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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Pit, which is downstairs at McCanns Rock Bar in Newport, is about 2\/3 full for the arrival of System Reset, for what turns out to be, Stan, the band\u2019s constantly bouncing frontman\u2019s birthday celebrations. Having gigged like bastards throughout the summer their short 30 odd minute set packed with tunes from their recently released \u2018Many Hands Make Lies Work\u2019 EP literally flies by, and whilst the songs on the surface are full of melodies you can\u2019t get out of your head, you only have to stop and listen to the subject matters being tackled to realise that the five-piece are one pissed off bunch. Playing \u2018Big Business\u2019 as a middle finger to what I alluded to in my intro above, System Reset are the perfect soundtrack for grey Britain, and as if to further reinforce that point it\u2019s also pissing down outside tonight as I step out to get a quick breather between bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nTaking the stage (or floor as is the case in The Pit) to the strains of Toto\u2019s \u2018Hold The Line\u2019, Deathtraps are the Action Rock filling in this mini tour\u2019s otherwise hardcore sandwich, and with album number 3 fresh out the box they waste no time in introducing the crowd to the delights of \u2018Appetite For Prescription\u2019 via a blistering \u2018Red Eyes and Black Kisses\u2019, and what follows is a lesson in foot to the floor punk rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Vaughan and Fraser spitting out the lyrics to the likes of \u2018Rip Em Off\u2019 and \u2018Press Darlings\u2019 in venomous fashion, whilst peppering the set with tracks from their \u2018Stole Your Rock N Roll\u2019 album via \u2018Cool Kids\u2019 and \u2018Let’s Fall Out Of Love\u2019 and keeping the travelling fans (of which there are quite a few) very happy indeed. Closing things out with an impromptu cover of Turbonegro\u2019s \u2018Denim Demon\u2019 during which Sutton from System Rest and Jesse from Scene Killers join them, Deathtraps are the true shitty sound of south Wales’ steel towns and they sound absolutely fucking glorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the rock world waits with baited breath for the arrival of the next Hip Priests album, their band members have been keeping themselves busy with other musical adventures, frontman Nathan releasing his Hate EP whilst bassist Lee Love went back to his NWONW roots for the \u2018Hold Me Down\u2019 EP. Drummer Des popped up providing the backbeat to one of my favourite records of 2021 with Silent Like A Bomb, and guitarist Ben has been depping on second guitar for Swedish metallers Bullet across a series of summer festival shows. Meanwhile, his partner in six string crime, Austin Rocket has assembled a crack unit of musicians to give us Scene Killers, who in the process, have released 2 filthy dirty slabs of hardcore in the shape of 2020\u2019s \u2018Rev It Up\u2019 and this year\u2019s \u2018Beat Beat Beat\u2019 (an album seemingly so bowel shakingly disturbing in its ferocity that RPM gaffer Dom Daley even managed to get its title wrong in his recent review\u2026ha!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nJoined by members of the awesome TV Crime and fronted by eccentric singer Jesse Luscious (ex of Blatz, The Criminals) Austin\u2019s silhouette provides the only visual link to his other band as sonically speaking Scene Killers are a world away from the Priests\u2019 black denim blitz. Instead, Scene Killers strike a discordant balance between punk and metal, producing short, sharp, 2-minute blasts of music that sound like they might just fall apart at any minute whilst also stabbing you in the eye in the process. Tonight, the initial sound mix in The Pit doesn\u2019t really do the band any favours with \u2018Rev It Up\u2019 sounding more like \u2018Reverb It Up\u2019, however once that is sorted the tracks from the band\u2019s all new 9 track platter sound absolutely stunning.\u00a0 It\u2019s impossible to avoid Luscious (who surely would be re-christened \u201clush hun\u201d here in Newport) as he provokes the audience one on one to singalong to the likes of \u2018Gimme Gimme\u2019, \u2018Immigrant Eyes\u2019 and savage set closer \u2018We\u2019re All Decay\u2019. It\u2019s all over way to quickly in a blur of feedback, distortion and sweat, but it\u2019s the only way we want our gigs to end here at RPM. \u201cLeave them wanting more\u201d, that\u2019s what was say\u2026.and at just a deep sea to get in tonight I feel like I\u2019ve just witnessed one of the gig bargains of the year. Result!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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