'It's hard to believe a band can pack so much into a mere 17 minutes' - MacDara Conroy on Nails' second album Abandon All Life
Baptists' debut album Bushcraft is a half-hour of "hurtling speed and anger spat through gritted teeth", says MacDara Conroy
'Cheap, raw and nasty' is MacDara Conroy's take on Live Forever from Aussie crust punks Krömosom - and that's a compliment
"Weirdly enough for genre born out of the anarchist movement and thoroughly left-wing politics, crust punk is pretty conservative as extreme music styles go." - MacDara on Nuclear Death Terror's Chaos Reigns.
"Overall, this is pretty much the essence of hardcore right here, and if you don't want to skip back to the start and rock these babies again immediately, I'm not sure you and I can be friends."
"Dopesmoker is the entire history of the metal riff, slowed down, and deconstructed. It is, in fact, the entire history of the planet, of humanity." - Dara Higgins finds enlightenment in the reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker.
"...now that their lives no longer depend on the band, they can afford to take more risks with their music" - Macdara gets a taste for Pelican from their new EP Ataraxia/Taraxis.
Ian Maleney talks faeries, folk songs & working solo vs being in a band with Earth's Dylan Carlson.
Dave Donnelly spoke with Jamie Grimes of Drainland ahead of the launch of their split 7" with Crows.
"Here's a band that are now adept, virtuoso in fact, at playing silence. It's always seemed that it's in the spaces between the notes that they were saying the most." - Dara Higgins finds life on Earth's new album.