Jolt Magazine Issue 2

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MAX RAPTOR|WE CAME AS ROMANS|THE DIRTY HEADS|BLITZ KIDS|THE MAINE|MAYBESHEWILL

Sehar Mehmood Abitha Pallett Courtney Rose Dana Mansbart Elise Hayward Emily Coulter Emily Thompson Gavin McHugh Jasmine Woods Lindsy Carr Max Cussons Rae Wade Zack Messenger

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Itch The Dillinger Escape Plan 30 seconds to mars senses fail New Politics Live Photos Max Raptor Warped tour uk Malevolence the dirty heads andy latimer We Came as romans maybeshewill the maine heart of a coward Blitz kids Album reviews

Live Review: For years British modern rock fans have longed for Warped Tour, America’s moving alternative festival to come to the U.K, and as of last year we’ve finally gotten the festival in London for one weekend. However we still need it to actually travel around the country for us poor souls up north. In the meantime though, we have The Kevin Says Tour, a tour of the U.K featuring some of the acts Warped Tour UK has played host for this year. This year it is headlined by Itch, formally of The King Blues. I’m particularly excited as The King Blues are one of my favourite bands of all time. I immediately fell in love with their combination of punk, ska, hip-hop, folk and reggae; as well as their powerful political messages and personal stories in Itch’s fantastic lyrics, which made him one of my favourite song writer’s ever (listen to What If Punk Never Happened). I was lucky enough to see them a few times and they were one of the most passionate and energetic live bands I’ve ever seen and my world was shaken when they split. Since The King Blues’ demise Itch has gone solo and released a few EP’s and singles so far, focussing mainly on his hip-hop influences, but occasionally slipping into old habits (i.e. the ska ‘Bruises’, featuring Rancid’s Tim Armstrong), while maintaining political and deeply personal themes. Tonight is his first solo headline show in the U.K and the first time I’m seeing him solo. Can he match the brilliance of his old band on his own?

We start tonight with Ghost Town who are bloody awful. They play the same generic screamy/poppy emo with a bit of dubstep that you’ll have heard a million times before over the last few years, if remotely into rock music. Their best song is mainly a dubstep one, with ridiculously unimaginative and weak drops, that sounds like the worst song Skrillex ever made.

Frontman Kevin Ghost (that’s his name on their Facebook page) is the only one of the band who’s the slightest bit energetic, as he gets in the crowd and dances with them at the end, which I suppose I should give credit for; but this music is so bad I wouldn’t care if he grew wings and flew.

Next up are The Hype Theory whose sound check alone is a vast improvement. Their actual set isn’t bad either. While their sound is pretty unoriginal pop-punk, it’s lively and often upbeat enough to put you in a better mood than you were before, the guitarists clearly feel this as they energetically jump and bounce around stage.

Washington DC’s RDGLDGRN (pronounced “Red Gold Green”) are even better as their rap/reggae puts the crowd in an even better mood. The gifted frontman Green has the crowd in his hands to the extent that he can have them dance whenever he wants however he wants, be it a simple two-step or their pull up dance. It’s a struggle not to dance to guitarist Red’s upbeat fretwork.

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Now it’s time for Itch. Opening with ‘Homeless Romantic’ it’s an interesting show instantly. The song is his perhaps his poppiest, yet it has the theme of relationship abuse. He’s backed by a drummer, extra percussion

: Itch ist and guitarist/keyboardist/programmer wearing different masks (i.e. a V For Vendetta mask). Despite Itch still taking baby steps solo, it’s clear he already has people who know and care about his songs a great deal, as the handful of people here tonight yell his lyrics back to him, as shown with the vicious ‘Diplomat’ “I AM NOT A DIPLOMAT, I AM A HUMAN. I WON’T LAY DOWN FOR YOUR AMUSMENT” they shout eagerly with real connection for the song. This is good as Itch is clearly keen for people to connect with his songs as he introduces ‘Best Shot’, a positive mental attitude banger, to anyone who always stands up again no matter how many times they’re pushed down. Aw. Just like when he was with The King Blues, he plays with a high level of passion and energy constantly moving around the stage and getting in people’s faces. Unsurprising to King Blues fans, he throws in a spoken word piece ‘Life Is Poetry’, a brilliant piece where he questions whether he’ll be satisfied with his life when it flashes before his eyes. He soon gets into the faces even more for as of yet unreleased song ‘Deep End’ as he has the crowd form a circle so he can play on the floor, before jumping on the Cockpit’s bar for the last minute or so of the song. He only makes one reference to The King Blues, and that’s to merely introduce a ska song, by stating he was in “a bit of a ska band” for ten years, but warns the crowd it’s not a King Blues song. There’s a sense of disappointment in the audience at this news, but it does Itch credit that he’s not relying on former glories to boost his new project. At the same time however it’s nice that he isn’t trying to pretend his past in a great band didn’t exist, like many musicians do when it comes to a messy break up.

He continues to try his hardest with each word he sings/raps. If it’s something angry like “We’re just fucked up kids finding rats to munch on” (‘Gutter Stars’), he performs it with pure fury to the point that he could do well fronting a hardcore punk band. Say it’s something sadder like “Well I believed them when Hollywood told me that the nice guy doesn’t end up lonely” (‘True’) he delivers it tenderly, so the audience can feel what he’s saying on a more human level, as it’s human to think such thoughts/feel such feelings. He ends on the gnarly ‘London Is Burning’, a song inspired by the London riots of 2011, which sends the crowd into a riot of their own as they pogo franticly towards the stage, screaming lines like “BURN MOTHERFUCKER BURN”, and just like a riot is capable of doing it liberates them.

So how did Itch do solo? Well he delivered a very passionate and energetic performance, his songs are good enough to be meaningful to people, and the crowd go home feeling liberated. I’d say he’s doing marvellously on his own.

Rating: 8/10.

Written by : Max Cussons

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The Dillinger Escape Plan are the best live band I’ve ever seen.

I’m just going to tell you that now so you can understand why I might come across as obsessed in this review; but if you were there, or have ever seen them at all, you’ll probably agree with me completely.

They have a very strong reputation as one of the craziest live bands (perhaps the craziest live band) going, whose shows have been known to include everything from fire breathing to defecating onstage. It was my first time seeing them tonight.

I got into them about two and a half years ago, just when I was really getting into heavy music and I became obsessed with their classic math-metal/ experimental metal pioneering records. I’ve watched countless hours of footage of them online, and they’ve been the band I’ve wanted to see the most for some time now, but absolutely nothing could prepare me for seeing them in the flesh.

Before Dillinger though we have some rather fantastic support from two instrumental bands, MaybeSheWill and Three Trapped Tigers. MaybeSheWill play an incredibly majestic kind of post-rock that is somehow capable of being both so stunning it’ll make you feel like you’re relaxing in a meadow one minute and being so crushing you would think dinosaurs are chasing you the next. If you’re remotely into post-rock, you need to be listening to these. Three Trapped Tigers are wizards on their instruments. Simply made up of a drummer, a guitarist and a keyboardist, it’s phenomenal how wondrous their music sounds, with a very technical/

experimental approach to make such danceable music. Think a proggy Daft Punk. It’s impossible not to have a boogie.

It’s a bit surprising to see such melodic bands supporting a band whose music has once been by their guitarist Ben Weinman as “music that sounds like garbage cans falling down stairs”, but then again being unpredictable is perhaps the most key thing to Dillinger’s brilliance, and everyone loves diversity. But however good MaybeSheWill and Three Tapped Tigers were, what Dillinger deliver afterwards makes

you nearly forget about them completely.

Opening with heavier than a ton of bricks ‘Prancer’ they are immediately more hyperactive than most bands you’ve ever seen put together. Ben is leaping off amps, and constantly swinging his guitar over his head straight away; while frontman Greg Puciato and bassist Liam Wilson are frantically striding all over the stage. Greg in particular showing no mercy to the audience as he crowd surfs on them, throws stage divers off stage before they have the chance to jump, and is bark-

ing at them as if they’ve just killed everyone he’s ever loved.

They follow up with ‘Farewell, Mona Lisa’. The crowd goes wild at it’s opening chords, as does Greg when the song kicks in.

He runs on the crowd members as if their heads and shoulders are stepping stones! Everyone takes a break from the bloody mosh pits going on to sing along to the song’s calming bridge as loud as they can, as they do for the chorus of the incredibly catchy, but not without edge, ‘Milk Lizard’. There are so many moments I find myself saying things like “AUGH”, “OOF”, “JESUS CHRIST” and

“HOLY SHIT”, i.e. during ‘Panasonic Youth’ when Ben takes his guitar strap off of his shoulder and starts swinging the thing around as if he’s trying to fight off a group of muggers. Or when they play ‘Room Full Of Eyes’ and Ben climbs the Cockpit’s rafters like monkey bars, then proceeds to get in a position where he’s hanging upside down by his legs as he plays guitar (I don’t blame you if you don’t believe this happened, I couldn’t quite believe it myself), which prompts a fan to climb the rafters himself later on (he didn’t get as far, but kudos for trying). There’s also

the point where they play the punky ‘Good Neighbour’, when Greg goes into the centre of the crowd and demands a circle pit around him, before returning to the stage to continue looking like he has the most serious case of ADHD ever. This is the highest level of chaos you’re ever going to see at a gig (unless you see The Dillinger Escape Plan again).

