Void Of Light - Enshroud

Labels: Trepanation Recordings

Formats: CD/Digital

Release Date: 24 Mar 2023

Tracklist:

1. Deign Torrent

2. Gild

There's no time for April Fool's jokes today. There is time though for new music from a Glaswegian post-metal band called Void Of Light. They're a band that came to my attention recently, especially when I noted that they're playing in Leeds (Royal Park Cellars) later this month, alongside fellow Scottish post-metallers Codespeaker. Oh and in August they're gonna be playing at a festival in Scotland alongside Deafheaven, Chat Pile, Rolo Tomassi, Frontierer and more in their home city.

Void Of Light begin proceedings on Enshroud with clean singing and melodic instrumentation, which gives way to heavy post-metal at the three-minute mark of ‘Deign Torrent’. When they embrace the heaviness, Void Of Light are able to weave atmospheres that are both monstrous and epic at the same time.

Their second song ‘Gild’ is a very different beast. It’s tempo is obviously faster from the start, before shifting into a more conservative structure later on. Layered with technically proficient metal that grows in intensity during the song’s first half, introspection takes over during it’s latter half and shows how sensitive, and endearing post-metal can be. 

Void Of Light have created a really strong grounding for themsevles with this EP and it builds further from their 2022 debut EP. A new UK name to me, but another one that adds to the ever-growing musical tapestry of this island nation. Their trajectory can only go up from here.

You can stream Enshroud and purchase it as a name-your-price download directly from Void Of Light below:-

Void Of Light - https://www.facebook.com/voidoflightband

Physical CD copies can be purchased from Trepanation Recordings below:-

https://trepanationrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/enshroud

Trepanation Recordings - https://www.facebook.com/TrepRec

Rancid Cadaver - Flesh Monstrosity

Labels: Dry Cough Records

Formats: Tape/Digital

Release Date: 13 May 2022

Tracklist:

1. Flesh Monstrosity

2. Bog Rot

3. Malignant Affliction

4. Dragged Beneath

5. Genetic Enhancement

Scotland strikes again! As if BrainBath, Coffin Mulch and Penny Coffin weren't enough, Rancid Cadaver crawled out of Glasgow's sewers last year with their debut EP Flesh Monstrosity. Featuring ex-members of now defunct death metal bands Bhas and Castigated, as well as a current member of thrashers Fatal Collision, they're flying the flag for old school death metal. Dry Cough Records released their debut EP on tape in May of last year and it subsequently sold out, which has got to be a good sign!

Obligatory screeching feedback opens the EP’s title track ‘Flesh Monstrosity’, which is a doom-laden, lead-drenched song that’s as dirty as it’s name suggests. The vocals plough the lowest of furrows, even when bathed in reverb and the rawness of the instrumentation adds to the murky atmosphere. The pace of ‘Bog Rot’ means that it flies by pretty fast. There’s a greater reliance on instrumental prowess, especially during it’s second half with less use of vocals. It’s a technique that bands like Cryptic Shift and Slimelord have been employing more of late, and it works especially well here.

For proper death metal feels though, it’s left to ‘Malignant’ Affliction’ to bring the old school slams and general dankness to the recording. It’s a song that doesn’t hang around to exchange pleasantries, making the perfect midway crossing point on the EP and exhibiting some of Rancid Cadaver’s thrash influence to boot. Thundering yet fluid bass guitar kicks off ‘Dragged Beneath’ and it’s rumbling tones are heard throughout. They’ve always been present on the EP so far but seem to hit differently here for some reason. Maybe it’s because the low-end comes to the front a bit more, I don’t know!

EP closer ‘Genetic Enhancement’ manages to drown out the near gale-force winds outside my window with sheer blasting intensity. The growls are almost as low in tone and competing with the crashing cymbals, rusty chain-like riffs and galloping bass is no mean feat. Another top UK death metal release then. If they keep on coming at this rate, we’ll be exporting more extremity than we import. It’s great to see new death metal coming from different corners of the UK. Hopefully there’s more to come from Rancid Cadaver in the not too distant future.

