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Touché Amoré – Is Survived By
Following on from a series of strong split releases, L.A.'s most inviting hardcore outfit make their highly anticipated return. Less immediate than their 201... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Church of Noise – August 2013
This month opens with a couple of prolific acts – it's a pretty big deal, really. First, U.S. sludge masters Eyehategod take to Ivory Blacks with brood... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Holy Mountain – Ancient Astronauts
Glasgow-based hard rock trio Holy Mountain turn the psych-factor up to eleven on their latest release; there's a noticeably extended sense of scope on this f... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Liturgy – The Ark Work
Liturgy faced both praise and ridicule back in 2011 with the publicity surrounding Aesthetica, an LP that strengthened the quartet's hyper-intense fusion of ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Mastodon: “It's refreshing to be a little childish"
In 2009, heavyweight Atlantan riffologists Mastodon released Crack the Skye – an epic and emotionally exhausting affair, envisioned as a complete work ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Salò / Hunt/Gather / What the Blood Revealed @ Captain's Rest, 3 October
Irvine's What the Blood Revealed open up a ferocious evening of post-hardcore with their moody take on instrumental rock. Borrowing the well-tested loud/quie... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Hawk Eyes – Ideas
It's safe to assume that Hawk Eyes (formerly Chickenhawk) hold the mighty riff close to their hearts; the Leeds quartet relentlessly work through dozens of c... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
You'll have a pretty solid idea of what to expect from the second half of Earth's latest opus if you've been paying any attention to their output over the pa... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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United Fruit @ King Tut's, 16 January
After an acoustic warm-up session in the downstairs bar from Jonathan Snee (Flood of Red), Kings Tut's New Years Revolution series continues with a set from ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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The Metal Column – January 2012
Aye, aye – so a new year means new beginnings, the kicking of old habits and the setting of goals, but let's just put the unrealistic stuff aside for t... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Napalm Death – Utilitarian
It's tempting to downplay Napalm Death's significance in the world of extreme metal: we're almost at a point where we're dismissing the granddaddies of grind... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Vakunøht – Gagarin's Start
Former members of Senator and Bangtwister weave psychedelic tales of space travel, mysterious transcripts and alien parasites on this debut as, essentially a... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Mastodon/The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Barrowlands, 7 February
It's safe to say that The Dillinger Escape Plan have played a significant part in selling out tonight's show; a touch of anxiety lingers before the inevitabl... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Necro Deathmort – The Colonial Script
Imperial, the opener to Necro Deathmort's third longplayer, seeks to bewilder and confuse with an array of scattered laptop beats before giving way to the bl... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Metallic Taste of Blood – Metallic Taste of Blood
Metallic Taste of Blood are a multicultural collective of semi-familiar faces whose eponymous debut curiously fuses together elements of prog, dub, math-ro... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
Restraint isn't a quality you'd expect to find in any progressive rock band, especially not The Mars Volta; it just doesn't seem to fit. The band's previo... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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The Metal Column – July 2012
It's easy to forget that summer doesn't always have to be about twee pop, ice lollies and daisy chains – you'd need to look beneath the surface to un... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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The Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Meshuggah @ The Garage, 15 April
Devout fans of tonight's headliners give We Are Knuckle Dragger a hard time for their rawer, relatively less technical sound, but they sure as hell get the ... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Chomp – Buddha Jabba Momma
Most notable for playing in Cloud Nothings, Joe Boyer and Jason Gerycz pound out accelerated power-pop alongside Chris Brown (from Total Babes, that is, no... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Dirty Dozen – July 2012
Single of the month: Real Estate – Exactly Nothing (Domino, 2 Jul) Keith Morris: This is Real Estate? I've seen them play. They were actually one of t... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Darsombra – Climax Community
“Audiovisual” duo Brian Daniloski and Ann Everton cram in early Earth worship, swelling ambience and disturbing vocal chants into Roaming the P... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Obelyskkh – White Lightnin'
There's simply no room left in the metal arena for a textbook approach to doom anymore. Thankfully, the sub-genre has split itself up into further factions o... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Menomena / Empty Pools @ Nice N' Sleazy, 23 November
With their slightly off-kilter approach to indie rock songwriting, Bristol's Empty Pools are right at home on tonight's bill. With a sound that's less predi... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Menomena – Moms
Menomena's fifth album follows the departure of co-founder Brent Knopf from the Portland outfit; commendable, then, that remaining members Justin Harris ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Cuddly Shark – Body Mass Index EP
As the name implies, Cuddly Shark are as adorable as they are frenzied and ruthless. The Elgin trio follow up their smashing self-titled debut with this st... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Rebekka Karijord – We Become Ourselves
It's the female singer-songwriter cliché: Rebekka Karijord's soul is laid bare on her fourth LP. The icy Scandinavian atmosphere of these songs will... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Scholars – Always Lead, Never Follow
Scholars' long-delayed debut has a simple mission statement: rock out and get out. Each track carries the high-energy of heyday American skate punk, but fron... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Phoenix's first LP in four years promises more experimentation than on their breakthrough, 2009's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and sure, there's a few chan... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Biffy Clyro – Opposites
Double albums are usually a daunting prospect for musicians and listeners alike, but it's a move that makes sense for Biffy Clyro, an outfit who went from ma... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago