Castle Bravo – Perth, Western Australia, Australia. When you listen to Perth Punk-Rock band Castle Bravo you hear a band that has done their sonic homework and a band that has paid attention to the last twenty or so years of Punk music. The band take cues from the likes...
Spider – Long Beach, California, USA. Cover photo credit – David Chi. When a band “calls it a day”, splits, goes on an indefinite hiatus or explains that they have done so via various other explanations of nullification, it’s never a good day. The band could have have thirty years...
Kill The President! – Valencia, Spain. Cover photo credit: Greet Druyts. Today’s Fresh Picks concerns a four-piece that I’ve been meaning to write about for some time now. So without further wording, we present Valencia‘s own technical Melodic Hardcore Punk-Rock band, Kill The President! The band are currently working on their first...
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...
Go Go Buffalo – Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. A band with a bandcamp page that will genuinely make you think your computer has an overwhelming old-school computer virus and a band who’s Cincinnati Blues-filtered Punk and Hardcore sound is something disjointedly beautiful should are Taking Control. Formed in 2014 and with Taking...
Swamp – Bath, England, United Kingdom. You’re in Bath one minute but then imagine yourself clambering through a forest to find Tim Burton’s house because he’s hosting a tea party, but the only people at this party are Tim burton the obvious host, Brian Wilson from the The Beach Boys...
In Evil Hour – Darlington, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit: Mark Richards – Click Here. With a sound sat somewhere between old school Hardcore Punk and the raspy end of modern melodic Punk and Melodic Hardcore, Darlington based In Evil Hour have been making ‘[…] noise and shouting about things...
The Black Swamp – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. (Above) Photo credit: Rob Rizza LIVE – Click Here. Queensland, Australia’s The Black Swamp came to my attention at random. My interest was piqued by the process of hearing Sludge, or otherwise known as “Stoner” Metal interpreted outside of its saturated and well...
Missiles Of October – Brussels, Belgium. (Above) Photo credit: Manu Bxhell. Belgium is a well known tour spot for British and European underground music. You ask any small-time or underground band they will tell you they wish to go or have actually been, with many of the bands featured on...
Volatile Idea // Skinners – Bath/Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Photography credit – Meg Manley Photography – Click Here. Both Skinners and Volatile Idea have been busy since the last time we saw them, further entrenching and carving out their respective positions as two of loudest and most abrasive bands in...