rock/metal
Album Review: Various Artists – Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980
The very idea of an introductory Krautrock compilation is a tricky one. As the liner notes themselves acknowledge, the genre (if you can even call it that) has been sliced, debated, and redefined in countless ways over the years, with the likes of Julian Cope’s Krautrocksampler and Crack in the Cosmic Egg both mythologizing and …
News: fortress festival 2025 is officially sold out
FORTRESS FESTIVAL 2025 Officially SOLD OUT! Among the headliners of the biggest black metal event in the UK will be Agalloch with an exclusive 2025 European show Still to be announced: speakers for Fortress Forum, the festival’s industry side-programme Fortress Festival, the biggest black metal event in the UK, which will take place on 31 …
album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.
This is an album of absolute luxury. Each track on ‘The Melancholy Season’ is decadent and opulent, the vocals from Tench are soothing and velvety throughout while the strings that accompany the vocals are mesmerising and tranquil, all which intertwine with the other elements to envelop the listener in swathes of cascading and lapping tides …
album review: the wildhearts – satanic rites of the wildhearts
The Wildhearts are back with an absolute barnstormer of an album, ‘The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts’, and it is a belter. The album has it all and progresses through a soundscape of rock and roll which is endearing and mesmeric with overflowing addictive qualities. Gingers voice exhibits numerous qualities which are transferred across the …
live review: the wildhearts, jim jones allstars, dirt box disco. the leadmill, sheffield. 07/03/2025
Unfortunately due to an epic equipment failure I came away from tonight’s gig without any salvageable shots but, as the old saying goes, the show must go on. So sit back, put your feet up, and enjoy these words which I’ve put together to try and encapsulate the absolutely energetic carnage that Ginger et al …
Track: Cwfen Announce Debut Album ‘Sorrows’ Via New Heavy Sounds; Listen To New Single ‘Wolfsbane’
There are two kinds of heavy bands: the ones that make a lot of noise and the ones that drag you somewhere you didn’t know you needed to go. Cwfen (pronounced ‘Coven’) are the latter, and Sorrows is a record that doesn’t just crush – it haunts long after the final note. The allure of Cwfen’s sound lies …
Track: Thornhill Share Final Preview of New Album ‘Bodies’ with Single ‘Tongues’
Thornhill Set for North American Tour Following ‘Bodies’ Release
Live Review & Gallery: Nine Bands, One Unrelenting Day at New Bloom Festival – Roundhouse, Eora Land/Sydney, 09.03.25
Nine bands and thousands of punters, all more than willing to throw (nay, hurl) themselves headfirst into a day of hardcore goodness. From the jump, the crowd was locked in, staking claim at the barricade and backing our local openers without hesitation. Newcastle’s Feel the Pain set the tone with metallic hardcore that didn’t so …
Track: Daybreakers – Turn Up The Silence
The Daybreakers were formed in during lockdown by Irish /Jamaican producer and songwriter Aidan Connell; who’s skills have been sought by artists such as Gary Clark Jr, Mazzy Star and Seasick Steve among many others. The band’s latest offering, ‘Turn Up The Silence,’ takes a knowing side swipe at blind conformity and unjust accepted norms. The narrative, vocals, infectious guitar riff, and thundering …
News: Dying Wish – I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)
Portland’s Dying Wish are blowing the door off 2025’s hinges with the explosive video for the standalone new single ‘I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)’, produced by Will Putney. The song is truly next level for the band, as it finds singer Emma Boster reaching new melodic heights, while delivering screams that sound as if they scaled the depths …