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.
Album Review : No Place For Me by Miss May I
In a bid to compete with their former selves which casts a pale reflection of the current state of modern Metalcore, lyrically No Place For Me attempts to serenade you with tired tropes of emotional labour, undertow-esque choruses repeating lines of lost love, severing ties and moving on but translates somewhat hollow in its delivery
EP Review: Would You Look The Other Way by Burn Slow
It was promised to us a thousand years ago that we needed to prepare ourselves for something exciting, but no amount of meticulous preparation could’ve got us ready for Burn Slow’s debut EP.
Album Review: Blood Of Your Empire By PRESIDENT
What was to be one of the most anticipated albums of September this year, instead feels like a sack of misused empty promises wrapped up in an album. PRESIDENT have done very little to change the landscape of what is considered electronic metalcore and this debut album does nothing to change that.
Album Review: Encephalic Angels by Killing of a Sacred Deer
Pained, discordant and meticulously symbolic in its deliverance, Killing of a Sacred Deer blindly unveil the second entry of their discography.
EP Review: Losers by Mirabelle
In “LOSERS” mirabelle. push their own identity a little further. Five years in, they sound confident enough to be sincere, playful and ambitious all at once. This EP proves that mirabelle. are one of the coolest French bands around right now.
Album Review : Death In The Family by Living Weapon
Earlier this year, Colin Young hinted at a metalcore record that would become an era-defining instant classic. This is that record.
EP Review: A Whispered Promise Of Failure by Long Goodbye
Long Goodbye’s effort into their new release is a grand mutation of their past work, emulsifying its chaos, causing it to bleed through all of their past work into one EP.
EP Review: If I Lose Everything, You All Lose Everything by Mouthbreather
“If I Love Everything, You All Lose Everything” is antagonising, and it means serious business.
Album Review: With Love Comes Loss by Current Solace
"With Love Comes Loss" comes at the perfect time, where genres are fused and bands are praised for taking a new direction in their sound.
EP Review: The Sun Reflects the Colour of Your Eyes by Instrument Of God
The final breakdown feels like almost a ‘thank you’ to everybody, it’s a real heavy hitter and a calculated attempt at making everybody rush to the dancefloor and it worked! It does exactly that.
EP Review: It’s Harder Now To Breathe by Rozemary
The Merseyside quartet has excelled itself with this release. Building upon the groundwork laid before them with their debut EP and creating something that surpasses expectations, Rozemary is assuredly carving their name into the UK metalcore sphere. With hooks for days and stellar craftsmanship, there is plenty for you to bite into. With “It’s Harder Now To Breathe”, the path is set: from the Wirral to the stars.
Album Review: Yearning: The Unbeautiful After by Boundaries
Boundaries have spared no expense delivering something heavy that doesn’t feel heavy for the sake of it. It’s purposeful in making a point that they are exploring without straying too far from what they already know.
EP Review: Short Of Daybreak by In Search Of Statues
From start to finish, “Short Of Daybreak” is decorated with the golden parts of metalcore – the elements that make it such a widely loved and appreciated genre, but also one of the hardest to revive if your heart’s not in it.
EP Review: No Angel by Dreams End
No Angel is a solid foundation for them to build upon. A mirror cursed to reflect what they excel at and what they lack in. They’re in the fortunate position where their sound is so varied that it could see them on a multitude of line-ups from 50 caps bar basements to 500 cap rooms opening bigger bills.
Album Review: An Ending In Itself By Sleeping With Sirens
This won’t be an album many will come back to in the future but on the first playthrough it is a decent listen, it just fails to capture the original feeling of a band that is so well known for their unique sound.
Album Review: A Shifting Sense of Stillness by A Kiss Before Dying
This was created for the most dangerous in the pit, and for the ones with no outlet other than music, and while this may be wall to wall visceral aggression, it’s a safe space for human expression, in whichever form that may be.
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: Hum of Hurt by Converge
Written in tandem with “Love Is Not Enough”, it’s incredible to consider how a band could write two records simultaneously without linking them to one another and that’s what makes a band like this so special.
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.
Album Review: Injury Episode by Static Dress
Whilst there is a lot to get yourself lost in the album, there is so much atmosphere and story telling, and not just in the tracks but the interludes as well. Static Dress have always shined in making the listener feel like they are immersed in a story, and the world building further expands in terms of music and lore.