The Grimm Vegan (webzine blog)

The Hardcore scene has many voices whether its abstinence through Stright Edge or Anti-Facist or Pro-Palestine, one voice in particular has come screaming from the underground and that’s the Trans/Queer community. Queercore is home for trans, non-binary, queer HC looking for sense of belonging and acceptance. Trans and queer issues have bee a big talking point recently with the Labour government U-turning on acceptable gender identification and denying trans kids pubert blockers and of course not forgetting the toilet dilemma and who can play what sports and when. Openers Victim Unit formed in the face of sexual abuse after Lotta, one of the Cyber Grind Queercore duo was kidnapped and raped. The vitriolic anger is spat back at a defiant society still on the fence about what is deemed acceptable. Raging guitar rips through backing track of Hardcore beats and samples. Having completed top surgery two years ago, front person Lotta bears their chest to make sure that soc...

Medway based Death Metal five piece Infected Dead open the second edition of Cult of Dissolution in North London's Archway. A stones throw away from the chaos of Camden, a more quieter suburban back street area feels like a perfect setting for a night dark of ominous Metal. Infected Dead's guitarist Alex Brown plays leads that have you hypnotise as you watch his fingers glide over the frets forming unimaginable shapes. The rest of the band tightly growl, chug and blastbeat through a set that is mostly new unreleased material from an up coming ep. They play Death Metal with breakdows and Mathcore technicality and three songs into the set they build an intense momentum with Astral Divinity which they carry right through to their set closing cover of Decapitated’s Sphere of Madness. Omnius Covenant are making a their London debut tonight, and they bring an atmosphere that should reek of incense and ritual bloodletting. They've had only one song ‘the Great Sin...

This event has been put together by Iron Imprium who are launching a new clothing line using the power of music and dance to promote. Each performance is opened by dancing Nymphetes with well choreographed performances, even if that meant having to push back an entire audience in very small space.  Lethal Evil have asked for only green lighting during their opening set and green is what they got. Bathed in the ominous glow they get things brutally kicked off withold school Thrash/Death Metal as guitarist/vocalist shreds, growls and screams to the rhythm section of Evil E and Diabolical. So far they only have two tracks knocking about but when that debut drops its going to be a face-melter. Deos look like Roman centurions who wandered off from their legion to come and lay waste to Londinum as a three man army. Baring arms in the shape of brutal Blackend Death Metal, their seige is belligerent and crushing with low growls, heavy riffage, technical solos and a battalion ...