Tag: Hardcore

Knocked Loose announce European Tour 2025

Knocked Loose announce European Tour 2025

Knocked Loose have announced their biggest UK and European headline tour to date, which takes them across ten cities, including London’s prestigious O2 Brixton Academy.  Support for these shows comes from Basement, Harms Way and Pest Control. Renowed for being one of the most ferocious and exciting live bands there 

LIFESICK: new video online, new album incoming

LIFESICK: new video online, new album incoming

Despite hailing from lovely, peaceful Denmark, Lifesick continue their journey into dark metallic hardcore as a soundtrack for society’s darker sides (yes, even in Denmark). The band will release “Loved By None, Hated By All” on November 1st von Metal Blade Records. Recordings took place 

Live footage of Dagger Threat @Hamburg – December 5th, 2019

Live footage of Dagger Threat @Hamburg – December 5th, 2019

Dagger Threat played a hometown show at Bahnhof Pauli last night and delivered a heavy show. Supporting Brutality Will Prevail on a short European Tour, the dudes knew how to fill 30 minutes with heavy-hitting hardcore. Check out their debut album “Gestaltzerfall”!

Review: Mass Worship – Mass Worship

Review: Mass Worship – Mass Worship

If you’re hailing from Sweden and earned a name as a musician in the heavy guitar-kind of scene, it may feel odd to never have played in a HM-2-band. Dunno if that theory holds true, but Mass Worship may prove it. The dudes around Claes 

Review: Sect – Blood of the Beast

Review: Sect – Blood of the Beast

Music-wise, my personal journey, socialisation, and (ongoing) transformation began with Swedish Death Metal. Thus, the Boss HM-2 played a critical role. And even though I discovered new genres and new favourites in the last twenty years, I’ll always love the buzzing sound of HM-2 (and 

Did you check out the new Being As An Ocean video?

Did you check out the new Being As An Ocean video?

It’s nice. Yeah, nice is a half-hearted compliment, but I couldn’t come up with more: “Know My Name” is a catchy, melodic song with hardcore roots, and while it delivers on the lyrics, the video is… okayish. Just watch it yourself:  It’s the classic “band 

Make distros a threat again

Make distros a threat again

  Evil Greed has evolved from a minor distro to a major player in the european distro scene and business, despite all (now severed) connections to Wolf Down. Always looking for new ways of promoting their business, the guys now found a new way: invite 

Limbs? Never heard of them before?

Limbs? Never heard of them before?

The human race fucked up this planet. Very hard. We don’t seem to understand that we can’t continue our way of life, if we don’t want to start our own extinction very soon.  On the other hand, the human race created countless wonders, with music 

Beartooth reveal another new song of “Disease”

Beartooth reveal another new song of “Disease”

… and it leaves me cold.  Don’t get me wrong, “You Never Know” is a well-written song, but it doesn’t click. It doesn’t feel like a proper Beartooth song – and maybe the flaw can be found in the way it was written:  “You Never 

Red Apollo reveal how taxing writing a new record can be…

Red Apollo reveal how taxing writing a new record can be…

Red Apollo relased their third album “The Laurels Of Serenity” some time ago. Now one might think that they – as an experienced – band the writing and recording of if was a smooth process. Turns out: it wasn’t. Red Apollo decided to talk about