Album Reviews: …buried where you stand

Artist – Mutes Album: …buried where you stand Record Label: Unsigned Release Date: May 17, 2024 Mutes, one of Birmingham’s most productive bands in recent years, are all set to release their fourth album titled ‘…buried where you stand’. The 12-track record is expected to be their most raw and engaging work to date. Following

Interview: Movment

Band Members: Vocals, Drums: Martin Kelly Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Synths: Kevin Kelly Bass (live): Mark Kelly Guitars (live): Isabella Rowden Kelly Movment are an alternative post-punk band hailing from Ireland. The band creates raw, profound, and original music by blending guitars, electronics, bass, drums, and sound experiments. They have already released three albums, namely Broken

Interview: The Haptics

Band Members: Vocals: Jin Guitar: Cam Bass: Brent Drums: Flavio The Haptics are a Canadian, Vancouver-based post-punk outfit that delivers a pulsating, dark and melodic style. The band grew up on a combination of Grunge and Alternative Rock combined with the post-punk scene drawing influence from Alice in Chains to Joy Division. This offers quite

Album Reviews: Monsters & Heroes

Artist – Shoun Shoun Album: Monster & Heroes Record Label: Unsigned Release Date: January 28, 2022 The experimental rock group Shoun Shoun bring us their debut album ‘Monsters & Heroes’. Their style can best be described as unpredictably surreal and profound with a garage and post-punk feel. The band put together their debut album during

Interview: Michel Lead Vocalist of TRANK

Band Members: Vocals: Michel Guitar: Julian Bass: David Drums: Johann TRANK are an all French alternative rock/metal band that write in English. Their music blends infectious, propulsive, angry energy, with a more seasoned lyrical look upon life and its trials than you’d expect from a band that sounds this powerful. Their influences include Deftones to

Interview: Haneke Twins

Band Members: Paschalis Vichoudis Stefanos Leontsinis Haneke Twins are a band from Geneva, Switzerland. They were perhaps surprisingly first formed in 2018 by two CERN scientists. The band draws their inspiration from a large variety of post-punk/new-wave bands, along with modern post-punk revival and math rock artists. Haneke Twins are an amalgamation of dark undertones

Single Reviews: Life Death and Other Things

Bandicoot – Life Death and Other Things Label: Libertino Release Date: 8 October 2021 Bandicoot not to be confused with Crash Bandicoot (an awesome video game by the way) are a rock band from Wales. They are a group who with their combined talents are reclaiming the poetry of Dylan with the stark beauty and

Interview: A Permanent Shadow

A Permanent Shadow are a one man band with CP Fletcher as their only fixture. On his debut album ‘Songs Of Loss’ during the recording process he surrounded himself with a rotating cast of musicians and producers. His music combines both old and new, drawing from the likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Gary Numan and Nine Inch Nails as well as more recent bands like Editors and Franz Ferdinand among many others. The style is somewhat reminiscent of Post Punk mixed with Synth Pop.

Interview: Martin Bowes Founder Of Attrition

Attrition are an English Dark-Wave and Industrial, Electronic music band, formed in Coventry, England in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Niblock. The band emanated from the experimental Post-Punk scene of the early 1980s and contributed considerably to the evolution of industrial music in the UK. They are still active 30 years later and have influenced many younger bands in the genre whilst also perpetually fine-tuning their particular sound. Martin Bowes one of the bands founding members answered some questions for us earlier and this is what he had to say.

Single Reviews: Something Different

Strange Circuits are an industrial post-punk/electronic group from Chicago USA a band that has actually been around for a long while. They are on the same label as artists such as Nine Inch Nails and Ministry.