Watching comments pour in shortly after the UK Government had made their announcement that the planned lockdown “freedom day,” set for June 21st, was going to be pushed back a month, it felt like tensions across the country were reaching a breaking point. Given the mess this Government have created, the release of Hyperdialect, the new album from returning grime metal crew Hactivist, couldn’t have been more perfectly timed. Mixing grime and tech/nu-metal, the UK wrecking crew had started to make a name for themselves when founding member Timfy Jones quit the band in 2018, and it looked like that was it for one of the most exciting bands the UK scene had spat out in a long time. Thankfully, the band regrouped and, after a few banging singles, are back with their visceral follow-up to their ...
