The Load-In Good lord, it’s been a big month. It’s not necessarily been a high-volume month in terms of the quantity of shows, but the quality has been incredibly high. Some special, one-off sets and a pair of outstanding album release shows mean that I have a lot to say.…
In recent years, the city of Hull (a port on the north-east coast of England) has been a surprisingly fertile breeding ground for various flavours of angry bands. From the ugly noises of Black Tongue and Mastiff, through the chaotic hardcore of the very greatly missed The Colour Line, past…
Switzerland might not be the first country that springs to mind as a natural home of metal bands. But, with a spectrum of domestic talent ranging from Celtic Frost to Coilguns, via the likes of Knut, Kruger and Promethee, it might be time to start reconsidering our preconceptions. Returning to…
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…
The Load-In My July, as you may have already seen from my review, is always dominated by Tech Fest. For the last six consecutive summers, I’ve enjoyed a highly concentrated weekend of general merriment, sub drops, breakdowns and attempting to headbang in 7/4. Which is super. In addition to the…
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure…
The band contains none other than Aaron Beam and John Sherman of beer-swilling rock ‘n’ roll merchants Red Fang. Alongside them are Louis Jucker and Luc Hess of Kunz, whom you may be more familiar with for their work with Coilguns and previously in The Ocean Collective. The entire five track EP was written…
Looks like I jumped the gun a little with that post yesterday, as today Red Kunz, the project featuring Aaron Beam and John Sherman of Red Fang and Luc Hess and Louis Jucker of Coilguns/Kunz, released nearly two minutes of music from the collaboration in the form of an in-studio jam. It’s…
Early last week,we told you about an upcoming supergroup project, comprised of two bassists and two drummers, formed by members of Kunz (also of Coilguns and ex-The Ocean Collective) and Red Fang — today, new details have begun to emerge, including the first look at their practice space that includes plenty of basses and…
So, we’ll hit the year off early with our first new supergroup and, believe me, it’s one hell of a start. Hummus Records, a small Swiss label who embody the words ‘D.I.Y’ (and whose entire catalogue has been graciously made available for free here), took to Facebook last night to…
