Metal Hammer UK

TURNSTILE

Glow On

ROADRUNNER

Eclectic, alt-hardcore expansionists hit the motherlode

already proved themselves adept at capturing the sound of 90s melodic hardcore and infusing it with a buoyant alt-rock haze – most notably on their 2018 album, . The question of where Turnstile take that formula with this, their third full-length album, is answered within minutes of pressing play. Expansion is the key, with Turnstile bringing in more elements from the most sound straight out of the Slipknot playbook. Three minutes earlier, on , a tipsy tremolo guitar part sounds like the bed of a Chris Isaak song before the sun rises on a chorus ripped from the OST to .

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