white people ought to understand it’s their job to ‘give’ people the blues, not to get them.. and certainly not to sing or play them - george carlin

DOWNLOAD ‘WASTING AWAY’ EP HERE FOR FREE

Wasting Away is the recently released EP from Bristol hardcore band Failure To Follow. Over just nine months the band have made a name for themselves sharing the stage with the likes of Trash Talk, Bury Tomorrow, Hang The Bastard and Polar and secured themselves an endorsement from RT Custom Drums so it’s safe to say that we expected big things from them.

The first track B.C.H.C is an instrumental intro and Failure To Follow definitely start as they mean to go on the track crashing in with a heavy brutal punk-tinged riff. The Burn then picks up where it left off introducing raw screamed vocals brimming with passion and contrasting their heavy riffs with melodic choruses.No Vision kicks in and we are again met with a similar format of fast punky riffs split up by the occasional melodic moment. Theres no denying that Failure To Follow have talent but without any variation their straight – up hardcore style could start to be becoming a bit unrelenting. The next track No Unity follows in the same fashion although the track can definitely be praised for the quieting down in the choruses to put the vocals more in the spotlight.

The fifth track Strike Back opens with a catchy riff andit’s where the EP starts to pick up again. Here the band begin to make more of the melodic elements that they mix amongst the heavier hardcore riffs and if definitely works in their favour. They end on a high point with the last track Wasting Away  featuring a well executed melodic opening and by far the catchiest chorus of the EP.

Overall there’s plenty of evidence here to suggest that Failure To Follow are worth a listen. Their very well executed punk-tinged melodic hardcore will definitely take them places. Remember you can download their full EP for FREE via ITG Records HERE

Free download + stream (DEATH/GRIND/HXC/PUNK)

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This Friday; Cloak & Dagger Operation presents: IKONIKA, KAHN, BLACKSMIF, BOBBYTANK + Guests @ Rhythm Factory, London (16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW)

Tickets only £5 via Resident Advisor HERE

Facebook event HERE

10pm-4am, secret after party w/ special guest DJs TBA

GHEE (LONDON)

13 Cassettes, plenty of CDs. 

Free Metal/Grind/Doom compilation GRINDING TEETH from ITG Records - Download/Stream here -  http://itgrecords.bandcamp.com/album/grinding-teeth 

Track list:

1.Plague Widow - Assimilated Subconscious 

2.Guttural Decay - Mortal Defilement 

3.Swinelord - Welcome To Your Doom

4.Basement Torture Killings - Priceless Life Death Art 

5.Dawn Of Chaos - Force Fed Embryonic Slurry (Demo) 

6.Destroyer BC - Unholy Water (Feat. Matthew Jones of Martyr Defiled) 

7.Dead Existence - Swarm Of Bastards

8.Nebukadnezza - Bloodfist (Demo) 

9.Cancerous Womb - Up To My Nuts In Guts 

10.Mutant Lion Massacre - Foxhound 

11.Day Of Unrest - The Serpent’s Truth

12.Plague Of Ashitaka - Fleshlumpeater

13.Today The Sun Dies - Not Born, But Shit Into Existence 

14.Plague The Impure - Parasomnia 

15.Diminished - Rectal Torment 

16.Human Cull - Modern Slavery 

17.Oblivionized - Subject to Extinction 

18.Swamp Gas - Brutal Evisceration And Digestion 

19.Infected Flesh - Exorcism Through The Cunt 

20.Eradicated - Piece Of Shit 

21.Revokation - Martyrdom

22.Venomous Supremacy - Severing The Legend

First single from upcoming Muleta Smiles ‘We Are Entwined’ EP

ONE copy of 30-track Malaysian Grindcore compilation ‘MUSIC IS OUR WEAPON’ to give away! Just LIKE ITG’s related Facebook status HERE.

Released by Fastdie Records Label & Distro, the limited print cassette includes: Alchemy of Sickness, Deforming Torture, Eye’s Popping Out, Grindamage, Hellterror, S.O.T + Compulsion to Kill.

The winner will be chosen randomly tomorrow!