With the poster and social media pages screaming SOLD OUT! and a good percentage of the punters already partaking in a drink or two, you just know that tonight’s show at The Cab in Newport…
When Belgian beatdown hardcore maestros Nasty burst onto the scene in 2006 with the crushing heaviness of ‘Declaring War’ they were hellbent on doing just that. They werent just declaring war on the state of…
Featuring the likes of Holding Absence, Kublai Khan TX, The Chisel, Going Off, Witch Fever, Pitchshifter, No Devotion and tons more. Here’s what went down…. Without a doubt the best reason to venture into the…
It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Newport City Centre, with shoppers going about their business and the nights revellers getting that first drink in, but amongst all this humanity, there is gathering of around 70…
South Wales stalwarts No Choice have been going for some 40 years, but somehow they have managed to fly under the radar. Hopefully this album will gain them a little more exposure as it certainly…
It’s a well-known fact that in the realm of Science Fiction, time travellers rarely have it easy on their time bending adventures. In HG Wells’ classic “The Time Machine” our protagonist dabbles with time and…
South Wales Newest Threat Is Now A Reality The long promised band from some of South Wales Hardcore’s freshest faces comes to fruition in savage style as Violent Offence drop their five track debut ‘Dig…
Author Jim X Dodge really makes this book writing gig look easy. You take a bunch of characters that we can identify with in some form, you put them in a perilous situation and voila,…
As brutal as lockdown was back in 2020, the constant deluge of awesome covers by a Cardiff band named Inerrant made it somewhat bearable and the promise of live shows in the future, reminded us…
For the last couple of years Zero Again have been bubbling under the surface with a slew of 7″ releases, but now their musical prowess has been fully unleashed on their debut album. This four-piece…
It gives me the warm and fuzzies when I see The Fleece in Bristol so packed out. For a venue that was once under threat, it’s great to see it thriving again. The reason for…
At some point in the mid 1980s, there was a musical sweet-spot in the evolution of hardcore where sheer speed and fury was not so much replaced but augmented with melodies and more sophisticated song…
