Hardcore band Gideon has been making an impact with crushing new music and sweaty, crazy gigs in the run-up to their new album Out Of Control, due out on 11th October via Rude Records/Equal Vision Records. The band recently released two new singles ‘Take Me” and ‘Bite Down’, which you can hear and see below. The group will hit the road late in 2019 for tour dates with Stray From The Path, The Devil Wears Prada and Loathe.Continue reading
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Cancer Bats To Headline Heavy Music Awards 2019, Laura Jane Grace to Host
Heavy Music Awards have announced Cancer Bats as the headliner for their gala awards show for the third annual Heavy Music Awards at the O2 Forum Kentish Town, London on Thursday 22 August 2019. Tickets are only avaialble at random to fans via sign up for voting at Heavy’s site. If you’ve missed out, look out for competitions in the run-up to the awards for further chances to win. Joining Cancer Bats are Loathe, Nova Twins, and Delaire The Liar. All of the bands will perform full sets at the event. Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! will host the proceedings. Continue reading
Starve To Survive – Have Me To Waste EP
Newcastle’s latest Hardcore reprobates Starve To Survive are back after a whole three years with a new EP, Have Me To Waste (Caliber), hoping to make their own statement of intent and garner some of the attention that the northern Hardcore scene generates, specifically Loathe and God Complex who have been turning more than a few heads over the past year.Continue reading
You Me At Six, Every Time I Die, Frank Iero, While She Sleeps, Therapy?, Comeback Kid And More Booked for 2000Trees Festival
After a 2018 edition that smashed expectations, the award-winning 2000Trees Festival is coming back with a band in 2019. Their major lineup announcement is here and it is a banger! You Me At Six, Every Time I Die (doing ‘Hot Damn‘ in full + the hits), Frank Iero and the Future Violents, While She Sleeps, Therapy? Comeback Kid, Jamie Lenman (headlining and curating Lenmania II) , Hands Like Houses , Single Mothers , Cavetown , Estrons , Martha , Milk Teeth , Puppy , Muncie Girls , GroundCulture , Higher Power , Loathe , Gouge Away, Nervus , Heavy Lungs, MØL, and many more were in today’s announcement of the first thirty-three bands on the bill. More to come soon! 2000trees Festival takes place Thursday -Saturday 13th – 15th of July 2019 at Upcote Farm, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Tickets on sale now at the link below. Continue reading
Slam Dunk Festival 2018 – Birmingham NEC
When Slam Dunk formed in 2006 it had a bill of 7 bands at a sole location in Leeds with a small capacity of a few thousand, skip to 12 years on and oh my has it grown! Whether you’re reliving your mid-2000’s singing along to the likes of Taking Back Sunday or throwing yourself into the heart of California in the 90’s with the likes of Reel Big Fish, this festival has really developed into a three-location monster of a day out. What better way to start off the day than with getting your rear end torn open by Brutality Will Prevail on the ever hardcore Impericon Stage.Continue reading
Slam Dunk Festival Books Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, PVRIS, The Devil Wears Prada, Every Time I Die, Northlane, Taking Back Sunday And More
Over three consecutive dates in May the 2018 Slam Dunk Festival will bring the best in punk bands and killer concert experiences to the UK. The festival will bring the same core of bands to three separate locations this spring as bands like Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, State Champs, PVRIS, The Devil Wears Prada, Astroid Boys, Brutality Will Prevail, Loathe, Every Time I Die, Northlane, Comeback Kid, Crown The Empire, Counterparts and many more for the bill. In addition, The Breakout Stage features the best in up and coming talent such as Palaye Royale, Sleep On It, Stand Atlantic, Milestones, Chapel, Dream State, The FAIM, Grayscale and Holding Absence. There is also the Acoustic stage featuring Four Year Strong and The Fireball Stage and more! The 2018 fest takes place across Leeds, Hatfield and Birmingham and tickets are on sale at the links below. Continue reading
WWE NXT Wrestling, Plus Avatar, Andrew W.K., Bad Religion, CKY, And More Added To Download 2018
Download Festival 2018 has made another major announcement, adding 21 bands and WWE NXT Live! Wrestling to the line-up. Added to the bill are Avatar, Andrew W.K., Bad Religion, CKY, Nothing More, Black Foxxes, Hell Is For Heroes and many more. WWE will bring an immersive NXT show starring Aleister Black, Adam Cole, Velveteen Dream, Ricochet, Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, Kairi Sane, The Undisputed Era and more. Continue reading
Loathe – The Cold Sun
When you look across the whole metal spectrum you’d be hard pressed to find a sub-genre more over-saturated than Tech-Metal. There has been an absolutely massive influx of bands in that scene over the last few years, with a lot of them falling well short of what is needed to really stand out and make a mark. Enter Loathe. Hailing from Liverpool, this band are still relative newcomers so with The Cold Sun (Sharptone) have they made any kind of lasting impression? The short answer is “Yes”. The slightly longer answer is “Very much, yes indeed”.Continue reading
AUDIO: Obituary Releases Intoxicated Live Clip From Ten Thousand Ways To Die
Obituary recently announced that they would be releasing a special two-song single containing a pair of brand new studio tracks, plus a bonus live set of twelve classics and fan favorites from the band’s storied catalog. Continue reading
Loathe – Prepare Consume Proceed
Prepare Consume Proceed (SharpTone Records) is the latest EP from Liverpool UK’s Loathe. But it’s not really the latest as it’s a reissue of an EP of the same name that was released, brace yourselves, October of last year. Better yet, if you lose all the filler interlude bullshit and intro track you’re only really left with four songs or just shy of 16 minutes of music.
I’m assuming the decision to reissue Prepare Consume Proceed so hastily was because it would function as SharpTone Record’s coming out party. Yes, this EP serves as the tip of the spear for a label that was officially launched less than a month ago. The brainchild of Nuclear Blast CEO Markus Staiger and former Sumerian Records vice-president Shawn Keith, SharpTone was rolled out to the motto of: “A new era of music begins…” With a roster including such luminaries as Attila, We Came as Romans, and World War Me all SharpTone looks and sounds like to me is Sumerian Lite. It’s what crawled out of the Van’s Warped Tour primordial ooze.
But label confusion aside, I am tasked with reviewing this EP. It’s worth mentioning that I walked in totally cold as Loathe’s website and social media pages are more devoid of useful information than a Fox News broadcast. But if you must know the band is comprised of members with names such as, I shit you not, DRT, SNK, MWL, NIL and frontman DRK.
So we didn’t start on the right foot, but hey, I’ve still got the music. The artwork and logos recall Unsane and Godflesh’s astethic rather than anything else on their label, but push play and what you get is an amalgamation of Structures djent and Suicide Silence grade deathcore. Competent enough, but less than memorable extreme metal. ‘In Death’ and ‘Solace; in Soil’ have pummeling groove and decent rhythm changes, but everything else is straight out of the djent playbook. You still get your cold electronics to spruce up the palm-muted slabs of sound and the occasional sung hook.
It’s just hard to get excited for music this by-the-numbers when you have acts like Textures and Periphery exploring lots of interesting areas within the genre. And do me a favor, drop the stage costumes and pseudonyms, its less edgy and more infantilizing than you think.
4.0/10
HANSEL LOPEZ