Tag hardcore
Certain musical adventures, outputs, meanderings, experiments, trials, tribulations, and exercises in ego massaging are able, in certain circumstances, to fly under the radar and generally considered, reviewed, and appreciated from a musicality perspective rather than with any preconceived notions of… Continue Reading →
Thanks to this, I discovered what a thotcrime is, but sticking to the matter in hand the band by this name is a cybergrind group, taking its influence from grindcore, mathcore and hyperpop amongst others. When I saw this album’s… Continue Reading →
Drawing inspiration “from black and death metal to djent and hardcore”, Cabal embark upon their third album. I’ll add “melodic hooks” to that. It’s true that pungent death metal djent hardcore is their game, witness the opening song of this… Continue Reading →
French hardcore band Birds in Row have been around for a little while now, and their new album Gris Klein, really shows it. The instrumentation feels tight, and is the kind of sound only veterans of the genre can produce…. Continue Reading →
There are times when you just know. When you know that something is right, just and beautiful. When it’s ripe, glowing and succulent. When it glows, pulsates, and engorges. This may sound like the prelude to either an overly dramatic… Continue Reading →
If you used to fraternise all the second-hand CD and Record shops across the land (remember them?) you can’t fail to have noticed all those distinctive sleeves by artist Aiden Hughes for the band KMFDM. I wish I had picked… Continue Reading →
Anything could happen here. Metallic hardcore, late 90s metal and death metal influences form the stylistic backbone of this album. Reading the blurb, it seems to claim to be everything, and above all bigger and better than the Australians’ 2021… Continue Reading →
The self-titled album of 94 and ‘Do We Speak A Dead Language’ which followed a couple of years later were absolute classics. Downset, the US politically charged, socially responsible hardcore act should have been massive on the strength of these… Continue Reading →
They may be a smidgeon of bias that often creeps in when an album that’s up before the beak, hails from our own fair island of green and pleasant land and whilst it would be appropriation on a humungous scale… Continue Reading →
I may have mentioned it 4 years ago when I reviewed Billy Graziadei’s debut album that other than a couple Biohazard songs that I have on compilations, I’ve never really listened to an album of theirs. So sure, owing to… Continue Reading →
A typhoon of black metal, sludge, post metal and hardcore, France’s Celeste are unwavering in the enormity of their sound. Having already laid the foundations for experimentation with the ambitious mixture of genres they’ve managed to hybrid together, they’ve spent… Continue Reading →
Metaphorical cards on the table, Ipswich’s A.W.A.P. (Ant Walking Alligator People – a noun given to the survivors of the Hiroshima atomic blast) feature someone I know very, very well. And when I say I know them well, A.W.A.P. vocalist… Continue Reading →