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1 week 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
Making great thrash in the present day seems to require bands to nail two somewhat competing principles. One: have a healthy respect for the classic ‘if ain’t broke don’t fix it’ approach, i.e. acknowledge that the first four METALLICA albums plus the 80s output of SLAYER, KREATOR and a few others are all essentially perfect and the goalposts haven’t needed much moving since. But two: find a way to honour that while still making something that feels fresh and urgent and dangerous.
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1 month ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Ellis Heasley |David Adams
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK religious freedom advocacy CSW, says the international community must use this moment to hold Myanmar’s military junta to account…London, UKLate on Wednesday, 2nd April, Myanmar’s ruling military junta announced a three-week ceasefire in response to the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck the country on 28th March and has since been confirmed to have killed over 3,400 people. It had taken them long enough.
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1 month ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
“If we get stuck on a part or we’re overthinking something we ask ourselves, what would Hatebreed do? And then do that thing.” Clearly that rule has worked pretty well for Not Without Punishment so far. The Southampton-based metallic hardcore outfit released their killer debut EP in July last year and have now doubled down with the even harder Blood Runs Cold which is out now via Godzilla Records.
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2 months ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
“I know where I’ve been / And I don’t know where the fuck I’m going / It’s a long fucking way / But I can tell you one motherfucking thing / I feel so motherfucking free.” If anything comes close to capturing the spirit of BACKXWASH’s new album Only Dust Remains, it is this: a declaration of triumph and defiance delivered atop the exhilarating drum ‘n’ bass outro that caps off its second single 9th Heaven.
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2 months ago | 
distortedsoundmag.com | Ellis Heasley
Here’s a decent rule to live by: listen to everything that comes out on Church Road Records. To do so this year alone will have already led you to the bile-soaked blackened hardcore of GRIEF RITUAL, the ambitious experimental sludge of WREN, and now the gloriously nostalgic metalcore/post-hardcore cross-breeding of IRON FORM as they emerge with their debut EP Cut From Cold Blood.
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2 months ago | 
noecho.net | Ellis Heasley
Band: Rescüe Cat From: Lombardia, Italy Their formation story: (Vicky, vocals): “The band started during a joke rehearsal session. We all knew each other from the Lombardia (IT) DIY punk scene, and while Ruggero (guitar) and Sandro (bass) already shared one band, I had zero experience making music. We were hanging out in their rehearsal space one day, and teaming up with Lely (drums) we ended up building from there.
