Age Of Despair’s “Nine Laments” gave me a feeling I remember from hearing Heaven Shall Burn for the first time, years before they became such a massive festival band. That old-school edge-metal
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Brian Steele grew up in Brooklyn with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge watching over his neighbourhood. These days he lives across the
Inherited’s “ALL 4 ONE” is fifteen minutes of groove-heavy hardcore with a serious metal streak, coming out of Terneuzen in
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On “Level Over Level”, Hanover, Pennsylvania’s Twist & Writhe have taken a familiar video-game frustration and turned it into a
Pittsburgh’s Teddy DuChamp’s Army began as a one-off basement show in 1998. Guitarist Mike Rock brought friends together from the
“Cut Thru Yr Lies” gets repeated until it’sΒ a chant on the new single from Boston queercore band bratlash. The
“Wanted”, the debut single from Graz-based rockish post-hardcore band Cursed and Calling, is about wanting to hear somebody’s voice even
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Expectations were going to call their fifth album “99% Love”. Georgi Dimitrov liked the title because so much of what he’d written concerned people close to him, the relationships that had survived,
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Terni’s Die Abete have never made easy, comfortable hardcore. Their third album, “Giovani Volpi“, moves through fast, tightly wound US-rooted hardcore, post-hardcore, math and punk, with lyrics exploring the body, instinct, loss of control and the fears and patterns we’ve internalised. The title track
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For their return to Hellfest this past summer, Parisian post-hardcore experimentalists Point
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Mass Confusion have squeezed six fast, old-school hardcore songs into just over six minutes on “Demo 2026“. The Dutch four-piece go straight for the late-90s and early-2000s style they grew up with, taking cues from the likes of Right Brigade and Carry On, with
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Wander Lane open their debut album “Volcanology” with “Vow“, a promise guitarist
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Most of the songs on “Igraszki“, the debut EP by Warsaw art-rock
