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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Former Cell Mates – Presented As A Work of Fiction
Posted on June 2, 2011 | No Comments
The third full-length offering from Former Cell Mates sees the Sunderland band revert back to a three-piece, ala 2005 debut “Hustle”. Since 2008′s sophomore effort, “Who’s Dead and What’s to Pay?” guitarist Greg Robson and (original) drummer Neil Bassett have departed. Bass player Dave Lyon...
Living With Lions – Holy Shit
Posted on May 31, 2011 | No Comments
Wrapped in controversy, the new release from Vancouver band Living With Lions will be already in the awareness of others though for the wrong reasons. Thankfully the band, with new album “Holy Shit”, deliver much more than just the ability to unintentionally upset some people,...
Our Time Down Here – Last Light
Posted on May 30, 2011 | No Comments
With a bang, returns Southampton’s Our Time Down Here, their hardcore sound ready to strip you down and frisk you with straight up energized punk rock. “Last Light” is the bands new EP, following on from their self-titled album and the “Live, Love, Let Go...