Sixteen Floors Above – Hertfordshire/Essex, England, United Kingdom. Sometimes, it’s nice to simply sit and listen to some Rock music. Diverse and natural sounding Rock music at that. In recent conversations with the band, it came to light that this three-track release is a compilation of sorts, in an effort to reflect on what...
Phase – Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom. Based in Newcastle, UK, Phase are a band. A band that play sound. Sound that is organised into a genre-crossing selection of music that is hard to pin down to any one particular style or genre. I was in conversation with the band...
Tirade – Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Well, they told me… I best get that will written. As I’m destined for death, it seems I must get on with it. Tirade, a Pop-Punk-infused Alternative Rock band from Manchester in Northern England. Much of the current wave of UK Pop-Punk has a...
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...
Bar Fight – Gloucester, England, United Kingdom. GCxBC-HC Gloucester-City-Booze-Crew-Hardcore A good friend of mine is in a band. A Hardcore/(dirty) D-Beat band. And he showed me this. We hope to get them on MF soon enough, but back to the current band in question – and pool cues at the ready – this is Bar...
Television Villain – Bath, England, United Kingdom. Editor’s/Co-author’s note: Having both seen Television Villain play live, and having met vocalist Dan Stothard on numerous occasions, myself an fellow MF writer, Matthew Mansell, decided we would combine efforts to review the band’s debut EP, Signal Lost. It’s not something we do on Musically...
Constant Source Of Disappointment – Blackpool, England, United Kingdom. Constant Source Of Disappointment (C.S.O.D.), a Punk-Rock four-piece whom incorporate Thrash Metal into their sound. Not only are these ‘Bastards of Noise’ tearing up Blackpool, they’re catching the attention of the rest of the nation too. Now, the band have recently released the finale in their 666...
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-...
Anquitaz – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. ‘Formed on a sunny morning, after a heavy night, via many misconceptions…’ I’ve been meaning to sit down with this for a while now. A debut from two friends of mine based in Bristol, Mr. Leo Taylor and a Mr. Philip Graham. Now, I...
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...