This week is a wrap! More sick new releaes across hardcore, screamo, punk, metal, rock, and other styles. Use the jump links below to head straight into the section that fits your taste.
⤵ Hardcore / Metalcore, ⤵ Screamo / Post Hardcore, ⤵ Post Rock / Post Metal, ⤵ Punk Rock, ