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Fair Do’s release new single ‘Love & Light’!

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Lockjaw Records (UK/EU)
Thousand Islands Records (CAN)

Northern melodic hardcore group Fair Do’s return with a blistering new single. Love & Light is the second taste of their heavier, mature sound; intertwining harder metal influences into their signature technical, melodic style. 

 
Love & Light is their second new single, hot on the heels of Casket, which was well-received on its release in June. These are their first new songs since the success of their debut album Leopards, which launched via Lockjaw Records in 2018. 
 
In contrast to its rosy title, Love & Light revels in the despair of self-destruction, and of humanity’s decimation of the environment we rely on to survive. These two themes run parallel in the song’s lyrics and its complex, hardcore instrumentation. 
 
Displaying a mastery of contrasting genres, Fair Do’s flirt with screeching hardcore in the song’s introduction and chorus, before surfacing in uplifting, melodic sections of technical guitar work. Dual guitars fight to be clean or overdriven, whilst in the dual vocals rage and despair battle against clarity and hope. 
 
Love & Light is a song of duality: making a mistake and regretting it, but being unable to stop the destructive behaviour. “The little birdie [in the lyrics] is a reference to the world’s habitats, which are being destroyed by the hands of humans all the time,” explains lyricist and bassist, Josh Sumner. “The bird also represents something within us all: an innocence that is inevitably destroyed through our own actions, like existing in a declining state that’s made worse by abusing drugs or alcohol, etc. 
 
“We know how bad things are but we still engage in it – going out and drinking too much, staying up late playing video games, or arguing with our friends in kitchens. All these moments and choices get weirder and more problematic over time, but we still do them.”
 
The band have always been heavily politically influenced; they were described in the past as ‘a latter-day Propagandhi with a Manchester accent’. Relating personal experience with the environmental crisis is a step forward for the band and a clarion call for change.
 
Since the success of Leopards in 2018, Fair Do’s played a packed-out headline tour in Japan, supported the likes of Lagwagon and Cigar, played on the biggest stage at Manchester Punk Festival, and made jaunts to Germany, Italy and Slovenia.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic stalled their live plans for 2020, but the break from touring has granted more practice and writing time – vocalist Danny Cummings has gained a new, catchier strain to his vocal, and he and lead guitarist Dave Speechley have added even more technical chops to their six-string skills.
 
The band’s new music reflects the frustration and hopelessness of the working-class left wing in the past five years, existing in the time of Boris Johnson, Brexit and COVID-19. Fair Do’s have been writing and recording in isolation, during the bleak winter lockdowns, creating an improved, heavier, tighter sound out of a disquieting experience.
 
Details
Instruments produced at Fair Do’s HQ.
Vocals produced at 6dB Studio by Dave Boothroyd.
Mixed by Dave Boothroyd (Leopards)
Mastered by Alan Douches at West Westside Music (Converge, New Found Glory, Black Dahlia Murder, Mastodon, Architects, Fallout Boy)
 
Live Dates
18 Sept – Outpost Liverpool w/Grand Collapse
21 Sept – Redrum Stafford w/Grand Collapse
10 Oct – Bread Shed Manchester w/Roughneck Riot & Drones
 

Love & Light is available on digital streaming platforms.

Streaming link: https://fair-dos.lnk.to/loveandlight

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/bezyTwI4cbY

 
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(review) Grand Collapse – Empty Plinths

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Grand Collapse are by far one of the most interesting bands to come out of the UK hardcore scene nowadays. This is their third album and it will melt your face off. These guys play a mixture of old school UK school of hardcore with Ripcord coming to mind delivering thrash hardcore punk attacks with blistering all out war speed and anger, but also besides speed and d beat there are raw guitars, angry screaming vocals and gang backing sing along parts with some street core and moshing parts brought into the song structures for good measure. Lyrics are political and personal, dealing with clergy, animal rights, police state and similar merry themes that are actual today in our world. This is the kind of bands that are so relevant in the scene today, because punk hardcore became somehow safe and not a threat anymore and not a scream of anger and rebellion, but only party. Fortunately for us, bands like Grand Collapse are still carrying the torch.

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Rogue State new album The Law Never Apologizes will be released on september 4th 2021 via Planet K Records. New single out now!

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 Italian hc/ stoner doom act Rogue State (composed by former members of UFOMAMMUT / PENTAGRAM)  have released their newest single “Everything’s Been Rearranged”. Their upcoming album The Law Never Apologizes  will be released on september 4th 2021 via Planet K Records. You can pre-order the album in cd and digital download at 
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         HC/DOOM/ STONER For fans of Bad Brains, Voivod, Eyehategod   

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                               https://planetkrecords.bandcamp.com
                                       planetkrecords@gmail.com

ROGUE STATE is a “NO-SCHOOL” Italian hardcore band influenced by the heavy sound of stoner rock and doom and from the heavy riffs and the devastating fury of hardcore. Composed of members and former members of UFOMAMMUT / PENTAGRAM / JILTED / CATHERER / BURNING DEFEAT / PERMANENT SCAR,  they formed in 2012. Their first album “Poetry Is Not For Me” was released in 2016 in 500 copies on red vinyl co-released by Green records/Shove records. They played many shows  in Italy together with Indigesti, Tragedy, Infection Code, Blu Vomit, Motron, Suicideforce, Svetlanas and others. “The law never apologizes” contains 8 new tracks recorded by Andrea Mazza at the Sonic Factory studio, Spinetta M.go (AL). Mixed by Stefano Tocci at Ampire Studio in Pistoia and mastered by Dejan Podobnik at the Master of Kaos studio in Amsterdam in 2021. The cd will be released on   September 4th  via Planet K Records in CD jewel-case and digital download formats

 Rogue State are :
Diego/Vocals
Fulvio/Guitars
Kayt/Bass 
Vita/Drums