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Rotten to the Core // April 2021

April 5, 2021

Welcome back to Rotten to the Core, where much like the inexorable pressure of our late-stage capitalist hellworld clamoring to squeeze everything back into a state of blissfully hypnagogic consumerism post-pa... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

Calder Dougherty

November 9, 2020

Columns, Rotten to the Core

As I write this, the US Senate has just confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, a mere week before he is expected to lose reelection. The only thing remotely ‘supreme’ about Barrett i... Read More...

Rotten To The Core – Add Several Heaped Spoons of Hate (Season Liberally)

Matt MacLennan

February 21, 2020

Rotten to the Core

Food and kitchen analogies are pretty rife in metal journalism and I'm definitely guilty of slopping cheap comparisons onto thinly sliced metaphors. Writing this now I'm just realising that the fucking title of... Read More...

Grind My Gears – No Turkey, Thanks.

Matt MacLennan

November 26, 2019

Grind My Gears, Listen To This!

Though there are fewer celebrations in the UK this week than say, somewhere in middle America where they eat bullets and shit hot dogs, that doesn't mean this sullen, sodden Scot can't take a moment to be be th... Read More...

Geist’s Swarming Season: A Conversation

Matt MacLennan

September 27, 2019

Interviews, Rotten to the Core

It's always a little bit special when a UK band perfects a sound that Euros and North Americans have been in-charge of for x amount of time. That's the case on Geist's new release, Swarming Season. The Northern... Read More...

Grind My Gears – Young Man Screams At Cloud

Matt MacLennan

August 15, 2019

Grind My Gears

There have been a few surprise releases over the last fortnight, including a few featured below. I'm not entitled enough to complain about them throwing off my playlist or writing schedule, but their appearance... Read More...

Grind My Gears – Violent & Punky

Matt MacLennan

July 25, 2019

Grind My Gears, Listen To This!

Yes, the title is an Infectious Grooves reference. No, I will never stop using bad puns in this feature. When I first started writing Grind My Gears way back in checks calendar but it doesn't really matter bec... Read More...

Detach the Islands – The Burden to Become Fact

Matt MacLennan

July 23, 2019

Reviews

This is one of those reviews were there could be a hundred different bands tagged for the sake of comparison and a hundred different genres stuck in for SEO purposes too. Detach The Islands' debut record, The B... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Detach The Islands Bring The House Down With “Culture Architects”

Matt MacLennan

June 27, 2019

Premieres

Ten out of every hundred promo invitations grab me with the first sentence. Maybe two of them will live up to that initial hype. Today's premiere is from a band whose brand new record did just that. Detach The ... Read More...

Friendship – Undercurrent

Matt MacLennan

June 12, 2019

Reviews

2017's Hatred came and went with little to no fanfare, and that itself is a crime against music. We didn't cover it here, so more fool us. Not this time though. Undercurrent, the new record from Japanese hardco... Read More...

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