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ALBUM: Hacktivist – ‘Outside the Box’

Michael Bird
Four years is a long time in music. When Hacktivist burst onto the then vibrant djent scene in 2012 with their self-titled EP, the subgenre was in a boom period and their fusion of Meshuggah riffs and grime rap vocals was exciting enough to draw in listeners beyond your typical tech-heads and music theoreticians. Now […]

ALBUM: Hands Like Houses – ‘Dissonants’

Michael Bird
A handful of silly song titles on their Ground Dweller debut album aside, Hands Like Houses have never really fit in with the Rise-core breakdown-pop brigade. They’ve never been content to settle for the base elements employed by their colleagues, instead drawing on electronics that flesh out atmosphere (rather than fulfilling gimmick quotients) and lead […]

ALBUM: Panic! at the Disco – ‘Death of a Bachelor’

Michael Bird
Las Vegas, Nevada. One of America’s great havens of excitement, excess and entertainment, it’s become fertile ground for modern rock bands with The Killers, Five Finger Death Punch and Imagine Dragons all hailing from the city. Perhaps best characterising it was the carnival madness of Panic! at the Disco, who emerged in 2005 with all […]

ALBUM: Trivium – ‘Silence In The Snow’

Matthew Powers
When you’ve been a band for 10 years, it’s completely understandable to want to mix things up. Trivium are one such band who have been consistently experimenting from the start, however. Each album has been its own entity with a separate set of influences and different frameworks. This way of going about releasing music has […]

ALBUM: Parkway Drive – ‘Ire’

Michael Bird
Many are the bands that can’t effectively reproduce their studio sound in a live setting; few are those who excel live to the point they can’t recreate the magic on record. Parkway Drive might be the biggest single example of the latter – each of their gigs is a ceremony of sonic intensity, mosh nirvana. […]

ALBUM: Lana Del Rey- ‘Honeymoon’

Kat Tanaciev
Lana Del Rey has recently dropped her fourth album, titled Honeymoon, which was released September 18th. In comparison to her previous albums, Honeymoon, while still having that bluesy feel everyone has come to love, seems a bit slowed down. Many of the songs on this album are slow and nostalgic, and are missing some of […]

ALBUM: Buried In Verona – ‘Vultures Above, Lions Below’

Michael Bird
Adversity breeds good metal. It’s always been the case that difficult personal circumstances make for heavy music of a higher calibre, simply because of the nature of the genre. Buried in Verona may have lost more than half of their members since last year’s ‘Faceless’, but they’ve come out of the transition stronger than ever […]

ALBUM: Being As An Ocean – ‘Being As An Ocean’

Michael Bird
There’s a latent statement that comes with self-titling an album. It’s an effective way for an artist or band to communicate that this is their definitive work, the yardstick to compare their other records to and the truest expression of their identity – admittedly this becomes muddled if they self-title more than one of their […]
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