Band: Burner Album: It All Returns To Nothing Label: Church Road Records Release date: 23 June 2023 Sounds like: Scorched-earth grinding hardcore malevolence. Also, kittens*. *We’re lying about the kittens, sorry. Now, I love a band that has a blunt, no-nonsense name. Cruelty, Mastiff, Coffin Torture, Hatebeak (hahaha) and now add Burner to that ever-growing list. Hailing from South London, this four-piece has 1 EP to their name, the cheerfully titled scything noise of A Vision of The End and It All Returns To Nothing is their debut, and what better label to appear on, than good old Church Ro ..read more

Band: Demons EP: Swallow Label: Knife Hits Records Release date: 2 September 2022 Sounds like: The (short) shape of punk to come Let’s not mess about here, because it’s clear that Virginia’s Demons, who we’ve featured here, sure as hell have no time for pleasantries. Hell, they barely have enough time to devote to this new EP, which clocks in at just under 6 minutes and consists of 4 heart-racing, blood-pumping slabs of furious, scathing noise rock. 2021’s Privation got in and out through its 30 minutes run time, with the last track, St. Luke, longer than the entirety of Swallow, by 20 second ..read more

Band: Graf Orlock Album: Crime Traveler Label: Vitriol Records Release date: 5 February 2016 Sounds like: Travelling back in time to re-write/fuck-up history. (Delete as appropriate). “Exploration of the rift in the space-time continuum.” Three months behind? Eh…go fuck yourself, this is my website, I can write reviews when I want. This is appropriately late anyway if you think about it…really. Who are Graf Orlock? A bunch of mad bastards making cinema-grind (i.e. all songs are about various action-films, through a mixture of lyrics, song titles and even clips from the films). I spoke a b ..read more

Bands: Nervous Mothers / Art Of Burning Water EP: Split 7″ Label: SuperFi Release date: 8 April Sounds like: Stapler to the head from a big drop Either they’re wrestling or making fuck like Beserker. Possibly both. SuperFi Records have a knack for money-gunning new records like there’s no tomorrow. My Vitriol, take note – it’s good to release stuff, because then PEOPLE CAN HEAR AND BUY YOUR STUFF. I don’t even like My Vitriol, why am I talking about them? Nervous Mothers then – four Belgian dudes clattering through some brutal, raw and bleeding power violence that will make you drop your guts ..read more

Band – Suffer On Acid EP – Wit’s End Label – none (looking for one though) Release date – Summer 2013 Sounds like – powerviolence, with an emphasis on the power. Oh and especially the violence. – Being and sounding like the exact incarnation of your band name is something hardly any bands can live up to. Well not anymore! Boston three-piece Suffer On Acid sound exactly like their moniker, tripping major ball-sacks down a flight of stairs, out into the street and into the path of huge dumper-truck on fire. I mean, the artwork alone is a harrowing, vortex of twisted, White Zombie-style mind-rot ..read more