Released by: New Heavy Sounds Release Date: 07.11.25 Running Time: 40:19 Score: Infinity/10   I have been consumed by the urge to write, this is the third review I have written today and it appears that the words are a torrent of things within my head which have been bursting to get out and unleash themselves on you, the unsuspecting people who just waited to read stuff about music, but instead are forced to endure the verbal diarrhoea spewing forth from the majorly twisted p

Label: Youngblood Records Release Date: October 17th, 2025 Though there is a healthy scene of hardcore bands in the UK, it does seem that in this area of the world, straight edge has always been harder to come by. It makes sense though, this is a place where sharing pints with your mates is engrained in the culture. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of blokes Xing up in the UK. The members of Sheffield straight edge hardcore punk band Cannonball are some of them. Cannonbal

Released by: Room312 Release Date: 24.10.25 Running Time: 52:24 Score: 8/10   Good afternoon. I have been looking at a larger house in a town at the upper end of the Calder Valley in a town whose name literally means Death and Murder. That town is Todmorden. It is a very large house that will actually allow me to have office space within it and will probably mean that you get to read more drivel from me. You fantastically lucky things!   In other news, the weather is grim, a

Released by: Human Worth Release Date: 17.10.25 Running Time: 44:54 Score: 256,000,000,000/10   I am Dark Juan and Crow Cottage is in disarray. Not content with adopting a new Smellhound, Ivy the Traitorous (so named because she likes Mrs Dark Juan better than me, and I specifically wanted a bitch so she could be Daddy’s little Princess, and she has instead chosen Mrs Dark Juan and left me aggrieved, which hasn’t helped Dark Juan’s self-worth much) I currently have about half

Released by: Drone Alone Release Date: 26.09.25 Running Time: 45:02 Score: 8/10   It is a grim day at Crow Cottage. The wind is howling...

I first crossed paths with Scatter the Tribe in late 2022 when I photographed them before any music had been released. Watching them grow...

Self-Released Release Date: 13.06.25 Running Time: 13:17 Review by Dark Juan Score: 9/10   I am still in the grip of verbal diarrhoea. I...

I stumbled upon Scatter the Tribe purely by accident. A friend of mine needed a photographer for a shoot in November 2022 and introduced...

Picture yourself on an abandoned shore or at the center of a lonesome valley defined by craggy, wild hills. At the edges of your vision,...

After reviewing Demonstealer’s Propaganda Machine I felt I needed a challenge and the Hand of God guided me to Calligram’s second album,...

Celestial Sanctuary are quickly becoming the band to beat in the UK Death Metal scene, these East Anglian Riffmeisters impress me more...

Hailing from London, Morag Tong is a stoner-doom metal band that formed in the year 2014. The foursome is made up of Adam Asquith on...

Hailing from London, England, Wounded Not Dead are a trio of progressive death metal powerhouse musicians originally from Brazil and...

Heriot slid into my rotation earlier this year with their new single, Demure . I then discovered their raging cover of Machine Head's...

Date: 04 Nov 2020 Location: The Black Heart, London, UK Orbital Junction are a four-piece London based heavy band that have clawed their...

Date: 11 Oct 2019 Location: Boston Music Room, London, UK Primitai is a British heavy metal band known for their energetic and melodic...