Single Review: Blood Command – Cult Drugs
Norway is a place with a defiant, intriguing musical history. Home to some intense conduct in the shape of Kvelertak, Darkthrone, and Tiger Fysisk Format labelmates Jagged Vision, as well….
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Single Review: Jet Rewind – Someone Else
The other day I was waiting for a bus. I didn’t have my headphones with me, and I had no data left to gawp at the internet, so I was….
Album Review: A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
Back in 1985 two friends from Queens chose to make new rap by unconventional means. Yes, A Tribe Called Quest were unlike other rappers, they had conscience and class and….
EP Review: Dirty Saint – Professional Beggar
Sassy, shade-sporting, wide-stanced gunslingers Dirty Saint relocated from their native Auckland to England because of increasing demand for their product, which is a productive and enviable state of affairs seldom….
Album Review: The Devil Wears Prada – 8:18
Christian metalcore, as a genre, has no shortage of detractors. Many source its fundamental unlikeability to its implied, often third-tier piety and identikit nature. Today, let’s put all that to….
Album Review: Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
As a hate figure for the easily outraged, Destiny Hope Cyrus has excelled. Number 1 album and singles on both sides of the pond, with every foul husk in the….
Review: Middleman – Counterstep
Leeds-based quartet Middleman are a bit dangerous. Having every track on your new album licensed out to adverts is rare, especially an album that’s an amalgam of electrock, rapcore, dubstep….
EP Review: Cordelaine Giant – Self Titled
London two piece Cordelaine Giant are developing at pace. Their beautifully packaged 4 track EP was partially funded through that most modern of devices, Kickstarter, as was the video that….
Album Review: Jahmene Douglas – Love Never Fails
X-Factor runner up (second is first after first!) Jahmene Douglas has overcome confidence issues, himself and his detractors to release this albums of covers. In keeping with the tradition of….
Review: Crossfaith – Apocalypse
2006 saw the birth of Japanese electro-metalcore pounders Crossfaith. Since their inception they’ve developed a sound previously under-used in their native land, bringing their bleeping malice to the world at….