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Rotten to the Core // September 2021

September 8, 2021

What a month. Gulch just announced a farewell tour at the height of their popularity (guess the dildos couldn’t keep the lights on?), someone shit in the Turnstile pit, and Nick Hipa decided to finally quit As... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // August 2021

Calder Dougherty

August 4, 2021

Rotten to the Core

Hell of a month, huh? How 'bout them Olympics? Right? And uh, COVID's back! You heard about this? I mean it's just crazy, it's like it's everywhere, am I right? And all these catastrophic weather events and ma... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // July 2021

Calder Dougherty

July 12, 2021

Columns, Rotten to the Core

Look, we KNOW it’s the mid-year review drop, but there was so much good new -core to cover from the past month, we just couldn’t help ourselves. Hope you’re ready for a jam-packed column full of June’s biggest... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // April 2021

Calder Dougherty

April 5, 2021

Rotten to the Core

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...

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