Pay No Respect – Moving On (Case 5)

Pay No Respect – Moving On (Code 5) Release Date – August 16th Genre – Hardcore Rating 4 / 5 This beast has been lurking in the dark of my iPod for the past week, just biding its time, patiently waiting for the moment that I’d press play and it would come bursting out the [...]

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing Review

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing – Southern Lord Release Date – March 29th Genre – Metal / Hardcore / Punk Rating 4.5 / 5 Ok, so we’re in June and this came out in March but this bad boy must have sneaked its way past me. Thankfully all is not lost as it has now [...]

Here Lies Affliction – Catharsis Review

Regular visitors to Rocksins might remember early in 2010 I wrote an article about “10 up and coming british bands you need to hear“. If you don’t remember, or didn’t see it, read it by clicking on the title. One of the bands mentioned in that article were Harrow/Hillingdon hardcore metal collective Here Lies Affliction, [...]

The Smoking Hearts – Pride Of Nowhere

Clocking in at an impressively zippy 29ish mins, The Smoking Hearts debut kicks off and doesn’t let up until the final slide of ‘Message in a Molotov’. It’s like an uninvited party crasher, opening track ‘Pride of Nowhere’ with its pick scrapes and feedback rattles your front door before the rest of the album crashes [...]

Converge – Axe To Fall Review

It’s difficult to describe the sound of Converge. From their first inception almost 20 years ago they have been producing aggressive music and never swaying from their initial vision. Whereas many bands deliver the standard pre release boasting about how ‘the new album is far heavier, our best work yet, the album we’ve always wanted [...]

Jesaiah – Et Tu, Hope

Jesaiah are a swedish based hardcore metal band who hooked up in 2006, but have untill now found the thought of putting an album down intimidating. The band wanted to make an album that was diverse, but would hold together. They collaborated for the first time with a producer to create Et Tu, Hope which [...]