Jasmine Longhurst

ANGEL DU$T  are a true underground gem, having been releasing fantastic music for a decade and playing for even longer. With a roster of current and former members as long as the average football team, they’re a true hardcore punk project of DIY community love, and that exact idea pervades new record COLD 2 THE TOUCH  - from new members joining, to old members still helping write, and a number of exquisite guest appearances, the list of contributors is seemingly never ending. New to the fold...

For those unaware of the Belgian heavy music scene, here’s a band worth your time that might help introduce you to some of what’s in store - RONKER  play a brand of adrenaline-fuelled punk rock that they’ve labelled speed noise, a pretty apt descriptor for music that’s as fast as it is abrasive. RONKER ’s sophomore effort comes in the form of the album Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever , and it’s a great slice of everything both the band, and the Belgian punk scene, have to...

Death metal is a much-maligned subgenre outside of heavy circles. Heck, even within heavy music it tends to be the butt of plenty of jokes, and routinely gets overlooked as an unserious sound. However, back in 1996, amidst the strongest period of releases death metal has ever had, CRYPTOPSY  released an LP that has since come to define a more niche version of the subgenre - None So Vile  became the benchmark for potent technical death metal, and to this day is still hung at the very top of...