Tag Archives: hardcore

THE GREEN RIVER BURIAL – Separate & Coalesce.

German Hardcore quartet deliver a slamming debut album. Formed in Frankfurt in 2008, this represents the bands full length debut album, following on from a couple of well received and self released EP’s. Now that the band have been taken under the wing of Bastardized Recordings however the stakes have …

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BLEAK FALLS – ‘Another Rainy Day’

  The South Coast quintet deliver a debut E.P. brimming with energy and enough youthful exuberance, coupled with an amazing level of maturity to make me believe that I’ve just found the perfect mix of old school Metal riffs and modern Hardcore.     I must admit it took a …

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Converge – ‘All We Love We Leave Behind’

There is no doubt about it, Converge have been one of the most influential and imitated extreme bands of the last two and a half decades – their mix of hardcore and heavy metal having been credited as giving birth to what we now know as ‘metalcore’ (fuck, they’ve a …

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Gallows – Gallows

Is it unreasonable to blame Gallows for the break-up of our beloved Alexisonfire? Of course it is, but it bears repeating just how heavy the loss of Alexisonfire still weighs in our hearts over a year later. One of the most consistent and vital post-hardcore bands to emerge in the …

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Vision Of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed

Reunions are such a tricky business. A band will never be followed under such scrutiny and (often biased) critique than if they’ve disbanded and eventually reunited. You can double up the cynicism if we’re talking about a band who were universally lauded and respected within their genre during their original …

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Fear Factory – The Industrialist (cd)

  When you think of Fear Factory your mind automatically conjures images of mechanical, hardcore industrial power fused metal. When the brothers of destruction, Mr Dino Cazares and Burton C. Bell were re-united in 2010 for the “Mechanize” album after spending ten long years apart, people wondered how long would …

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Visceral Attack – ‘Quick And Severe’

County Fermanagh, nestled in the south-western corner of Northern Ireland and in the elbow crook of its border, is the Province’s equivalent of the Lake District – a haven of quiet and tranquillity, a place of outstanding natural beauty which serves as a retreat away from the hustle and bustle …

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What The Night Brings – Bound by Apathy (E.P)

[media-credit name=”What The Night Brings” align=”aligncenter” width=”425″][/media-credit]  Forming in Buckinghamshire in 2008 this brutal, hard-hitting metal fused hardcore act have gone from strength to strength, making the most of having their single “Sewn Shut” appear on a Metal Hammer sampler cd in October 2010, gaining support slots with bands such …

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