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One of the most fun things about Zorn is that you’re never exactly sure how deep you are supposed to dig. The other really fun thing about them is how much they RIP. And boy do they rip on their new EP, Endless Funeral.Back to the first point- as before, the band likes to spin yarns about devils and demons and zombies and dark fantasy type things. Centerpiece track “The Drunken Demon’s Iron Keep” talks about crawling over foreign mountains and dropping down into hidden valleys to be confronted with satanic riddles. It’s all good fun horror, and perhaps like Rudimentary Peni, the band is able to craft exceptionally vivid pictures and spark your imagination with surprisingly few word...

I’ll level with you. As i sit here, exactly one week before this record’s release, I don’t have the time to commit huge amounts of time to this review, but I do want to cover this record, because it’s made me feel some feelings about metalcore that I’m not entirely sure how to process. This record is the new project of Alex Varkatzas (co-founder and original vocalist of Atreyu), guitarist and producer Gabe Mangold (of Enterprise Earth), and drummer Brandon Zackey. So there’s some experience and chops here. Whether they’re chops that exist in a genre or sphere that you enjoy is maybe a different question. But here’s the thing. I don’t know if I expected this to sound that mu...

There are a lot of eyes on this record, no doubt. Ironic, considering Keith Buckley’s new project, Many Eyes, released their debut album following the decidedly acrimonious break-up of Every Time I Die in 2022/2023, only a few weeks ago. The reception to which has been, for the most part, positive, if a little muted. But then it will always be difficult to follow in the wake of a band so universally loved, in the HC scene, at least. Which brings us to Better Lovers. The non-Keith side of ETID’s new project, made up of Jordan Buckley and Steve Micciche from ETID, Clayton “Goose” Holyoak on drums and then added slightly later, were two of the hardcore scenes most well-respected musici...

The last time I saw Evan Dando was back in 2001; the Lemonheads were basically inactive and he was touring solo, bashing his way through a pleasingly ramshackle set of Lemonheads classics and the occasional cover. Now it's 2024; the Lemonheads are basically inactive and he's touring solo, bashing his way through... you can see where I'm going with this. Dando hasn't exactly been prolific in the intervening 23 years. If they were people, the one Lemonheads studio album in that time and his one solo album would now be old enough to legally drink in the UK and US respectively. There have been a couple of Lemonheads covers albums of course, making it pretty clear where his interests lie. Baby I'...

With Jennie Cotterill’s seemingly quiet yet abrupt departure from Bad Cop/Bad Cop, fans were left wondering many things, one of which was whether she just going to just stick with her visual art or continue writing music. And if you have heard her Bad Cop songs, you would know that she is indeed a talented song writer. But not long after, you’d see social media announcements of her playing some solo shows around Southern California, which was a positive sign that maybe there was more happening behind the scenes. Earlier this year, Cotterill announced that she had formed a new band called Reckoner and they dropped their self-titled EP very soon after.The first of the two tracks on this 7-...