The Underground Stage
“THOM plays uptempo pop with a sad side and hammering rhythms, bags of swagger with a tear on its cheek. The kind of party that’s full of broken hearts, but on the mend and dancing it all away.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Shu-Nagua’s metal theatre threatens the same costumed joke over and over, but delivers a bunch more. Insane stage outfits normally have an inversely proportionate relationship to musical imagination – but here we get a ton of clever and heavy songwriting to go with the batshit wardrobe. What a rare treat.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | […]
“DEDPAN are settling into their aggro stride, a relatively new project with a towering swagger and a fearsome uppercut. It might be all bared teeth and knuckle dusters, but you still end up wanting to get closer and closer until you’re bloody and raw.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Aria Nova start off spooky and stabby but swerve into all sorts of mad directions, getting to near-operatic heights before closing with grubby mayhem. Quite the journey, worth every step.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
As 2023 curled up and died in the corner, December still served up some musical treats to warm the cockles, and they all got stuffed into this month’s digital fanzine. Two brilliant day-long events – Fangzstock and Transgenre – took up a lot of the stage time, and were both inspirational examples of how artist-run, […]
“Beautiful Stink roar like dragons raised on nothing but a diet of large nails and Eddie Vedder – deep in tone, incomprehensible except at the visceral level, and enough to drive big holes in hard concrete.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Second Idol drive headfirst towards the cliff edge, foot planted firmly to the floor, no flinching. It’s entirely up to you whether you choose to stick with them and fly, or crash in fiery wreckage.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“The Fungus – and there’s no way you can’t focus on this – are topless and wearing giant mushrooms on their heads. Yes, this does somehow distract from the roaring metal they also play. But also, yes – watching a band lose their chugging, squalling minds WHILE TOPLESS AND WEARING GIANT MUSHROOMS ON THEIR HEADS […]
“Screaming Eagle give it both screams and eagles, great big squawking divebombs of head-banging, shoulder-shuddering, stomach-shaking rock. It descends from the skies with terrible, glorious precision and – before you know it – it’s pecking at your liver for all eternity.” Gallery Learn More Instagram