You can stream and purchase Flesh Monstrosity digitally below:-

Rancid Cadaver - https://www.facebook.com/rancidcadaver

Dry Cough Records - https://www.facebook.com/DryCoughRecords

Penny Coffin - ΤΕΦΡΑ/ΣΚΕΛΕΤΙΚΟΣΚΟΤΑΔΙ (Tefra/Skeletal Darkness)

Labels: Dry Cough Records

Formats: Tape/Digital

Release Date: 15 Jan 2022

Tracklist:

1. Smog

2. Bootlicker

3. Confinement

4. Jaws

5. Skeletal Darkness

6. Finality

At the beginning of the year, UK extreme metal label Dry Cough Records released this tape featuring both the 2021 EP Tefra and early 2022 EP Skeletal Darkness from Scottish/Greek death metal band Penny Coffin. Penny Coffin formed in 2021 (or there about) but have already chalked up some serious live appearances, playing with the likes of Hellripper, (recent 20 Buck Spin signees) Slimelord and Vacivus amongst many others. Another huge addition to the ever growing Scottish death metal community!

Today’s brought all manner of strangeness, which must be to do with it being a Wednesday. Thankfully Penny Coffin bring a bit of familiar nastiness with tape opener ‘Smog’. It sounds properly old-school with downtuned riffs, foundation shaking bass, battering percussion and grim vocals that sit within it all. There’s melody and atmosphere too though, but it’s somewhat menacingly delivered. If you thought that ‘Smog’ was a harrowing blast of death metal, then really it was just easing you into proceedings as ‘Bootlicker’ wades in with a much more doom-laden approach that drags the mood down to greater depths. In doing so though, it also shows how adept Penny Coffin are at weaving their influences into their music without merely copying them. I love mournful death metal songs like this.

‘Confinement’ is the final song from the Tefra side of this tape and it’s also the longest of the initial trio, showing that Penny Coffin do doom/death just as well as any Scandinavian band can muster. It’s instrumental for a large part of it’s latter-half with the vocals once again sitting deeper within the mix. There’s a more traditional metal/thrash influence that hits you as ‘Jaws’ begins with it’s higher-pitched leads but before too long, Penny Coffin settles back into a familiar furrow, albeit with a much fuller sound. Slightly more progressive in parts too, but don’t let that scare you if you’re a death metal purist.

The second EP’s title track ‘Skeletal Darkness’ comes next, as the EP makes up the latter half of this release. Again, the melodic dual-guitars create a whirling, all-encompassing sound that whisks you into an illusion of ever-slowing extremity. Penny Coffin do such a great job of the whole slow-but-fast doom/death thing. At times, it kind of reminds me a bit of early Dry Cough band Voe when the accented lead riffs take hold at the mid-section. So good, especially alongside the higher-pitched vocals later on. There’s a heart-racing end to the release thanks to ‘Finality’, that sees Penny Coffin forging one last up-tempo blast and it’s sublime! What a way to end. 

As the nights draw ever darker and the winter of discontent looms larger, music by bands like Penny Coffin will get us through (even if there are power cuts). I know what I’ll be listening to when things go black. Best get my provisions and power banks sorted!

You can stream and purchase Tefra/Skeletal Darkness digitally via Dry Cough below, where a second run of tapes are also available (snap em up quick!):-

Penny Coffin - https://www.facebook.com/pennycoffindeath

Dry Cough Records - https://www.facebook.com/DryCoughRecords

Gouger - Cranial Demolition

Labels: Self-Released/Dry Cough Records/Burning Dogma Records

Formats: Digital/Tape/CD

Release Date: 06 Dec 2021

Tracklist:

1. Cranial Demolition

2. Dumped In The Sewer

3. Wood Chipped Human Compost

4. Gouger

5. Force Fed Carnivorous Worms

It's an early one today before I head out for some family time. The debut demo from Glaswegian death/grind band Gouger was released last December. After an initial digital release by the band themselves, It got picked up by Dry Cough Records, who made it their last release of the year. Two tape runs later and it sold out. In early 2022 a CD version was released via US label Burning Dogma Records. The duo that make up Gouger also play in the likes of Persecutor and BrainBath, to name but a few.

Cranial Demolition’s five tracks last no more than nine minutes. The opening title-track starts with a chilling sample that pretty much sums up what Gouger is all about. The music kicks in half-way through and at first it’s somewhat mid-paced, before morphing into a collage of rapid death/grind. Everything about it is low, from the guitars to the vocals, while the drumming dominates.

There’s always been a strong connection between horror movies and death metal, which is kind of an obvious thing to say but that connection grows further on ‘Dumped In The Sewer’. It comes and goes quickly, with an enthralling undertone of slamming death underneath the grind. 

Gouger keeps the theme going throughout Cranial Demolition and there’s a slight comedic nature to ‘Wood Chipped Human Compost’, although maybe that’s just me thinking it. One thing is certain though, the band’s music is very precise sounding, even if the DIY recording makes it sound dirty.

