The Load-In As I sit down to start writing these words, my gigging year is not quite done, but the end is in sight. Beyond it lies the desolate wasteland of early January, but we’ll worry about that when I come to write the February edition of Disco Loadout. This…
Texas one-man mathgrind project The Sound That Ends Creation is a bit of a hidden gem that we’re doing our best to highlight wherever possible. Our very own Matt McLennan gave the new album Music Designed To Give You Ideas… Incase You Should Run Out Of Ideas a glowing review,…
The Load-In Now this is more like it. After a couple of leaner months, we can always depend on October to deliver the goods with a brace of great shows. So much so, that I can pick and choose a bit on what I am going to write about in…
There are certain privileges and challenges that come when you get to interview a band multiple times. On the one hand, building a relationship and rapport with bands and artists breeds a certain familiarity and comfort that allows for more natural conversation that can dig deeper than your run-of-the-mill press…
Photo (From Left): Trent Bos, Eden Kupermintz, and Simon Clark at ArcTanGent 2019. I’ve been to many a festival in my “career” as a metalhead. Hellfest, Brutal Assault, Download, Graspop and more have all been graced by my frowns, interrupted sleep, and abhorrent amounts of alcohol. What I’ve learned over…
One of the most exciting releases of the year, Detach The Island’s The Burden To Become Fact is one of the sleeper-hits of the year, blending the magical mayhem of chaotic post-violence with the stuttering, savage rhythmic battery of math metal. I’ve helped premiere music from the record and written…
When last we checked in on Philadelphia four-piece Binary, a year and change ago, they had just released their debut EP, Commit More Arson, a stunner of an emoviolence release. Building on the established corpus of the genre – bands like Orchid, pageninetynine, and La Quiete – the upstart group…
The Load In August may have been a relatively quiet month in terms of the volume of events I attended, but there can be no doubt that the quality has been exceptionally high. Having already spoken at length about Radar festival in my last column, I only have three more…
The Load-In Before we properly get stuck in to a busy month of shows, I did just want to share a little story about a brief encounter with a fellow gig junkie with Olympic-level commitment to the live music cause. Taking a breather from the band’s during my day on…
Geography is a liar. It tells us for instance that Town Portal are from Denmark when it would be much easier for our narratives were they from Switzerland or the UK. This is because their brand of meaty post-rock fits right in with the resurgence of such groove based antics…
