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The Engine @ Metro Social, 16th Jul

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 16 July 2025

“The Engine smash post-punk and noise-rock and big songs and RATM guitar squalls and squeals into a batty package of hyperactively aggressive chaos that hammers and hammers and hammers at your skull until it collapses into pieces and it doesn’t ever take a breath and it’s exhaustingly mad but you just keep going and trying […]

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The Engine @ Oxford Art Factory, 16th Jan

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 16 January 2025

“The Engine clatter and scream like you’d expect from a band with that name but, if anything, it undercooks the V8 thrill and rumble. One turn of the key and it’s off to the racetrack, searing noise and fumes, not to mention burnt fingers from getting too close. Throttle, drift, and screeching noise, power and […]

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