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like society held at the time though, we could be living in a very unequal gender society. “A lot of us feel like we aren’t allowed,” argues Courtney. “I’ll be walking down the hall or something with my guy friends, and a girl will walk by with a Cannibal Corpse t-shirt on and one of them will be like ‘I hate it when girls [wear that], like they’re trying to look cool.’ This is the reason why women don’t feel comfortable doing this because that girl wasn’t trying to look a certain way she just fucking likes Cannibal Corpse so she bought a shirt. “I feel like there’s lots more girls that are embracing the kind of bands they like and are proud to like it but that’s something that’s weird for me, it’s like we’re not supposed to like metal. But then if we do it’s just posing, like we don’t actually like Meshuggah or whoever. We can only like more poppy bands.” Maybe it’s assumptions like this, any female into hardcore/metal is posing, that stop some women living the dream. But things appear to be slowly changing, as Courtney concludes. “When you look out now as opposed to ten years ago I feel like there are more girls and younger people. It’s like metal’s becoming more marketable in a way.” 26 Rise Above - August 2013
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Snot-nosed punk with hardcore stylings and some extra grind thrown in from the elusive Boston trio
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Becca Macintyre injects a bit of mathcore into the UK band’s raucous, hardcore influenced sound
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The Sheffield crew with Eva Spence at the forefront mix space-age sonics with hardcore grit to devastating effect