What happened to Novelists FR? They started life as an exciting progressive metalcore band and became a regular fixture at the UK Techfest. Their influence can be heard all over…
Tag: alternative metal
Multi-instrumentalist, Kargyr, is not a citizen of an obscure Central Asian Republic – as his name might suggest – but hails from France. This is a man who furnishes his…
Italian metalcore progressives, Destrage, left Metal Blade Records after releasing three albums via their imprint between 2014 and 2019. In a sign of the high regard in which their peers…
Denver noise rockers, Abrams, went into 2020 as a trio with a plan to tour their Modern Ways album the world over. They came out of the global lockdown eighteen…
Inexplicable as it may sound, Ithaca’s 2019 debut slipped under the radar of this reviewer. As a band often mentioned in the same sentence as Employed to Serve and Svalbard,…
The Hertford Corn Exchange, 28 July 2022 The Hertford Corn Exchange is one of Hertfordshire’s premier music and comedy venues. A splendid Victorian building on the main high street, it’s…
Dillinger Escape Plan legend, Greg Puciato, returned triumphant in 2020 with his ambitious solo record, Child Soldier: Creator of God. Scream Blast Repeat gave a glowing appraisal but observed that…
German metalcore chameleons, The Oklahoma Kid, have the unfortunate label of ‘modern metal’ weighing them down. This often means iconoclastic art that no metalhead over the age of thirty will…
In a special piece, Ritual bassist, James Marinos, documents a week in his life after the release of the band’s excellent Enigma EP. We also asked James to muse over…