The English North-East has spawned quite a few good hardcore bands throughout the year and today's record, with its Newcastle/Durham...

Was playing bass guitar prohibited in Scarborough in the 80's? What if the absence of bass in Active Minds was not an accident but t...

In the punk world, love songs are generally frowned upon, unless they are ironic or disgusting. Indeed, we seem content with listening t...

It is still unclear who wrote the song "Two years too late". Was it Anti-Pasti or the Epileptics? Whoever wrote that song, one...

Sometimes, bands are remembered for a particular guitar sound or for a specific drumming pattern (you know what I mean). But Decadent Fe...

Just a quick word about the blog before we start. The suspension of my mediafire account has not dispirited me at all, and I have switched t...

I can't really say I haven't been warned by other bloggers, but Mediafire decided that enough was enough and suspended my account. A...

As the cover will tell you, Blyth Power love cricket. In fact, they love it so much that they organize a yearly festival called the Blyt...

I solemnly declare open Blyth Power week. Punk-rock is in constant flux and always has been. It has spread and continues to spread thr...

I suppose one could find some similarities between the Mortal Terror/Aural corpse split Lp and today's record, the State of Filth/An...