'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Blockheads - This World Is Dead
Blockheads’ grind has always been noteworthy; now with the right label behind them there’s no limit to what they’re capable of achieving.
Features / Music
Writer's Poll - Tom Hersey
Earth and Pig Destroyer made the year bearable for Tom Hersey.
Features / Music
No More Excuses
"We are so close to having this record completed. It’s been about 15 months of on-and-off recording in about four or five different locations…"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Zebrahead
The so-so new album gets a look in – and Don’t Stop Skanking and Everyone Else Is An Asshole work much better live than on the record – but tonight’s more about the band’s back catalogue of hits.
Features / Music
Pictures In The Mirror
"It all came back quite easily, and when it came back it brought with it a whole bunch of memories as well. So it’s been a really, really great experience going back over all of those records.”
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Trash Talk - 119
119 certainly has a lot going for it, but unless you’re a tastemaker with a subscription to Vice, after listening to it you might just want to retreat into your favourite Black Flag record.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Eyehategod, The Fevered, Shackles
Reviews / Album
Album Review: H.I.M. - XX: Two Decades Of Love Metal
XX is still an excellent snapshot of the career of these goth rock Peter Pans.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Hayes’ bleak, oppressive lyrics come to sound like extreme metal perfection.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Sword - Apocryphon
Though Apocryphon isn’t a genre classic like Kyuss’ Welcome To Sky Valley and Monster Magnet’s Dopes To Infinity, it’s further proof that The Sword might have a quintessential album in them.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
All We Love We Leave Behind is liable to have the hardcore world rocking a big, collective, shit-eating grin.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Frenzal Rhomb, Sixfthick, Undead Apes
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