The song that bares the band’s name is the shortest here yet it feels more engrossing. I mean, I’m not sure how you can get lost in a sub one-minute song but somehow I did. I think it has something to do with the clever use of tempo changes and variation that adds atmosphere.

Final song ‘Force Fed Carnivorous Worms’ seems long in comparison. It’s good fun though and it draws the demo to a close in disgusting style. Scotland has always had a very solid death metal community and it adds real personality to the growing UK scene as a whole. Gouger do that and then some. They’ve already followed this demo up with a split release and hopefully there’s more yet to come.

You can purchase the demo digitally from Gouger below:-

Gouger - https://www.facebook.com/gougerdm

CD copies are still available to buy from Burning Dogma Records and Gouger may have some left too:-

https://burningdogmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/cranial-demolition

Dry Cough Records - https://www.facebook.com/DryCoughRecords

Burning Dogma Records - https://www.facebook.com/BurningDogmaRecords

Enwretch - Sermon Of The Dead

Labels: Self-Released/Redefining Darkness Records

Formats: Tape/Digital

Release Date: 06 Aug 2020

Tracklist:

1. Vile Congregation

2. Anthropophagy

Here's the second review I talked about on Sunday, when I wrote about the Celestial Sanctuary demo. I'd originally planned for this to be published on the same day but that didn't happen. Anyway, this post features the debut demo from Scottish death/doom solo band Enwretch. There's not much else I can say about Enwretch apart from that this demo was self-released digitally back in August, before being picked up by Redefining Darkness Records for a tape release in September. I have to say, it's great to see underground labels like RDR taking a genuine interest in bands from the UK.

Celestial Sanctuary really hit the spot for me on Sunday so I’m expecting equally big things from Enwretch this evening. While that opening sentence may be building things up a bit too much, there’s no need to worry as Enwretch goes hard on this wretched slab of lumbering and driving death/doom. ‘Vile Congregation’ is a mix of slow and fast riffs, coupled with upbeat percussion and hellishly deep death metal vocals. Again, it’s old-school in delivery and reminds me at times of Finnish band Profetus if they were crossbred with Grave (maybe?). Technical but also memorable in all the right ways.

‘Athropophagy’ is equally as good with the same disturbing death/doom approach and gargling atmosphere, backed up by thrash and a killer solo to boot. It doesn’t last long but it doesn’t need to. For a solo-project, Enwretch nails it in terms of song-writing and sound quality, helped very much by the recording from Tommy at 16ohm Studio in Glasgow. There’s no escaping the torture we’re all being put through at the moment but it’s made better because of gnarly music like this. Mon the Enwretch!

You can stream Sermon Of The Dead and purchase both on tape and digital formats below:-

Enwretch does not have any social media presence. The music is all you need.

Redefining Darkness Records - https://www.facebook.com/redefiningdarkness/

Somaesthesia - Recidivist EP

Labels: Self-Released

Formats: Digital

Release Date: 14 Feb 2020

Tracklist:

1. Trepanation

2. -

3. The Great Illusion

4. Contrition

I have been looking forward to this long weekend for so long now! I'm using it as a chance to catch up on a lot of music I've missed and to get some much needed writing done. I have a rough schedule but am kicking things off with this new EP from Scottish progressive death/sludge band Somaesthesia. The Edinburgh quintet released their debut EP Path Of Lest Resistance back in 2017 and since then, they've played shows alongside Under, Kurokuma and Cryptopsy amongst many others. Recidivist was self-released digitally by the band in February.

Somaesthesia is very much from the same school as bands like Meshuggah and Mastodon. Those comparisons are listed in the band’s own social media bio but they’re pretty accurate,. EP opener ‘Trepanation’ is brimming with off-kilter tempos, sludge-like grooviness and even a hint of Swe-death (maybe?). There’s an eagerness to obliterate all in their path but Somaesthesia do slow things down mid-way through and let their progressive influences take further hold. It’s strangely psychedelic at times. The song solely named as ‘Dash’ that follows is an instrumental interlude but one that builds plenty of intrigue when moving into the second half of the EP.

From here the song’s get longer. ‘The Great Illusion’ is nearly eight-minutes of groovy sludge and post-metal. There’s subtle melody within the roared vocals that is matched by the instrumentation. The occasional bursts of kick drumming pick the pace up, but don’t detract from the impressive song-writing and musicianship here. Final song ‘Contrition’ steamrolls it’s way into your ears almost immediately after and pretty much doesn’t stop. One thing that hits you on Recidivist is the aggressiveness. It’s not always obvious but it is constant, especially in the vocals, though that point is totally broadsided by the clean singing used briefly in the song’s latter half. 

