Qualia and the Five Ancestors of the Great Maryland Kingdom
Stockholm Syndrome Flavoured Cake Accidentally Funding The End Of The World LP The words technical and punk can often seem polar-opposites, especially if you remember the very early days of the style. Long gone are the times of amateur musicians making it big on the back of their crazy hair and armour-piercing attitudes. Fans still lap it up, no less, but these days the new generation often want the next level of music to fulfil their psyche. The Athens-based technical punk group Qualia and The Five Ancestors of the Great Maryland Kingdom have returned to the invisible canary-coloured stadium after a seven-year hiatus. Their new album, Accidentally Funding The End Of The World, tips a wink towards the fact we can’t help vote for the status quo by nature of living our lives. It’s the things we do in between that matter, and knowing when to find an alternative. Released today, on Thousand Island Records, the title is so intriguing it has to be featured from the album. This is Stockholm Syndrome Flavoured Cake. A crack of snare and tom gives way to a soaring lead guitar section. The bass begins to hit the framework in neat and simultaneous bursts of welded metal. Blast-beats and punk rhythms combine as the guitars trill and double-time across melodic chord progressions and blues-based evolutions of progressive drama. The punk vocal hits the exact notes as the guitar elevates each harmony in that happy and frantic method the genre commands. Complete regeneration of the pattern manages to force the song through various pipe ways of sonic delivery as the basic ethos of the song continues persistently with a non-stop thrust of punk rock mayhem. You can follow Qualia and the Five Ancestors of the Great Maryland Kingdom on Instagram and Facebook
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Sunking
Bam Bam (featuring Takoda) Seattle They’re jazz for the future, as members of High Pulp exploring their creativity with a branching off from the main act. Original sunking members Bobbyy Granfelt and Antoine Martel offer their backbone of studio skills and hip-hop influenced drumming from Bobbyy and Antoine’s sci-fi synthesiser work reimagining itself in this novel format. Victory Nguyen has recently made himself indispensable by adding a cooling layer of mod-synth and brass. Sunking take the dapper quality of organically manufactured jazz and give it a bit of a dressing up with influential and exploratory attitudes toward their sound. The new album, I Don’t Like My Telephone, is due out on the 11th of July on ANTI- Records. Featuring guitar and vocoderist Takoda, with an anti-technology video, this is the single Bam Bam. A blurring of synth tone begins the spell-binding piece before a drop of bass begins to plummet the groove into a nice and cosy niche. Thows of hip-hop are cemented to the frame of laid-back swing and bass. Vocoderised lyrics then flow in, like robotic humanity fluttering in moth-like playfulness through meandering melodies. It’s a gentle number, like a portion of moments kept aside for a brief reprieve from pressure and tension. The album is looking to be a fantastic extension of this initial outpour. Get music by sunking on Bandcamp You can follow sunking on Instagram and Facebook 
Shadows Of A Silhouette
No Matter Where I Go Derbyshire This band never seems to stop working, it was only 2024 when they were on the road, performing to venues full of fans and their friends around the nation. We’re not even six months in and they’ve got another single on the shelves as of the beginning of May. Recorded in Liverpool, an hour or two up the road at the Motor Museum Studio, Shadows of a Silhouette reveal their energy and skill in bounds and leaps without changing gear. Produced by Al Groves, the same name behind works by Bring Me The Horizon and Cast, the heavy rock vein throbs heartily with this modern infusion of youth and culture. If you want to know what their thousands of streams, and recognition from the BBC, Derby Telegraph, and RGM is all about, check out this live version of their latest track. The haunting and mesmerising sound of an air-raid siren calls out before a chunky guitar surges in with a motorbike style rumble. The vocals begin, a cross between brit-pop and punk, the Rolling Stones influence in the melody creates a marching swagger that feels like a strut across the stage. As the band continue with their power moves, the drumming and bass thump in with a serious level of tone while thick and gloopy chords frame the drive with a metal crust of hardened casing. A push and a dive, the track takes us into a headspace of penetration and persistence, giving space for focus and concentration with graceful bars of fire to put everything in place. Find out more on the Shadows of a Silhouette website You can follow Shadows of a Silhouette on Instagram You can follow Shadows of a Silhouette on Facebook 
