PENGSHUi have never been a band to do things by halves. London‑born and bred, they started out tearing through pirate radio sets and basement shows, blending the aggression of punk and metal with the ...

“Nobody go kill your ex-girlfriend, please! But it’s the song that at least connects to that instinct.” ...

Fresh off their chart-topping ‘The Sky, The Earth and All Between’ release (number two in the UK, cheers very much), Architects roll into Greenwich with American heavyweights Wage War and rising stars ...

Tonight feels like a stepping stone for Nova Twins: an important one for sure, but just one spot on an endless path that strides across the musical landscape. Once the dust has settled and we’re able ...

Refused, as they so eloquently put it, are fucking dead. Tonight might be their final UK show of their farewell tour, but this no solemn evening. Rather, this is a celebration of musical lives lived ...

The title track rounds off the album with a sense of uncertainty and unease. It might be the longest song on the album but it’s a beautiful conclusion. A slow start building to droning, tribal vocals ...

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – MySpace era survivors and perennial comeback kids – aren’t going to end up Face Down any time soon. A seven year absence has brought us to ‘X’s For Eyes’, a record that ...

Blood Incantation take to a stage that is bookended by large obelisks. These frame a neat arrangement of beefy amplifiers, synthesisers and, amongst other assortments, a gong. Behind them are the ...

Daniel Foggin aka Smote holds the unlikely dual-vocation of landscape gardener and purveyor of imperious drones. While these two professions may appear to be wholly disparate, it is his pursuit of the ...

The word ‘grey’ has plenty of negative connotations. Tarmac is grey, the sky is grey, depression is grey, porridge is grey, the mood is very much grey. Despite it being part of their name, ‘grey’ is ...

‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ is not a record from the AFI that play in the memory of every early noughties alt kid. The masters of subtle reinvention, who slid from hardcore basements to MTV screens ...

German post punks TV CULT describe their music as “somewhere between The Cure and Minor.” Their debut album, 2023’s ‘Colony’, lent hard on their punk influences and led to the band touring with acts ...