In eight months’ time, when everyone’s doing their yearly round-ups and we’ve all seen exactly 7,081,346 Best of 2018 album countdowns each, music press will turn to April as the banner month for releases. I mean, you were there too. Just look at the state of it! In the space...
Venue: Brixton Academy, London Date: 21.4.18 Support: Code Orange, Power Trip, Venom Prison Photos: Richard Broome (richbroomemusicphotography.weebly.com) Good grief, look at that line-up. After riding the hype – and subsequent hate – of a meteoric rise in the early noughties with Ascendancy, Trivium have, through sheer perseverance and talent, found...
Goddamn, how good was DOOM? The 2016 imagining was far better than it had any right to be and is still talked about as one of the best FPS's releases in recent times. But more than the gore, the gameplay and the all-round kick-assness of donning the Doomslayer garb again,...
Venue: 02 Forum Kentish Town, London 13.4.18 Photos: Graham Berry ( Black Tea Photography) Dutch symphonic metallers Epica barrelled into town last week in a shroud of searing light, gigaintic riffage and sweeping orchestration. TLE tog Graham Berry was on the barrier to capture the action as Simone Simons lead the...
Venue: The Black Heart, London Date: 11.4.18 Support: Future Love, Wallflower Photos: Graham Berry (@BlkTPhotography) Angular alt-rockers Press to MECO played a killer album set at Camden’s Black Heart last week to celebrate the launch of their second album Here’s to the Fatigue. They even brought rising stars Wallflower and...
EELS have recruited talent from Starburn Industries to put together the glossy, creaky stop motion video for latest single 'Bone Dry'.The video was produced by Duke Johnson and Dino Stamatopoulos, the team behind Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa, and directed by Sofia Astrom, who noted, “E really liked Duke Johnson’s idea of...
Bloody hell. Each year we always reach this point with the ArcTanGent line-up. There's the slow-burn trickle of bands for the first coupe of months, maybe one must-see. The murmurs start: "I reckon 2000 Trees has got the edge this year". Then a care package like this drops and picking...
March was a mellow one, wasn't it? So much so I had to put a special call-out to our followers on Twitter to get in touch with some heavier jams (thanks for bringing Greyhaven to my attention, peeps!). Not that there isn't joy to be had in some of this...
Venue: KOKO, London Date: 23.3.18 Support: Youth Code Photos: Jez Pennington (@JezPennington) French synth artist Carpenter Brut smashed his London date last week, stopping into KOKO to air tracks from his Latest album Leather Teeth. Brut, who has continued his rise to prominence soundtracking ultra-violent indie game Hotline Miami 2:...