Push Puppets
Similar Chicago Sitting snuggly in the cerebral space between reflective rumination and communal upbeat atmosphere, the Chicago-based Push Puppets are bracing the world for their latest album release. They release albums to be enjoyed, like any decent AOR band, yet always have a few key moments worth elevating to the mainwaves. Tethered Together, featuring a shark and a little yellow fish, is making its splash on Friday 16th with Similar showing up like a fin breaking the surface. Known for making Deja Vu style sounds, that you feel you already know but can tell it’s totally original, the skill is in knowing the theory and knowing how to use it. What is Similar going to be Similar to? Everything and nothing, would be my guess. Let’s find out. The song bursts open with a surge of guitar, bass, and drums. The wall of sound style makes full use of the harmony and drive as the verse feels like a continuation of the tone. Lyrics offer a descriptive and emotive drama, and with the same linking quality of story-telling craft, the chorus opens out as the music reveals petals and radiance. It all feels like a dream as the song evolves and changes from motif to melody through a choppy roll of drumming pressure that never ceases. Keyboards and guitars rumble onward through changing fields of colourful crops and bountiful orchards, all while the wide-open skies create ever further horizons of imagination. It sounds just the Push Puppets, if you ask me. You can get music by Push Puppets on Bandcamp Find out more on the Push Puppets website You can follow Push Puppets on Facebook BlueSky and TikTok London Tonight And Brighton Later French Rock Icons Last Train Will Perform New Single One By One12/5/2025 
Last Train
One By One Lyon They’re on stage tonight at London’s The Grace, and again on the 16th at The Great Escape in Brighton. Lyon’s Last Train offer a heavy sound that could easily compete with one of those loud engines rumbling by. They’ve been around since before 2010, when the French fourpiece embarked on a continuation of their hard rock and intellectual genre. Having toured with groups such as Placebo and Muse, Last Train have just released their latest album III. The new single is One by One, and like the rest of the record, was recorded in a spooky, crumbling chateaux. The venue offers an ideal setting for their noisy and electric sound, putting space and architecture together in production and practice. Enjoy. Thumping drums with cracking snare begin to hammer out the shape of the song, the rhythm manifests across rolling toms and bass kick. Vocals begin, a voice that feels at home next door to the Smashing Pumpkins or even Alice In Chains reaches out and shows us what the band are all about. Guitars and bass then add the final layer to the mixture, vibration and distortion work together with feedback framed harmonies and licks that sail alongside the solo voice that carries the weight of a choir. It’s more than heavy rock, it’s a kind of post-grunge for the international stage. Get the album in. You can follow Last Train on Instagram and X 
ChumHuffer
Ways DWY Records With a brand new 7’’ record doing the business, the New York sharkcore punks ChumHuffer present the single. Ways brings the noise and the energy into a pinpoint injection of attitude and rebellion for everyone looking to have the mould broken into a thousand bits. The band are renowned for their hard-hitting style and no nonsense artform that shakes the bones and rattles the mind. The new Slaughterhouse Five record is another self-released gem that makes the scene on their home-grown DWY Records. Naturally, the EP contains 5 brutal tracks, which will be performed on 22nd June at Bowery Electric in New York. First, we can go through Ways. A groovy guitar riff strides out with that classic drawn-out melody accompanied by ferocious beats. Before we’re taken down the road with Crowbar, the attitude peaks and shifts gear as the drumming doubles up and the vocals begin. A punk and thrash forward momentum catches the current and soars out on frantic guitar and bass that feels like a pneumatic drill. The jackhammer of jagged blues licks and heavy crunch chords that leap from bar to bar, fret to fret, matches up with a persistent and loud sing-along deviance we can attempt to get right. You can find out more on the ChumHuffer website Get music by ChumHuffer on Bandcamp Follow ChumHuffer on Instagram and X |
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