rock/metal
News: Butcher Babies Announce European Tour
It’s been 2 years since metal outfit Butcher Babies did a full circle UK tour, aside from their festival appearances in Europe last summer they’ve been itching to get back to UK shores. Special guests at all shows will be fellow female fronted band Sumo Cyco and you can see full dates below. Vocalist Heidi …
Not Forgotten: Comus – First Utterance
I first became aware of Comus back in early 1996, when First Utterance enjoyed its first foray onto CD. Described by a reliable publication as “Freaky Folk Prog”, the largely acoustic music, idiosyncratic vocals and traditional instruments sounded right up my particular strata. Sadly I was a penniless student at the time, so intrigued was …
Album Review: Black Tusk – Pillars of Ash
Pillars of Ash is the fifth album from Savannah, Georgia metal band Black Tusk. Released via Relapse Record the band’s latest effort combines elements of heavy metal, sludge and hard-core punk creating their own blend of what the band calls “Swamp metal”. Despite the filth encrusted sludge style of production this record has a real …
Live Review: Mayday Parade, Leeds University Stylus, 6.2.16
Tonight in the University Stylus is a bill that provides Leeds’ Saturday night crowd with several different strains of emo, depending on your taste. Beautiful Bodies are up first, feeling almost like they’re stuck in 2009. However their set is vibrant and pop-fuelled, and its undeniably fun with frontwoman Alicia Solombrino throwing shapes and spending …
See: Love Buzzard release new video for Cash
Filthy riffs and sordid drums lay the foundations for Love Buzzard, a London based band that we just can’t stop listening to. The band have been going strong for three years, and after support slots with Cerebral Ballzy, Slaves and God Damn, their debut album Antifistamines (due for release 12.2.16) contains the same amount of …
News: Letlive. Announce UK Tour In April
Letlive. have announced a UK tour! This April, the post-hardcore outfit will hit four venues over here, before heading out for a short time to Europe. These include three dates in London, and one at Manchester’s Sound Control. Their new album is set for release in the summer, so this will be the band’s first …
Live: Bowling For Soup, Leeds O2 Academy, 3.2.16
‘Hey, we’re Bowling For Soup, the band you can wave at!’ As the time gets to about February, the excitement of Christmas has subsided somewhat and spring is just around the corner- yet winter still seems to be going on forever. So what better to take your mind off those winter blues, than spending the …
Box set review: Skeletal Family- Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Demos 1982-2015
The Skeletal Family were part of the Goth sub-culture that sprang up in the 1980s but they were never really in the movement’s first division like The Sisters of Mercy or The Mission. But their unique selling point was they had a female singer Anne-Marie Hurst and it is her powerful vocals, with more than …
Meet: Bowling For Soup interview, Leeds, 3.2.16
Bowling For Soup have become somewhat of a household name in terms of the rock scene in the past two decades; if pop-punk were a food chain, Bowling For Soup would most definitely be at the top, sporting a dick joke or two with a plethora of catchy hooks in tow. It’s not long since …
Interview: The Dollyrots, Leeds, 3/2/16
Throughout over fifeen years of being in a band, Kelly and Luis of the Dollyrots seem to have developed quite the interesting and unique way of doing things. It’s Wednesday evening and we sit in their dressing room before the third show on the Bowling For Soup tour- we sit with their drummer Rikki, their …