C’mon butt… are you ready to feel things you weren’t prepared to feel during a breakdown? 😵💫💔
Because Loathe doesn’t just punch you in the chest — they cradle your broken soul, drag it through a haunted industrial wasteland, and leave you sobbing in slow motion to the sound of your own heartbeat.
From downtuned devastation to shoegaze serenity, Loathe are genre shapeshifters – like if Deftones, Code Orange, and Blade Runner had a lovechild and raised it on despair, ambience, and menace.
They’re as much about emotion as they are about eruption. This is music for the end times and the introspective come-down that follows. 🩸🧠💥
🌫️ WHO THE HELL ARE LOATHE?
Genre: Experimental Metal / Alt-Metal / Post-Hardcore / Shoegaze / Doomgaze / Violence & Vulnerability
From: Liverpool, UK 🇬🇧
Formed: 2014
Known For: Being heavy, ethereal, weird, wonderful, and totally unlabelable.
Imagine slipknot-level anger one second and My Bloody Valentine levels of dreaminess the next — that’s Loathe.
🖤 THE SHADOWY UNIT OF DOOM & DELICACY
- Kadeem France – Vocals / The roar. The wrath. The beast within.
- Erik Bickerstaffe – Guitar + Clean Vocals / The whisper. The wail. The dreamer.
- Sean Radcliffe – Drums / Groove ninja meets noise merchant
- Feisal El-Khazragi – Bass / The bottom end that rumbles like a broken city
- Connor Sweeney – Former guitarist / Left in 2021 but helped shape the early sonic madness
Their dual-vocal style is the secret weapon — rage + reflection in perfect sync. One screams at the void, the other sings it to sleep.
💿 LOATHE DISCOGRAPHY – THE SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR INNER MELTDOWN
☠️ Prepare Consume Proceed (EP, 2015)
🎧 In Death, Despondent
Vibe: Raw metalcore. First mutation. You can already hear the seeds of doom.
Chaotic, guttural, and pissed off at everything.
🔨 The Cold Sun (2017)
🎧 Dance on My Skin, It’s Yours, East of Eden
Vibe: Bleak, futuristic, jagged. A concept album wrapped in barbed wire.
Industrial meets post-hardcore meets metalcore breakdowns that grind your face into the tarmac.
This is the “Black Mirror” of metal albums.
🖤 I Let It In and It Took Everything (2020)
🎧 Two-Way Mirror, New Faces in the Dark, Screaming, Gored
Vibe: A masterpiece. Their magnum opus. The sound of breaking down beautifully.
Shoegaze + post-metal + deathcore + sadness + soaring ambient guitar walls.
Sounds like Deftones in mourning.
TWO-WAY MIRROR especially?
👁🗨 Sadboi anthem of the decade.
🌫️ The Things They Believe (2021 – Instrumental/Ambient Album)
🎧 2110, Don’t Get Hurt
Vibe: Haunting. Minimalist. More atmosphere than riffs.
Soundtrack to your dreamlike breakdown at 3am.
They literally released a soundtrack to grief, healing, and space.
🎧 THE RIFF REPORT’S LOATHE ESSENTIAL LISTENING
🩸 New Faces in the Dark – Groove metalcore meets fury
🖤 Two-Way Mirror – Gothic dream-pop for metalheads. Fragile. Gorgeous.
🧱 Gored – Disgustingly heavy. Bassline that’ll rupture your bones.
🌌 Screaming – A duet of beauty and rage. Essential Loathe duality.
💔 Is It Really You? (Live collab w/ Alpha Wolf) – If a mosh pit cried.
🔊 WHY LOATHE ARE FLIPPING THE METAL SCRIPT
Because they:
- Refuse to be pinned to one genre.
- Bring both emotional intelligence and riff brutality.
- ***Are genuinely experimental without sounding like try-hards.
- Give Deftones energy but keep it 100% Scouse and savage.
- Feel modern, urgent, and alien all at once.
- Make vulnerability feel HEAVY.
In a world of predictable breakdowns and screamo clichés – Loathe are the glitch in the system.
🧨 LIVE SHOWS – CHAOTIC, CATHARTIC & A LITTLE POSSESSED
Seeing Loathe live is like:
- Watching serenity turn into a riot.
- Witnessing a slow dance erupt into a bar brawl.
- One second you’re swaying with your eyes closed, the next you’re punching the floor.
- Will they scream? Will they whisper? Will your spine survive the bass drop?
The lighting, the atmosphere, the mood – it’s post-metal theatre. With riffs.
🎤 FINAL VERDICT FROM THE RIFF REPORT:
Loathe are the future – but also the collapse, the dream, the nightmare, and the resurrection.
They don’t just play songs – they create emotional weather systems.
You don’t just hear them – you feel them in your jaw, in your gut, and in your bloody soul.
Want music that makes you mosh AND meditate?
Want a sonic purge with beauty baked in?
Want to cry in the pit and thank the band for it?
Then LET IT IN. LET LOATHE IN.
🖤 The Riff Report is floating in a fog of feedback, holding its heart, screaming into the void:
LOATHE – TO HURT, TO HEAL, TO DESTROY. TO FEEL.
Let the mirror crack, and see who you really are.
