Tag Post Hardcore
Machukha is Ukrainian for Stepmother and the band fuse together elements of Post Black Metal, Post Hardcore and Punk (which is from their blurb) to make a quite magnificent sound. I would add that there are elements of Neo Folk… Continue Reading →
Heavy as a heavy thing – that is the best way to describe Thou from Baton Rouge. They steamrollered into my ears during the cursed pandemic with their magnificent collaboration project “May Our Chambers Be Full”. The question I had at… Continue Reading →
Following on from 2021’s Push we now have the other half of the gym split. Well maybe this is not for workout freaks but rather those that love catchy as covid alternative metal /post hardcore with pop hooks and melodies…. Continue Reading →
Listening to “an unnerving excavation of ill health and Catholic guilt” in musical form doesn’t sound like a whole load of fun, but without going into the detail this album does reflect the personal experience of the vocalist, and as… Continue Reading →
Svalbard hark from the west-country of England, having formed in 2011. A spate of demos and split releases from 2012 to 2014 led to two albums in 2015 and 2018, each release representing a progression of both the band’s sound… Continue Reading →
Silence is not what we get from Rorcal, whose world is heaviness, dissonance and industrially haunting soundscapes. 17 years on from forming, this is the Swiss band’s sixth album release. Crumbly destruction stands at the centre of the opener “Early… Continue Reading →
Sitting as always in the office at the end of my garden, looking at the birds and the bees go about their business, blissfully unaware of anything, after what has been a challenging week of work-related bullshit and triviality, I… Continue Reading →
The third studio album after five years gap for this Catalan troupe, but not a band I’ve locked horns with previously I’m afraid. Still, I’ve been in a noisy mood recently it seems so another bit of deathgrind it is… Continue Reading →
There are times where reviewing certain bands constitutes more than just an item on a to do list, where it is less ephemeral than it may often be. There are some bands, that transcend our corporeal existence, and stick like… Continue Reading →
Bleak, minimalist, sparse, cold and vast, just some of the words that come to mind when describing Oakland’s Kowloon Walled City who return with this, their first album in over six years. I must admit, straight out of the gate,… Continue Reading →
LLNN are a band whose growth in popularity has been equally as explosive as their signature sound. Encompassing all the best bits of hardcore, post rock and industrial, these innovative Danes won over crowds at Roadburn three years ago, while… Continue Reading →
It’s been over two years since I first listened to Sons of Alpha Centauri. That was on the quite formidable Buried Memories which was very much a game of two halves (well maybe three periods like in Ice Hockey). Side A saw… Continue Reading →