Holy Roar Records

2nd Feb- Great Hall 2, Cardiff
3rd Feb- Sugarmill, Stoke
4th Feb- Academy 3, Manchester
5th Feb- G2, Glasgow
7th Feb- Academy 2, Newcastle
8th Feb- Academy 2, Birmingham
10th Feb- White Rabbit, Plymouth
11th Feb- Talking Heads, Southampton
12th Feb- The Haunt, Brighton
13th Feb- Academy 2, Oxford
14th Feb- Arts Centre, Colchester
17th Feb- Underworld, London

Brotherhood of the Lake open up the show. Get down to a show! Preorders are still running for 'Mourning After' in our store...

We are hugely happy to announce that we will be working with Monolith on their forthcoming EP 'I, Misanthrope' which will be released in March on 7" and download. Preorders will go up early February.

Fans of Meshuggah, Acacia Strain, Brutality Will Prevail, American Me, Desolated, Bury Your Dead and anything technical and heavy should be all over this!

Download 'Cold Lesson' for free right now. Share it, put it on your blog, tweet, tumble, facebook, or whatever it is you do this week.


....another new band to be announced next week.

Yeah, I waited until the end of the year! Shocking! No real order apart from numbers 1 and 2.



1. Com Truise - Galactic Melt

2. Harms Way - Isolation

3. Cold Cave - Cherish...

4. Weekend Nachos - Worthless

5. Liturgy - Aesthethica

6. Clams Casino - ep/instrumentals (bit of a cheat!)

7.Touche Amore - Parting the sea...

8. Rustie - Glass Swords

9. Khann - Erode

10. M83 - Hurry Up...

11. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One...

12. Tombs - Path of Totality

13. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

Honourable mentions - When Saints Go Machine, I Declare War, The Horrors, Fit For An Autopsy, Basement.


Best Demos - Nibiru, Final Rage, Iron Mind Collective, Mutilation Rites, Real Talk, Ladder Devils

Splits - Masakari/Alpinist, Despise You/Agoraphobic Nosebleed

I'm not fully buying into this 'mixtape' thing that has arisen this year (it's an excuse for an artist to circumnavigate criticism - "Oh, it's not my debut album, it's only my mixtape!") - but I did, like everyone else seemingly, enjoy the A$SAP Rocky one and the first The Weeknd one. And bits of the Terius Nash one.

The brand new albums from Last Witness and Crocus are now up for preorder in our store. You can pick both up in low-price bundles with shirts and hoodies too! Both available on vinyl and cd....

Check out promo videos of new tracks from both bands below....

Last Witness - The Void (Official Video) from Last Witness on Vimeo.

Brontide return with a 2 song 12" vinyl - the brand new lilting, looped, epic, dancey monster that is 'Coloured Tongues', backed with the first ever proper recording of live set-favourite 'MFBT'.

All vinyl orders come with a digital download. Preorder your copy in our store now! Or as a low-priced bundle with a shirt!

Just 300 copies in total pressed, all on translucent vinyl.

THIS IS PREORDER WITH A MID/LATE FEBRUARY RELEASE DATE. DIGITAL AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 13TH.

The new split from Norwich heavy weights Jackals and your new favourite band- Sheffield's Grazes. Up for preorder now.

3 tracks from each available on translucent green /200 and translucent purple /300.
(Jackals side features a sick Minor Threat cover)

Some of the best hardcore punk the UK has to offer.

Thanks to Ed for the description.

PREORDER - RELEASE DATE JAN 16TH. INSTANT DOWNLOAD

Also up now (and shipping) are new Holy Roar sweaters and a new Slabdragger shirt!