Chris was somewhere around 40 when the thought landed plainly enough: “damn, my life is half over”. Maybe more than half. By then he had a job, responsibilities and years of music
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Zac Burger started The Burgers as a bedroom project in Beijing in 2019, writing punk songs that also move through
Born From Pain have a new EP planned for their thirtieth year, but vocalist Rob Franssen has also been spending
There’s plenty of anger on “Damage is done“, the first 12-inch from Berlin’s Nerve Center. Betrayal, financial hardship, environmental destruction
When Sungrave started writing their debut album, the songs were mostly concerned with what goes on inside a person’s head.
London’s ACHERS have ended up in the catalogue of No Idea Records, twenty-five years after vocalist and guitarist Pat Smiley
Our Ceasing Voice have spent twenty years repeatedly becoming a band again. The Innsbruck post-rock group started when guitarist Sebastian
ATKRTV are split between London and Harrogate now, and they keep coming back to York. The post-hardcore/noise rock trio wrote
Firestone Elementary disappeared for two decades and came back because teenagers started finding them. The five friends from Painesville, Ohio
Oshera’s debut is the kind of screamo record that keeps moving. The Austin four-piece run through blast beats and frantic
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Retalihate’s “Core Wounds” is a skull-kicking run of ten songs in less than fifteen minutes. The Vancouver debut throws metallic hardcore, grind and powerviolence into a frenzy somewhere between outright madness and
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Put “Tropical Non Heat” on and it can send you down some side road out of Tron, somewhere between a fantasy detour and a small sci-fi malfunction. Probably not recommended on shrooms, though somebody will take that as a suggestion. The synth line stays
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Gooseberry got part of their second album moving by writing down card
Punktuals started with smoke breaks. D. Lee, Gator, Mickey Diablo, Notorious J.
Berlin’s La Haine are giving us the full first listen to “Spilling
Tony Gonzalez needs darkness to write and fiction to get away from
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I joke pretty often that since Death Is Not Glamorous broke up, there has been a hole in my heart for that rough, hard, ridiculously melodic kind of hardcore punk. Every now and then an EP fills a bit of it. Wormbound’s “Senseless Nonsense”
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By the time Rob sent Jeff and George the name The Great
Ashley Reaks is a Harrogate-based writer, collage artist and musician who has
By the time “Arise” came out in February, it had already been
Vaelthunder is M. Pires on his own in Lisbon, working around metalcore,
