PORTRAYAL OF GUILT ’s …Beginning of the End feels less like a collection of tracks and more like a deliberately mapped collapse, where each song doesn’t just follow the last but actively mutates it. Released via Run For Cover Records, it pushes their blackened hardcore and industrial-leaning sound into something more structured, more suffocating, and more controlled in its intensity. Rather than relying on chaos alone, the album is built on progression through erosion — eve

The Palais is not the sort of venue you’d expect to host a blackgaze band. More often than not, it’s a place of shimmering disco balls, falling confetti, and late-night revelry. But on a cold Sunday in Nottingham, the glittering walls and mirrored corners became the backdrop for a night of sonic intensity, as Deafheaven and support transformed the space into something darker, heavier, and unforgettable. With the first support slot taken by metalcore/shoegaze solo artist Zerue