Preview: Download Festival 2022
Mass Movement’s guide to the best Download Festival has to offer this year. It’s that time of the year again, where 100,000 or so metalheads will be praying to their chosen gods, for a weekend…
Mass Movement’s guide to the best Download Festival has to offer this year. It’s that time of the year again, where 100,000 or so metalheads will be praying to their chosen gods, for a weekend…
Sheffield mosh masters Malevolence just seem to be going from strength to strength. A recent successful UK arena run with Architects, in which they did not look out of place and now a monstrous new…
For a very long time in the nineties and early noughties, Terrorizer Magazine was essential reading every month. It was the acceptable face of music journalism that rarely veered into covering bands of a “Kerrang…
Short and sweet is rarely applicable when it comes to hardcore songs. Generally the short fast ones are obnoxious blasts of \”noise not music\”. Hello Tied Down! This debut EP from UK band Tied Down…
It has been a big weekend for UKHC and I’m feeling quite spent so forgive me if this months column is more succinct than usual. Sav Fest took place at Temple Of Boom in Leeds…
Trying to convey just how important Discharge were, and continue to be, to anyone who grew up in the punk scene in the nineteen eighties is an almost impossible endeavour. Discharge, more than any other…
Oh boy Civilised Society?, that’s a blast from the past and a name that I never thought I’d ever hear, let alone see adorning a record cover, again. Right around the same time that I…
There was a time in the punk scene, that stretched from the mid-eighties to the beginning of the twenty first century, when zines were rife and plentiful and every time you went to a show…
Has it really been thirty years since Face Up To It was originally released? Oh man, now I really do feel old. Back in the day, that’s the eighties for those of you who weren’t…
I swear, when I was listening to this demo the air began to thicken, weighed down by the smell of patchouli oil, cigarette smoke, crust punks on a bi-monthly shower schedule and weed, I could…
I was fortunate enough to see these chaps play with Negative Approach in Birmingham not so long ago and while it’s impossible to blow the Detroit destruction machine off stage, King of Pigs HC came…
Benjamin Franklin once said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. Well Mr Franklin, I’m here to add a third life certainty to that list. Napalm Death. Coded Smears And More…