Underdark – Managed Decline

Hailing from Nottingham, Underdark is a five-piece metal band that straddles the lines between post-rock, black metal, noise and even elements of the most scathing end of post-hardcore for good measure.

Going Off – Pay the Price/Bed of Concrete

I love how you can tell what something is going to sound like just by glancing at the artwork. So, this new release from Going Off, a band I’m not that familiar with – but I’m going to say definitely hardcore? Oh good lord yes.

Demons – Under The Western Heel

Under The Western Heel splices in some of the hardest, challenging, and chaotic slabs of menacing, and altogether fun-packed moments of frantic, sweat-soaked punk rock and walls of alienating, challenging noise.

Rest Easy, Rick Froberg.

“There ain’t nothing for it
What else can you do
Nothing to work with
Nothing to lose
It is what it is
It ain’t gonna improve
Nothing to work with
Nothing to lose
Take it or leave it
Do both if you choose”

Burner - It All Returns To Nothing

Burner – It All Returns to Nothing

This is like being set on fire and running through a paper factory, it’s absolutely chaotic, frenzied, guttural hardcore spliced with the most extreme moments of scything death metal, sprinkled with a flavour of mathcore deviance.

The St. Pierre Snake Invasion – Galore

Bristol’s The St. Pierre Snake Invasion sound as if they are wrenching themselves apart and hastily shovelling the guts back in, whilst sipping a cuppa and wryly observing the carnage. Yeah, it’s an odd one.

Regal Cheer – Cans

Regal Cheer consists of Max and Harry, a guitar and drum duo from Brighton who also shout themselves hoarse over the brief, but blistering 17 and half minutes that Cans has to offer.

Torso – A Crash Course In Terror

There was much dismay in the APF Records camp when Possessor called it a day. However, crawling from this freshly dug grave, before you have a chance to salt the earth properly, Torso rises.

Jackson Murray’s Top 10 albums of 2022

The king of Grunge – aka, Jackson Murray drags himself away from the pyramid of Ferrero Rocher to educate us on his top 10 albums of 2022 – let’s take a look!