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Alien Dishwasher is an instrumental one man project from a man named Mariusz who was previously in the Irish based project Ciernie. During his time with the band he got into music production. Initially to save money, but it blossomed over time. Other life factors came into his life before returning with Alien Dishwasher.

This is his third solo album as of now and all within less than eighteen months, which is incredibly prolific and all are really good. He has taken it forward though on this album. It’s a truly magnificent album that despite its lack of vocals, it almost makes up for them with the standard of his playing. The harmonies etc all hit hard and the musicianship is of the highest caliber. There’s so much going on in this album it’s hard to put into words. I wouldn’t do it justice anyway, I’d make it sound like some sort of Frankenstein’s monster rather than the amazing work it truly is.

This is definitely an album I’ll be returning to near the end of the year when I’m looking at my end of year lists for sure. Due to his prolific nature, he may have another album out by then?

Bandcamp: https://aliendishwasher.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-fading-bridge?fbclid=IwY2xjawLWYwVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBpSGZieGJFemswSlBGcDl4AR6wQ3VBvP7tVavkXNn-P9uWHHgMNgp0i79J-tYYNvPfgIFu6AQm0nE315H0XQ_aem_OXxIGGqWyN0axxpUBBCsWQ

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0TPyQzypdKIpF933IUaCWC?si=QQOvLamDT9K14SgZo9PkHg&fbclid=IwY2xjawLWa3FleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBpSGZieGJFemswSlBGcDl4AR44iu4i2-uO3qW9Cj7uK8VssQxuIXGK1cGfacVjb657VuMyqV0X3RluncSzqg_aem_HGOrPFgxGWGiN-mNQcymgQ&nd=1&dlsi=07c4f45809004723

Party Cannon have released a new single/video Thirst Trap ahead of their Summer festival appearance. While slightly different from their previous works, this is really good! It’s still extremely heavy, but a lot more groove on this release.
The band issued this statement.

Brutal death metal masters Party Cannon release new single/video, “Thirst Trap”; prepare to kick-off “Low IQ Summer Tour” next week

Chris “Clankenstein” Ryan (bass) comments: “Old School Death Metal has come back in a big way and while that’s cool and all, I think people have had enough songs about ghouls and angry demons recently – so we’ve gone the completely opposite direction and taken a much more highbrow route by writing a 2 minute goregrind song about being overwhelmingly h*rny. I think what the world really needs right now is a group of men in their 30s to write a song about sh*gging. People are going to get up and do stuff after hearing this and the economy is going to improve, it’s really going to make a difference. While groovy grind has always been part of our sound, we’ve hyper focused on it this time around – fans of Rompeprop, Gutalax, Kaasschaaf, early Carcass and dancing hard will be happy. Don’t worry though, there’s still plenty of ignorant slam riffs, pig squeals and blasting to keep the IQ lowering Party Cannon sound in tact. I don’t use terms like ‘magnum opus’ or ‘the next Stairway To Heaven’, but I think they might be appropriate here.”

Starting next week, Party Cannon will appear at some of the biggest festivals across Europe this summer, before kicking off a UK/IRE tour in September with Nekrogoblikon, Allegaeon, and Grief Ritual; see below for all dates!

�Party Cannon “Low IQ Summer Tour” dates
�June 21, 2025 – Ghostfest – UK

June 21, 2025 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, UK (supporting DETHKLOK) �June 27, 2025 – Resurrection Fest – Spain
�July 11, 2025 – Piaty Dom – Katowice, Poland (Headliner)
�July 12, 2025 – Obscene Extreme – Czechia
�July 25, 2025 – Tolminator – Slovenia�July 26, 2025 – Metal Fields – Austria
�August 1, 2025 – Wacken Open Air – Germany
�August 3, 2025 – Rockstadt Extreme Fest – Romania
�August 8, 2025 – Party.San Metal Open Air – Germany
�August 9, 2025 – Hellsinki Metal Festival – Finland
�August 17, 2025 – Motocultor Festival – France
�August 30, 2025 – Limburg Deathfest – Belgium

August 31, 2025 – Slamageddon Fest, Netherlands �

“Show Me Your Goblin Tour” UK/IRE w/ Nekrogoblikon, Party Cannon, Allegaeon, Grief Ritual
�September 17, 2025 – Craufurd Arms – Milton Keynes, UK
�September 18, 2025 – SWX – Bristol, UK
�September 19, 2025 – The 1865 – Southampton, UK

