Reviews Album review: Cold Steel – Discipline & Punish New kids on the Tampa Bay block Cold Steel revive hardcore thrash on likably hard-as-nails debut.
Reviews Album review: Drain – …Is Your Friend Spinkicks, stage dives and a whole lotta love: Drain cement their status as the Nicest Band In Hardcore with third album …Is Your Friend.
Reviews Album review: Bloom – The Light We Chase Aussie melodic hardcore band Bloom threw themselves out into the international scene with 2024 debut Maybe In Another Life – and are exploring some new sounds on its follow-up…
Reviews Album review: Serj Tankian – Covers, Collaborations & Collages System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian shares a sonic scrapbook spanning the far recesses of his creativity, with varying results.
Reviews Album review: Spite – NEW WORLD KILLER Neck braces at the ready! A predictably chunky exercise in breathless brutality from Californian quartet Spite on album number five.
Reviews Album review: Mastiff – For All The Dead Dreams Hull’s most vicious band Mastiff serve up a healthy dose of brutally charged sludge.
Reviews Album review: Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death Carry on screaming! Creeper return with their fangs on full display for bigger, brassier, bloodier Sanguivore sequel.
Reviews Album review: Avatar – Don’t Go In The Forest Swedish metal jesters Avatar hit double figures in macabre, OTT style on raucous new album.
Reviews EP review: Trivium – Struck Dead Trivium breathe fire and go metal thrashing mad on short, sharp EP, Struck Dead.
Reviews Album review: Unprocessed – Angel German metalcore underdogs Unprocessed throw every dart from their armoury at sixth album – and most of them stick.
Reviews Album review: Witch Fever – FEVEREATEN Join the coven! Witch Fever’s magnificent second album throws more styles into the cauldron, and the result is enrapturing.
Reviews Album review: Taylor Acorn – Poster Child Taylor Acorn delves into chronic people-pleasing, addictive chaos and the importance of self-love on her debut album as a label signee.
Reviews Album review: Mammoth – The End Wolfgang Van Halen’s solo vehicle powers through the gears with another set of pumped-up guitar-rich rock tunes.
Reviews Album review: Conjurer – Unself Remember why you got so excited about Conjurer? That’s back, but even more so, on heavy, emotional and brilliant third album, Unself.
Reviews Album review: GG Magree – Spit Love Ever plugged in a guitar at the club? GG Magree’s doing just that, and she’s made genre-splicing fresh again in the process.
Reviews Album review: VOWWS – I’ll Fill Your House With An Army Gloomy, synthy duo VOWWS strike the right balance on eerie third album, I’ll Fill Your House With An Army.
