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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: The Callous Daoboys – Rebellion, Manchester – 25/02/2026

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  • Posted on March 2, 2026March 2, 2026

The Callous Daoboys serve up mathcore of the most blistering variety as their UK tour stops off in Manchester.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Pupil Slicer – ‘Fleshwork’

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  • Posted on November 6, 2025November 6, 2025

Expanding from mathcore into the darker, more industrial reaches of metal finds Pupil Slicer at their most crushing, uncompromising, and just plain best.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Better Lovers – Arts Club, Liverpool – 22/10/2025

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  • Posted on October 25, 2025April 21, 2026

On their second UK headline tour this year, an intimate Liverpool show brings out the best of Better Lovers, as their hardcore supergroup status remains ironclad.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dance Gavin Dance – ‘Pantheon’

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  • Posted on September 10, 2025November 8, 2025

Finally, against all odds and expectations, Dance Gavin Dance have come out with a good album.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kaonashi – ‘I Want To Go Home’

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  • Posted on June 5, 2025June 5, 2025

Kaonashi’s built-in madness and electricity are the perfect components for another emo-flavoured mathcore highlight for the year.

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Callous Daoboys – ‘I Don’t Want To See You In Heaven’

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  • Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

The Callous Daoboys’ growth now seems legitimately unstoppable, with the line between mathcore chaos and emo refinement being theirs to dominate for a brand new opus.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Imperial Triumphant – ‘Goldstar’

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  • Posted on March 20, 2025March 20, 2025

Coming out with both an exploration of New York’s glamour and a widening of their avant-garde pool, there’s still no one else in metal quite like Imperial Triumphant.

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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Silverstein – O2 Ritz, Manchester – 28/02/2025

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  • Posted on March 5, 2025March 5, 2025

Silverstein’s 25 Years Of Noise world tour comes to Manchester, with a stacked support bill to bolster its headliners’ ironclad cache of emo anthems.

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PHOTOS: Better Lovers – Club Academy, Manchester – 19/01/2025

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  • Posted on January 23, 2025April 21, 2026

One of the hardcore bills of the year already? Could well be, as Better Lovers arrive in Manchester on their latest rampage across the UK.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Better Lovers – ‘Highly Irresponsible’

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  • Posted on October 21, 2024October 21, 2024

The melding of minds that is Better Lovers is now running at full speed, producing a hardcore debut as incendiary and exhilarating as a lineup of this pedigree would suggest.

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