Somaesthesia has a nostalgic quality to them, one that I can’t quite put my finger on. if you like heavy but tuneful and well-thought out metal that’s not just brutish noise then look no further than this EP. Scotland is famous for a lot of things and a unique underground metal scene is one of them. 

You can stream and purchase Recidivist digitally below:-

Somaesthesia - https://www.facebook.com/somaesthesia.band/

Barshasketh - Barshasketh

Labels: W.T.C Productions

Formats: Vinyl/CD/Digital

Release Date: 15 Jan 2019

Tracklist:

1. Vacillation

2. Resolve

3. Consciousness I

4. Consciousness II

5. Ruin I

6. Ruin ii

7. Rebirth

8. Recrudescence

Back to the normal schedule this evening and to the latest album from a band whose music and members have featured here before. This is Barshasketh's fourth full-length and it was recently released via W.T.C. Productions on LP, CD and digitally. It's the first album of theirs that I've featured, which I couldn't believe when I looked back. It's good to be finally putting that right.

Furious black metal steeped In the mists of both Scotland and New Zealand is what Barshasketh does well and this self-titled album is a clear sign of their experience and quality. Album opener Vacillation doesn’t feature the usual brooding build-up, with the band choosing instead to hit the loud pedal almost instantly. They don’t let up either as the symphony of pummelling instrumentation and rasping growls take hold. Resolve is black metal at its purest. The steadfast approach that Barshasketh has is obvious by the intensity in which they perform, No inferior influences make themselves known here and nobody is safe from the evil that protrudes from the speakers. 

The other thing that’s striking is the pace at which the songs pass. All bar one are over five-minutes in length but without the need to ponder, Barshasketh proves that the no nonsense approach can be applied with ease even to longer songs, as is with Consciousness I. The layers of melody poke through here and provide an even greater glimpse into their musicianship. The haunting atmosphere that you thought would be present, finally washer over the music on Consciousness II. The lowly strummed guitar and percussion that leads is unnerving but it gives way to something a lot faster and (dare I say) upbeat, at least in tempo anyway. Sound-wise black metal has always been on the more lo-fi end of the extreme metal spectrum, but here there’s a difference thanks to the recording and production that was split between Necromorbus Studios (vocal, drum, guitar) and Chamber Studios (bass guitar). It’s all been brought to life in a very engaging way.

The urgency of Ruin I is plainly obvious. Guiding you through nearly five minutes of tortured extremity is one thing but making it sound effortless is another. Morbidity never sounded so appealing. By comparison Ruin II seems sedate, but only briefly because it’s not long before Barshasketh turns the wick up again. The guitar work is almost orchestral here while there’s more than a hint of death/doom later on. With Rebirth, things head back in a direction that more blast and brimstone, allowing the momentum to lift once more. It’s unrelenting pace is tempered a little by the guitar melodies, that pierce the sheer battery that’s produced. The icy vocals adding an extras claustrophobic edge to the song.

Barshasketh’s final offering is filled with alluring (if that’s the right word) and spacious atmosphere that  initially offers a breath of crisp cold air. Those intro bars on Recrudescence are followed by one final black metal tome that’s fused together with elements of traditional metal, which have been nestling in the shadows throughout the record but that are more obvious here. It’s as if they injected it with thrash without turning it into a black thrash song. It’s subtle and it rounds things out in style. This record is right out of the top drawer. Biting, old-school black metal has been granted new life by Barshasketh here and with 2019 still in the relative infancy, they’ve set the bar very high indeed. Experience counts for a lot these days and it’s paid off here. Great record!

You can stream the full album below:-

You can purchase digital copies of the album from W.T.C Productions here - https://wtcproductions.bandcamp.com/album/barshasketh-2 and grab vinyl copies from them here - https://w-t-c.web-republic.de/store/product.

