So you’re interested in the people behind Twentycoreseven? We’re flattered!
Every one of us comes from a different background of how we got into music and where we stand within our respective scenes now. Some of us are musicians, and some of us just like to have opinions on things, but we all have a shared love of music, regardless of genre or involvement and that’s what makes this publication so authentic.
You can also head right to the bottom of this page to check out all of our Spotify playlists, curated with the idea of telling you about ourselves through the medium of music.
I’m Hayls.
Owner - She/Her, Scotland, UK
I’ve been going to live shows for most of my life (my first one being when I was 5 to see the British boyband, Blue, in an underground venue in London.) I’ve watched a variety of artists perform, from boybands to deathcore bands, in all venue sizes, and it’s always been somewhere that I’ve never been able to find the feeling I get when experiencing live music elsewhere.
My love for music comes from my Dad (shout out Dave) introducing me to bands at the age of 3. Bands such as, Skunk Anansie, The Prodigy, Nirvana, and Slipknot to name a few. I developed my own taste in music around the age of 11, where I started with bands like deathcore era Bring Me The Horizon, Her Words Kill, Oceana, Deaf Havana, and Emarosa. That period of discovery substantially shaped my taste today because despite having a dubstep and pop-heavy stage when I was a teenager, I always gravitated towards alternative music. Now my listening rotation consists of bands like, Withpaperwings, Killing of a Sacred Deer, Moodring, Sleep Token, Blessthefall, Bad Omens, Heavensgate, and a lot more. But once a fangirl, always a fangirl, and you will find me in a pile of ashes before I stop listening to Justin Bieber. I’m also from South London so best believe I switch it up and go full grime/drill mode every now and then.
I’m not musically inclined, couldn’t play an instrument to save my life (but I’ll smoke anyone on Guitar Hero), and I don’t know the correct terminology, or tunings, or drum kit names, or even how to correctly identify a genre sometimes, I just live a life where I feel music beyond the surface level and listen a bit deeper than the average person. Each day I’m learning and educating myself to better understand the world of music and use that to my advantage when articulating my thoughts and feelings.
I’ve always had a knack for creative writing. Since I was 3 I could write short stories I’d made up in my head, and typed out almost entire novels on the family computer. This interest followed me throughout childhood and adolescence but I never sought out opportunities to write articles of text unless it was for work - and that’s just not the same.
I decided my 2026 venture would be to create a space where I could put my love of music and love of writing together, and here we are.
Welcome to Twentycoreseven, where music meets the (somewhat) uneducated and opinionated.
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What got you into music? I was 6 when Tony Hawk Underground 2 came out and I remember playing it on my sisters PS2. The soundtrack was so sick and I would purposely turn the tv up loud to hear it. It had a lot of 90s hardcore and punk which influenced me a lot growing up! Looking back I actually realised I was enjoying 25 ta Life aged 6 ‘cause I knew #ball
Top 5 bands: Six ft Ditch, Gulch, Limp Bizkit, Bolt Thrower, and Citizen
Top 5 records of all time: Citizen - “Everybody is Going to Heaven”, Six ft Ditch - “Unlicensed Cemetery”, Parkway Drive - “Killing With a Smile”, Bolt Thrower - “Realm of Chaos”, Limp Bizkit - “Significant Other”
Loves: Beatdown, Nu-Metal, and Hardcore Punk
Dislikes: Octanecore, Shoegaze, and Slam (impartial)
What do you get up to in your free time? Oblivion, obviously!
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What got you into music? I got into music through my parents at a very young age with their constant rotations of Rolling Stones, Guns N Roses, Cher, Shania Twain, and Queen to boot. Started to develop my own taste in music the moment I saw My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade”. I started learning guitar at 12 and listening to more guitar oriented artists like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and John Petrucci, and over the years gradually leaned to more technical djent guitar playing bands such as Periphery, After the Burial, Meshuggah, Monuments, Reflections. I will listen to anything with a good catchy chorus, monstrous guitar riffs, ambient soundscapes, anything that has pop elements or experimentation, the weirder the better.
Top 5 bands: Sleep Token, Moodring, Vildhjarta, Thrown, Deftones
Top 5 records of all time: Deftones - “Koi No Yokan”, Sleep Token - “Sundowning”, Vildhjarta - “masstaden under vatten”, Glare - “Sunset Funeral”, Loathe - “I Let it in and it Took Everything”
Loves: Shoegaze, Thall, and Nu-metalcore
Dislikes: Country, (Majority of) Slam, and Punk
What do you get up to in your free time? Big video game nerd, collector of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, write music for myself and other people.