They play a chunk of songs from their newest album ‘One Of Us Is The Killer’ at once, which do just as well with the crowd and prompt the band to go just as insane as songs

from their older albums. How can something as unrelenting as ‘Hero Of The Soviet Union’ and something as memorable but quirky as the album’s title track not? I get incredibly giddy when I start to hear the soothing piano and throbbing glitch like electronica that introduces ‘Dead As History’ one of my very favourite songs by the band that I wasn’t expecting them to play in the slightest. One that that is so melodic despite the constant aggressive palm muted guitar playing, probably due to Greg’s perfect melodic vocal abilities; which also remains a dark song even during it’s sonically soothing end, thanks to lyrics like “I’ll hold onto this forever, that is never long enough”. It’s incredible how much diversity they can display with just one song, never mind their whole discography.

They close the main set with

the fantastically bizarre ‘When I Lost My Bet’ with it’s off kilter guitar stabs and whirlwind rapid fretwork. It’s unreal how energetic they remain throughout the whole set, it’s no wonder that when they come back for the encore Greg is bleeding from his forehead for some reason unknown to me (please tell me if you know why). For the encore, they unleash their cover of Aphex Twin’s ‘Come To Daddy’, another song I did not see coming (and go quite mad for) which mixes in perfectly with the anarchic closer ‘43% Burnt’, in which Ben and Greg stick to performing on amps (who needs stages right?) and the crowd can’t resist going mental themselves for the jerking and crushing math-metal classic, as the song invokes the most amount of stage diving of the night.

If you’d asked me my favourite gig I’d been to prior to this gig, I probably would have said something like a five way tie between Gallows, Refused, Every Time I Die, Anti-Flag and The King Blues. But The Dillinger Escape Plan at The Cockpit this night has dethroned them all, and is hands down the best gig I’ve ever been to. If you’ve seen them you probably feel the same way (feel free to tell me about a better live band than this, if there is one), if you haven’t, where have you been? This is a band you cannot miss for the world.

Rating 10/10.

Written by: Max Cussons

30 Seconds to Mars: Live Review Playing their first UK show since ‘The Final Night of Sin’ in December last year You Me At Six took to the stage like hyperactive puppies bouncing around with such enthusiasm it’s hard to imagine that they’ve been on tour for a while now. Opening with Reckless and following on with Loverboy the crowd went wild right along with the quintet.

Slowing their set down and asking the Cardiff crowd to light up the room, tears were guaranteed to make an appearance on faces for Crash but the intensity of the crowd had Josh Franceschi beaming ear to ear instead of joining everyone else in drowning the room. Working their way through the very best of You Me At Six’s repertoire such as Liquid Confidence and angry mosh pit song Bite My Tongue the five piece finished their set with Underdog and whilst nothing will compare to the volume of the bridge at ‘The Final Night Of Sin’ Cardiff came pretty close.

Anticipation running high for the juggernaut that is 30 Seconds To Mars to appear on stage, the screams when their intro began were deafening.

The curtain came down to reveal Jared Leto suspended mid-air on a platform in Bane from The Dark Knight style get-up. Staring us out to a drumming intro, a slight technical mishap caused a few chuckles when stage techs struggled to free the curtain caught around the lights - the harder they tugged the more Jared’s platform wobbled. A 30 Seconds To Mars show is always quite the experience with multitudes of visual affects so a show without any technical problems is probably somewhat of a miracle. Opening with Birth then Night of the Hunter it was

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during Search And Destroy that the crowd were told to sit down and jump up on three at which point large colourful balloons were blasted into the crowd. Conquistador saw confetti explosions before a fan was brought up on stage to introduce Do or Die sending the floor crazy. Really upping their game on this tour, circus style stunt acts provided hair-raising intervals where one of which had the two stunts men doing flips off of a see-saw.

Mid-set Jared took to the stage on his lonesome with an acoustic guitar and asked for requests.

Playing This Is War acoustically for the first time the crowd sung along beautifully. Ensuring each show belongs to its fans Jared again got two people up on stage including a little girl who was celebrating her birthday. The loudest rendition of happy birthday over, the two sat in front of Jared as he played From Yesterday, Alibi, The Kill and Hurricane with help from a euphoric crowd, a point Jared clearly hadn’t missed as he must have declared he was in love at least twenty times by now.

Re-joined on stage by drummer brother Shannon Leto and genius behind just about everything else Tomo Milicevic, they finished up their incredible set with Closer to the Edge, Kings and Queens and The Race. In true 30 Seconds To Mars fashion Jared hurled what seemed to be the entire of Cardiff onto stage for one last explosion of energy for Up in the Air before bidding us all goodnight.

Written By: Elise Hayward

Senses Fail: Live Review On 1 November 2013 Senses Failed played a headlining show with the opening bands being, Being As An Ocean, Expire, and For The Fallen Dreams. It was an absolutely amazing show. It was a constant mosh-pit and everyone jamming and singing and screaming. They played at The Handlebar in Pensacola and it was the biggest show I have ever seen at that venue. It was a sold out show and just the crowd was beyond energetic. I have been looking forward to this show since I heard about them coming to a city near me a few months back. I hadn’t seen any of these bands live before but I know for a fact I will see them again if I am ever given the opportunity to do so. The set list for each band was full of good songs, old ones and new ones, well known songs as well as the not so well known songs by everyone who attended.

The first band to play was Being As An Ocean and the vocalist Joel Quartuccio spent a lot of time singing and jumping around in and with the crowd. He was really into the crowd being involved which was great.

Then Expire came on and half the crowd jumped onto the stage and the other half created a mosh-pit. Most people on the stage jumped off and crowd surfed and everyone was helpful and it was a high energy impact right from the get go. It lasted through the entire set. People got pushed and shoved but no one seemed to mind because we were all having so much fun. There was minimal downtime between songs, a few seconds at most unless they were thanking us for coming out or recognising the other bands who were performing at the show or the band

that had already played before them.

After they played, For The Fallen Dreams performed and again, high impact and high energy from the start. The crowd never seemed to get tired of moshing and jamming and just stayed fully into the bands and the music and sang along to the songs and just kept the bands energy from dying which was phenomenal.

Then the band most people came to see, Senses Fail. They started off playing a song I didn’t know very well but most of the people there did know and sang out loud with Buddy Nielsen.

Although three other bands had already played long sets, the crowd didn’t get tired or cease to enjoy the music. They kept the energy alive and Senses Fail helped the crowd stay energetic as well. It was an absolutely fantastic show. I enjoyed it and I am quite positive the entire crowd had a blast and so did the bands performing.

There was lots of singing along to the songs and cheering and moshing and crowd surfing that was done that night and only positive things were said about the bands that performed and no one wanted it to end.

Written By : Rae Wade

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New Politics

I didn’t know much about New Politics before the show so I was surprised at how well they were known. The crowd seemed to be just as excited to see them as they were to see headliners Panic! At The Disco. The crowd starts clapping faster and faster as New Politics begin their first song, “Give Me Hope.”

Frontman, David Boyd interacts well with the crowd and asks, “Can I fall into a strangers arms tonight? I said Manchester, can I fall into your arms?” He then sings half of, “Fall Into These Arms” while standing on crowd members hands! The crowd sing along to the catchy, synth-driven pop rock song. Guitarist Søren Hansen plays ukulele on this song.

The third song off their set is slightly different from the rest of their set, it is an instrumental song, so instead of singing in this one David takes to breakdancing, which is actually quite impressive.

They then burst into the catchy, drum and bass guitar driven, “Just Like Me.” David talks to the audience and many members sound overjoyed of the prospect that they’ll be getting, “sweaty Danish hugs and American hugs” at the end of the show.

They then play the synth-driven, “Tonight You’re Perfect” with the crowd again clapping along to every beat and singing the outro almost on their own as they can be clearly heard over the instruments!

One of the stand out songs of the set “Harlem” begins and ends with a repetitive vocal sample which the crowd clap along to, again something different.

The last song of the set, “Yeah Yeah Yeah” is probably the most popular song with the crowd singing along enthusiastically to every “yeah” whilst jumping up and down with their hands in the air. During this song David encourages fans to hold on to their dreams which is awesome. Their set ends with a real punch as drummer Louis Vecchio plays a drum solo leaving the crowd ecstatic for the headliners.

The crowd danced and cheered to all their incredibly catchy songs. If you’re into pop rock that you can dance to definitely check out this band when they return to the UK with Fall Out Boy and The Pretty Reckless in March.

Review by Gavin McHugh Photos by Sehar Mehmood

Photo By: Dana Mansbart

BEING AS AN OC

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Photos by Sehar Mehmood

Mallory Knox Photos By Sehar Mehmood

Max Raptor Who have been your major influences?

Ben: There’s a lot between the four of us but anything energetic, anything fun. You like single people.

Wil: Yeah, solo artists I think its called, male or female. I like just decent songwriters.

We mananaged to catch Ben and Wil at Warped Tour for a quick chat.

How have you guys been today?

Ben: Yeah, pretty good yeah.

How did you guys come up with the band name?

Wil: Aw wow.

Ben: Wow. Wil: Yes. Ben: Yes, good one.

Wil: Well the Max part; I went to this place in Guatemala, got a boat, went to a small island and there’s a little kid there who said you’ve got to come and see this god, this folklorical god and we followed him.

Ben: Is folklorical a word?

Wil: Well it is now.

