Tuesday 7 October 2014

MERRIDEW - 'Undercity West' Pre-Order...


MERRIDEW - 'Undercity West' Pre-Order...

So yeah, Lee has a new EP coming out under his solo instrumental post-hardcore project MERRIDEW called 'Undercity West'. It's six tracks of shorter and faster songs than he usually puts out, and if you pre-order it for a fiver during October, you'll also get a free three track cassette with it when he posts them out in November. Pretty cool right? You can listen to a song here:


And then pre-order it from here:



Thanks a tonne! :)xox

Saturday 30 August 2014

'The Screever' issue six


'The Screever' issue six bundle!

So yeah, issue six came out a bit ago, and you can buy it with a scene report of Lee's local area, plus a cassette of ace bands that are also either local or have been in the zine over the past however many years we've been doing this. Pretty cool, right? You can buy the whole bundle for three quid from here:


Cheers! :)
xox

Monday 16 June 2014

AFI - 'Burials' review


Well, we've been a little quiet since the release of issue five, but that's not to say we haven't been hella busy; all being well, the new issue should be out early July with a nice little surprise, so in the mean-time, here's a review taken from the last issue, this time of AFI's latest effort, 'Burials'...

AFI - 'Burials' review


"Well, AFI were one of my favourite bands whilst growing up, this being during their 'The Art of Drowning' / 'Sing the Sorrow' era (of which I know Nat is also a big fan), and for me, especially the former, these are their two masterpieces, and though 'DecemberUnderground' had it's few moments of genius, I lost track after that, resigning myself to the expectation that said album would be the last that contained any such moments. So, in the meantime it appears I've missed an album, and have been lent this, their latest effort, and was I right? Well, at least for the time being, I reckon so, yeah, but that's not to say that this is bad.
As much as everyone will obsess over Davey, and as crucial as he obviously is to AFI as their founding vocalist, I've always thought that Jade is a bit of a genius; they went from being 'good' to being 'magic' when he joined, and, as evident here, he's still writing very interesting stuff, but for those that haven't picked up an AFI album in a while, it's now more NINE INCH NAILS than MISFITS; more LINKIN PARK than old OFFSPRING, and if that's how they prefer to go about things and express themselves these days, then I guess that's fine. So what we have here is 13 tracks of largely slow, heavily layered, distorted pop-rock that I guess leans closer to 'Crash Love' than anything they did prior. A lot of the orchestral / theatrical atmosphere has gone too, replaced by a kind of overpowering, digital distortion on the guitars, as you can hear in single 'I Hope You Suffer'. Some of it's pretty catchy, especially other single '17 Crimes', and 'A Deep Slow Panic' is upbeat and hooky, but yeah, admittedly I'm struggling to 'get into it'.
Most people reading this will already have an opinion on AFI, and will know whether they're going to get this or not. I'm kind of on the fence; this was a bit better than I thought it'd be, but if you love their old stuff, don't expect this to give you goosebumps."

xox

Friday 7 March 2014

'The Screever' issue five


'The Screever' issue five

So yeah, issue five of 'The Screever' is now complete; 48 A6 pages of black and white photocopied awesome-ness, featuring interviews with Stourbridge post-metallers MOTHERTRUCKER, Canadian punk / proper-screamo label ZEGEMA BEACH RECORDS, Charlotte from hand-made focussed SHOP IN THE SQUARE, artist / illustrator LUMBERJACK JOE, and local black-metallers ARROGANT DESTRUKTOR, plus a load of reviews, some puzzles, and a guide to bread-making.
Trades are always very welcome, if you message us via Facebook:


 or you can buy a copy for a quid from here:


Thanks a tonne! :)
xox