Still, newly signed to Undergroove Records, Co-Exist come on, and play to about 30-40 people, including the other bands, and make sure everyone is feeling violated for the night. They create a tight; predominately grind based sound, but partly due to the venue, it a lot of the time sounds like a constant wall of noise, and its hard to decipher what the band are playing. Still, they sound as convincing as Pig Destroyer, if they were a 5-piece band, but its hard to tell whether they are a band who are starting a whole new, fresh sound, or just aren’t quite sure where they are going yet as they manage to pummel together about 13 or so songs in their set.

However Jazz/Hardcore mentalists Reflux only play 5 songs within the same amount of time, the first of which being a fairly interesting jazz fusion improvisation that could have easily been recognised when Jazz was at its peak. But after a slightly slow start, Reflux end up destroying the place, playing to the biggest crowd, and getting the audience going more than anyone else.

But, they just lose out to headliners Eden Maine, who has already proved themselves and fresh, epic and just gleaming on record, but when playing live, making every single song have its own personality, they really prove to be something special. Vocalist Adam Symonds in stage presence and charisma adopts a similar style to that of Frank Turner of Million Dead, by really letting the music take over, and just moving with the music. The set itself is a fair adaptation of all the sounds Eden Maine have brought together to suddenly become such a unique band in a fairly linear genre, which sounds weird to say for such an exciting style of music, where some of the elite have just abandoned them for not conforming. As the venue and audience prove, it’s going to be a long, hard struggle, but in a couple of years, this band will be taking over.

Adam Turner-Heffer