The Wonder Years – No Closer To Heaven

Back in 2013 The Wonder Years released the best ‘pop punk’ album of the decade so far. It was catchy and belting from start to finish and touched the hearts of everyone who gave it 50 minutes of their day. But it was a conclusion, the end of the band’s trilogy of albums about growing up. Dan ‘Soupy’ Campbell is all grown up now which lead to the question of where the band would go with ‘No Closer To Heaven’.

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New album from Templeton Pek due July

Birmingham based punk trio Templeton Pek will release their fourth album, ‘New Horizons’, on July 24th 2015
via Hardline Entertainment. The 11 track album was recorded by Ken Seaton at The Porch in Hermosa Beach and
mixed by Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Sum 41, Lit, Pennywise, Ignite) at Maple Studios in Santa Ana, California.

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Funeral For A Friend – Chapter and Verse

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 12 years since Funeral For A Friend burst onto the UK scene with debut album ‘Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation’, I was a 13 year old school kid back then whose ears were suddenly filled with this new era of post-hardcore bands; Senses Fail, Thursday, Aiden, Lostprophets *shudders* and then all of a sudden, this melodic 5-piece from Bridgend.

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New Funeral For A Friend Album / Headline Tour

Funeral For A Friend announce new album ‘Chapter and Verse’

Set for release through Distiller Records on 19th January, 2015

Headline tour in January also announced

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Welsh rock band Funeral For A Friend will release their latest opus ‘Chapter and Verse’ through Distiller Records on 19th January, 2015. The first track to be made public from the record is the visceral ‘You’ve Got A Bad Case of The Religions’ which was premiered on Daniel P Carter’s BBC Radio 1 Rock Show. In reference to the track, vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye says “never trust something you can’t see with your own eyes.”Funeral For A Friend will be touring the record around its release in January playing eight freshly-announced headline dates around the UK.

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