Articles by Chris Bilton
Lightning Bolt
Fantasy Empire
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2015
There's nothing quite like the bone-rattling immediacy of a Lightning Bolt show: the audience literally face-to-face with the duo, set up o...
Cancer Bats
Mourning Glory
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2015
"Too many friends died this year," screams Cancer Bats frontman Liam Cormier at the end of "Arsenic in the Year of the Snake," a track that...
Cancer Bats
Searching for Zero
PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2015
There's a moment during the song "Devil's Blood" on Searching For Zero where the instruments drop out one by one, until just Mike Peters' s...
A Place to Bury Strangers
Transfixiation
PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2015
Brooklyn's A Place to Bury Strangers are a quintessentially DIY trio. Not only do they build most of their own gear — thanks to bandl...
Cancer Bats Reveal Emotional Fireworks of 'Searching for Zero'
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2015
It's been a decade now since Cancer Bats first debuted their particular alchemy of hardcore energy and metallic chops. But one needn't look...
A Place to Bury Strangers Talk New Album, Death By Audio and Creative Rebirth
PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2015
Oliver Ackermann is familiar, if not entirely comfortable, with the process of destruction and rebirth. The bandleader/singer/guitarist of...
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities to Love
PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2015
As if Sleater-Kinney was going to return from an eight-year hiatus and deliver anything less than a thoroughly raging collection of post-pu...
Meligrove Band
Power of Dreams
PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2014
Meligrove Band have never really been part of any scene. Though the Toronto quartet's first notable release, Let It Grow, came out the same...
