This is an article which first appeared in Kerrang (issue 1004) and was published on May 08 2004.  I’m sorry to use such a crude title, but the heading was actually used as a tagline to the following article below.

Apologies for any delays to the site, and apologies again for publishing the following interview – which was originally conducted in 2008 with ex-members Jason DeCorse and James Striff, alongside present member Alvin DeGuzman, on the morning after The Icarus Line played at The Old Blue Last (London). Due to the length of the interview, […]

Although the legendary underground music venue has since closed down, at one point ‘Metro’ used to be a regular fixture of the London gig scene, and played host to a number of up and coming bands – one of which was The Icarus Line. On 22 January 2004, Kerrang was there to document the band’s […]

Here is a set of articles which first appeared in Kerrang #1002 (April 24 2004). Among them is a competition, a tour announcement, as well as the coveted 5K review for The Icarus Line’s seminal Penance Soiree album. Enjoy!

Seeing is believing. And here is (finally) the 5K Kerrang review which I have been promising to put up on the site for some time now. First printed in Kerrang Issue # 851 (May 5, 2001), this review comes from an age when Kerrang actually used to mean something, and when they weren’t afraid of […]