En route to an attempt to play Download festival, North-East quintet This Is Divine have been hard at work, the fruits of their labour shown in the form of new extended play These Human Ruins – eight tracks of what they like to call “post-metalcore” (think an angrier, more emotional Confide or Oh, Sleeper, with lashings of technicality to boot).
Review: This Is Divine – These Human Ruins
April 15, 2010
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Competition: Win signed This Is Divine EP!
March 17, 2010
The lads in post-metalcore quintet This Is Divine have supplied Change The Record with its very first competition – for the chance to win a signed copy of the band’s debut EP Broadcast, simply answer this question:
“What is divine to you, and why?”
The best answer, as chosen by the band, will win the signed EP.
The competition ends Wednesday 24th at midnight. All entries to be emailed to: competitions@changetherecord.net, with the subject header: “WHAT IS DIVINE TO ME IS.”
Best of luck!
- Change The Record.
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Interview: This Is Divine
March 15, 2010
It’s a Sunday night, and George has the chance to sit down and chat to North-East upstarts This Is Divine; they talk about the competition that could see them play Download Festival this year, share details of an upcoming new EP, give their opinions on screamo-crunk, and drummer Jamie talks about his very powerful Zapdos. Seriously, it’s level 73.
George: Can you say your names, and what you do in the band?
Ronnie: I’m Ronnie, I play guitar.
Chris: I’m Chris, I’m on vocals.
Robbie: I’m Robbie, I play guitar too.
Jamie: I’m Jamie, I play drums, and I’m Chris H, and I play bass. [laughs]
George: For those unfamiliar, can you describe your sound, and a bit of history?
Robbie: Without using the A-word?
Ronnie: We’re kinda like Solid State sound, heavily influenced by big heavy American Christian bands, without being personally remotely Christian.
Jamie: It’s post-metalcore. In a nutshell.
Robbie: Which we coined ourselves.
Ronnie: So the answer you’re looking for, is post-metalcore.
George: That comes to my next question, what is post-metalcore?
Robbie: Solid State. [laughs]
Ronnie: It’s like the Solid State sound, played by big American Christian bands.
Robbie: Do we have a bit more tech or a bit less tech?
Ronnie: And we’re kind of influenced by some Brighton metal bands that have a techy edge. [laughs]
Jamie: Most of our stuff sounds a little nu-metal, ’cause Ronnie’s a little nu-metal geek, and that’s where all our riffs come from.
Ronnie: Basically, it’s post-metalcore.
Robbie: Post-metalcore is post-metalcore? [laughs]
Ronnie: It’s metalcore but it’s post.
Jamie: Still Remains. Post them!
Chris: Still Remains are fucking class.
Jamie: We’re Still Remains-squared! Cubed!
Ronnie: I dunno, basically it derived from a lot of people calling us metalcore, and a lot of people calling us post-hardcore, so we threw the two together. There’s a lot of old post-hardcore.
Chris: Are you trying to say that we made it up?
Ronnie: Yeah.
Jamie: We did make it up!
Robbie: We can be that arrogant and say we invented a genre.
Ronnie: We didn’t invent a genre, we just coined a name. We didn’t invent it, we just named it. We never claim to be anything ground breaking or new.
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Live Review: Yashin – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle, November 21st 2009
November 27, 2009
The penultimate show of a busy, busy year for bonny Scots Yashin sees them pull into Newcastle Academy in the pissing rain. With a killer bill, and a lot of new songs in store, the bad weather’s surely not going to put off what is a near sold-out crowd tonight.
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Live Review: BrokeNCYDE – Sunderland, Independent, June 9th 2009
June 11, 2009
It’s fair to say there are a lot of people who might turn up to one of the many dates on BrokeNCYDE‘s debut tour of the UK just for laughs, curiosity, or something to do, but considering that, there’s a pretty impressive turn out of genuine fans tonight, pretty much packing out the Independent.
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