Sky Tigers – Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Ah yes, the inextricable tendrils binding Punk, Hardcore and Thrash and the invariable tendency they have to coalesce. Introducing SkyTigers is relevant to that sentence and the meaning drawn from it. The Massachusetts band started in 2010 and until recently were unknown to me,…
Full NutritionThe Expanse Of The Internet “May Have Missed Volume 11” is an attempt to counter the volume of requests I receive in the various Ear Nutrition inboxes as I type away. The venture of EN, when it boils down to the barebones of itself, is a spare-time hobby. I try…
Full NutritionDimwind – Gothenburg, Sweden Dimwind and Slow Wave Violence. Truthfully, though initially missing it within my cavernous inbox, upon the reorganisation of said far from sonically devoid crevasse, Dimwind were discovered and a note was made. Here, now and without further superfluous waffle, the Gothenburg-based Post-Metal band enter with their…
Full NutritionSmall Mercy – London, England, United Kingdom Small Mercy and The Sinuous Nature Of Losing Your Touch then. A band and their debut entering into a period where the words “Post-Hardcore Revival” are reverberating around to the same spasmodic structures of the genre itself. Post-Hardcore, despite a huge diversity and…
Full NutritionFair Do’s – Manchester, England, United Kingdom Fair Do’s and ‘1000 Miles’. The latter being the fourth from the former’s most recent metamorphic contortion of their stylistic roots. Roots resembling tendril-like hooks submerged in earth, equally fed, encumbered and downtrodden by hyperaware existentialism and the fervent Punk catharsis inexorably determined to emanate…
Full NutritionRedeemon – High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom The forthcoming Redeemon and Redeemon landed in my submissions inbox after a message from a scene compadre enquiring unto whether if I would review a Ska release. Now, if you know me, despite enjoying a great deal of Ska-Punk music as a younger…
Full NutritionThe Expanse Of The Internet “May Have Missed Volume 10” is an attempt to counter the volume of requests I receive in the various Ear Nutrition inboxes as I type away. The venture of EN, when it boils down to the barebones of itself, is a spare-time hobby. I try…
Full NutritionKOLLAPS\E – Helsingborg, Sweden Truthfully, KOLLAPS\E and – The Pandemic Sessions – would do well amongst the host of bands in the Ear Nutrition “May Have Missed” series as I have as of five minutes ago finished volume 10. However, as I did not want to wait until the fated…
Full NutritionRash Decision – Falmouth, England, United Kingdom And so, we are here. The video premiere of Rash Decision and ‘Beasts Of England’ is upon us after a road of setbacks, twists, turns and an incalculable amount of sitting down. Within the UK Punk scene, the band require little introduction. That…
Full NutritionOur Darkest Days – Quebéc City, Quebéc, Canada It is safe to say that the incoming album from Our Darkest Days entitled Snakes & Ladders has, though rapidly approaching, been a long and arduous time coming. In the interest of expedition and getting to this review as fast as the Quebéc…
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