Capsize – ‘A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All That Surrounds Me’ [Review]

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Hardcore is all about catharsis. Fulfilling a desire to get emotionally difficult experiences out there, rather than keeping it in your own head. Expressing, not repressing.

A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All That Surrounds Me sees Capsize vocalist Daniel Wand exorcise his personal demons on record, employing a freshly expanded palette of vocal techniques while his bandmates plough through some seriously uncompromising tracks. This album is a far cry from Capsize’s debut The Angst In My Veins, where clicky kick drums, nonstop screaming, and unrelenting intensity added up to a stock one-dimensional hardcore rampage Read more…

Posted on 20 July 2016

Lock & Key – ‘Peaceless’ [Review]

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When it comes to blistering, brutal, and bruising hardcore, Lock & Key have what it takes to get you in the mood for a hectic circle pit, no matter the time of day. Peaceless is one hell of a breathless trip through…well…hell. It’s not the most nicey-nicey album in the world, put it that way.

Peaceless ticks all the batshit-insane-hardcore boxes: punishing riffs, barbaric beatdowns, throat-ripping screams, and enough melodic content to keep things from becoming too bleak. If that’s Read more…

Posted on 17 April 2016

The Hyena Kill – ‘Atomised’ [Review]

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Let’s get the lazy comparison part of this review out of the way first. To my ears, on Atomised The Hyena Kill often sound like the next Royal Blood.

But, at the same time, that tag alone doesn’t do them justice.

The Hyena Kill – comprised of guitarist/vocalist Steven Dobb and pneumatic-limbed drummer Lorna Blundell – deal in hectic, raw, vitally energetic and punk-edged rock songs. Atomised sounds monolithic, a feral and Read more…

Posted on 13 April 2016

Visions – ‘Shake The Earth’ [Review]

It may be almost April, but with Visions’ new album wrapped up in my inbox, it feels like Christmas again.

Listening to Shake The Earth unpack itself is an absolute pleasure. It may be covered in scalpel-sharp spikes on the surface, but there’s plenty of substantive, tasty, bass-flavoured cake under the none-more-black icing and razor-edged tech-metal decorations. Modern metal bands often forget that there’s more to a mix than just a knob marked “TREBLE,” a fader marked “VOLUME,” and an onscreen icon labelled “COMPRESSION,” but Visions avoid that particular pitfall.

The probably-Home–Alone­-inspired Wet Bandits Read more…

Posted on 24 March 2016

Create To Inspire – ‘Home Is Where My Heart Dies’ [Review]

It’s 2016, and attention spans are at an all time low. We don’t want to wait for great stuff to happen; we need it immediately.

There are positive and negative points to this fact – but one major plus point is that it forces creatives to get to the point without faffing around.

Clocking in at just under fourteen minutes, Home Is Where My Heart Dies is an EP custom-made for Read more…

Posted on 15 March 2016