They say that good things come to those who wait, and the Northamptonshire pioneers of downtuned hardcore-infused thunderous sludge certainly have made us wait – five long years in fact – to prove why they remain one of the consistently dominant forces on the ÜK metal scene over the past quarter of a century.
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With the evenings stretching longer, what better way to usher in spring than with the sheer brutality of Paleface Swiss’s European headline tour? Riding the momentum of their latest album, ‘Cursed’, this run has been their most ambitious yet: selling out, upgrading, and selling out again shows across Europe, even to their own surprise. Joining them for the carnage are The Acacia Strain and Desolated, two IQ-loweringly heavy bands that make for a relentlessly punishing lineup.
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It’s no secret to anyone that knows him even a bit that Jase W is a huge weeaboo and fan of J-rock and frequently mentions Man With A Mission as one of his go-to bands that had provided several songs for well known series ranging from ‘My Hero Academia’ to ‘Naruto’. To keep things moving along while they proceed with a constantly packed schedule of touring around the world, they’ve dropped a mixed EP, ‘XV’, with four brand new original tracks and eight live tracks from their tour stop in Mexico.
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The only disappointing thing about this latest taster of the upcoming new album by these Sacramento punk veterans, which will see them unleash ‘Bedlam’ when it is eventually released in April, is that it has taken nine very long years for it to see the light of day. Why? Well, like the rest of the album, its guts were recorded prior to the death of bassist and band founder Casey Marsullo, who was killed in a car crash back in 2016, and it has taken the intervening years for singer Joshua Thompson and the rest of his surviving bandmates to craft a fitting tribute to his life and legacy, finally entering the studio last year to put the finishing touches to the partially completed recordings…
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There are times when it is appropriate to rectify an oversight and this evening was one of them, with the turning of a new month finally providing us with the opportunity to witness, at first hand, the turning of a new page in the history of one of the longest serving bastions of our home city’s metal scene. Yes, it’s hard to believe that, almost 18 months after they re-emerged, phoenix-like, from a period of trauma and turmoil, to prove that their fire indeed still rises and burns brightly, we had never actually had seen the latest incarnation of this most storied of bands live and in the flesh…
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