Let’s take a second and go back to the olden days. Like, all the way back to the 90’s. When you couldn’t just stream your heart’s desire at the press of a button.
Barely a year since their debut ‘Dogrel’ earned them a spot as one of the most acclaimed new bands of 2019, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. will return with ‘A Hero’s Death’ on 31st July via Partisan Records. Arriving battered and bruised - albeit beautiful - the album is anything but a re-hash of the swaggering energy from their first record. Instead, the music is patient, confident, and complex – a heady and philosophical take on the modern world and its great uncertainty.
ILS has announced their debut LP and released a new single entitled "Bad Parts".
(Pronounced ilz) ILS is a 4 piece disaster chic band from Portland, OR. ILS consists of Tom Glose (Black Elk) on vocals. Nate Abner (The Days, The Nights) on guitar. Tim Steiner (Passerby) on drums and Adam Pike (White Orange) on bass.
ATD burst onto the Vancouver punk scene in 2015, debuting on a bill with The Real McKenzies. Since then, they’ve shared the stage with an array of notable acts including GBH, Leftover Crack, Days N Daze and The Flatliners.
Following up several EPs, this self-titled album will be their first full-length record. Mixed and mastered by Shafer Carson (KCR), the album (the first release of the year for Kinda Cool Records) will be out on May 29th, 2020.
Just like you can’t go wrong with a picture of ALF as your album cover (which I only recently discovered stood for Alien Life Form), you can never go wrong with a new DeeCRACKS release.
Toronto’s Dragged is a hardcore band featuring current and former members of Brutal Youth, End Program and Deadmouth.
- by Tom Dumarey
Featuring interviews with everyone from Metallica and Slayer to Megadeth and Exodus, ‘Murder In The Front Row’ tells the story of how thrash metal exploded in the Bay Area back in the 80’s. United by their hatred of all things glam and spurred on by the likes of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and other European metal bands, the Bay Area bands were all about playing fast and loud while causing as much mayhem as they could along the way.
Well, it looks like there is no ‘Bon Voyage’ to be had any time in the near future, but at least we now have this new EP by Mikey Erg.
Brighton’s Bar Stool Preachers have provided us with a soundtrack to the apocalypse. Short soundtrack though.
