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3 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Ashlea Bea

Over the past year, Split Chain have gone from being "five mates from Bristol who wanted to play a couple of shows" to one of British rock's most promising new bands. They've just done six weeks out in America with Thursday, Saosin and Arm's Length, next weekend they're playing Download for the second year on the bounce, and then in July they're dropping their debut album, motionblur, recorded in the States and released through legendary punk powerhouse Epitaph.

Mar 27, 2025 | kerrang.com | David McLaughlin |Ashlea Bea

March 27, 2025Words:David McLaughlinPhoto:Ashlea BeaMore people could do with admitting that they don’t really know what they’re doing. Take Split Chain vocalist Bert Martinez-Cowles, for example, a man at peace with the fact that he and his fellow Bristolians are pretty much winging it, trusting in their guts to lead the way on what feels good and what feels right. So far, it’s worked a charm.

Jun 13, 2024 | kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Ashlea Bea

Fresh from their last-minute addition to the Download bill this weekend, Split Chain have unleashed a brand-new single. The UK nu-gazers have shared Haven along with an accompanying video, with frontman Bert Martinez-Cowles revealing that it’s actually one that the band have “been sitting on for a while, but it now feels like it encompasses everything that Split Chain is, and what it will be”.

Mar 1, 2024 | kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Ashlea Bea

HIMALAYAS have just unleashed a massive new single that wasco-written by AC/DC legend Brian Johnson. The quartet’s latest banger, which goes by the name V.O.V, isdescribed by the band as “a song of resistance and struggle against violence andsuffering.

Jun 27, 2023 | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Ashlea Bea |Nat Wood |Anna Swiechowsk

June 27, 2023Words:Sam LawPhotos:Ashlea Bea, Anna Swiechowsk, Nat WoodFor those who made it out for last year's edition of Outbreak Fest, it felt that, surely, the highlight of England’s hardcore calendar couldn’t possibly get any bigger. Three days of no-barricade mayhem at Manchester’s 5,000-plus capacity Bowler’s Exhibition Centre, headlined by Knocked Loose and Turnstile, it was the kind of gathering that countless bands on the bill had never seen before.