September 20, 2025 – Zanzibar, Liverpool, UK (Headliner) �September 21, 2025 – Project House – Leeds, UK�September 22, 2025 – The Garage – Glasgow, UK�September 23, 2025 – Limelight 2 – Belfast, UK�September 24, 2025 – Academy – Dublin, IE�September 25, 2025 – Club Academy – Manchester, UK�September 26, 2025 – Anarchy Brew – Newcastle, UK�September 28, 2025 – Waterfront – Norwich, UK�September 29, 2025 – Scala – London, UK�September 30, 2025 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham, UK

Stay healthy

xPxCx

Another stacked year ahead for the lads. They never seem to stop touring. True road warriors! I wish them the best on all dates and hope that everything goes to plan!

BUY/STREAM – http://ORCD.CO/THIRSTTRAP _____________________________________________ Video by Calum McMillan Release Date: June 13th 2025 Label: Unique Leader Records Genre: SBDM _____________________________________________   / partycannonuk    / party_cannon_official  

Asylum Road has carved a name for themselves in the groove metal scene with their powerful blend of heavy riffs, intricate rhythms, and visceral vocals. Formed in Derry, the band’s music reflects the raw intensity and passion of their hometown. Their 2024 debut EP, “The Fear,” established them as a force to be reckoned with, earning them critical acclaim and a dedicated fanbase.

In 2025, Asylum Road welcomed the formidable Paul Sandy on guitar, adding a new layer of depth and complexity to their sound. This addition has solidified their lineup and propelled their music to new heights, culminating in the creation of “Cerca Trova.”

As someone that really liked their previous EP The Fear, this is a massive step up for the lads. Not only in musical quality, but the production too, it sounds massive in comparison.

Losing a founding member and guitarist can sometimes be the death nail for bands, but they’ve found a clearly excellent replacement in Paul Sandy and the signs are really good for their forthcoming EP that’s due in June.

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6PFbmYMHD0zVYIDtR9ugg2
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asylumroadband
• Instagram: instagram.com/asylum_road
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@asylumroad

Here’s some releases that just missed out on my end of year lists or they honestly slipped my mind. There’s three of them in here. When you check out every Irish release, it’s bound to happen at times. As per the end of year lists no more text from here. Check them out and you’ll like them or you won’t.

Unmaker – The Killing Fields

Bitter Pill – ST

Burning Realm – Face The Fire

No Hassle – No Ink

Craven – Skin Suit Dinner

Hedfuzy – Doorways

Idle Discourse – Vol 2

Jet Fuel Chemistry – Burnout Bible

Mallacht – 536

So Long Until The Seance – Christine

The Huja’s – Somethings Broken

Deserted – Inner Chaos

Ketos – Overload

Spirit Of Digniti – Going Deeper To My Soul

Bicurious – Your Life Is Over Now

Following The Signs – Stand Tall

Brake Loose – Treat Her Like A Rose

Vendetta Love – Soothe

Space Shepherds – One Trillion Burning Dots

Pain In Vain – Blasfemia

There’s 20 best of the rest. Loads more, but I’ll leave it at that for this year. There’s also one that’s really annoying me as I can’t remember their name. It would have made the top 20 singles list too. Fucked if I can remember their name sadly!

Thanks for checking out my top twenty albums of 2024 for the Irish scene. Another utterly horrible list to make and at least ten releases just missed out. A truly vintage year! As with all end of year lists I’ll not include any text from here on in. Check them out and you’ll either like them or you won’t. This is quite a diverse list too…

20: Saint Slaughter – The Secret Speech

19: Trucker Diablo – Social Hand Grenade

18: Fuckhammer – Scorched Earth Prophets

17: Ren Marabou and The Berserkers – Holy Mountain

16: Gravity Well – Negative Space

15: Nebularis – Exodus: Shattered Earth Saga Pt.1

14: Nomatrix – Reawaken

13: Archives No Bliss In Ignorance

12: Astralnaut – Astralnaut

11: Cold Soviets – Memories Of Year Zero

10: Ten Ton Slug – Colossal Oppressor

9: Durtburd – Salad Dungeon

8: Mourning Of The Heretic – To The Shadows Betrothed

7: Lock Horns – Red Room

6: Partholón – The Ocean Pours In

5: Uragh – Maelstrom

4: Crimson Butchery – Violence By Design

3: Pincer Consortium – Geminus Schism

2: Coroza – As Within

1: Enshroud – M O R T A L

That’s my top twenty albums of 2024. I already know about a bunch of albums coming for 2025. It’s going to be another vintage year! Trust me!