Barshasketh - https://www.facebook.com/Barshasketh/

W.T.C Productions - https://www.facebook.com/W.T.C.Productions/

Gay Panic Defence - Snowflake Powerviolence Vol 1

Labels: Skin & Bones Records

Formats: Tape/Digital

Release Date: 07 Dec 2017

Tracklist:

1. Child Abuse (Ft Nick Waller)

2. Typical Man

3. Your Sash Looks So Fetch

4. CNTRL-ALT. RIGHT-DELETE

5. Respect Existence (Ft Graham Caldwell)

6. Let Down

7. Please Stop

8. You Just Look Silly (Ft Fernie)

9. All Wrong

10. It's Not For Me

Scottish powerviolence band Gay Panic Defence were one of the first bands that I interviewed in 2018, so no idea why it's taken me so long to get round to reviewing their album. They released their first self-titled EP in September 2016, which was swiftly by their second EP "II" and then a split with Colombian PV band Terco in May of last year. "Snowflake Powerviolence Vol 1" was released in December 2017 by the band and on tape by Skin & Bones Records too. It features guest vocals by Nick Waller (Insufferable), Graham Caldwell (Endless Swarm) and Fernie, who mixed and mastered the album. Their political message and all-welcoming persona has seen them play London Pride and Dreadfest in Leeds this year, amongst a whole heap of other shows. There's more coming from them soon too!

Album opener Child Abuse is more punk than powerviolence but ends with a blast of screams from both Mathew and Nick. The anti-religious message is clear and while it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to make out the lyrics, the samples at the beginning and end tell you all you need to know. Child Abuse could be considered long, as Typical Man goes from mid-paced to bass-laden fast in just over thirty-seconds. They take a swipe at The Orange Order on Your Sash Looks So Fetch. The second-half of the song is where they truly take aim with a crazed delivery and higher-pitched screams. CNTRL-ALT.RIGHT-DELETE is self-explanatory and it’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it aesthetic is GPD’s attempt at giving the alt-right as little air time as possible. 

The technical and off-kilter grind of Respect Existence is awesome with the dual screams of Mathew and Graham making it all sound even more violent. GPD fits a lot into Let Down, which is a more straight-forward PV song with plenty of punk attitude for good measure. There’s a slight hint of humour to Please Stop, though it’s message is serious and music even more so. There’s some great time changes in You Just Look Silly, where it gets a bit funky at times. POTUS isn’t safe from their fast attacks either, as you’ll hear on penultimate song All Wrong. Closing song It’s Not For Me blasts with one last barrage of intensity before stopping on a dime. This socially conscious fastcore is becoming even more relevant in the current climate that we have to endure. Gay Panic Defence is doing it right and you should listen to them!

You can stream and download "Snowflake Powerviolence Vol 1" for free below:-

You can buy physical tape copies from Skin & Bones Records here - https://skinandbonesrecs.bigcartel.com/

Gay Panic Defence - https://www.facebook.com/GayPanicDefence/

Skin & Bones Records - https://www.facebook.com/SkinAndBonesRecords/

The interview I did with Mathew can be found here.

YELT - Conquer The Rot EP

Labels: Self-Released

Formats: Digital

Release Date: 21 Jun 2018

Tracklist:

1. Halloween Finger

2. Pile Drive

3. Squirt Don't Hurt

4. Crotch Rot

5. Fuck Community

I've been catching up on some much needed blog admin this morning (yawn) and I've also been trawling the web for obscure punk because I'm that way out. What I've found is that there's a glut of it on bandcamp so I thought I write about one such band this morning (and maybe another later if I have time). YELT is a band from Glasgow for which I know very little. "Conquer The Rot" is the band's second EP, following their 2017 tape "Wrong Hole". YELT plays a sludge/noise/punk kind of hybrid.

This is way heavier than expected. Halloween Finger kicks off with a wall of riffs and noise. It kind of reminds me or early AFI but with less melody and more feedback. The vocals are shouty, the tempo is mid-paced and the bass is heavy. The recording is cool because it’s got dirty, snotty UK edge to it. Pile Drive is spot on. From the buzzing bass to the guitar that pretty much lords over the rest of the music, it’s awesome. YELT fills Squirt Don’t Hurt with all kinds of strange guitar-based noise, turning it into a weird mix of heady psychedelic sludge and bruising rock n roll. It’s instrumental first half is replaced by snotty punk again in the second half. 

The sludgiest number on “Conquer The Rot” comes in the form of Crotch Rot (awesome title by the way!). I guess by now the punk descriptor may be considered redundant, but it’s still there. The song’s urgency is great and it leads you into EP closer Fuck Community perfectly, which is equally as horrid sounding (in a good way). The mix of up-tempo kicks and slow down tempo percussion with the dual-vocals make for a stark mash-up of styles but it all works. Call this what you will but punk comes in many forms and while this particulate form is slower and heavier than you might have expected, it’s still great and YELT deserves your attention for.