He said you’ve gotta come to this museum so we followed this little kid, eventually we got to his house. He said this is the museum, it was literally this kids house and we went inside and his parents were sitting there. They were having their dinner. He led us through and at the end there were some like fly curtains, we went through the fly curtains and theres like Maximon, the god of drinking and smoking and this is papier mâché man, it’s a tourist trap and that’s where the name came from but this thing had like 20 or 30 cigarettes in his mouth, loads of rum and beer and you had to go and leave a cigar or bottle of rum as an offering. It was just the most ridiculous thing I’d ever seen but we named the band after a con artist.

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Anyone in particular?

Wil: I like Ben Harper but then Ben likes... We all kind of like The Ghost Of A Thousand.

Ben: A lot of guitar music.

Wil: Billy Talent, Rise Against. We’ve all got that in common.

Anything that’s full of energy and guitars.

What inspired you to pick up an instrument and start playing music?

Wil: We lived in a small village in Staffordshire, not a lot happens. Matt our bass player used to play drums. He can play a lot of instruments. We were just kind of sitting down messing about and then we started taking it more seriously and then we got a thing with Billy Talent in 2009 and we kind of started taking it a bit more seriously then. I think its just like a small town escapism.

Ben: I think there was an element of not wanting a proper job.

Wil: It’s just fun isnt it? I mean why wouldn’t you want to be in a band?

Ben: There is no negative at all.

So you recorded your last album with Dan Weller. How was that experience?

Wil: We locked ourselves away in Lincolnshire in a methodist chapel, its called the Chapel Studios and its a really really amazing place you’re completely immersed there you can’t get even get a phone signal. Theres literally one house phone and its right in the middle of the room. So you’re completely cut off. I think we went there for 2 and a half weeks to 3 weeks and just laid down these tracks that we’d sort of previously written. Dan’s become a really good mate and we can sit around in dressing gowns and do all our recording of the album. That’s how close we are.

How would you say you’re new album ‘Mothers Ruin’ is a progression from ‘Portraits’?

Wil: I think Portraits is sort of our calling card, people know the tracks from that. That was just what we were about. We were younger when we recorded those so you get that through the recordings.

Ben: There’s a lot more up and down in it now whereas the other ones just kind of straight.

So more dynamic?

Wil: Yeah definitely. There’s just more about the story of all the tracks but then there is in Portraits but Portraits was each individual character for each individual song and then this new album Mothers Ruin is similar in a way but it’s just a completely different story. There’s definitely a progression, maturity maybe as well.

Do you have a favourite song to play live?

Ben: Yes definitely. I think mine is a track called Must Work Harder off the new album and then we also do The King Is Dead off the old one which everyone knows which is nice.

Wil: Yeah, The King Is Dead.

Ben: That is the genuine calling card isn’t it?

Wil: People just go nuts for it so we all do it together sometimes.

Which is the most personal song to you?

Wil: A track from the new album called Heavy Heart. It’s our first ever ballad and I get to have a bit of a sing on it.

It’s something we haven’t done before so I guess it’s a bit of an escape. You’d have to listen to it but I like it.

What keeps you motivated and in a positive mindset?

Ben: We’re not at all.

Wil: (Laughs) It’s quite hard, you just have to keep going.

Ben: Playing shows is the thing.

Wil: It’s all your previous work that you put into it that keeps you going, if you look back and you just chuck it all in then all of that hard work is kinda gone as well.

Ben: Basically we’ve come too far.

Wil: (Laughs) It’s the point of no return.

Most memorable moment?

Ben: Well, we had a good festival run over the summer.

Wil: Well, we did The Stranglers tour, that was awesome and we played the Hammersmith Apollo. It was just us and them and that was crazy. But I think this year there was a festival called 2000 Trees and Y Not festival as well and we’ve done like Download, Reading but these two festivals we sort of played there maybe over the last two or three years and you can see the progression, this year it just went off completely. It was the perfect gig. 2000 trees and

Y Not festival were perfect.

Ben: Good response. Everyone went nuts didn’t they Wil? Wil: Aye, they did and it was enlightening. Actually it was in lightening.

Ben: (Laughs) Yeah, there was a storm.

Wil: At Y Not festival the main stage got hit by lightening and they had to close they stage down, it was crazy.

Ben: We were locked in a cabin.

Wil: It was like Jurassic Park, there were no dinosaurs though.

Ben: No dinosaurs.

Wil: It was the mild peril aspect of it that made me say the Jurassic Park thing.

Who are you looking forward to seeing today?

Ben: Everyone, everyone that’s after us especially. It just sort of kicks off really. You’ve got Coheed and Shikari and we miss While She Sleeps which sucks a little bit but...

Yeah you’re playing the same time as them?

Ben: Yeah.

Wil: They’re supporting us aren’t they? Sort of...

Ben: Yeah, more or less.

Wil: They start before us so technically they’re supporting us.

Ben: Basically we’re headlining over them.

Wil: (Laughs) in a smaller room.

Do you have any plans for Christmas?

Ben: Miles away!

Wil: I don’t know. I really like Christmas, everything else sort of... Halloween... rubbish but Christmas.

Ben:We’ve all got loads of money so Christmas is always good and..

Wil: (laughs) Ben: Being with family and stuff cause you get to give them really expensive, extravagant presents.

Wil: Please buy us things to give to our friends and families.

Ben: Buy a t-shirt or an album.

Wil: Yeah an album.

Ben: That one, that would put money straight into our pockets not into anyone else’s.

What’s the next step for the band?

Wil: We’re writing stuff, B-Sides and maybe we’ll do some kind of EP next year. That would be cool. And then just December tour, January tour and then we’ll just tour up until summer and then festival time. Maybe go to Europe this year as well.

Interview by Gavin McHugh Photo by Sehar Mehmood

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Warped Attila (Main Stage) Well this band are all about partying and they make that clear from the offset. Well that’s what Warped Tour is all about. Right? Mid-set frontman Chris Fronzak says “We basically came to fucking party” encouraging everyone to crowd surf their way up to the front. Chris screams his witty lyrics over a slew of breakdowns. They released a new album earlier this year and “You’re a pussy if you don’t pick it up!” Attila aren’t your typical deathcore band, check them out with an open mind and they’ll probably give you an odd chuckle and leave you with a smile on your face which is never a bad thing.

6/10 Crossfaith (Main Stage) The Japanese metalers play with lots of energy and enthusiasm which translates to the crowd.

Their drummer pounds his way through each song.

Programmer/Keys player Tamano Terufumi leaves the stage to get more intimate with the crowd.

Whilst they haven’t turned me into a new fan I have to say it was a solid performance nonetheless.

6/10 The Wonder Years (Main Stage) As someone who is unfamiliar with The Wonder Years I didn’t quite know what to expect. I had heard a little of their music but had never seen them live before. They started their set with Passing Through A Screen Door which was prompted the crowd to jump up and down. After playing one of their stand out songs Melrose Diner vocalist Dan “Soupy” Campbell recalls when they played to seven people in Stoke-on-Trent in 2007, telling the audience that anything’s possible. They end their set with Came Out Swinging. I left pleasantly surprised.

7/10 We Came As Romans (Main Stage) We Came As Romans open with three songs from their latest album Tracing Back Roots which are all well received by the crowd. Misunderstanding

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Tour UK prompts many kids start a circle pit. Halfway through their set they perform a cover of The Wanted’s “Glad You Came” which is a nice change.

They then proceed to play some heavier songs with Garret Rapp from The Color Morale joining them during, “Present, Future and Past.” They wrap their set up with the uplifting “Hope” followed by “To Plant a Seed” which receives an even larger circle pit. The bands ever so catchy songs go down well.

Enjoyable set overall.

8/10 Memphis May Fire (Main Stage) Memphis May Fire start their set with intro track “Without Walls” which leads into “Alive In The Lights.” Vocalist Matty Mullins makes everyone welcome stating, “from the moment you walked through that door we all became a family.” Towards the end of their set they play a softer song, “Miles Away” which is refreshing after hearing so many heavy songs back to back. Craig Owens from Chiodos joins them on stage during this song. They finish off their set with breakdown-filled “Legacy” and “Prove Me Right.” Really enjoyable set, we look forward to their return to the UK in April.

8/10 The Dirty Heads (Kevin Says Stage) After watching several bands on the heavier side we checked out The Dirty Heads who were truly a breath of fresh air. This was their first UK show with a full live band. They opened their set with one of our personal favourites Dance All Night.

They continued to play a mix of old and more recent songs all of which were well received with many members of the crowd even singing along.

Their blend of reggae and hip hop had the whole room dancing and left them chanting for more at the end of the set. Definitely one to watch.

9/10 Parkway Drive (Main Stage) Parkway Drive’s set covers songs from all four albums. Dark Days from their latest album Atlas, sees dry ice sprayed from the stage. One of

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the crowd favourites Wild Eyes also sees confetti sprayed. Theatrical effects aside Parkway Drive aren’t going to leave unnoticed. Frontman Winston McCall tells the crowd “If I don’t see you crawling on someone’s head you’re not doing this festival right” and later letting them know “this is a big fucking room and that means we can fit a big fucking circle pit in it” and he certainly gets one. They end their set with another favourite “Carrion.”

Brilliant set overall, we just wished we were closer to the barrier!

10/10 Rise Against (Main Stage) Chicago Punk Rockers Rise Against begin their set with “Re-Education (Through Labour)” They also throw in “Like The Angel” for older members in the audience which was nice. They play favourites such as Prayer of the Refugee and Give It All. Good set overall.

