Tag: Heart of a Coward

NEWS: Radar Festival announce 2nd wave and day splits!

Radar Festival will be making it’s UK debut on 2nd and 3rd August in Guildford with a growing impressive line-up. Previously announced “for one night only” final show from No Consequence on the Saturday has now seen the band joined by Heart of a Coward on the Saturday meaning that Kaan Tasan will be pulling

NEWS: Osiah take a moment with “Reflections of a Monster”!

Siege Music? North East Deathcore quintet Osiah have taken a moment to thank former Heart of a Coward vocalist Jamie Graham, The Faceless Manager E.J. Shannon and others as thy have announced their signing to Unique Leader Records for new album “Kingdom of Lies”. It will make its bow on 3rd May with new single

NEWS: Download Festival add 43!

The organizers of Download Festival have announced 43 additions to this year’s incarnation with some interesting choices. Heart of a Coward will hopefully have their new album completed in the for the festival, while Brighton Progressive Instrumental trio Toska‘s rise is nothing short of incredible! Whether their inclusion also means that Frog Leap will appear

Review: “Dyatlov” by Jonestown

2014’s Metal to the Masses (South East) winners and a band that Metal Hammer said had released “The best Metal debut of 2016, by far!” in their release “Aokigahara” are Brighton’s Jonestown. They signed to SPV imprint label of the moment Long Branch Records for their new album “Dyatlov” which saw release on 16th November with

Interview: Tom Gardner from Harbinger!

We had the pleasure of having a pint with Harbinger frontman Tom Gardner at Upsurge Festival and were lucky enough to get him to agree to answer a few questions for us in the first of a new series of exclusive interviews. We’re big fans, having seen the band on tour with Loathe and then putting

NEWS: Turbulence Festival 2018 First Line-up Announcement!

Taking place across three venues (The Junction, Underground & Fortescue) in Plymouth on Saturday 13th October, this years incarnation of Turbulence Festival have announced their first wave of bands. They say 30 plus further bands to be announced, but so far 6 have appeared, 3 of which should be enough to justify the ticket price

Review: “Diagnosed” EP by Borders

Lincoln quintet Borders released “Diagnosed” in April 2017 to have played shows with the likes of Whitechapel, Faces of Eve and Martyr Defiled in support of it. Having appeared on our Black Map feature a few weeks back, we figured it was about time we gave them a full review. “Analyst” gets things off to a

Review: “Self-Titled” EP by HIVE

Chicago Illinois is home to HIVE, a band that pride themselves on dark and atmospheric immensely heavy, down-tuned Deathcore combined with the polyrhythmic nuances of progressive Death Metal. The quintet recently started putting out some decent new music with a pair of singles in “Abdicate” and “Pale Black” so we thought we’d check out where it

Review: “Monolith” by Perception

The follow up to their impressive 2016 offering “Collapse”, Southampton based Tech-Infused Metalcore crew Perception released “Monolith” in March. Once again returning to Avenue Studios and getting Dan Kerr back into the production chair seemed a wise decision, as did having him Mix & Master the EP as he did with its predecessor. So how

NEWS: Hacktivist announce Camden Rocks warm-up show!

Hacktivist have announced the cancellation of their 19th May farewell show with former Heart Of A Coward guitarist Timfy James. They’ve also confirmed a run of shows booked for the remainder of the year as well as promising more. Having replaced Ben Marvin with Jot Maxi last year, Timfy James had announced his stepping down from the band to concentrate on