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
Category: Feature
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
Hardbeat’s Guide To Slam Dunk 2021
Before we even get started on this, despite being just days away from the first Slam Dunk Festival for almost two and a half years, Covid does mean that all Keep Reading
Hardbeat’s Guide To The Sometimes Festival
There’s no need to pinch yourself: Festivals really are happening again! Next up for Hardbeat is a trip to Eastbourne for The Sometimes Festival on Sunday 22nd August. Not only Keep Reading
10 Artists That Have Helped Me Through Lockdown – Charlie, Crashface
Earlier this year, abrasive British punk two-piece Crashface released Heavy Infectious, a bouncing, electronic tinged five track EP in the vein of Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes and Black Futures. 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
List: Albums That Made Me – Loz, Seek Harbour
In the next of our band features, Loz, vocalist of Seek Harbour, picks his top 10 albums and had this to say about the task: “This task was not as Keep Reading










