Unfold – Yverdon Les Bains, Switzerland. Switzerland is known for many things from banks to watches, historic mercenaries to a meeting of cultures and beyond. I am likely missing more than a few but there is one more that I can remember, one of importance, specifically so in regard to...
Scornthroats – Cagliari, Italy. Scornthroats, formally Rise After Defeat, have been releasing music since 2011. Music that is perhaps only really best described as utterly visceral organised chaos, that is barely confined within an amalgamation of Hardcore Punk, Crust Punk and riffs that touch upon the not so distant shores...
Sibiir – Oslo, Norway. Cover photo credit: Fotograf Stian S. Evensen – Click Here. When discussing the darkest and heaviest in alternative music you find that nowhere is quite as synonymous with it as Scandinavia, with Norway standing as perhaps the prime example in the region. This is where Oslo...
VO/ID – Washington DC/Baltimore, USA. Cover photo credit: McBean Photography – Click Here. (Above) Photo credit – Seth Herzog. Based in around the musical hubs (thats music, not Musicals, lets not make that mistake) of Baltimore an Washington DC, VO/ID – pronounced ‘No Void’ are a Post-Hardcore band that cite...
Cara Neir – Dallas, Texas, USA. Cara Neir has been a name in the burgeoning, often praised, often ill-spoken lump of a ‘scene’ that is American Black Metal. That being said, Cara Neir has never really fit in amongst glazed over, super compressed shoegazey bands that have taken away from...
Underdark – Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. Photo credit – Maddie Rigby. June of this year marked the debut release of Nottingham based Black Metal/Post-Metal band, Underdark. A band whose interest in the more obscure and or extreme, as well as as progressive forms of Rock and Metal music has yielded...
Requiem – Ararat, Victoria, Australia. Ararat boys, Requiem, formed in 2012 and by the September 2014, the band had premiered their Mass Of The Dead EP, showcasing five tracks piecing together Thrash Metal and Melodic Death Metal, all slightly blackened with a Black Metal gloss – if there is such a thing. Influences:...
Boston – Massachusetts – USA. This was a show that had me on the edge of my cramped polyester seat riding the T (Boston’s subway system) back to my side of town to link up with a handful of very talented musicians, for a show that had been the talk...