Sometimes all you really want is angry music. Maybe your boss was a dick, or you got repeatedly cut up on the drive home, but there are days when it’s case of either blast pulverising death metal at full volume or destroy everything you come into contact with. Step forward ‘The 13 Beast, the latest effort from old school veterans Malevolent Creation
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Whilst heavier bands certainly haven’t been ignored in past years (the likes of Skindred, Heck, Architects and While She Sleeps – amongst many others – all popping up), the 2019 iteration of Slam Dunk seems to be going harder than ever with the announcement of it’s full Impercion Stage. Headed by post-hardcore luminaries Glassjaw, the stage features the likes of Angel Du$t, Turnstile, Cancer Bats, Knocked Loose and The Bronx, as well as the return of British hardcore heroes Gallows.
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DJ Monk first came across Brighton’s Blood Red Shoes at the turn of the decade, when he stumbled across their excellent ‘Fire Like This’. Not his normal cup of mead, there was just something about Laura-Mary Carter’s vocals in particular that drew him into their darkly neurotic otherworldliness which, to Monk anyway, lay somewhere betwixt the morbidity of The Cocteau Twins and the gothic blues of The White Stripes. Shortly afterwards, he picked up the wonderful ‘In Time To Voices’, an intensely appealing album which still gets the occasional play (especially when herself is out of the house), most recently when he received the press release proclaiming that the duo had once again emerged from the studio with new material for our aural delectation.
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The Gallagher brothers – no, not those ones – should need no introduction to metal fans the Überverse over. For the past four decades the band they formed back in 1974, Raven, have been regarded as one of THE seminal acts in the genre, christened the “godfathers of NWOBHM” for every good reason in the book. Now, 45 years into their storied career, they aim to prove that they are still very much a force with which to be reckoned with this, their third live album, recorded (apparently without them knowing at the time) at a show in Denmark back in November of 2017.
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Twitter seemed to explode on 20 December as it seemed every member of the rock press bore witness to something a fair few have known for a while; Clutch absolutely kill it live and have never been on finer form. It’s been a long road for the band – now celebrating 27 years with the same line-up – but it finally looks like they have found their rightful place in the sun in 2018. Not only has their latest record ‘Book of Bad Decisions’ earned massive critical acclaim (including being our very own Album Of The Year), but the band have embarked on their biggest Euro tour to date, the massive Brixton Academy show sending shockwaves across Twitter. As such, the atmosphere was buzzing as the band roll into Birmingham’s O2 Academy for the final date of the year, promising sweet grooves and righteous fury to cap off a year which feels like it desperately needed more of both throughout.
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