, “The Magic Of Youth.” This is the second album since the Boston skacore legends reformed in 2007...

Zaar – Abkehr

Posted on January 11, 2012 | No Comments

The bio of German band Zaar states: “We’re a collective of three musicians who are obsessed by music and art. The interest for all kinds of music, art in general and passions has led us to a project that is full of eagerness to experiment...

JuiceheaD – How To Sail A Sinking Ship

JuiceheaD – How To Sail A Sinking Ship

Posted on January 6, 2012 | No Comments

We’ve got to admit, there are certain factions holed up at TINAS Towers that are a bit partial to some old school power punk shenanigans. So when ‘How To Sail A Sinking Ship’, the latest album from Chicago upstarts JuiceheaD landed on our mat, we...

Smokey Bastard – Tales From The Wasteland

Smokey Bastard – Tales From The Wasteland

Posted on December 23, 2011 | No Comments

The excellently named Smokey Bastard are a folk punk band from Reading who have served up a treat of an album with their latest release “Tales From The Wasteland”. The seven piece of Macca (Vocals / Guitar / Mandolin), Mike (Vocals / Bass), Matt (Guitars...

The Shell Corporation – Force Majeure

The Shell Corporation – Force Majeure

Posted on December 19, 2011 | No Comments

The debut album from Californian punksters The Shell Corporation does not offer up too much in strongly original sounds or directions but it is one rather irresistible release that the more one listens to it the more it captivates and excites. Do not mistake the...

Black Cobra – Invernal

Black Cobra – Invernal

Posted on December 17, 2011 | No Comments

It has been ten years since Bay Area noise-mongers Black Cobra first began ripping faces off with their take on punk infused sludge/doom metal. The duo, consisting of Rafael Martinez and Jason Landrian, enlisted the help of Converge‘s Kurt Ballou and his God City Studios...

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...

Venom – Fallen Angels

Venom – Fallen Angels

Posted on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment

I love Venom. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love Venom, the band that single handedly and unintentionally created the genre we know as “black metal.” “Welcome to Hell,” Venom’s bold, coarse debut, introduced the world to Satan, and remains one of my favorite albums...

Shining – Live Blackjazz

Shining – Live Blackjazz

Posted on October 26, 2011 | No Comments

Not to be confused with the Swedish band of the same name, the Norwegian Shining on “Blackjazz” miraculously managed to fuse the ethic of punk, free form jazz, progressive rock and industrial into an extraordinary combination of violence and aggression within the context of multifaceted...

Authority Zero Announce Japanese Tour & Writing New Album

Posted on October 9, 2011 | No Comments

Authority Zero has announced the dates for their upcoming Japanese tour beginning November 22nd in Osaka, Japan.

Drive A – The World In Shambles

Drive A – The World In Shambles

Posted on September 28, 2011 | No Comments

Full of riffs and hooks you think you may have heard before but just cannot pin down when, where and by whom, the new album by Californians Drive A hits the ground running and gains pace track by track. Following up the 2009 debut album...

Discharge – Desensitise + War Is Hell

Discharge – Desensitise + War Is Hell

Posted on September 18, 2011 | No Comments

From the likes of Anthrax, Metallica, Napalm Death, Sepultura, Machine Head and Soulfly to lesser known bands such as Swedish hardcore punk band Mob 47, Canadian industrial band Monster Voodoo Machine, French doom/sludge band Monarch! and UK doom metal band Solstice, all have been influenced...

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...

Retox – Ugly Animals

Retox – Ugly Animals

Posted on August 14, 2011 | No Comments

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...

Steve Ignorant Announces Support Acts For The Final Show… Ever!

Posted on August 12, 2011 | No Comments

In November 2011 Steve Ignorant and his merry band of musicians comprising Gizz Butt (guitar), Pete Wilson (bass), Spike T Smith (drums) and Carol Hodge (vocals) will be performing the "Last Supper" for the last time, deliberately and significantly to be held once again at the 02 Shepherds Bush Empire.

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...

Goes Cube – In Tides And Drift

Goes Cube – In Tides And Drift

Posted on July 26, 2011 | No Comments

Taking grooves and turning them into living, driving, and compulsive entities is the trademark of Brooklyn metallers Goes Cube. They did it with previous album “Another Day Has Passed” and have continued the pattern on new album “In Tides And Drift” released via The End...

Cyvoid – Cyvoid

Cyvoid – Cyvoid

Posted on June 22, 2011 | No Comments

Leeds based band Cyvoid are supposedly a super group, though as a term it gives a lightweight impression as historically bands formed of illustrious musicians from other known bands seem to generally come together and end up creating music that is weak up against their...

Troubled Coast – Letters

Troubled Coast – Letters

Posted on June 11, 2011 | No Comments

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...

SSS – Problems To The Answer

SSS – Problems To The Answer

Posted on June 6, 2011 | No Comments

Quality, and plenty of it, is definitely a good basis for value for money and this is exactly what Liverpool’s SSS have delivered with their third album “Problems To The Answer”; every corner and space within it is jammed tight with 25 punk/metal/thrash crossover slices...