Three very different bands and three very different forms of intensity combine tonight to make a truly remarkable experience.

Gavin Brown had a chat with guitarist Danny Marshall from Canadian hardcore punk band Baptists about the band’s latest album ‘Beacon Of Faith’ and more.

Guitars are reduced to little more than ambience and occasionally strummed discordance as Keiji Haino exorcises like a priest with a satanic gym membership and a new years resolution that will NOT be broken this year.

I want Stephen King to turn this album into a book- it’d be bloody horrifying. – By Kat Preston

Baptists are back to rock yer socks off, yet again, with their second LP ‘Bloodmines’. – By Kat Preston

Like the soundtrack to a dystopian film where nothing in the world is as it once was. You’re not going to dance to it, or play it in the car. But if you listen to it, you’ll be provoked; you’ll smile, frown, and hear something you’ve never heard before. That in itself is satisfying. By Kev Scott

Finally Baptists’ debut LP is looming over the horizon after what feels like the longest wait, and this is one of my most anticipated records of the year. Following up from the monumental self titled EP from 2010, Bushcraft is set to release the Vancou …

In the second of our features on small, independent record labels I spoke to Callum from about-to-launch Manchester label Baptists & Bootleggers who are aiming to combine art, music & literature in a series of free releases. (((o))): Firstly give us a …