Put past and present members of Betraying the Martyrs, Uneven Structure, Novelists FR and Kadinja together and what do you get? One mighty tempest of sound and carnivorous temptation with a debut EP is the answer. Downer: Part 1 is… Read More ›
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Chasing Dragons – Faction:Prologue
Almost two years on from their forcibly impressive Checkmate EP, UK alt-metal quartet Chasing Dragons unleash its equally striking and rousing successor, the Faction:Prologue EP. The three track roar is a teaser to a forthcoming album from the Yorkshire hailing… Read More ›
The Order of Elijah – War At Heart
In sound and word there is a real bite to War At Heart, the new album from US Christian metallers The Order of Elijah, which makes you pay attention. It is an unpredictable cauldron of varied metal bred flavours which… Read More ›
Whisper of Death – Noise of Obstinacy
Noise of Obstinacy is an album which if you are in the mind to, you can pick at for its lack of real originality and at times over reliance of certain sounds and textures within its ten ravenous offerings, but… Read More ›
Concepts – Transitions
Quite simply Transitions is the post-hardcore equivalent of popping candy; place it in the ears and it can seduce with a melodic calm and elegance which whets the appetite and then erupt in a tempestuous carnage of aggressive flavours and… Read More ›
Zapruder – Fall in Line
It may be titled Fall in Line, but the debut album from French band Zapruder does everything but that with its rigorously unpredictable and exhaustingly diverse sound. The release is made up by a collection of tracks which are as… Read More ›
When We Were Wolves – Heartless
At the end of our review of the deeply pleasing The More Things Change, The More We Stay The Same EP from Welsh post hardcore band When We Were Wolves, we added that this was “still a band in the… Read More ›
WHEN WE WERE WOLVES reveal their ‘Heartless’, on 22nd September
EXCITING SOPHMORE EP FROM WHEN WERE WOLVES RELEASED AND UK TOUR ANNOUNCED! ‘The Welsh quintet hold nothing back here, ensuring that their heavy parts are scathingly so and imbuing their melodies with heart-rending ethereal grace’ KKKK Kerrang! Impressive South Wales Post-Hardcore… Read More ›
Betraying The Martyrs – Phantom
As undeniably compelling as it is, Phantom the new album from Betraying The Martyrs is also a bit of an odd beast to digest and get excited about. At times it roars with an invention which sends tingles down the… Read More ›
The Betrayer’s Judgement – Philosopher
Engulfed in plenty of acclaim and promise, French hardcore/djent quintet The Betrayer’s Judgement unleashes their next slice of carnivorous invention with the Philosopher EP. It is a rampant and predacious force of imagination and enterprise with a hungry energy to… Read More ›