Yurodivy – Strasbourg, France. ‘Everybody Can Be Somebody’s Fool‘ Cover photo credit: Michel Grr Madrigal. Post-Hardcore. A genre that is an unambiguous game-changer, a genre that for better and sometimes worse has inspired countless variations of both itself and a whole and incredibly varied line of Punk, Pop-Punk, Metal and Instrumental...
Barque – Lille, France. It is credible to state that when looking into influential bands and genre stylistics that Punk and its angry sibling Hardcore have done modern alternative music (and arguably music in general) a huge service. Now, if you apply this logic to Punk and Hardcore within that...
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...
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...
SUNNERS – Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Post-Hardcore à la Baltimore. Baltimore is on the list of cities I would like to visit when I eventually get stateside, primarily because of what I hear of it’s music scene. Over the last few years I’ve been introduced to many bands from and that...
SUNDR – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. We’ve taken a solid look at some of Melbourne‘s Punk-Rock bands but now it’s time to take a turn for the more Progressive in this instalment of ‘Fresh Picks’, with SUNDR. The band describe themselves as ‘Post-Rock inspired‘ and despite the sheer aggression laid down by...
White Lion Parade – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Bristol boys White Lion Parade were my first introduction to the genres of Post-Rock and Post-Metal and have kept my hearing in good company ever since. That first gig in a tiny underground bar/lounge in the city of Bath in England was...
Black Hearts – Leeds, England, United Kingdom. Photo credit – Alison Hope Photography – Click Here Formally Suicide Defects, Black Hearts are a band hailing from Leeds in England’s north. They are a band who not only made the right decision on the name change, but also produce a hard...
Vera Grace – Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Oxfordshire quintet, Vera Grace, have just released their second EP in the form of concept EP, Novella. But before we get to that, let’s discuss the band’s sound. They’re a Metal band – there’s no doubt there – but in what vein? That’s a harder...
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...