You can stream "Conquer The Rot" and grab it as a name-your-price download below:-

10 Questions: Gay Panic Defence

This new interview series is slowly starting to gather a bit of momentum. This instalment features an interview Mathew Webster, vocalist from new Scottish fast band Gay Power Defence. Thanks go out to Mathew for taking the time to answer my questions. Hope you all enjoy reading his answers as much as I did.

Who is in the band and where are you from?

Freddy plays the drums, Mathew (me) plays the voice, Ben plays the guitar but is living in New Zealand for the next year or so, so we have our bestie Red playing the guitar when we play down south. Red lives near Nottingham and we are all from Kirkcaldy in Fife.

What is the history of Gay Panic Defence? When and how did you form?

Well in short, I got pissed off with shit that was happening in Kirkcaldy. So I wrote some poems/lyrics and thought they would make some good tunes. I wrote a bunch of riffs and recorded them onto a shitty 16 track recorder and asked Freddy to drum over them. Basically that's how we did the first two demos. When it came to playing shows we asked Ben to play guitar and he became a permanent babe in the band. We have released a split with Terco from Columbia, been on a 10 day UK tour, released a tape on Skin and Bones records, done a sweet wee tour with our besties Endless Swarm and Lugubrious Children, played a cool Pride Punx squat show in London and just played Dreadfest in Leeds and we aren't slowing down. 

Have any of you played in previous bands and are you any other bands currently?

Ben played in a band called Blackmirror who were fucking sick and a band called The Ghost Train who are a cool 80s band. Freddy plays drums in Pedigree and Chums who are silly good and he plays keyboard in a funk cover band called Spliff Richards. Freddy and I both played in a band called SKELPED who were just fast hardcore noisy shit. I play in a band called Woollen formerly known as God Never Did Anything For Us. I also played in Our Smallest Adventures, Ernest, WHIV and Couch. Red plays in Let It Die, Ithaca and Mori Lucrum.

Who write’s the lyrics/music? Is it collective? 

I write the lyrics and the riffs. Freddy writes all the drum bits. We round the tunes out together but we would love to be more collective in future writing.

What subjects do you cover in your lyrics?

Aw jings, from veganism to stupid macho pricks. Loads of things mean a lot to us so we have lots to shout about. The whole reason for the band starting was because I needed somewhere to vent my frustration at the homo/transphobic attitudes of some folk in Kirkcaldy that we call friends. So we cover homophobia, transphobia, animal rights, feminist view points, racism, religion, macho bullshit and Westminster.

Are there any bands that have influenced you?

Far too many bands to mention but I grew up listening to The Smiths, Nirvana, Bjork, Whitney Houston, Fall Out Boy so I would say those bands have. I can only speak for myself but folk influence me more. People standing up for shit they believe in makes me want to do more in this band to highlight things that need to be highlighted. 

What are your favourite albums/EPs at the moment?

I'm well into the last Basement album, the Lugubrious Children tape “Oblivion” is unreal, the last Car Bomb album is great and I have recently become obsessed with the second Brockhampton album. I’m really looking forward to the Ona Snop album, Groak album and the Endless Swarm album. 

What is your favourite gig/tour story?

When we were on tour last October we spent a day in Leeds with our pals Beige Palace and that was really fucking good. We also got really into watching traveller call out videos and listening to Darkthrone albums on that tour too. We really don't party or that so we just like to hangout and go eat somewhere awesome. If you are ever in Glasgow you have to go to In Bloom for a vegan snowball because they are shit hot. 

What is your local heavy/punk scene like and who should we check out (band-wise)?

There isn't really one in Fife but Scotland has a really awesome bunch of bands making unbelievable music. Bands to check out are Bratakus, Defacer, Insufferable, Boak, Endless Swarm, Stonethrower, Kaddish, Please Believe and loads more. 

What are your favourite tipples?

Barr's limeade is a classic and club mate is a rarity but also up there. I don't drink so I'm probably the worst person to ask haha. 

You can stream and purchase downloads of all of Gay Panic Defence's music via their bandcamp page, including their latest release "Snowflake Powerviolence Vol 1", which has been give a physical tape release by Skin & Bones Records:-

Gay Panic Defence - https://www.facebook.com/GayPanicDefence/

Skin & Bones Records Store - http://skinandbonesrecs.bigcartel.com
Skin & Bones Records - https://www.facebook.com/SkinAndBonesRecords/