Following on from another Sam, Sam Savigny, kickstarting the Rock Sins End Of Year Awards for 2018, it’s now the turn of another Sam, Sam Dignon, to pick their favourites (and disappointments) for the year. We begin with Sam’s album of the year…. Album of the Year: Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make…
Continuing the rundown of all the action from Donington from Middle Saturday, we’ve got the considerable highlights of Download 2018’s smallest two stages from Middle Saturday. Read on for what we witnessed at The Avalanche Stage and The Dogtooth Stage, including THAT UK live debut from The Fever 333. In addition, if you’ve missed any…
Bands doing shows with orchestras seems to have become an increasingly popular in recent years. But there are few that feel like such a natural fit than when Evanescence announced they were re-recording songs with a full orchestra. The album Synthesis released late last year and saw the band re-imagine several of their songs in a fantastic…
Burn Forever is the debut EP from Lowlives, who despite being a new band are far from inexperienced. Featuring former members of The Defiled, No Devotion and The Ataris it’s easy to understand why this band have already caught a lot of attention already The EP opens with the title track, greeting us with some screeching feedback before the first riff…
Palm Reader have spent most of the last six years being one of the UK’s most exciting bands but never getting the recognition for it. Their first two albums were brilliant and their live shows were always fantastic but it just never seemed to connect with people. Then this year their latest album Braille finally grabbed peoples attention,…
Word of mouth surrounding The Fever 333 (10) has been spreading like wildfire. With just an EP out and a single UK show, the band managed to sell out the Islington Academy in 3 days. With this sort of buzz it is easy to write it all off as nothing more than hype if the band couldn’t…
With Earthbound it felt like Bury Tomorrow took a huge leap forward with their sound. Whilst the band have certainly been popular within the UK metalcore scene over the last few years they’ve never quite reached the levels of praised awarded to the likes of Architects or While She Sleeps. That album was certainly the closest they cam and now with Black…
Ska-punk is a genre that many people will tell you is dead. With the genre far from the height of popularity it once had, it’s now just seen as a nostalgia thing. So when The Interrupters released their second album Say It Out Loud in 2016 it felt like a real breath of fresh air….
Slam Dunk Festival once again returned to Hatfield bringing along all the pop-punk, metalcore and ska fans have come to expect. The 2018 edition marks the first time the festival has moved to a new site at Hatfield House. Moving to a larger outdoor setting was already an improvement as it meant all the chokepoints and…
The last weekend of May is fast approaching which means two things. It’s another bank holiday and Slam Dunk Festival is on the way. One of the major highlights of the musical calendar and always a great way to kick off the Festival season proper. This years lineup is an all-star occasion and is so…
Few bands in heavy music are as polarising right now as Code Orange. Love them or hate them it feels like almost everyone interested in heavy music has something to say about them. At the centre of it all is Jami Morgan (drums/vocals) who is effectively the spokesperson for the band. His brash and confident attitude divides opinions…
Nowadays it’s common for albums to have an excessive amount of time dedicated to pre-release hype. The teaser of an announcement, the first single and the actual announcement are all steps in this excessively long process. This makes it so refreshing when a band completely scraps this process and just drops a surprise album. Which…
