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Distorted Sound Magazine •

EP REVIEW: Vol 1: As In Life - Red Method

Unflinching grooves meet cutting psyche explorations in metallic force Vol 1: As In Life, the new EP from RED METHOD. In this six-track cyclone of mental suffering and sonic distress, the London sextet paint hell – aka the world – blood-red, while screaming out the musical truth that the more twisted and deranged something is, the better.

RED METHOD have been tormenting eager crowds with their concoction of industrial, groove and dark melodic metal since 2018, with their furious live appearance...
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ALBUM REVIEW: Not Midnight Yet - Phantom

If METALLICA, SODOM and DARK ANGEL had an orgy and nine months later a band was born, that band would be PHANTOM. The Mexican speed and thrash metal unit are about to release their third album in three years, and with its deep coffin full of tyrannical riffs and enough twists and turns to give the uninitiated whiplash, Not Midnight Yet may indeed prove to be the most solid PHANTOM record yet. If you thought their previous record, Tyrants of Wrath, was a bountiful massacre of 80s metal madness, N...
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Haggard Cat: Chaos Therapy

They have surfed crowds on carpets and never seen or heard from the carpet again. They have walloped Glastonbury’s stage, garnered the reputation as 2000trees’ house band and broken everything under the sun in their live performances. Vocalist/guitarist Matt Reynolds and drummer/vocalist Tom Marsh are masters of chaos, and they are HAGGARD CAT – the noise punk duo from Nottingham. 

“It’s always been chaos,” Matt says. “We’re less chaotic as people now, but that’s just how we’ve always naturally...
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LIVE REVIEW: Speed @ The Electric Ballroom, London

There’s one language being spoken in London tonight, and no, it’s not English: it’s hardcore. SPEED. The seven year-young, hardcore band from Sydney, Australia, are celebrating the end of their UK tour in London, with two special guests – WHISPERS and BODYWEB – two additional special guests – SPLITKNUCKLE and SOVEREIGN – and a 1,500-strong, very much sold-out crowd. The Aussies have carved out a special place for Sydney on the hardcore map, and then some. But it’s not just the hardcore kids out...
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me - Armed For Apocalypse

If you could distil the essence of apocalyptic havoc into a syringe and inject it into your ear canals, it would still have nothing on the arsenal of post-metal grit that is ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE’s fourth album, The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me.

The now Oregon-based four-piece have switched out the unrelenting aggression of their previous album, Ritual Violence, for something bleaker and more tumultuous. The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me is a dense, grooved-up weapon that pulsates with the excr...
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Hellripper: Becoming The Goat

Few know him as James McBain; to most, he is the genius behind blackened speed metal band HELLRIPPER and leader of the goat kvlt. “The whole goat thing was a complete accident,” James admits. “I don’t think there was any mention of goats for the first two years of the band. Then, when I wanted to do the HELLRIPPER Scotland artwork (a parody of the MOTÖRHEAD England logo), I thought a goat would be perfect.” What was initially planned as a run of 50 T-shirts ended up being their best-selling merc...
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The Hara: Moshpits, Gorillas and Nuggets Of Glory

“The gorilla turned away because he was scared of Jack.” All Jack Kennedy had to do to earn his place in what would later become THE HARA was jump into a gorilla enclosure and survive. Vocalist Josh Taylor was the zoo’s janitor at the time and tried to stop Jack from taking such a risk, because he’d have to “clean up afterwards”. But when it became clear that Jack was a gorilla repellent, Josh asked if he played an instrument, and upon hearing the magic words, “I play the drums,” Jack was in the...
South West Londoner •

The quiet power of female nakedness

Finding yourself naked at a party, on a walk in the woods or on stage in front of hundreds of people sounds like the topic of a recurring nightmare. To some. But to Jenny Eells, Estelle Keeber and The Bare Project creators, these are activities that had a life-changing impact on the way they view their bodies.

Body image, especially female body image, is a topic that the media always has at least one eye on.

Whether its TikTok trends promoting largely unhealthy skinny ideals or AI being used to create unrealistic naked beauty standards, women are bombarded with images of what one person’s fantasy female looks like but are presented less often with what other “real women” actually look like.

The solution is simple. Girls, it’s time to get naked.
MetalTalk •

Harbinger Celebrate 10 Years Of Uncompromising Riffs At The Dome

Harbinger’s 10-year anniversary is an emotionally-charged, furious display of what the UK’s heavy music scene is all about. Obeyer, Hounds Of War, and Black Coast join Harbinger for their 10-year anniversary, their differing sounds testament to Harbinger’s own genre-crossing concoctions and refusal to fit in. Whether you relish the complimentary infusion of Hardcore violence with Nu Metal ethereality in the span of one night, or err on the side of predictability, the night is a turbulent celebra...
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Quickfire With Allegaeon: Death Metal Meets Jigsaw Puzzles

Greg Burgess of Allegaeon reveals how the band, which is like “a marriage with five dudes”, balance their desires for extreme technicality versus emotion, while ensuring there is always time for wholesome band bonding sessions over beers and jigsaw puzzles.Allegaeon, the ManBearPigs of Death Metal, have been “shooting themselves in the foot” when it comes to genre definition since 2008. This quirky new band descriptor is courtesy of guitarist Greg Burgess’ wife, in an attempt to better embody th...
The New Feminist •

The creators of the world’s first women’s urinal talk bathroom equity and how they're fixing it

One small squat for women, one giant leap for peequality. Peequal is the world’s first women’s urinal, and it has already done wonders for women’s festival experiences by reducing the dreaded queues for the toilets by a third. Not to mention, Peequal spaces – which support women, AFAB and trans people – are parties in themselves. 


Bathrooms and who should have access to them has been a topic of great debate since the UK Supreme Court ruled on 16 April that the terms “women” and “sex” in the E...

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