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4 days ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
Band: Headstone From: London, UK Their formation story: (Jack Chambers, guitar): “We've all been going to shows since our teens, in various parts of the world. Our singer Filip in Poland, our drummer Jordan in New Zealand/Australia, and the rest of us all over the UK. Myself and Filip met a few years ago and later realized we were always at the same shows so he introduced me to some of his mates, which included Rob (bassist) and Jordan and we ended up hanging out a lot.
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5 days ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
Band: Dead StareFrom: North East UKTheir formation story:(Sam, guitar): “Basically both mine and Mark’s (vocals) old bands played together a couple oftimes and that’s how we met. I think we originally hit it off talking about Siouxsie & The Banshees for some reason, but when it comes to hardcore our tastes are really close. Specifically, we both love that era of traditionally-minded hardcore from the early-to-mid 2000s,think the Revelation and Bridge Nine Records stuff from that time.
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1 week ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
With the release of their new EP, The Machine Demands Blood, last month, xapothecaryx find themselves once again at the forefront of a vanguard of killer straight edge bands that are tearing things up in the UK at the moment - in this London outfit’s case with a vicious dose of veganism thrown in for good measure.
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1 week ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
Row of Ashes are a bit of a hidden gem here in the UK.
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2 weeks ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
ROW OF ASHES’ last album – 2022’s Bleaching Heat – was an absolute worldie. Essentially pouring out a hefty measure of viscous sludge and seasoning it with a load of angular noise rock and chaotic post-hardcore, it carried all the giddy and intoxicating thrills of licking a leaking car battery if that’s something anyone would ever dare to confess to enjoying on the internet.
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3 weeks ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
Band: ButcherBird From: London, UK Their formation story: (Bart, vocals): “We’ve all been friends for many years and played in different bands together, but never in this line up until now. Our guitarist Rob quietly compiled a stash of ideas, riffs, and otherworldly pedal noises, and enlisted Iain and me (Bart) to help turn them into some songs.
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1 month ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
UK hardcore has definitely seen its fair share of killer releases since DESOLATED put out their A New Realm Of Misery EP back in 2019. All the Northern Unrest stuff, everything coming out of the BN1, the SPLITKNUCKLE LP… hell, GOING OFF have released more than 50 tracks since then.
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1 month ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
It is somewhat telling that the new album from DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR takes its name from a track that appeared on the band’s debut full-length over 20 years ago, and that said track slots in just as nicely with a modern beef-up as the closer on this one. The Boston hardcore legends have never really tried to fix what isn’t broken – even when they went a full decade between albums from 2009 to 2019 – and thus it is of little surprise that Nowhere Bound does little to surprise.
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1 month ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
It’s always nice when a band proves you right. Back in December 2022 this writer penned a review of YOUR SPIRIT DIES’ killer sophomore EP Our Saints Drown In Ash which posited that the South Carolina metalcore outfit’s sound “may take them a long way on nostalgia alone but they clearly don’t plan on stopping there”.
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2 months ago | 
premierchristianity.com | Ellis Heasley
Christians in Nicaragua are being subjected to a disturbingly routine suppression by their government – yet, as Ellis Heasley reports, the Church remains committed to voicing its faith
This Easter the Nicaraguan government, led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, prohibited both Protestant and Roman Catholic churches across the country from holding public processions and other religious activities.