7/10

Day 2

Hatebreed (Main Stage) With Hatebreed you get exactly what you’d expect.

Jamey Jasta shouts over their pounding drums and thrash style riffs and encourages the crowd to, “keep the bodies coming” as crowd surfing starts.

Live For This and Destroy Everything are standout songs. Decent set overall.

6/10 Hacktivist (Jager Stage) Hacktivist blend metal, grime and hip hop. Interesting right? Their music is filled with groovy, djent style guitar riffs with rapping and singing covered with reverb. They try to get the crowd going by saying things like, “Let’s give these paramedics something to do” but unfortunately their efforts were to no avail. The standout song for me at least was their “Ni**as In Paris” cover, which worked somewhat surprisingly well. We feel we may have enjoyed their set more at a more intimate show.

6/10 A Day To Remember (Jager Stage) Warped Tour had a surprise for us which hadn’t been announced until the day of the show. That surprise was an acoustic set by none other than A Day To Remember! Girls scream as 3/5 of A Day To Remember take to the stage. After some time is spent getting set up they start their set off with City Of Ocala. Jeremy then admits to winging it; not that any of us could tell. He then encourages the crowd to sing along before playing Right Back At It Again. This is proceeded by All Signs Point

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To Lauderdale which gets a great reception by the audience who sing and clap along. They then wrap things up with the ever so catchy All I Want which is a definite crowd pleaser with the whole crowd erupting into song. We couldn’t help but feel that something was lacking about the overall performance. Maybe it was a lack of intimacy? We just couldn’t feel the passion that we know the band has as we’ve experienced it from shows with the full band.

6/10 While She Sleeps (Main Stage) While She Sleeps have become one of the UK’s favourite hardcore bands in recent years and it’s not hard to see why. They play their set with incredible energy beginning their set with “This Is The Six” “The North Stands For Nothing” gets a great response with the crowd singing along.

They finish their set off with “Seven Hills.” While She Sleeps are setting the bar for UK hardcore bands.

8/10 Coheed and Cambria (Main Stage) Coheed and Cambria’s songs are filled with lead guitar performed to perfection. Through all Claudio Sanchez’s long frizzy hair bellows the voice to their epic rock songs.

To me they almost sound like a blend of Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden. A solid performance.

8/10 Enter Shikari (Main Stage) Enter Shikari have always put on great live shows and this was no exception. They started their set with System... which leads into …Meltdown. The crowd can be heard singing along to every word.

Halfway through the set Rou shouts, “Is this called Warped Tour? Is this called London?” getting the crowd even more pumped. As expected Enter Shikari have an extraordinary light show but for a band who claim to have concerns for the environment, we hope it was solar powered! By the end of the set Rory has played on his back, Chris has been running and spinning around stage and Rou has been throwing a cymbal around the stage, before completely destroying a keyboard, then throwing keys into the crowd and eventually the remainder of the keyboard. A great experience. Possibly one of the best live bands you’ll ever see.

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Malevolence MALEVOLENCE are one of many rising bands in the UK metal scene right now, with their newest release ‘’Reign of Suffering’’ reaching number 1 on iTunes chart and number 29 on BBC rock chart they are definitely set for high places.

The band only began 3 years ago but managed to catch the ears of every hardcore fan

in the UK with their two track demo featuring fan favourite ‘’Serpents Chokehold’’.

The band have a heavily strong fan base, within entering Rock City basement half the crowd are wearing their merchandise and the same can be seen at any hardcore show in the UK. Malevolence are for fans of

hardcore with a metal edge, if you like bands such as Hatebreed, Pantera and The Acacia Strain you are surely in for a treat.

Jolt Magazine speaks to the band just before they Rock City, Nottingham.

It’s the penultimate date of your UK tour with Heart Of A Coward, how has it been so far?

Wilkie:It’s been great! Alot better than we expected, all the shows have been packed, mostly sold out shows so it’s been amazing.

Any memorable moments?

Alex: Sheffield was wild,there was about 500 people and it was all kicking off.

Wilkie: It was our home town show so all our friends came down, we all went out and partied. It was the best night of the tour so far.

How have you been getting on with the other bands on tour?

Wilkie: Everyone’s been getting on fine, we already knew Heart Of A Coward from playing shows with them before and we met The Charm The Fury on this tour, it’s all been good fun.

You released your new album on November 11th, do you feel like you’ve had a good response?

Alex: Yeah it’s been great, we’ve been on the BBC Rock Chart at number 29, number 1 on itunes rock and metal chart for a couple of days so the response has been great, a lot of people have been picking up the album. Especially on tour, a lot have been picking up the cd’s and vinyl, loads of kids

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have been singing along to the new songs.

Wilkie: A big thank you to everyone who’s picked it up.

What are your favourite tracks from the new album?

Wilkie: ‘’Turn to Stone’’ which is a track towards the end and a song called ‘’Eternal Torment’’ which we just released a video for.

Alex: Probably ‘’Delusions of Fear’’, it has a good friend of ours from the band Nasty doing guest vocals.

Have you played any of the new songs on tour and if so which ones?

Alex: Pretty much all of them from the new album except ‘’Turn to Stone’’ and ‘’Wraith’’, we added ‘’Eternal Torment’’ just before we went on this tour just because we released the new video for that a few days ago, the response to that has been great.

What do you do as a band to warm up for a show?

Wilkie: Hang out, drink, smoke, watch other bands and maybe join the pit, warm the body up!

What bands have influenced Malevolence?

Wilkie: Pantera, Hatebreed, Lamb Of God, just all the usual metal bands you listen to when you’re 13 years old that we never grew out of.

Alex: We all like our own stuff, me and Charlie listen to beatdown, Konan is into his old school metal, our guitarist Josh is into his technical like Veil of Maya so it all gets combined into a nice mix. But overall we all like the same thing.

If you could tour with any band,

who would it be?

Wilkie: Metallica, Lamb of God or Hatebreed!

Alex: Realistically if I could tour with anyone it would have to be a band like Twitching Tongues and Sylosis.

What is the next step for the band?

Alex: Tour, tour and more touring doing as much as we can, when we’ve finished that we’ll write a new album I guess!

Keep on going mental on this album, see how far we can push it and try and jump on some festivals next year.

What are your plans for 2014?

Alex: We’ve had a few offers but nothing we can say at this point in time but hopefully to tour and do festival season, going out to mainland Europe.

Where are your favourite places to play?

Wilkie: Sheffield as it’s our home town and it’s always amazing, Birmingham is pretty fun too.

Alex: Belgium as it’s always violent, Germany being pretty good also.

The north of England is the place to be at the moment like Leeds.

How do you feel about the pits at your shows, apparently they are very violent?

Alex: It’s great I love it! If the kids are having a good time as long as they aren’t fighting then they can do whatever they want. They can mosh all they want, it’s heavy metal it’s very aggressive.

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The Dirty Heads performed on the Kevin Says stage at this years Warped Tour UK and we managed to grab a quick chat with frontman Jared Watson.

So you guys played an acoustic set a little earlier and are playing with the full band later. What would you say the differences are and why you chose to do both?

Well, the band started as an acoustic act. When we started there was just 3 of us; Me, Dustin playing guitar and JonJon playing percussion and we play little bars, we play high school partys, we play fuckin’ anything that we could do, coffee shops and we started getting popular that way so it really is comfortable with us, we like it, we feel at home doing that acoustic stuff. I like it, we’ve been playing the last 7 years as a full live band. Very high energy, trying to keep you know it like a big party is what we, is what I want our live shows to be so when we pull it back and do the acoustic stuff its really fun and refreshing for

us cause we kind of... we even chit chat with the fans and the crowd you can hear ‘em, it’s more intimate you know and we play smaller clubs and stuff so I love it. I love going back and forth cause it keeps it fresh you know.

How do the US crowds compare to UK and Europe crowds?

We’ve never played here before so it’s definitely a different feel ‘cause people are seeing us for the first time and some people are just kind of soaking it in but I notice people dance a lot more over here. They don’t know who we are and they’re still jammin’, they’re still groovin’, but back at home I can’t really compare because we’ve been touring there for so long we’ve established our band you know. We can go and fuckin’ have amazing shows and people are raging and crushing but if I wanted to compare it to when we were at the same level as what we are at here I would say people are maybe a little more open-minded here or they just seem to dance a

lot more and that makes us feel a lot better you know.

We came here last year to do some press, me and Dustin and JonJon and just hung out and played a couple of acoustic shows but we were never here with the full band so this is the first time we’ve been here with the full band.

Tell us about your influences Well me and Duddy met and we really had a love for reggae music and it was like I you know Bob Marley is the cliché what you would always say but I think Bob Marley is a good gateway into reggae but we really dived pretty deep you know into the 60’s and 70’s of reggae and like Horace Andy, Yellowman, Michigan and Smiley, all these very rub-a-dub things, really bass heavy stuff.

We like the slower stuff compared to the ska. You know kinda the shit that grew out of ska that’s the reggae that we really, really enjoyed. We listened to a lot of hip hop when we were in high school and making the band like Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys those bands really influenced us. I think Sublime and the Beastie Boys really showed us that you can blend music and make it sound like an original sound. We’re an alternative band but we are an alternative band with reggae and hip hop influence so we listen to music and we’re like “Hey, we don’t have to have one sound’ and I think bands like Beastie boys and Sublime really opened our eyes to that.

