Australian Hardcore Crew Cursed Earth To Hit The UK

A “five-piece ball of destruction” is how the Holy Roar label describes Perth, Australia quintet Cursed Earth. And they should know a thing or two about the band, having put out their Enslaved By The Insignificant collection in 2016 as a two-track flexidisc (!) accompanied by an 11-track download.

A curious release model, maybe, but essential music nonetheless. And it’s music that’s hitting the UK in October 2017, as Cursed Earth tour in support of fellow Perth outfit Make Them Suffer, the deathcore act currently supporting their Rise Records-released Worlds Apart LP.

If you’re new to Cursed Earth, we’ve got you. Think Code Orange. Think Harm’s Way. Think Break Even. Even think Oathbreaker, at times. In the band’s own words, in a Kill Your Stereo interview of last year, they “formed as a reaction to the lack of genuinely energetic, heavy and dark hardcore music in our scene”. 

Check out the video for Cursed Earth’s War March/Broken below. 

Lyrically, they’re drawing on “honest perspectives from our own experience, or the experience of others dealing with the human experience – injustice, depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, disease and oppression”.

Sound good? Sounds great. Protect your neck – I mean, come on, it’s going to be kept busy, so be safe – at the following shows:

October (w/ Make Them Suffer)

23: London, Boston Music Rooms
24: Manchester, Rebellion
26: Glasgow, Garage Attic
27: Leeds, Key Club
28: Brighton, Sticky Mike’s
29: Bristol, The Fleece
30: Nottingham, Rock City Basement

Related, on Kerrang!: This Is Hardcore 2017

Listen to Enslaved By The Insignificant below.

Cursed Earth photograph by Liam Allones.

Words: Mike Diver