After 25 years in the business, Japan’s cult metal heroes Boris return with their 23rd studio album, “Dear”. At this point in their career, Boris
Read moreSheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love (Static Shock Records, 2017)
Sheer Mag have apparently ‘crept up from Philadelphia cloaked in bold insignia to channel our social and political moment with grit and groove’ and ‘speak
Read moreDon Blake – Blake District (Round Dog Records, 2017)
Don Blake hail from Bolton, Lancashire, and are the latest in a line of bands Joe Barlow has been involved with, that are named after
Read moreTio Rico – Business & Pleasure (Horn & Hoof, 2017)
Tio Rico are a 3 piece from Manchester (ex Big Ed & The Stink / Glue Ear / Echo Freddy) and Business & Pleasure is
Read morePinkerton Thugs – End of an Era (re-mastered re-issue) (State Line Records, 2017)
Although this record was originally released way back in 2000 via Go Kart (remember them? And those sampler CDs of variable quality that they used
Read moreStandpoint (React!) & Force (Control) demo’s 2017
When it comes to hardcore I must confess to being something of an elitist. Too many years spent watching too many bogus bands grind out
Read morev/a – They Came From Boston vol. 1 (State Line Records, 2017)
What we got here is what amounts to a 4-way split LP between some perhaps not so well known bands from the current Boston punk
Read moreBouncing Souls / Great Cynics – Live at The Brudenell Social Club 19/6/2017
As a rule, old people like my wife and I are actual lunatics about arriving at social functions on time. Don’t matter if it’s a
Read moreSlimy Member – Ugly Songs For Ugly People (Occult Whispers/Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)
So, Slimy Member are completely new to me. A quick google revealed some of the most disturbing images I’ve ever seen in my life, a
Read moreViolence Creeps – Ease the Seed Bag 7″ (Drunken Sailor)
I know you shouldn’t judge a band too harshly on their promotional material (even if it can be fun), but the blurb for this not
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