Whats the first thing that comes to mind where you think about the UK? What

do you like about it?

Pubs is the first thing that comes to mind, just pubs.

Theres pubs everywhere, you’re always drinking beer, it’s good. I love the UK, the food is great, the people are great a we had a killer time but when I think of the UK its like “Im gonna go over there and I’m gonna hang out at some pubs and watch some soccer or football and have a good time.”

Whats next for your band?

We’re gonna go home from this tour and start writing a new full length album that should be out at the end of next year. We’re gonna get in the studio in January/February/March and hopefully have it done by April so we’re just gonna go home and write, write, write, write, try and come up with a new album so that’ll be fun ‘cause it’s cool to go tour for a long time, kinda get burnt out on touring, wanna stay home wanna be like “Okay I don’t wanna tour anymore.” Then you can go in the studio for 3 or 4 months, “I need to get out and play shows” you know so it’s very cool to have that kind of a job or to make a living of something creative that you do and also having 2 sides to it so it doesn’t get boring.

So if you weren’t so fortunate to be in your band what do you think you may be doing?

I have no idea, you know I really just put all my eggs in one basket with the band... I have no clue... I was gonna go to art school from high school.

I was gonna go to an art university, I had a scholarship but music I was just having

so much fun with. Then art was kind of at the time I was kinda not having fun, just too concentrated ‘cause I was like this is what I wanna do when I get older and then music came along and then I, we started getting fans and I was like holy shit, I can make this a living?

You know if this can be my job I’d fuckin’ love it ‘cause it’s still art and I can still you know draw and paint and do all that shit for merch, for album covers or anything else and still be artistic but this is just I dunno... I just met Dustin and just knew this is what we wanted to do and now our dreams are coming true so we’re really stoked!

What influenced you to start playing music?

Just the feeling of finishing a song, the feeling of playing in front of a crowd. It’s artistic in a way like I could compare it to painting and drawing and its frustrating at times but the reward at the end is really awesome and I think the reward is better with music to me than a painting or a drawing because more people can appreciate it and it might be able to help more people. You know we get emails from fans, this really helped me out when my mom was sick, this really helped me out when a chick broke up with me, this really helped me out.

Once we started getting things like that I was like fuck this is really cool, I really wanna do this for the rest of my life now.

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Andy Latimer Camel Interview with

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In 1971 a quartet of young rock musicians called Camel played their first gig at Waltham Forest Technical College, supporting Wishbone Ash. Just four years later they would release The Snow Goose, an instrumental concept album based on the novel of the same name by Paul Gallico. It would change the face of progressive music. On the 17thof October 1975 they played the album in its entirety to a sold out crowd at the Royal Albert Hall. It would be forty odd years before they would do so again, this time at London’s Barbican Centre, to support the album’s re-recording and subsequent release. I caught up with founding member, frontman Andy Latimer, the day before the show.

Hey Andy! It’s lovely to meet you. How’s it all going?

Not too bad, I’ve got my cup of tea! Just a bit tired.

Were you playing last night?

Yeah we were playing in Amsterdam last night. It was a good gig actually. Nice atmosphere, bit different from the rest of the gigs. It was standing-up, so more rock and roll. I like it like that, I can actually see everybody! Sit down gigs are nice and it probably suits The (Snow) Goose better, but yeah it was fun to do a stand up gig.

This is the first time you’ve played The Snow Goose live since 1975, what’s it like to revisit it as a live show?

It was a bit of a challenge to be honest. When the idea was first put to me by our agent, Paul Boswell, I thought, ‘I dunno, I’ll have to think about that,’ because I didn’t really want to just go back and do it exactly the same. So I thought about it for quite a while and then I started messing around with different ideas and different bits. As it went on I started

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writing these little vignettes and I started to think it could be really interesting. I also kept quite faithful to the original, so it’s a combination of old and new.

It still has the same vibe as the original. But there was one bit in there, I starting playing one riff and Pete (Bardens) messed around on the moog for about half an hour and that sort of thing doesn’t interest me any more, not now I’m sixty-four! I had to write arrangements that would stimulate me as well as being a little bit different for the listener too.

So it’s The Snow Goose remastered then?

It was a challenge, but I’d say lovingly remastered, yes. I restored all the bits and pieces of it and it was fun.

Why did you choose The Snow Goose as the theme for the album in the first place? I read it at school.

(Laughs) Really?

I didn’t like it! It definitely didn’t strike me as concept album material. But I think the album does a great job of capturing this wild spirit of nature the book describes.

(Laughs) Well, that’s very nice of you to say! The album before The Snow Goose I’d written this piece called The White Rider, based on The Lord of the Rings. Of course, everyone’s heard of that now, but in those days it was just this book being passed round the band, we were all reading it. So I wrote this number and the band said, ‘maybe we should find another book.’ We were all scouring for ideas and I know Pete wanted to do Siddharthur and Doug Ferguson suggested The Snow Goose. Pete and I read it. It was quite an easy task; there’s only three characters, it’s a very short

story and there’s lots of emotions running through lot of people didn’t even think I’d be here, it’s a huge it. We thought it might be a good idea so we went overwhelming feeling of people just…it’s a great off to Devon, a really idyllic setting, on a farm. supportive laugh and it’s very overwhelming. It’s We thrashed out quite a few different ideas and I lovely. You realise you’re making an impact on other had an awful lot of material ready anyway. I think people’s lives. That’s not something you think about, about three quarters of The Snow Goose I wrote.

I don’t sit at home thinking about the impact I’m It was an easy project to do, both of us knew what making on people’s lives, of course I don’t. You’re we wanted. just making music. If it comes out and it’s good and people like it, that’s fabulous. But I’ve written a lot of You revisited the idea with 1991’s (Grapes of things that I thought were good and they didn’t sell.

Wrath concept album) Dust and Dreams. Are conBut that doesn’t matter. cept albums something that particularly appeal to you?

You’re doing it for the love of it.

I like concept albums, especially if the story’s It’s not my first port of call for how to judge things. powerful like The Grapes of Wrath. Anything that I judge things on how they make me feel, and if it moves me to that extent, I’ll write about. It’s somemakes me feel something, it’s usually sadness. I times easier to have a concept because it’s like have a sadness in my soul, but I kind of like that, it writing music to a film. It’s easily defined, it has a lifts me. And I’m sure other people feel that way too. certain pace and some sort of emotions, so for I like that side of music, it’s easy for me to write. But me as a writer I find that quite easy. As long as I don’t think about those things until I come on tour. the emotions are strong. I’m always looking for new ideas to do albums with but I haven’t really Do you think there’s any pressure on the band to found anything that’s stimulated me of late. keep touring?

Now I’ve come back, and it was quite a challenge Do you think there’ll be a new album in the works for me, not just physically but emotionally too. I soon? didn’t know if I could do it still. I hadn’t done it for ten Well we’re going out again in March. Probably years, I didn’t know if I’d be able to remember stuff, if after this little jaunt I’ll have some time off but I’d be able to do it. There were a lot of demons and then before I know it it’ll be March so I don’t think, a lot of insecurities. I just thought, ‘I gotta do this.’ realistically, there won’t be anything out ‘til late There’s no way back.

Summer. I mean, I’ve got lots of material, I do write quite a lot ‘cos I get bored of stuff very quickly.

Do you find touring helps you to connect with new I’ll write something and think ‘ooh, this is pretty fans? good,’ then three months later I’ll go ‘nah, this is Oh yes. Definitely. A lot of different people on these rubbish!’ (Laughs) tours. The other night we had ten Russians come.

(Does a Russian accent) ‘I am from Russia, here There’s no sign of you slowing down as a band is a spoon!’ Lovely people. People coming from all then, do you think you’ll carry on creating new over the place like Israel and Tehran and they all tell material and putting it out there? us to visit their countries. And I have to tell them it’s As long as we’re physically able to. I’ve had a lot not down to me, I don’t decide! They give us lots of of physical challenged on this little jaunt. positive feedback.

You had to stop touring in the late nineties for health reasons. How did that impact the band?

Do you think live shows are an important part of what you do?

I do. It gives you a sort of grounding. Sometimes when you sit at home, and I do a lot of sitting around at home, in front of the guitar and piano, you lose sight of what you’re meant to be doing.

You can forget, almost, that you’re a musician.

When you go on the road, especially this time having not done it for ten years, and I was ill so a

How do you feel about social media as a tool for connecting with new listeners?

I think some it is good. Half the band are into the social media thing, they’re on Facebook and Twitter and all that sort of thing, but I’m an old analogue guy really. Sometimes I find it difficult, last night there was a guy who must have filmed the whole show.

That’s okay, but then they put it on the internet.

People think it’s free and what happens is the band cannot create an income. It’s difficult especially when we want to put a DVD out ‘cos it’s already

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all up there! Even if we put a DVD out we’ll have spent lots of time and money producing it and some fool will put it out the next day on the internet so everyone thinks they don’t have to buy it.

For a small independent band like us, some of it is very good and positive and you can argue that all that exposure is good but on the other hand, everyone thinks it’s all free! How are we supposed to make a living? It’s a tough one. I don’t ever go on Facebook really, I just don’t have the time. I see the lads in the van on Facebook and it’s like two or three hours out of the day for them. And for them, that’s fine, but I don’t have the time. Or anything to say, really!

With the rise of illegal downloading, how do feel about the state of the music industry now compared to how it was when you were just starting out?

