The below feature was originally intended as the cover-story for Hardbeat Issue 6 back in January, with the magazine on hold for a little while, here’s the full planned article Keep Reading
Live Review: Holding Absence @ The Sugarmill, Stoke, 30.01.2023
Since 2021’s release of their second record, The Greatest Mistake Of My Life, South Wales’ quartet Holding Absence have been on quite a tear. That album propelled them to dizzying Keep Reading
Press Club @ The Flapper, Birmingham, 03.11.22
Swapping the beaches of Melbourne for the canals of Birmingham, tonights headliner’s Press Club make their long awaited return to the UK backed by a basketful of bangers from their Keep Reading
Live Review: The Xcerts @ Castle & Falcon, Birmingham, 14.09.22
An Autumn chill has returned to the air in the darkening streets of Birmingham and that somehow feels just perfect for the live return of gloomy Scottish pop-rock mainstays The Keep Reading
Live Review: HEALTH @ Castle & Falcon, Birmingham
For one night only the back room of a pub on Moseley Road in Birmingham could easily have been mistaken for a scrotty techno-club in the bowels of Berlin or Keep Reading
Album Review: Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero
Release Date: 25.02.2022 Record Label: Century Media For Fans Of: John Carpenter, Oransi Pazuzzu, After two albums of cosmic-minded technical death metal, Blood Incantation have peeled Keep Reading
Album Review: Perennial – In The Midnight Hour
Record Label: Self-Released Release Date: 1st February For Fans Off: Turnstile, At The Drive-In, Fugazi Over the last few years it feels like hardcore bands have Keep Reading
Protected: Hardbeat Stacked: Part 2
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Albums of the Year 2021: Tim Bolitho-Jones
1.Orden Ogan – Final Days Orden Ogan have been threatening to break out from the pack for years and in 2021, they finally delivered a power metal masterpiece. Final Days Keep Reading
Albums of the Year 2021: Liam McDonald
1.Mastodon – Hushed & Grim Mastodon are no strangers to writing about loss, but with the band’s first double album they have managed to tap into a far more raw Keep Reading