Black Peaks – ‘Crooks’ [Review]

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Whenever I listen to Black Peaks, I wind up with a massive grin splitting my face like a Halloween pumpkin. Their Closer To The Sun EP has been played so many times at TMMP HQ that I’m sure the ones and zeroes are starting to wear out, and the more recent Glass Built Castles pushed things even further toward trance-inducing bliss overload.

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Posted on 28 April 2015

From Ashes To New – ‘Downfall EP’ [Review]

Fans of metal mixed with hip-hop are going to fucking love this EP. Fat, slick, sharp and intense in equal measure, Downfall contains four fully arena-ready anthems sure to get fans of Enter Shikari, Hacktivist, and recent Ashes To New tourmates Hollywood Undead bobbing their heads under headphones.

Title track Downfall doesn’t mess about and sticks Read more…

Posted on 27 April 2015

Employed To Serve – ‘Greyer Than You Remember’ [Review]

I’m writing these words on a cloudless spring day. My laptop is on a table on a freshly swept patio, and birds are chirping happily in the trees. My neighbours are playing fetch with their dog.

Greyer Than You Remember is not an appropriate soundtrack for this.

Calling this album chaotic would be Read more…

Posted on 26 April 2015

Prolong The Agony – ‘All We Are’

Although metal and hardcore are undoubtedly badass, being cold, aloof, and misanthropic has become dishearteningly trendy amongst fans of said styles. Disconnection, antisocial attitudes, and civil wars are very common within those corners of the music world – and let’s be honest, most of it is the result of Read more…

Posted on 19 April 2015

Burials – ‘Gloaming’ [Review]

If your face is feeling too solid for your liking, this is the track you need to get it melted off. This is about as far from chirpy, cheeky and cheerful as you could ever hope to get. Read more…

Posted on 16 April 2015

Outside The Coma – ‘Nosebleed’ [Review]

Although their name may be unfamiliar, Outside The Coma are not a new band. Rather, they’re a renamed version of Outpatients – the brainchild of SikTh vocalist Mikee Goodman, quirky Japanese singer Yuuri B Joux, and a set of Read more…

Posted on 13 April 2015

Palm Reader – ‘Beside The Ones We Love’ [Review]

Palm Reader don’t deal in niceties. Where some of their peers might opt for an expansive, solemn intro in order to lull listeners into a false sense of security, Palm Reader give it ten seconds before going straight for the throat. From there, I Watch The Fire Chase My Tongue starts proceedings as Palm Reader mean to go on – with a good metric fuckton of math-ridden, Dillinger Escape Plan-inspired brutality.

Beside The Ones We Love is the sound of a band shoving impatiently against its own limits – and then Read more…

Posted on 09 April 2015