It’s totally different. Record companies are becoming non-existent, probably CDs will become extinct soon. I think we have to look for ways to make money. You’ve got have a rethink and something will turn up, it’s just more of a challenge. But it’s totally different. When we started, the record company were quite naïve really. They were into building the artist. After Mirage we thought we were doing reasonably well and they were saying ‘yeah, yeah, wait ‘til the third album, we’ll build you as an artist.’ We said okay, we had no restrictions!

They told us to do whatever we wanted to do, ‘cos they didn’t know anything anyway. It was great. It

wasn’t until later, the American side, when we did The Snow Goose, I remember having a meeting in New York with the record company and they were horrified. It’s all one piece of all music and it’s all instrumental!

It will never sell!

That’s what they said! How can we put this on the radio? We just said, ‘it is what it is.’ Times have changed, a lot. It’s easier for budding artists now to get their music across so that’s a good thing.

But we’re bombarded with so much stuff now and people haven’t got time for music. Or they take it all piecemeal, through Spotify. I think what’s happened now, with companies like Spotify, the artist doesn’t get any money from that. Someone else is getting very rich. But what can you do? You can’t reinvent the wheel, it’s got to move on, we’re already here. People have less time for music, so they listen to it differently.

That sort of singular, symphonic piece of music like The Snow Goose, is that the sort of thing you enjoy listening to? Are you in touch with the neoprog scene at all?

No, I don’t listen to it much. It’s quite embarrassing sometimes. I talk to Jason (Hart) and Guy (le Blanc) and they’re both very strong on the prog world.

They’re always telling me stuff to listen to, and I do! But I’ll listen to an amazing amount of different things. I like any kind of music that makes me feel something. If it’s something with a lot of notes, the musician in me can appreciate it but it doesn’t do anything for me.

Do you find it relaxing to take time out and play stuff for yourself rather than focusing on pieces specifically for an album?

Oh yeah. I’m constantly writing stuff that has nothing to do with Camel or the progressive world. I don’t see Camel as a progressive band though, at all. I never did.

When we started we were just a band that did a lot more instrumentals than other bands and

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suddenly we were progressive.

Do you dislike the label?

No, it just doesn’t mean anything to me. I think we’re more on the edge. I was brought up on The Shadows and then The Beatles and The Beach Boys and then I got into blues. I’m an old blues man, really, playing progressive music. It’s a very strange place to be. There are some elements of the prog world I don’t like. It’s kind of snobby and I don’t like anyone that’s that snobby. The wonderful thing about music is there’s room for it all. Thank God, ‘cos otherwise I wouldn’t be here!

Growing up and listening to all those different bands, did you always feel like music was what you wanted to do?

Oh yes, there were a lot of bands that were very inspirational. Early Genesis and Focus, just so much really. When you’re a musician anything you like is absorbed and it comes out, you regurgitate it somehow yourself. I’ve always liked melodies, something with melodic content. And rhythm. If it doesn’t have those I tend to switch off.

I saw Focus a couple of weeks ago, and that was a standing gig, but it wasn’t as lively as I expected!

But you prefer to play standing gigs.

I love to play small places. I love to see people.

When everybody’s seated and comfortable and the lights come on, you can’t see anybody and it’s much harder. If you’re trying to transfer some sort of emotion to someone it’s much easier if you can see them. It’s instantaneous, the rapport is fantastic. It is hard to ask people to stand up and listen to The Snow Goose, it’s hardly rock and roll. But the people last night were fantastic. The second set is more lively so there’s a good balance.

What about when the tour finishes in March? Any plans or are you just going to take some time out to yourself?

I don’t know what I’m doing actually. I don’t make plans, I just sort of bumble through my life. I write when I feel like it, if I’m inspired I write. That’s always a painful process. I tend to shut myself away for a week or so, and maybe I’ll write two notes and get them in the right order. I’ll have to do that every day until I come up with something. Or sometimes I’ll just go and write something that sounds like an Abba tune and I’ll love it but I could never stick it on a Camel album, the others’d go crazy! I’ll write all kinds of stuff, country stuff, just because it’s enjoy-

able. But eventually I’ll see a pattern that sounds like something that could go on a Camel album.

I normally get two or three pieces on a Camel album that will make the others go (makes a face) ‘what’s that doing there?’ Sometimes it’s successful and they’ll go with you and other times they’ll go ‘oh crikey, he’s off on a tangent again.’ You just do your best.

How long are you staying in London after tonight?

Last night we played Holland of course, and we’ve got a night off tonight which I hate. It puts me out of my rhythm. Once I get going I want to stay in that rhythm and a day off can be disruptive, especially when the boys go out on the town. Usually everyone’s okay. After the Barbican we’re off to Germany.

Do you have a favourite country to play in?

I’d say Holland but last night was a strange one.

There were three gigs going on at this one venue and a lot of people were drunk as skunks. They started getting hostile when we tried to get out.

And we couldn’t get out ‘cos there were bicycles all over the place. They had to call the police, someone threw a bottle at the driver, someone else put a bottle in between the tyres so we got a flat tyre on the way here. I kept thinking ‘wow, is this Amsterdam?’ I always thought Amsterdam was a bit more live and let live. Tonight should be fun, but London gigs always come with a lot of pressure because so many people want to come to them. We sold out very quickly but people keep asking me if I can get them a seat, or get them on the guest list which of course I can’t. So it’s quite hard in that respect.

It must be flattering though, to sell so many tickets that quickly.

It’s a lovely feeling. It’s a shock too, after ten years there was a part of me that wondered if anyone would want to come. A lot of people probably come just to see if I’m still alive (laughs).

And my final question, Andy thanks for the interview but I have to ask, if you were a biscuit, what kind would you be?

What about a digestive? It’ll go well with my tea.

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We Came As Romans We caught up with Joshua Moore from We Came As Romans and here’s what he had to say.

What inspired you to start playing your instrument?

I originally started playing guitar because my dad played acoustic and I thought that was really cool. So he bought me my first acoustic for Christmas when I was in like 6 grade.

Was was life like pre-We Came As Romans?

Well, we started We Came As Romans when I was 15, so I would say it was much simpler hahaha. At that point all I had to do was go to school and hang out with friends.

I was in marching band and didn’t even have my license to drive yet.

How did your recording with John Feld-

mann compare with your previous experiences in the studio?

It was amazing and I’m so glad that we made the decision to go with John. He really opened my mind to different ways to write music, and he was always such an optimistic and positive attitude to be around.

He really kept our moods up when we were there for 12 hours a day, every day of the week for the first three weeks.

What keeps you motivated when you’re having a bad day?

Sometimes it’s really hard to pull yourself out of a bad day, but I try to talk to my girlfriend, or read, or just take my mind off of whatever is going on that’s bringing me down. Redirection of my attention is the key.

How did the UK warped tour shows

compare with other Warped Tour shows?

They were definitely different than the US variants but they were no less awesome, and I’m so happy we were able to play them. The London show in particular was insane and I hope we are able to come back for future warped tour Europe events.

What are you favourite/least favourite things about the UK? I love that I can understand what everyone is saying hahaha, it sounds lame but it’s a nice break after being in mainland Europe where everything is very foreign. And I love shopping at Topman hahaha, that might sound lame too but it’s an awesome store for us Americans. The crowds for us, especially London, are really crazy and energetic so it’s always fun to play. My least favourite part is that there is no sun hahaha… it’s always so grey.

If you weren’t in We Came As Romans what do you think you would be doing?

I would be doing music in some form, or

some way. I highly doubt I’ll ever have a life completely void of some type of musical interaction or creation.

What do you do to keep yourself busy in your free time?

At home and on the road is different. At home I like to spend time with my girlfriend, go out to new places, play video games, and on the road I’ll read, sometimes play video games, or watch hockey.

Who have you been listening to lately?

Lately I’ve been listening to Ed Sheeran, the new Defeater CD, and the new Our Last Night EP. All very different styles of music hahaha but I like them all.

What’s next for We Came As Romans?

Rocksound impericon exposure tour! In late February with Chunk! No, Captain Chunk, The Color Morale, and Palm reader. I’m excited for it!!

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Maybeshewill anybody else.

What were the reasons for your DIY approach?

When we started obviously we didn’t have our own label, we didn’t have a booking agent so we started learning how to do that kind of stuff ourselves out of necessity and we just kind of carried that on although the album’s out obviously on labels but they tend to be sort of one man band sort of DIY deals themselves.

A lot of it’s done that way out of necessity and because we don’t necessarily need a manager because at this point we’ve learned enough stuff ourselves through the years so it isn’t something that we really see a need for.

We caught up with John Helps to ask him a few questions about his band Maybeshewill whilst they were on the road with The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Describe your sound Instrumental rock with electronic bits.

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You are an instrumental band, were there any particular reasons for not having a vocalist?

We kind of started doing the band and just making music at uni and our bedrooms and none of us could sing so that was the only way we could operate. I started working on it and thats what happened. Then the rest of the band joined and we never felt the need to add

So is that something you’d encourage upcoming bands to do?

I like the idea that you shouldn’t ask someone to do something that you’re not prepared to do yourself. Then obviously it’s really hard to get started booking shows and things but like if you’re not going to put the work in I mean then why would anybody else? Starting that way is good but it’s not the route for everyone.

