A few weeks ago, I finally got to catch writer/actor/speaker/hardcore legend Henry Rollins live at one of his spoken word events – the first time since Download back in 2006 or so.
Without ceremony, Rollins steams on stage wielding the mic like a fist and hits you straight in the feels for three hours straight. Continue reading “Henry Rollins @ The Barbican, London”
Marking the release of their soon to chart debut album ‘Blossom’, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes crashed through London’s The Borderline last night like a truck. Frank Carter’s intimate return to stage was nothing less than explosive, received by the crowd with ferocious applause.
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I’ve lost count of how much work I’ve done to Dyscarnate, poking at keyboards to the solid brutality of their latest opus ‘And So It Came To Pass’. In a sea of deep-V toting deathcore moshpit clone nonsense riding in from the Atlantic, the band’s dedication to honest death metal is like finding a toy in the bottom of the cereal. Continue reading “Album Review – Dyscarnate ‘And So It Came To Pass’”
Runtime: 110 minutes. Amount of time spent festering over how that 110 minutes left me emptier than the Guardian Hashtag cafe: two days. WARNING: *Spoilers all the way through, combined with my first and only cinematic rant* Bad films are amazing. Without bad films we wouldn’t have Robocop or one of the 53 Puppet Master films. But they don’t lie to us. They come right … Continue reading Sinister Will Waste Your Life [review]
I owe this film so many apologies. When faced with a film based solely around the exploits of an inexplicably animated car tire you’d be wise to have bottom rung expectations. That’s exactly what I did, and I was wrong. If Keanu Reeves can carve a career out for himself, there was absolutely no reason to doubt Rubber’s titular ‘character’, as, without a word, it … Continue reading Rubber Rolls to Victory [review]
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