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What got you into music? Growing up in the 2000s with young parents meant contemporary music and runoff from the 90s made up the soundscape at home. Hip hop, pop punk, metalcore, and all the other usual suspects in alternative music at the time were put in front of me at a young age either directly from family or from the soundtracks of films I was watching so I always had an interest in what I was hearing.
Top 5 bands: Crowbar, Skinhead, Tigers Jaw, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Codeine
Top 5 records of all time: Crowbar - “Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form”, Have Heart - “Songs to Scream at the Sun”, Hum - “You'd Prefer An Astronaut”, Mineral - “EndSerenading”, Hatebreed - “Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire”
Loves: Hardcore Punk, Americana, and Emo
Dislikes: Slam, Deathcore (modern), and Pop Country
What do you get up to in your free time? Films, Food, and Gaming
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What got you into music? I grew up with music being played constantly, being around my dad it was pretty much classic rock all the time. Zeppelin, Queen, Sabbath, Boston, Journey were played around my house daily. It wasn’t until I heard Joe Satriani for the first time that I really started to get into guitar, and from there it snowballed. I was constantly on the look out for new music and gradually fell into the heavier side of things. Bands like Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine, Converge, A7X, and Slipknot started appealing to me more and paved the way for the stuff I listen to today. Although my music taste is much more diverse than it was back then, Classic Rock/Metal/Metalcore will always be home for me.
Top 5 bands: Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine, Queen, Converge, and Too Close to Touch
Top 5 records of all time: “As Daylight Dies” - Killswitch Engage, “The Poison” - Bullet For My Valentine, “Constellations” - August Burns Red, “Slipknot” - Slipknot, “Jane Doe” - Converge
Loves: Metalcore, Deathcore, and Nu-Metal
Dislikes: Country, Pop-Country, and Country again
What do you get up to in your free time? Taking peoples top scores on Clone Hero
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What got you into music? My older brother always listened to music and played bass growing up, so I took on a lot of his influences from across a variety of genres! He also took me to my first ever live show when I was 14, which was Fall Out Boy!
Top 5 bands: Fall Out Boy, Turnstile, Basement, Incubus, and Oasis
Top 5 records of all time: "Take This To Your Grave" - Fall Out Boy, "What I Breathe" - Mall Grab, "What's The Story?" - Oasis, "Promise Everything" - Basement, "Adrenaline" - Deftones
Loves: Hardcore, House, and Techno
Dislikes: Country, Octanecore, and Christian Rock
What do you get up to in your free time? I'm an avid reader, runner, and all-round incredibly social person! I'm very outdoorsy and love going for walks and hikes on a weekend.
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What got you into music? Video Games and swapping CDs at school
Top 5 bands: Misery Signals, Backtrack, Rejoice, Earth Crisis, Congress
Top 5 records of all time: Backtrack - "Darker Half", Misery Signals - "Of Malice And The Magnum Heart", Metallica - "Ride The Lightning", Mac Miller - "Swimming", Aftershock - "Through The Looking Glass"
Loves: Metalcore, Hardcore, and Dungeon Synth
Dislikes: False Metalcore, False Metalcore, and False Metalcore
What do you get up to in your free time? Go to shows
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What got you into music? My parents always had the radio on in the car and when they were doing chores around the house, so I was listening to a lot of R.E.M. and meatloaf thanks to them. R.E.M. stuck but meatloaf didn’t. My brother put on Kerrang one day I remember seeing Wait and Bleed by Slipknot play and thought it was the coolest shit I’d ever seen. I didn’t know anything about genres really at that point. Everything that was heavy was metal and everything that was softer with a guitar was rock to me. I think the THPS soundtracks from 1 all the way to THUG 2 shaped the music I like to this day too. Grunge like Alice In Chains definitely played a big part in me developing my own creative style when making music, because I always tell people if there isn’t a “big riff” in a song it ain’t a song and Dirt is just wall to wall big riffs.
Top 5 bands: 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Splitknuckle, Nine Inch Nails, Backtrack, Gatherers
Top 5 records of all time: Have Heart - "Songs To Scream At The Sun", Pianos Become The Teeth - "The Lack Long After", Sentence - "War Begins", 7 Angels 7 Plagues - "Jhazmyne’s Lullaby", Ethel Cain - "Preachers Daughter"
Loves: Metalcore, Hardcore, and Shoegaze
Dislikes: False Metalcore, Ska, and Slam
What do you get up to in your free time? Going to shows either playing, attending or running them or cooking/baking or playing games with my friends