Neck Deep can’t kick up the roots on new back-to-basics album

Despite spearheading the 2010s pop punk revival, Neck Deep fell flat with their 2020 effort, All Distortions Are Intentional. The record saw the band experiment with a relaxed, fuzzed-out sound coupled with a higher concept that tied together lyrical themes. What resulted sounded completely disparate to 2017’s The Peace and the Panic, prompting a resounding

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Asleep At The Helm’s ‘Keepsake’ is a 2022 Metalcore Essential

The UK has an ever-growing post-hardcore and metalcore scene, and emerging from it is one of my first musical discoveries of the new year – Manchester’s very own Asleep At The Helm. The quartet debuted with their album Dissonance back in 2018, and have started 2022 off on a strong note with the long-awaited release of

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