Beaten To Death are more interesting than your favorite grindcore band. I’m not sorry. Actually, I’m sorry for assuming Beaten To Death wasn’t already your favorite grindcore band.
There are plenty of fantastic bands that toil in the margins of relative obscurity. Some eventually find a wider audience and catapult themselves to various levels of fame, while others never reach that coveted status of instantly recognizable. It’s fitting, then, that Pennsylvania upstarts Veilburner signed with the aptly named…
The ‘live in the studio’ video is a relatively recent development, but a welcome one. Despite advances in cameraphone technology, fan-shot footage of bands performing will inevitably be plagued with shaky visuals and farty sound, with the clearest audio recording being of the punter stood beside the phone singing spectacularly…
“What the fuck did I just listen to?” When I forwarded this to Eden, his reaction instantly let me know how he felt about this devastating blast of microtonal death metal. You’ll probably be thinking the same after the next three minutes. From the wild minds of Lee Fisher (Commit…
One of my favorite nouns to describe music is “slab”. As in “a steaming slab of riffs and feedback”. It just captures something intrinsic to that no nonsense, in your face, hell and hellfire feeling or the “big sounding” genres of metal like doom, stoner, sludge, and the like. This…
In the past few years, it seems as if mainstream music media has started to ask the question “what the hell is post-metal?”. It gets the answer wrong a lot but we won’t hold it against them; to be honest, post-metal is really hard to pin down because it involves…
Late in 2017 I came across Downtime b/w Plans, a new EP from a young UK band that had essentially zero profile. The Birmingham doomgaze quartet Outlander showed up while I was combing post-rock releases on Bandcamp and their massive, slow-burning blend of textured heaviness, swirling noise and deeply emotional…
There’s something timeless about a good old-fashioned black and white music video. You can probably think of ten off the top of your head. Eschewing colour and frivolity, the grainy, gritty monochrome video doesn’t take away from the heart and heft of the track behind it, giving the music a visual aid that never overpowers the riff. Today, we’re psyched to bring you a brand new video, in this style, from one of the UK’s brightest new ‘core bands, Black Coast. Don’t expect a narrative or outlandish concept, as previously mentioned this is a no fuss view of the band in their element – playing riffs in the dark and being moody as fuck.
“The inbox overfloweth” is a sentence I’ve been saying a lot lately; it seems as if, more and more, we’re getting sent amazing music that comes out of nowhere. It obviously doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s important to remember that each and every band we think of as new has…
There’s more than a touch of irony in the title of this crushing EP from Transatlantic mathgrind project Fawn Limbs. Press play on their second EP and you’ll be left as far from “calm” or “tranquil” as humanly possible. Imagine waking up from a night terror soaked in sweat, breathing…