Chris Earl, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: I Want To Go Home – Kaonashi

Let’s deal with the elephant in the room. KAONASHI‘s vocals aren’t for everyone. They’re at times piercing, shrill and jarring, particularly

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Emerging as a deathcore band in the late 00s, BLEED FROM WITHIN edged the metal world with a change up

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Within hardcore, there’s degrees of darkness. Perhaps most well known are bands like HATEBREED, who’s lyrical content is perfect for

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When a key member of a band leaves, it can of course be for various reasons and, should those reasons