There is something addictive about this Metal life. You get music in your blood and if you don’t get your fix then there is hell to pay. Inspired by a mutual desire to write some straight up Hardcore Punk songs to expel personal demons as well as wanting to provoke discussion about the issues of this
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Bad Dreams by My Latest Failure won’t love you. A piece of meloncholia, a ode to summer loves lost and an antidote to everything sugary sweet, Bad Dreams is a dramatic twist on My Latest Failure’s usual formula that may catch you by surprise. It’s been a week since
A couple of weeks ago a self titled debut EP from a Hardcore Punk act called State Of You landed and caught our attention like the sound of a grand piano falling from the 30th floor and landing on a passing Taxi. Preceded by a couple of music videos including one directed and edited by
The second of our pair of interviews with Canadians Whispers In The Maze takes a look at the ingredients list on the wrapper of their new EP “Stories Untold (Chapter 1)” but instead of looking at the Saturates or Sugar content instead we discuss with the band things like gear, working with Dave Sarazin and how
Our second conversation with multi instrumentalist and sound board master Andy Wit (Once Begotten, Dictated) is all about how he wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered a Death Metal record of the finest order in “Elan Vital” under the moniker Anchillys. Learning as he went, every element has been fashioned to match his vision with only
Last week saw the release of the debut album from Anchillys titled “Elan Vital”, a solo project from multi instrumentalist Andy Wit that explores his own love – hate relationship with human existence inspired by an inner meditative odyssey and has been in the works for somewhere in the region of a decade. It hasn’t
Hailing from Ottawa Ontario Canada, Whispers In The Maze are a band who have spent the past six years at the grindstone perfecting their sound as a Metal band without borders, who want to create a musical blend of the heavy, the melodic, the progressive and the poetic. In doing so they have been hampered by
If you’re anything like us then from time to time, perhaps at the recommendation of a friend, an article on your favourite webzine or magazine, you’ll put on a record you’ve never heard before with zero expectations… and then it slaps you in the face and screams “wake up!” at the top of it’s lungs
After the thing of beauty that was last weeks first interview with guitarist and vocalist Martin Elliot from Mortal Chains, it’s time for the sequel. Unlike the kind of nonsense that Hollywood might have us paying big bucks to watch at the cinema, this summer blockbuster is worth it’s weight in gold as we discuss
“Somebody taught you to hate your skin, somebody taught you to hate your lips, somebody taught you to hate yourself from within for the state that you’re in” screams vocalist Ryan Struck about 60 seconds into the chaotic, fast and loose Hardcore Punk of hard hitting opening cut “Suffer Peacefully” of Scary Hours new record
