Metalcore and Australia go hand-in-hand at this point in the metal world due to the success of leading bands like Parkway Drive, Northlane and Polaris. On In Hearts Wake’s fifth album, ‘Kaliyuga‘, they snatch hold of that flag and hoist it as high as their fellow Aussies have in the past. What’s even more impressive…
I will admit right upfront that I have never cared for Machine Gun Kelly. I found him to be overly obnoxious, and frankly a bit of a poser with very little to back it up. With that said I don’t think I could have ever seen this mid career genre switch coming at all. When…
Yours Truly have been on the Rock Sins radar for a couple of years now. Their Afterglow EP from last year, in particular the breakthrough single Circles, was one of the finest bits of lighter rock we heard all year. So Yours Truly’s first full length album, Self Care, has been eagerly awaited here for…
Trading between dark Alcest vibes, extremity and depressed, ethereal clean passages, the first song on the debut Hidden Mothers EP may seem like it throws too many things at the wall to see what sticks. Incongruous tempo changes, a harsh differentiation between instrumental dynamism and a chiaroscuro that seems a little out of whack. On…
If there’s ever a time to make an unexpected comeback, the time is now or never. Lockdown or not. And that’s clearly what Madina Lake thought too. Now having spent close to a decade away from the game after wrapping up their three-album trilogy (save for a brief tenth-anniversary reunion in 2017), the band has made a…
If nothing else, 2020 has been an absolute crackerjack year for lovers of stoner and psych rock. There have been many surprises, with new acts emerging with total bangers, up and comers making good on early promise and trusted veterans still bringing the riffs. I guess, at this point All Them Witches fit into the…
Code Orange are such a spectacular band that the world is running out of superlatives to continually describe them. Even by their own standards they continue to set impossibly high bars for themselves to clear over and over again. In March they released the Album of the Year candidate Underneath before revolutionising the way content…
Napalm Death’s penchant for noisiness is well documented. From their grinding, genre-creating debut LP, Scum, to the groove that has defined much of their post-millennium career, the band’s harnessing of auditory terrorism has seen many facets wrangled into borderline perfection.
For the legions of Metallica fans across the world, S&M(1) in 1999 was a seminal moment. Die hards and new fans alike marveled at the power of the marriage of the power of Metallica’s brand of thrash metal married to the skill of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Live albums and concert DVDs would literally…
