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
Category: Band Features
Dooms Children: Reinvention Through Pain
It’s been a tough road to Dooms Children’s debut album. Rehab, depression and trauma have all been obstacles to be cleared—not to mention the global pandemic and its resultant isolation. Keep Reading
Feature: Every Time I Die – Still Slayin’ with the Boys
Every Time I Die are at the top of their game. Having just released one of the best albums of their career, an accolade also awarded to their previous record, Keep Reading
The Velveteers: Making the Past New Again
Imagine you’re laying around one day, not really doing much. The phone rings: An unrecognized number. You answer anyway. Dan Auerbach is on the other end. He wants to fly Keep Reading
Feature: Sentinels – An Invitation to the Big League
For just about anyone vaguely interested in the arts, being plucked from obscurity and thrust into stardom would be a miraculous dream come true. It’s even the premise of the Keep Reading
Carnifex: What’s Wrong With Deathcore?
Deathcore. Is this still a dirty word? For what seems like forever, learning that a new band was categorised as ‘deathcore’ was enough reason to instantly dismiss them. Due in Keep Reading
Lovebreakers: Sun Bleached Rock for the Young at Heart
Some bands are fun, some are fad, and some are forever. Lovebreakers want you to know they are emphatically the third. Their debut album, Primary Colours, boasts a simple sound Keep Reading
Glitchers: Bringing Punk Back To The Streets
After over a year without live music, most bands think that travelling the country in a van to play for an audience is completely infeasible. This is especially pertinent amongst Keep Reading
68: Finding Beauty In Blemishes
Give One Take One is the grooviest, most swaggering statement of Josh Scoggin’s career, but retains both the white-hot noise and the spirituality that you expect from a ’68 album. Keep Reading
ERRA: Making Metalcore Magic
It started with a gun. A Remington 270, to be precise. A thirteen-year-old Jesse Cash traded it for one of his first guitars. It was an old Washburn guitar in Keep Reading