What do you do when your favourite band/artist is about to drop a highly anticipated record and you want to see what someone that’s not musically inclined thinks about it, or you want to wind yourself up when said person doesn’t like your favourite album? You come here of course! Whether it’s a new or old release, metalcore or shoegaze, EP or Album, it’ll get reviewed here. Here’s a mix of reviews, positive and negative, across a variety of genres, but they all have one thing in common; they’re honest.
Either you’ll leave this page thinking “Wow, this person has the same taste in music as me, that’s great!” or, “They didn’t like that super badly mixed, underground, 3 monthly listeners on Spotify, Grindcore EP?! They fucking suck!” and we’re afraid to say that we’re not responsible for either of those outcomes.
EP REVIEW: With Love // With Rage by Initiate
On “With Love // With Rage”, Initiate are less focused in the collision of styles that made their previous work so exciting and more concerned with the undercurrents lying beneath them. This is not a record where anger gives way to vulnerability. Instead, both constantly complete one another as gratitude can exist alongside frustration.
Album Review: Break The Ice by Negative Frame
It’s clear from the start that they mean something different. The title alone shows the statement of intent. Breaking the ice to a new audience, a new domain. Stepping out from the underground and marching headstrong toward bigger stages, bigger rooms.
Album Review: The Standard by Southpaw FLHC
Think Lionheart with less talent and more 30-something guys in matching windbreakers.
Album Review: Not Your Kingdom by Madball
Not Your Kingdom can easily become one of the more notable Madball releases for those who don’t fall into the trap of saying a band's first records are their best work, and a record that could be shown to a new jack to show them just what hardcore has to offer them.
EP Review: Lost In Maine by Stab
Missing the summer nights with a redbull, on a skateboard, just finishing your school exams and looking out into the sunset. The feeling all of us oldheads have yearned to feel for a long time
Album Review: The Ringing Bell by Fuming Mouth
Fuming Mouth has always conveyed a sense of evil. It comes with their nature and is, by now, to be expected. But the added sense of vitality, of a need to be stronger, to prove themselves against the odds, has only made them better. This record is a shining beacon in a sky of desolate stars.
Album Review: It Is Going To Get Dark by No Cure
The world is becoming harder to exist in, with each passing day something or someone struggles to survive let alone thrive and No Cure is here to make sure you feel the weight of that reality.
Album Review: Armour Of Angels by Guilt Trip
It captures the feeling of why so many people fell in love with this band in the first place. It’s aggressive, cathartic, and just stupid good fun.
Album Review: Embrace The Black Light by 100 Demons
Dropping one record that is deemed a milestone and still held in high regard within multiple communities is a flex, but to drop another worthy of the same praise a couple of years after? Lunacy.
EP Review: Erase The File by Crowquill
This is music to activate your fight or flight response, and when the utterly addictive stomp at the end kicks in you'll feel like you could batter a bus full of bears single handed.
EP Review: They Promised Eden (Vol. 1) by Wounded Touch
Pair the raw, contentious lyrics with melodic riffs inspired by the 00s, and make the sound creative decision to split this release in half, your result will be this; an exceptional statement piece of art that will stand out among the rest simply because it means something.
Album Review: Still Suffer by Terror
They’ve done it again - with 10 tracks coming in at just over 27 minutes of playtime, Los Angeles hardcore titans Terror prove their dominance in the genre once again with their 10th and latest LP “Still Suffer” available as of April 24th via Flatspot Records.