Reviews

For a second release, this is one hell of an effort from the German outfit. Every single track has a unique hook to it and on every listen you discover something new. 'Nightfall' offers up so much for so many varieties of heavy music - it will be hard going to find a heavy music lover that doesn't enjoy at least some elements of this record.

While there are a couple of slower moments, which tend to stagnate everything, 'Chimes at Midnight' is an amazingly fitting comeback for the band you didn’t know you needed (back) in your life: Madrugada.

Heavy riffs, boyband vocals and dinner dates with inner demons - Led By Lanterns are back with their debut album 'Paralysis', and my oh my is it a whirlwind of emotions…

Ever since bursting onto the scene in 2018 with 'Columbia', The Blinders are a band that continue to show glimpses of what could be a brilliant rock band. Their latest EP 'Electric Kool-Aid (Part 1)' shows them experimenting with what could be the sound to get them to the top.

Fit For An Autopsy have had a huge few years, with the immense 2019 'The Sea Of Tragic Beasts' and their insane 2020 single 'Fear Tomorrow', both of which were received brilliantly with both fans and critics. Therefore going into their latest effort 'Oh What The Future Holds', there is bound to be some pressure for the band tipped to be entering their prime - but does it show?

For the best part of two decades, Canadian juggernauts Comeback Kid have firmly etched their place in the Mount Rushmore of modern hardcore bands. With their seventh album 'Heavy Steps', the five-piece haven't just solidified their place as one of heavy music's premier bands, but that they can still continue to create exciting music along the way.

Flirting with their former selves indie ways, but diving headfirst into their future sonic experimentation with a cheeky modern pop twist, the gleaming 'Fix Yourself, Not The World' witnesses one of Britain's most beloved bands still producing some of their best material to date, with the utmost introspection, character and charisma.   

Twin Atlantic are a band that keep changing up their sound and like to keep things fresh - that is no different in the pop-inspired 'Transparency'. However, have the band perhaps gone too pop-focused on their sixth LP?

A flair for the dramatics and theatrics brought to stage in haunting horror punk style.  

Bringing them back to Glasgow after their seventh studio album 'Motorheart', The Darkness took to the iconic Barrowlands Ballroom stage in what you could call a ballroom blitz!