The 'Horror Of Beauty' Is...

Beneath the cosmetics is buried truth.
Beneath the falsity, screams the naked…
…Honesty IS NOT a number on the scales, nor a price or label on the skin. Sometimes it will stick in you like a blade licking your bones clean, twisting the shame and bleeding the lies; crimson sin spilling a masquerade of the beauty myth. ( Read more... )

Living With Eating Disorders - ‘More Than This’ Demo Review.

Tonight sleep begins with the sound of severing electronics. Andrea Kerr’s vocals soar in soothingly, followed by a rupture of ripping darkness that builds up and flows with tension, before bleeding into the ethereal backbeat of this dysfunctional ‘Lullaby’. The voice you hear lessens ( Read more... )

Velcra - Consequences of Disobedience.

Finnish band Velcra are a band to be admired for their choice of subject matter in their lyricism. In a world that is currently immersed in social and political conflict, Velcra play the magnifying glass to expose and inflame the injuries by taking a brave stand whilst leaving self-righteousness seated. ( Read more... )

Scarling. - 'Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole'

Scarling. are intense and take no offence when they make their mark upon your heart with song. Your veins will become guitar strings and you'll bleed the beauty of their screams. They are dark and delicious, seductively spilling their crimson chaos to whoever finds themselves lost amidst their menace. ( Read more... )

Thee Heavenly Music Association

For those of you who were fans of the excellent Fluffy and Jack Off Jill, you may recognise one half of this heavenly act featured on the home-page of their website...Hellen Storer (Vocals and Guitar) and Dave Hillis (Guitars, Sampling, Synthesizers) are Thee Heavenly Music Association, along with Bardi Martin (Bass ( Read more... )

C33X (Live)

In a small room emblazoned with red light, a warning of something about to go down like a police raid in pinstriped uniforms, five prophetic creatures take to the stage like criminals of a dirty good time. Here stands the bard with the blonde hair and the voice like a siren, the revolutionist of aural stimulation and leader of the kids ( Read more... )

SKIN

From Politics to Personal, Skin has shed her old status as Skunk Anansie vocalist and has now fitted herself in to something new and more revealing ( Read more... )

New Disease

New Disease. Well where do I begin? With a copious amount of puns at my disposability I could have fun for quite a while ( Read more... )

Harry

Harry is a woman set to spread through the nation faster than a plague of sexually transmitted diseased pokemon (only less pretentious, Japanese and. well ...Itchy)! Taking the nation by storm, this young face of the future is ready to seduce your stereos and rock your pinstriped socks with her fusion of infectious rock and pop. Harry: The ( Read more... )

The Bardo

Having sat impatiently through the two bands onstage prior to the headlining act tonight, when the three familiar figures finally took their places I prepared myself for something sinister, though I mean this in the most positive sense possible. Starting with a track taken off their initial release of ‘To Inhabit’ from almost 3 years ( Read more... )