Thanks for checking out my top 20 EP’s of 2024 for the Irish scene. Another really hard list to sort due to the level of quality on offer, but these are my picks. Loads missed out yet again, but it was a vintage year.
Like yesterday just music links and you’ll like them or you won’t.

20: Snake Neighborhood – Thnk Fuk For That

19: Asylum Road – The Fear

18: Shadows Calling – These Scars

17: Death Can Wait – Symptoms Of Suffering

16: Soverna – What We’ve Lost

15: Embrace Execution – Last Chance For You

14: Perish The Thought – Carrion

13: Keith McCoy – Dawn Of The Machine

12: Horrenda – Think On Your Sins

11: Bodydrinkers – Corporal Slurry

10: Black Hole Divers – In Punk We Thrash

9: From Ruins – Poison For Your Soul

8: CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES – Resurgence Of The Grotesque

7: Hero In Error – Hero In Error

6: Balashtoth – =Equation-=

5: Geomyth – Untold Visions

4: Worn Out – Low

3: Insidious Void – Hellscape

2: Grave Sermon – Liturgical Perversions

1: Snowblind – The Shape In The Trees

That’s my top 20 EP’s of 2024. Like yesterday at least ten missed out. A vintage year for the Irish scene!

Thanks for checking out my top 20 singles of 2024. This was evil hard due to the level of quality on offer this year. There will be no text with each release, I’ll let them do their own talking. Check them out and you’ll like them or you won’t basically. An amazing year for the Irish scene.

20: Molarbear – Translucent Tusk

19: The Greeting – Over

18: My Soul Divine – Witness Me I Fall

17: XIII Doors – Face The Truth

16: The Boat Sank – Half Man, Half Bear, Half Pig

15: Celtic Legacy – The Crow

14: If It Bleeds – We Can Kill It

13: TooFarFetched – Narcissus

12: Sica – The King Will Rise

11: Forlorn – I Tried

10: Foreignwolf – Extinction

9: Sonus Mortis – Synapse The Hivemind

8: Nihilanth – The Valley Beneath

7: Clagarnaċ – Troidimis

6: Chiral – I Bring Chaos

5: Dead Label – Embodiment of Agony

4: Two Tales Of Woe – Defy The Lies

3: Psykosis – Boiling Point

2: AeSect – Cease and Assist

1: Kraik – Displacement

That’s my top 20 for 2024. The amount of bands/projects that missed out is insane. I could have at least 30 minimum. Possibly more…
A truly vintage year for the Irish scene!

Codespeaker are a post-metal band based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are set to release their second album Scavenger this November via Ripcord Records.

They have dropped their first single from the album Verte, and it’s excellent! A proper post-metal release that delivers in every regard.
The lads have forwarded on an advance of the album that will be indulged in deeply over the coming weeks, as I know this will need a good few listens to fully absorb. I say that in the best possible way!

They are coming over to Ireland in late November to tour with Hundred Year Old Man. With gigs set for Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Belfast. A tour that should not be missed if you’re a fan of post-metal.

Check out Verte here.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codespeakertheband

Dive into the sonic underworld with Chiral, the wicked 4-piece Irish renegades boldly trespassing musical borders, concocting a potion of punk, metal, rock, and dance with a side of avant-garde.

Born in the shadows of early 2023, multi-instrumentalist, producer, Gary Duncan joined forces with vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Adam Brewer, birthing the RATM-inspired anthem ‘Digital Whispers’ a haunting ode to the existential dread of AI’s influence on humanity.

Duncan’s guitar sorcery seduced vocalist Adam Brewer into this dark alliance from the very start.

Joining this musical séance to complete the unholy quartet and glue it all together. Eddie “Graveyard” Delaney bringing the thunder on drums, a long-time friend and musical conspirator of Duncan’s, and rounding out the grit and dirt of the low-end, the bass behemoth Al “Bluster Bhoy” Tierney.

Although ‘Digital Whispers’ is where Chiral started, this was a song they had no plans to release, however this all changed after the release of  ‘I Bring Chaos’ and how quickly interest in Chiral started to build.

From Chiral’s genesis to the darker debut release of  ‘I Bring Chaos’ a song that dives headfirst into the drug-fueled underworld, it’s music video a graffiti-stained descent into madness. Released exclusively on Chiral’s YouTube channel on January 27th, 2024, “it’s not just a song; it’s a macabre dance with the absurd”.

