Scavengers Circle – Västerås, Sweden Sweden is a country synonymous with fast and heavy music from crushing Metal to melodic Punk-Rock. Scavengers Circle and Beyond Repair are very much on the fringe of an “in-between” of sorts. The band, or rather the project, is split between two musicians who unleashed their debut this past December
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School Drugs – New Jersey, USA Hardcore Punk will always find a way. The influential early ’80s stylistic is a staple part of School Drugs and their Modern Medicine, alongside an apparent usage of prescription pills and an existence between that initial high and impending purge. And so, who are School Drugs? Hailing from New
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Falaun – Liverpool, England, United Kingdom Despite having only existed for around a year up until this point, Falaun and their debut Fools are making their respective marks on the UK Punk scene. I may have just essentially personified Fools as an entity in itself and as much as that may seem like a literary mishap,
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Manchester Punk Festival “MPF 2020 and Other Tall Tales: Ian ‘Tree’ Robinson” is relevant to the question above. A question that is in its sixth iteration of annual linger. MPF 2020 is indeed fast approaching, that much is true but it simultaneously seems to be taking its sweet and possibly sentient time. As much as
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Manchester Punk Festival “Why Manchester Punk Festival 2020?” – Is the title of this written piece and the poster created by the festival that you can gaze and probably quite reasonably salivate over placed above is your answer! There’s no need for me to bore you away from your busy lives anymore, hooray! We can
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Deny – Mariestad/Töreboda, Sweden Crust Punk is a derivative form of Hardcore Punk that many find a little ambiguous. However, quite fortuitously, the following words – Deny – Dystopia, may remedy that. The genre’s foreboding, eerie and cutting yet melodic and warped variant of Hardcore Punk purveys all the rhythmic melody of fast Melodic Hardcore
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