Negative Bones – Baltimore, Maryland, USA. ‘Negative Bones is a magic swamp where amps outnumber people…’ – He saw that… It’s great when bands challenge what has been established. Whether it’s through a full throttle change-up, or simply via the subtle changes that often becomes the quality that ultimately sets them apart. That was a...
Templeton Pek – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. – Photo by Kris Andrew Askey I’ve had Birmingham lot, Templeton Pek, in my lugholes for yonks now. And now, stereotypical English slang aside, it is finally time for some words on the band’s fourth full-length, New Horizons. The band’s sound has always moved between fast-to-...
Vales – London, England, United Kingdom. Loud-Emotionally-Charged-Fast-Crushing-United-Kingdom-Melodic-Progressive-Far-Reaching-Big-Noise. A good friend of mine has been pestering me to write something on Vales for a while now, and as much as I could leave my musings as the simplified description above, I’ll pad it out a bit as I really think that everyone should go and grab...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the very first in a new line of features here on Musically Fresh, our ‘Fresh Picks’. Our time spent writing for the website these days primarily consists of reviewing and featuring the incredible emerging bands that contact us on a daily bases, asking us if we could provide...
Box The Sky – Edgware, England, United Kingdom. So, we were recently having a scroll through group posts, spreading the MF-love and we receive a message. A brief conversation later and BOOM! A great band is discovered and a review is born. London/Edgware lot, Box The Sky, are a band. A band...
Holding Absence – Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom – Cover Photo Credit goes to Bethan Miller Photopgrahy: Click Here Holding Absence are five-piece from Cardiff. The band have recently released their debut single, ‘Immerse’, and about time too, as the band have been as itching as the scores of likers on...
Deadlines – Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. You may remember our work on Cardiff Punkers, Deadlines, from October last year where we looked into their debut EP, Steroid City. Said review and a brief intro to the band can be found HERE. It’s now 2015 and the band have clearly been working hard (see...
Sonic Skies – Hameln, Germany. Refreshing Metalcore their way. Metalcore gets a lot of negative press. Despite this, there are some bands that break the mould by cascading down through the negativity via that subtle, yet crucial, difference Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Metalcore. I find it can...
Castaway and Statutes – East Midlands, England, United Kingdom. Despite being lost at sea, Midlands boys Castaway are still making music, touring and combing life rafts with fellow midlanders, Statutes. Now, you may remember our work on Castaway from back in 2014 with their debut EP, Bleak, which can be found HERE...
The Autumn Levels – Dresden, Germany. The Autumn Levels are Metal five-piece from Dresden, Germany formed in 2013. They define their genre on their Facebook page as, ‘Adventurecore’. Yes, it seems we are yet to exhaust all potential “-core” genres – but I’m very much intrigued by this one. In fact… I’ve Googled it. Relevant results? – ZERO....