I’ve worked a few jobs across my twenty-two years of living, and my first and favorite role was a relatively straightforward one. Between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, I delivered papers around the neighborhood in which I lived, putting in a shift six days a week so that I could afford music magazines and CDs… Read More Record of the Day #15 – Trash Talk, Eyes & Nines
I’ll have to keep this one brief, like the actual record itself. Trap Them’s debut LP Sleepwell Deconstructor clocks in at just over twenty-one thunderous minutes, twelve tracks of gritty hardcore punk/grindcore/hardcore. However you want to classify it, it shreds, a devastating record produced by Converge’s own Kurt Ballou. This thing is fierce, and its a record… Read More Record of the Day #10 – Trap Them, Sleepwell Deconstructor
Emphatic and emotionally savage return to the scene from ex-Gallows vocalist. It’s very good to hear Frank Carter playing heavy music again, very good indeed. When Carter left Gallows in 2011 to pursue a different route it appeared that he’d perhaps turned away from the unbridled aggression that had helped to carry Gallows so far… Read More Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Blossom (Review)
I’ll listen to pretty much anything with Frank Turner’s name on it. He could play two seconds of the triangle on a twenty-minute track and I’d likely lap it up. I was a latecomer to the long-gone Million Dead, finding them long after their split after discovering Turner’s solo material, but I loved what I… Read More Möngöl Hörde – Möngöl Hörde (Self-Titled) [Review]
When Eyes & Nines dropped four years ago I was a lowly paper boy, wandering around my neighbourhood at six in the morning before school with a trolley full of newspapers and my iPod. I hated how mundane the task was, but music helped keep it interesting, if not bearable. I mention this strange bit… Read More Trash Talk – No Peace (Review)
Old Ivy are a Belgian five piece who play a style of hardcore you’ve probably heard before, maybe through the likes of Have Heart or Defeater. Hopefully name-dropping those two bands is enough to tickle your interest, and thankfully Old Ivy’s debut release is good enough to satisfy it. The vocals on The Greater Mind… Read More Old Ivy – The Greater Mind (Review)
I have the utmost respect for A Day To Remember and their efforts to stick it to the man and wade through legal battles in order to release and play music the way they want to, but also because when they hit their stride they’re one of the best bands around. They hit this stride… Read More A Day To Remember – Common Courtesy (Review)
It takes either ability or uniqueness to break through in the congested UK hardcore scene, with new bands emerging and competing on a daily basis. TRC have had both of the above for a few years now but have never really surfaced, remaining as primarily an underground band. ‘Nation’ should see that change because it’s… Read More TRC – Nation (Review)
I’ve been looking forward to this record, probably more than any other this year. ‘Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me’ has rarely left my record player over the last few weeks in anticipation of ‘Is Survived By’, which is released officially next Monday. Once again Touché Amoré don’t disappoint and their new release will… Read More Touché Amoré – Is Survived By (Review)
It’s been two years since the release of ‘Empty Days and Sleepless Nights’, an album that was 2/3 hardcore and 1/3 acoustic. Two years on Defeater are back with a release that is 100% gritty, passionate hardcore, with their third album; ‘Letters Home’. The release doesn’t cover any new ground in terms of its sound… Read More Defeater – Letters Home (Review)
The current post-hardcore scene is congested to say the least. Every day a new band emerges, bringing nothing new, and only adding to a sound that is replicated with every new release. In this sense, Gatherer don’t differ by a great deal, but follow the formula in a way that has still resulted in a solid album… Read More Gatherer – Caught Between A Rock And A Sad Place (Review)
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