In a twist of fate, shortly after the I bring Chaos video shoot ‘GraveYard Ed’ decided to exit Chiral, this left an opening at the drum stool.

After auditioning some awesome drummers for the vacant position, Chiral’s chief axe wielder Gary Duncan decided to move over to drums.

This allowed the awesomely talented Chris Craig (Vendetta Love) to step into the role of Chiral Guitarist.

The newly reformed Chiral wasted no time, plotting their next move through the shadows.

With further releases like ‘Digital Whispers’ and ‘Kubrick Odyssey’ exclusively on YouTube in early 2024, a dark pilgrimage through Germany in May, and accolades echoing from the farthest corners of the globe, the chaos of Chiral knows no bounds.

Imagine this pandemonium through the prism of chirality, where rebellion intertwines with the symphony of skulls and spray cans. Chiral is not just a band; it is a carnival of sonic madness, where the darkness beckons you.

Come join the dark parade.

Here’s a direct link to all their tracks released as of now. They vary in style and all very different/original in regards to the Irish scene. They won’t be for everyone, but if you get them, you get them.

We shall of course start with I Bring Chaos which was their debut single/video. A haunting yet amazing piece of music that goes inside the mind/eyes of an addict and nails it to perfection. This was refused coverage by many sites due to its extreme content. They done it right so!

That’s the Chiral story as of now in regards to their releases. The band don’t use Spotify etc and keep all their music on YouTube and their only other social media is Instagram.

Follow them at this link: https://www.instagram.com/chiral.labs/

Hailing from County Antrim, Enshroud bring a collective death metal masterpiece to life with their second album ‘Mortal’. This is a gritty, riff-driven monster that pulls no punches, and throws plenty of them. The slow, doom-filled opener ‘Dust to Dust’ growls underneath powerful vocals and punishing guitars and drum, albeit with a sense of apprehension about the tone. This is soon remedied with the monarch of aggression that is ‘Frailty’; a polished diamond explaining the fury at the loss of a loved one due to disease. This may hit home with a lot of people, but metal is about explaining anger at the world in whatever shape it may take and Enshroud delivers the message very clearly.

‘A Fate For No One’ hammers this point home again, outlining the pointless suffering that a loved one goes through before the end. It’s almost as if the band themselves have put their own spin on that journey. If rage could be bottled, this would do well at self-help classes. ‘Infestation’ and ‘War Within’ sing from the same hymn sheet but change the tempo and pace, especially in the drums and guitar sections. The latter is a defiant scream at fate; a warcry that vows resilience against whatever attack is being carried out. A statement released by the band themselves confirm this as “an exploration int the mindset of both the onlooker and sufferer of terminal illness, mixing the emotional experience of anger, sadness, resentment, hopelessness, and acceptance”. This album has enough of each of those emotions for
another album.

‘‘Safe in Forever’ resets the dial a bit, starting slowly and solemly with echoing vocals and guitar, reminiscent of Pantera’s Cemetery Gates. This is a burning ode to regret (I feel that vibe can be attributed to a lot of this album’s content); a lament at opportunities not taken and important time wasted. The
orchestral compilation enhances this feeling throughout the entire track and is unmistakable in its emotion. ‘The Decay’ starts to flex the anger muscles again, starting eerily and growing in intensity. Consistence in the drum section keeps the pace at a finely tuned rhythm, but the master stroke is the
guitar riffs that permeate every single cell that makes up this song. The killing blow comes from the final track ‘Fallen Time’, littered with vocal harmonies and chord strikes in the background that ring out to prolong the sense of foreboding that Enshroud so expertly deliver. This is also a slow burner, but this time, it is an acceptance statement; acknowledging the futility of being angry at something that will proceed with or without your emotions involved. It’s almost as if they are saying goodbye to someone who
is watching them play this song. It’s beautifully morbid, evoking pity for someone going through unimaginable distress. A thousand-yard-stare would not be alien to the listener once they have heard this song a few times.

This album is simply superb; it is thought-provoking and evokes a certain panic at the thought of someone cherished being at the mercy of a disease that cannot be taken down easily. The band really have taken
their art form and given it a physical one, all the while guarding themselves supremely. At the time of writing, their identities remain a secret – so giving kudos to the musicians will have to be a collective effort. This is an outstanding body of work, and a fine successor to their debut album ‘Darkness Grips Us All’.

Words: Markson

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