Manchester noise-merchants go in for the kill at The Craufurd Arms

The Hyena Kill will be live at The Craufurd Arms on Thursday night (October 20).


The Manchester-based duo (and drummer Lorna Blundell makes three) released their debut album early in September - eight tracks of feral ferociousness. Call it full-tilt rock n roll, if you will.


It concerns itself with love and loss, rejection and vengeance, desperation and dreams - the important stuff we all work through.


Atomised has also been described as 'an unflinching, brutal dissection of what it means to be skint, frustrated, alienated and adrift in modern Britain.'


And their list of influences reads the same as some of our favourite bands - Queens of the Stone Age, Tool and Helmet.
Nice work, right there.


"There's nothing more therapeutic than screaming your head off," says frontman and guitarist Steven Dobb.
"When you've had a bad day, it's incredibly cathartic to step into a rehearsal room and just make the loudest noise imaginable."


And talking about the aforementioned release, he says: "The album isn't a concept album, but it's got a lot of darkness and pain in there, coming from frustrations and insecurities and anger with past situations and day-to-day life. 

"The bands who influence us most are uncompromising and honest and unafraid to let their emotions show, and hopefully that same attitude shines through in what we do...it feels like a good time to be in a band like ours. 

"Now we just want as many people as possible to hear the album and see how far we can take this."