It works for us with obviously with the internet and the kind of music we make it’s quite easy to access the audience that are going to be into that, its a relatively constrained group of people that are going to be into music without vocals but if you were like maybe I dunno an indie band it might make more sense to have a manager and be looked after from quite an early stage. Bands should a way that works for them.

If you weren’t in Maybeshewill what do you think you’d be doing?

(Laughs) I have always done stuff with music, I’m not a particularly a good musician so most of the stuff I do is booking shows, releasing

records. All of those things I learned to do through the band so I started doing Maybeshewill then we started doing a record label called Robot Needs Home that releases our friends music and then I work for a venue, Jamie is a recording engineer, Matt is a live sound engineer. Everybody does things that are kind of related to the band in some way and then kind of made careers, so probably similar things I’d imagine.

Have you had any embarrassing stage moments? (laughs) Um, not personally. Jamie fell over this tour pretty hard over, onto the monitors which was pretty funny for the rest of us. There will be something but I cant think off the top of my head what It’d be. Yeah, that’s the best thing thats happened this tour Jamie falling over.

If you could tour with anyone who would it be?

We’ve been pretty lucky we’ve played with some wicked bands, like some of the best live bands at the moment like Dillinger Escape Plan. Sick! And we toured with And You

Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead last year, And So I Watch You From Afar who are really good friends of ours, we’ve toured with them 3 times. Light from Japan they were wicked, just incredible musicians. We’ve toured with 65daysofstatic. The thing with Maybeshewill is we never really had any aspirations for it.

We didn’t start out and go, “Oh I wanna release record and sell loads of copies”, we just started making music and we didn’t think there would be anything after the first record, we pretty much called it a day after the first album.

Then we got asked to do a number of other things and kinda carried on and everything’s been a bonus at every point on the journey so we’re not... I dunno. Obviously there must be something in the back of your mind going oh I really hope we get to do like this tour we got to play Koko and Rock City which we’ve always liked, and here as well. We get to play venues where when you were younger you used to see bands playing. Literally like every step is something so I can’t think of a band that I’d like to play with because I’ve never thought beyond the next step.

How has being from a smaller city like

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Leicester affected your band?

Leicester’s, I don’t know if the rest of the band would agree with this but I really like Leicester. Im not from there originally, neither me nor Robin is, the rest are. We kind of ended up there and after university and just sort of stayed. Initially its not a very nice city, its pretty grey but the community of people there’s really tight nit so there’s not really any competition like people aren’t fighting for support slots and stuff cause there aren’t really any support slots and no one goes there so bands help each other out, like tour together, like put on shows and the community’s really strong in that respect. People are prepared to do stuff because it’s cool not because they like want the money for it or because its gonna progress their bands I suppose. Being pretty centrally located weirdly is quite pretty good. If you live in London and you have to go and play a show like Leeds its forever away. If you live in Leciester it’s only about an hour like pretty much everything’s an hour away and in that respect its good and perhaps made us tour more because we weren’t being focused on London all the time we could just go and play some shows.

I think Leicester’s been fairly important to the band in a way.

Do you have a favourite song to play?

It changes all the time. We’re working on a new record at the moment, we didn’t play anything from that tonight because we didn’t quite have time but playing some of the new stuff has been pretty fun. I enjoy that side of the band at the moment. There’s a song that everyone always wants us to play which is called He Films The Clouds Part 2 and we never play it or we play it really rarely so when we do its a bit of a treat I guess. I quite enjoy it. For an instrumental band theres a sing along bit in it so that’s kind of something thats a bit different.

What’s next for the band?

We’re supposed to be recording an album pretty much literally as we speak but we got offered the Dillinger tour and ended up doing that cause we couldn’t really say no to it, going out on the road with them. So when we get back from this we’re gonna finish writing the record, go and record it and hopefully it will come out sort of March/April time next year and then we’ll tour as much as we can. The

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last record came out 3 years ago I think and we’ve been touring since then, not solidly but enough time that its made doing other things difficult. So that’s why its taken so long to get round to the next album I guess.

So you’ve been touring a lot more since the release of I Was The There For a Moment, Then I Was Gone?

This will be the longest tour we’ve ever done.

The last one we went out to europe and at that point that was the longest one we’ve ever done. So its all big stretches. We’ve been to more countries that I could’ve ever imagined.

Its been really cool.

So it feels like you’re progressing all the time then?

Yeah, its nice that it feels like that. I think if it ever didn’t then we’d stop doing the band.

Yeah its nice, a nice position to be in.

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The Maine

What inspired you to want to be in a band?

What are you hoping to get out of the acousPAT- Watching the movie that thing you do kind tic tour? Why is it such a short tour? of got me into wanting to play music and then it PAT- I hope that we give our fans an experience was years later watching bands like New Found at a show that they have never had before. I am Glory made me want to actually be in a band. really looking forward to playing some songs Watching the Drive Thru Records DVD’s made that we have not put in the set very often or at me feel like I could actually do what they were all. Also being able to put a different spin on the doing! songs we have been playing for awhile now! It is short because we just wanted to play a few How did you decide on what genre of music dates near the west coast where we live. We you wanted to create? just finished doing a full tour so we didn’t want PAT- It was never something that we talked to repeat the same city’s right away. If we have about I guess we were just influenced by the a good time im sure we will do it again in more music we were listening to and thats why our towns. sound continues to evolve as we listen to new music.

What can be expected on the acoustic EP? PAT- It is all original songs not just acoustic Why did you decide to do an acoustic tour? versions of songs from our past records. I really PAT- We always try and put ourselves in a enjoy the songs and we tried some things soniposition to have to do something that we have cally that we have never tried before. We expernever done before. We want to give a different imented with sounds to really give each song a experience to the people that see us often. Also different mood. for us it is good to keep things fresh and take Photo by Sehar Mehmood on a different dynamic.

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Heart Of A Coward 2013 has been the best year ever for UK band Heart Of A Coward.

Releasing their number 1 album ‘Severance’ and playing Download Festival it seems the band have it all going for them.

The band have released two video’s from the new album ‘’Deadweight’’ and ‘’Psychopant’’ both being super hits with the fans ,getting everyone singing along.

Jolt Magazine speaks to Vishal Khetia, bassist of the band on the penultimate date of the UK tour about being pulled over by the police, flu, download festival and plans for 2014.

It’s the penultimate day of your UK tour, how has it been so far?

Vishal: It’s been great and it’s all gone so quickly! Every show has been awesome, we’ve sold out around half the shows and each turn out has been great.

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Any memorable moments from the tour?

Vishal: On the first night we got pulled over by the police, it was very eventful and people got fined.

On the second day of the tour we all got ill because our vocalist Jamie decided to spread his illness so we couldn’t have hit it as hard as we normally do on tour cause of fevers, flu’s and everything in between.

Have you been getting on well with the

other bands on tour with you?

Vishal: The Malevolence guys are wicked and so are The Charm The Fury. I personally knew The Charm The Fury because they invited us over for their launch show in Amsterdam 2 weeks before this tour.

You released your new album on November 4th, do you feel like you’ve had a good response to it?

Vishal: It’s been 2 weeks since the release and on the

first night we had kids singing the lyrics back to us at our first show a week later from the new album ‘Severance’ What are your favourite tracks from the new album?

Vishal: It’s hard to say because each track has a different feel to it, I think it depends on what my mood is at the time which determines what song I like the most.

But the songs I like playing from the new album are ‘’Mirrors’’ or ‘’Prey’’.

Have you played any of the new songs on tour and if so which ones?

Vishal: Most of our set consists of new songs like ‘’Prey’’, ‘’Monstro’’, ‘’Severance’’, ‘’Mirrors’’ and ‘’Desensitise’’ but that is just a hand full. We’re obviously playing ‘’Deadweight’’ and ‘’Psychopant’’ but we’ve been playing them live for a long time.

What is the difference between this album and Hope and Hindrance?

Vishal: Our sound has matured a lot more, every track flows a lot better compared to Hope and Hindrance because Hope and Hindrance was done over two years.

What do you do as a band to warm up for a show?

Vishal: We drink lots of whiskey, kick stuff, swear a lot and run around!

You played Download Festival earlier this year, how did that feel?

Vishal: I can’t really remember it because I had so much jager, but the crowd reaction was overwhelming looking back at it and was such a memorable moment for the band.

What bands have influenced Heart Of A Coward: Vishal: It’s hard to say because we all listen to completely different things. Noddy (Drums) listens to progressive bands like Cult Of Luna, Carl (Guitar) probably listens to Mumford & Sons, Steve (Guitar) listens to black and viking metal, Jamie (Vocals) is a proper metal head who listens to modern and old school metal of every sub genre then you have me who

listens to bands like Radiohead. We’re all very different but I guess we pick bits of each band and it reflects out on our music.

What are your plans for 2014 and will there be any more touring?

Vishal: We’ll be going out to Europe with Thy Art Is Murder which should be great as they are awesome guys but we can’t announce anything else at the current time.

What do you think is the next step for the

band?

Vishal: The next step for the band would be to keep doing these solid tours and getting our profile bigger in the UK, then reaching out to Europe and other countries.

If you could tour with any band, who would it be?

Vishal: Radiohead, Muse, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

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Blitz Kids

How was the band formed?

Jono: We went to school together. Me and Nic have been in bands together since over 10 years now Nic: Yeah Jono: So we’ve been trying to find the right members to sort it out around us and we’ve settled on these ones Nic: It’s going alright so far Jono: Cant really complain

Is being in a band what you’ve always wanted to do? Did you ever see yourself doing anything else?

