It’s a Saturday night in 2024 and based on tonight’s lineup and the sold out crowd it seems that Nu Metal is very much alive and thriving, a 4 band bill, cheap tickets and 2001 merch prices. What more could you ask for? This evening’s show is headlined by Soil supported by a lively undercard…
The last decade of Body Counts already storied career has seen the band release a string of albums that is heavier and more extreme than the one prior to it. The music career of Ice-T either solo or with Body Count has always been reflective of the world around us. It speaks volumes then to…
It’s been 7 years since the world has had new music from Linkin Park. In the aftermath of the tragic passing of Chester Bennington in 2017, it felt like this day may never come. Hitting play on a new Linkin Park album in 2024 is a very surreal experience. In the lead up to the…
In 1979 Gary Numan helped to revolutionise electronic music, as the driving force behind two groundbreaking albums Replicas by his then band Tubeway Army & his debut solo album The Pleasure Principle, which were released within 6 months of each other. Flash forward 45 years and we are gathered here at a sold out Roundhouse…
A prolonged absence is always a hard thing to come back from, regardless of the reasons behind it. A full decade has passed since Job For A Cowboy released an album, so returning after that length of time and trying to follow up an album like Sun Eater was always going to be a challenge….
It’s been a hot minute (well 6 years, but who’s counting?) since the last Alkaline Trio, the criminally underrated Is this thing Cursed? but the long wait for new material has finally come to an end. Blood, Hair and Eyeballs is the 10th studio album from the spooky goth punk trio. At this point in…
With life being as unpredictable as it is, it is always best to operate with a never say never policy. With that in mind, I really don’t think anyone saw a Blink-182 reunion coming. With Tom Delonge having left the band behind to become an alien researcher and Mark & Travis continuing on with Matt…
Beartooth are one of those bands I adore. Not only are they one of the best bands of their ilk musically, but frontman Caleb Shomo is one of the most brutally honest lyricists and endlessly endearing frontmen in the whole game. For well over a decade now they have perfected their particular brand of mental…
Jake Oni dropped one of the surprise hidden gems of last year with Loathing Light, under his Oni moniker. It was an album that I enjoyed, while also addressing that it did seem to have a bit of an identity crisis. Oni is back with a follow up already in the form of The Silver…
Twin Temple has a touch of Ghost syndrome. Wherein their imagery very much does not entirely match the music the band puts out. You’d be forgiven for thinking you were going to get something dark, gothic, possibly symphonic metal as opposed to the music by The Ronettes, lyrics by Slayer that you are ultimately met…
At this point it seems redundant to call Creeper one of the most innovative and interesting bands in the Rock scene. Much like Code Orange, their particular brand of art is fully immersive, ever evolving and they never make the same thing twice. In fact they have become somewhat known for the emphatic nature with…
It seems mental to think that in the grand scheme of things Carnifex are now considered veterans of the Death Metal scene. 18 years into doing this and yet people still act like they only popped up recently. When you listen to their latest album Necromanteum, you can here that vintage running throughout. Somewhat erroneously…
