I was working for Domino’s last year, delivering overpriced, bland pizzas to people who, on the whole, *really* didn’t need them. It was a pretty crap job, with terrible pay, but it had the one saving grace of allowing me to listen to 6 Music while I p …

Colin Robinson and Richard Knutson are seasoned musicians with a background in prog/punk/post-punk who have seen many fads and fashions in music pass-by and have mingled at different levels with some revered names in the alt-rock canon. Those of you wi …

The first time I heard of the band Coilguns was in April 2012 when they played an amazing live set in one of Edinburgh’s smallest and sweatiest venues. Unfortunately I wasn’t at that gig, but the fact that most of my metal-minded Edinburgh friends were …

I’ll start this review off by admitting something. I went into this EP ready to dislike it simply because it was described as “post-hardcore”. I, in my ignorance, cast a premature judgement and expected to hear another awkward, uninspired At The Drive- …

I get the feeling this third album from post-black metal band Fen, “Dustwalker”, is meant to be intensely moody and bleak. Now I’m not saying it’s devoid of atmosphere, but to me it’s more melancholic with some anger thrown in at parts. In fact many pa …

Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Belfast, Bee Mick See has been slinking around the Northern Irish scene in one form or another for a long time. His signature brand of electro-and-punk-infused hip-hop has gained a cult following amongst multiple …

Having never seen either Humanfly or Cult of Luna live before I entered Glasgow’s Ivory Blacks with my excitement at fever pitch. Even more so as on my journey Echoes and Dust metal guru, Sander texted me to say we were in line to watch the sound check …

The Judas Horse are a 3-piece who hail from Asheville, North Carolina. Linn Rogers, Meghan Mulhearn and David Lynch are the players bringing us Holy War, a 5-track album, which according to their web page tags, should sound like psychedelic southern go …

Anthroprophh is the new project for Paul Allen, while it seems that the band he is better known for The Heads are on hiatus. The Heads for anyone who doesn’t know them are a force of nature who took the essence of grunge bands like Mudhoney and mixed i …

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 …

A distant war-horn, a call to arms which almost feels like a decoy, as the listener is greeted by the sonic equivalent of sneaking up behind them and bludgeoning their face with the nearest heavy, preferably jagged, object. A gradually intensifying whi …

Bubblegum girl pop has been a mainstay of the music biz throughout the years with a particular vein seemingly running through the independents. Sure, there were frequent outbursts, with the inimitable Altered Images coming to mind, but there has never …

YES! Target Earth brings the Rock. Voivod lives! The Canadian progressive metal legends are celebrating their (gasp!) 30th anniversary with their new release Target Earth. This is a special release for the band for many reasons. Most significantly, tha …

The more post-metal sludge I hear the more convinced I am that it’s sitting at or very near the current evolutionary peak of rock and metal, and there, with one hand firmly grasping the flag as it fights for its share, is Cult of Luna. Nowhere else doe …

Upon hearing the debut two-track release by Watford’s Lost in the Riots late last year, it was clear that they were a new band with ample potential. The two tracks were polar opposites of the instrumental spectrum; one track was a tender slice of post- …