Nic: No it’s always what we wanted to do, me and Jono have being doing this for over a decade, we’ve been to various music schools...dropped out of various music schools Do you know what you’d be doing at all?

Jono: Honestly, up shits creek without a paddle Nic: Yeah, i’d be in an office somewhere hating myself Jono: Yeah same How would you say your sound has progressed from when you first started?

Jono: Quite a lot! We we’re fucking terrible when we first started and now we’re just marginally better Nic: Haha Jono: We used to not really be very good at our instruments, not take it really seriously Nic: No Jono: Over the past two years we’ve kind of been like, ey up, we can make a shot of this.

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Have you had any particular influences?

Jono: All sorts really, we used to be in punk bands Nic: Yeah we used to be in a punk band called scratch n sniff. We used to play horrible songs!

Jono: MotorTed Nic: What song? I’m gonna try to figure that out in sound check Jono: We used to dick around in bands and listen to punk rock music and not really give a fuck and now we listen to James Arthur. Albums sick!

Nic: Yeah we’re diggin the pop music now that we’ve matured like fine cheddar, or wine or even scotch.

Jono: Scotch yeah decent aged beef patty even Nic: 28 days aged, steak Your new album, any particular themes?

Jono: It’s just about the day to day struggles everyone goes through and just being like fuck it, lets have a good time. Not worrying about things you can’t really have an influence over.

You’ve got to concentrate on the smaller things that you do have influence over and then the bigger things will change.

Nic: Putting a positive spin on negative things What would you say are the best and worst things about being in a band?

Jono:Best thing is touring isn’t it?

Nic: Touring is my favourite bit.

Touring then recording.

Jono: Then admin Nic: Worst bits are not going home ever

Jono: Not seeing our families and friends Nic: Yeah our friend has just had a baby and we haven’t met the baby yet Jono: Like our best friend for ages who was his best man for his wedding and we’ve still not met the kid Nic: So it’s stuff like that, miss out on the big moments in everyones life Jono: Yeah and we’re just off playing shows and having too much fun aren’t we?

Would you say it was worth it?

Jono: Absolutely Nic: Yeah Jono: We’ll meet the kid Nic: Exactly, it’s gonna be around for a while, or we hope Jono: Haha Do you have any memorable moments from when you first started? An achievement maybe?

Jono: We didn’t really achieve much when we first started did we?

Nic: I think eveything we’ve achieved we’ve done in the last year or two years Jono: I think the best thing we’ve achived is getting a major record deal. That’s the only thing we’ve actually done.

Nic: Yeah that is actually the only thing we have ever done Jono: Haha, just a whole load of tossing around before that Do you have a favourite song to play live?

Jono: I still really like playing Never Die I do Nic: You do?

Jono: Yeah Nic: I like playing our new single Jono: Which ones that?

Nic: Roll The Dice Jono: It’s not even a single Nic: Well yeah the new release

Jono: It’s fun to play, It’ll be good when crowds start learning it and Nic: Yeah we’ve gone for a set of new songs so Jono: No old songs, nothing off our first album at all Nic: So it’s all either from the Never Die ep onwards Is there a reason you don’t play the old stuff?

Jono: Fucking hate that record Nic: We can’t be arsed to keep playing old songs Jono: I can’t listen to that record any more, I feel sick Have you had any embarrassing moments?

Jono: Plenty Nic: Haha loads Jono: Can’t think of any off the top of my head, wait there let me think. Just falling over a lot Nic: Yeah pulling stupid faces Jono: When we meet fans afterwards just falling over and Nic: Being too pissed and making a scene Do you think that’s become part of being in a band now? Do fans expect you to behave that way?

Nic: Maybe, we’re just dancing monkeys aren’t we?

Jono: Essentially yeah. We are the puppets Nic: Oh God, what are we doing?

Jono: We’re just jesters at the end of the day. We’re just here to entertain so we do that no matter what tolls it takes on the human body Nic: and we’re fine to do that

are sold out and bigger bands, well who I would consider bigger such as Mayday Parade who have played these venues haven’t sold out and Mallory have done so. And the fact it’s our mates doing it, we’re on tour with our mates, out on a bus sharing. It’s kinda like a, er well it’s ideal isn’t it?

Nic: Yeah it’s a good time to be friends with Mallory Knox Jono: We still haven’t toured with Deaf Havana, i’d quite like that Nic: That’d be good Jono: We’ve played with them not not done an actual tour.

Haven’t got round to it Nic: No that’d be a good one Jono: Probably be a fucking cracker because we’re good mates with them boys. It’d be dangerous.

Is there any up and coming bands that you think stand out?

Jono: I think Fort Hope will do well, Lost Alone will do very well hopefully because their albums incredible and The People The Poet i’d like to see do

well. But it’s kind of, I don’t think theres much of a market for that kind of music at the moment which is a shame. Their new record came out Nic: Monday?

Jono: yeah top notch so check those boys out Whats next for you guys?

Jono: Christmas Nic: Yeah Christmas Are you spending it at home?

Jono: Yeah seeing the family after a long year Nic: and then we’ve got a bunch of stuff that’s top secret that we can’t tell you Jono: We’ve got a lot lined up next year but we can’t actually spill any of it but it’s going to be well busy Nic: You’re going to be bored of us Jono: Very bored, pretty fun though Interview and photos by Sehar Mehmood

What would be your ideal tour?

Jono: Mallory Knox Nic: Yeah we’re doing our ideal tour right now actually Jono: We’ve known the guys for ages and all these shows

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Album Reviews

Arist: Jonah Vin Album: Awake In Your Sleep Jonah Vin’s “Awake in Your Sleep” is a refreshing album that incorporates a nice mixture of melodic guitar and acoustic-Indie. The album starts off with “Ponder Elsewhere”, which is reminiscent of Minus the Bear’s acoustic albums and Early November’s EP. Specifically, with its the qualities of Minus the Bear’s melodic guitar and the calming, soft vocals of The Early November. With that said, the album can get a little spacey at times, but definitely not in a bad way.

In a way that makes you want to

go out for a nice evening drive and forget about the world. It is simple and easy to listen to.

Yet, it the same time it has some off-putting elements in it like the frequent change in time signatures. It makes the album enjoyable for its spontaneity and relaxing vibes. Songs such as “Awaken my Sleep” and “Ponder Elsewhere” display these contrasting elements perfectly. “Awake in Your Sleep” is a calming album that has lots of instrumental talent. Their acoustic and melodic fill creates an ethereal sound that left me in a dreamy trance because the album is, for the majority, a slow paced album.

Songs such as “Beautiful Distraction”, have plenty of melodic guitars that left me wanting more. In this song they incorporated some really powerful lyrics about using love as an escape: “She was the perfect distraction”. Additionally, songs that had more drum and bass influence caught my attention a lot more on the album. It was refreshing to hear some instrumental breakdowns in “2:25 AM” where they really show their instrumental talent and

utter passion, probably one of the best songs off the album next to their opening “Ponder Elsewhere”.

The song woke me up from my hazed dream from prior songs with delight.

Overall, very interesting direction Jonah Vin is taking, especially for only two band members, Gary Battreall, the guitarist, vocalist, and percussionist, and Jesse Mata, guitarist, and sound producer. I really dig this album and respect their instrumental talent, calming vocals, and their spacey, abstract sound. I would definitely recommend this album a listen for anyone who has not heard of them. They are a new band starting up with a lot of potential to make something really interesting and new.

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LAB Records rock duo Anavae return with a sonic blast on their second mini album Dimensions, smashing the high expectations of the aermy along with it.

Opener Anti-Faith boasts a huge sound and shows off a new side to vocalist Becca Need-Menear’s voice which adopts a rougher

growl during the bridge. Tracks like The Wanderer and pulsing Aeon are both very different apart from the signature use of a well-placed dub step breakdown that puts the band miles in front in term of creativity and originality. Frenzied guitars open HangMan before slowing down for drawn out verses that pick back up during the soaring chorus similar to Dream Catcher which is fast becoming a fan favourite.

Bring Me Down, however, is one of the true highlights of what shaped up to be a truly stunning record. Heavy music accompanies a lyrically weighted song, “Bring

me down to you, you’ll die down there alone,” that evoked several rounds of goose bumps. Leaving behind the bold drums of full band Anti-Faith an acoustic version closes the records with an arrangement so delicate it will haunt your mind for days.

Overall, Anavae have again proved they have more than what it takes for world domination with a record brimming with imagination. If they keep growing at the rate they’re currently travelling at it won’t be long before they have to find new fans in other universes.

album it ends on a good note.

Overall it’s a great, high energy metalcore album.

Their album begins by opening with an intro that is instrumental and then dives right into the first song which is “The Chosen One”. This song gives you an idea of what you can expect for the rest of the album. It’s more of a metal influenced album which is what makes it so fantastic. The band has taken the best features

of their EP Wasteland and created the album skeletons using the elements of Wasteland but creating a new fresh sound for their fans. The band picked some of the greatest songs to release as singles from this album. This album shows off the guitar skills of the members and it’s not just guitar riffs the entire time either which is glorious because it really shows the true talents of each member in the band. The only downside I could really seem to find about this album was that the vocalist who does cleans didn’t show is vocal range like he has done in the past. The album has twelve songs and ends with a good song, even if it isn’t the best song on the

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