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Oct 30, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Martyna Bannister
Beloved London-based metallers Ithaca have announced they're splitting up, with a final headlining "wake" show scheduled for February next year. In a post on Instagram, the band explain, "Ithaca is coming to an end. This was a huge decision to make, but it’s the right time.
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May 23, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Martyna Bannister
Casey have cancelled all upcoming live dates from July 1 until further notice, with frontman Tom Weaver needing to undergo open-heart surgery. In an extremely honest video posted to the band’s YouTube, the singer explains that he’d battled with a bout of viral sepsis while out in America in January, and it had a “significant impact” on his kidneys and heart – and while his kidneys have thankfully recovered, his heart now has a prolapsed valve, and he’s a priority patient awaiting treatment.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | David McLaughlin |Martyna Bannister
February 26, 2024Words:David McLaughlinPhotos:Martyna BannisterShooting Daggers are the kind of band that would give whichever cretin is UK Home Secretary this week nightmares. Vocalist and guitarist Sal Pellegrin hails from France, bassist Bea Simion is originally from Italy, drummer Raquel Alves is from Spain, and the London-based trio are proudly non-binary, specialising in playing a ferocious brand of self-styled queercore punk rock that takes no prisoners.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Martyna Bannister
One of the new bands we’re most excited about this year, Shooting Daggers have unveiled a new single ahead of next month’s debut album.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Jake Richardson |Martyna Bannister
January 8, 2024Words:Jake RichardsonPhotos:Martyna BannisterThe split of post-hardcore heroes Casey in 2018 came as a shock to many in the UK rock scene. It was only earlier that year that the South Wales five-piece had released their excellent, critically acclaimed second album Where I Go When I Am Sleeping, while they’d also gone down a storm on the Kerrang! Tour 2017 just a few months prior.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Martyna Bannister
November 23, 2023Words:Nick RuskellPhoto:Martyna BannisterIthaca are one of the most explosive, exciting, colourful and imaginative bands in British metal. What’s been the soundtrack to singer Djamila Azzouz’s own life? Dad rock, metal classics, sweary evil, and a nightmarish 2000’s indie hit…“My early taste in music was very much shaped by whatever was in my dad's car, like a lot of people.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Martyna Bannister
Death Pill and Shooting Daggers are joining forces for a new split 7” single. The release will hear the Ukrainian punks and the London queercore trio team up – with the former band’s effort Monsters out now, and the latter’s single Not My Rival dropping on November 17 via New Heavy Sounds. Say Death Pill of Monsters: “This track is about how our parents knowingly or unknowingly lose their children.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Martyna Bannister
After returning with a few killer singles, Casey have finally announced their third album How To Disappear. The follow-up to 2018’s Where I Go When I Am Sleeping is due out on January 12, 2024 via Hassle Records, with the title-track available to hear below. “We’re elated to share with you that How To Disappear, our third full-length studio album, will be released on January 12,” say the band. “Brought to you by Hassle Records and Greyscale Records. You can listen to the title single now.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Martyna Bannister
With a U.S. tour coming up very shortly, Casey have unveiled anew song in time for fans to sing along to. The Welsh post-hardcore crew’s latest effort is entitled PunctureWounds To Heaven, and it’s teased as the ‘first glimpse’ from their thirdalbum. Speaking about its meaning, vocalist Tom Weaver says that PunctureWounds… “centres around the themes of apathy and the guilt that can arise as aresult.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
kerrang.com | Emily Carter |Martyna Bannister
Ithaca have announced their first-ever U.S. tour, andreleased a new music video to mark the occasion. The band say it’s a “bucket list” thing to be touring the Stateslater this year, as they prepare to cross the pond for some headline shows inSeptember and October, plus a couple of mega-fests like Louder Than Life andAftershock. They’ve also just released a new music video for Fluorescentfrom last year’s excellent They Fear Us album, featuring a guest appearancefrom the one and only Ed Gamble.
