I mentioned before that we are mixing up the musical content and coverage this year at Corehammer. Band Of the Week has served its purpose and run its course so we’ll be switching over to more reviews, interviews and gig coverage in coming weeks. Something else I wanted to try was to shine some light on those particular records, regardless of genre, that have had a significant impact upon us as individuals. I extended that invitation to writers from some of the various blogs we follow as well as friends and allies of Corehammer. There was no specific criteria beyond the fact that the music had to have some kind of personal meaning to the writer and could inspire an anecdote or interesting personal reflection. Maybe it was the record that opened those forbidden doors to the underground for you as a young’un and changed the course of your life or perhaps it was the first band you ever truly related to, could be that it was the record that was spinning in the background whilst you popped your cherry (we are functional gamers here after all) maybe it was the album that you rinsed whilst getting over the break up of a shitty relationship or perhaps it was the soundtrack to a particularly memorable summer? Over the course of the year we’ll be throwing a few of these up every now and again.

First up is Gav Russell who runs the excellent (and Corehammer approved) Tight To the Nail website. TTTN is a frequently updated extreme music review blog that covers punk, hardcore, metal, drone and everything you can possibly conceive of in between. With a labyrinthian musical knowledge and the boundless enthusiasm to match it, TTTN also offers free download samplers of the good stuff they mention on the site and is usually my first port of call when looking for new sounds on the world wide webz. Over to Gav…… Continue reading →