Russian Circles passed twenty years as a band in typically unspectacular fashion. They were halfway through the touring cycle for “Gnosis“, their eighth album, and spent 2024 playing Australia, South America, Europe
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“Barf Lie” comes in hard, tight and fast, and “Enemies” spends much more of its time running than walking. The
crosta have spent ten years making records alone, and Paulo Guerreiro still starts most songs on a beaten-up acoustic guitar
BDR began with Andy Franchere and his son Brody making a demo together in Tehachapi, California. Brody wrote the music,
Chimpgrinder sit in the dirtier end of sludge, with Sabbath-heavy riffs, hardcore breakdowns, bursts of blast beats and the kind
Doug Harrison has spent years hearing other records inside his own ideas and then working the resemblance down through thousands
SPLIN are a new band made up of people who have already spent years in Polish punk and hardcore through
Foreign Body spend much of “Libertine” inside predatory voices. Across ten songs, the Brooklyn noise rock/punk quartet move through a
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“Wrath” begins with an impossible conversation. One person is dead, one is alive, and the person left behind cannot accept forgiveness. By the closing title track, that grief has passed through a
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Punktuals started with smoke breaks. D. Lee, Gator, Mickey Diablo, Notorious J. Rock and Criss Crash were all rehearsing with other Seattle bands at the same facility, and the five kept meeting outside until the shared jokes and appetite for loud, crooked rock turned
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Berlin’s La Haine are giving us the full first listen to “Spilling
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Kit Major was eight when “Brain Stew” fixed itself to a very specific set of memories: the living room of her family home in Beijing, her mum’s red Jeep, her dad’s black iPod and Green Day’s “International Superhits!” playing through a Walkman. Years later,
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Ever since I got back from the States, this whole cowboy thing
Chicago political hardcore and metallic hardcore veterans Racetraitor now have a history
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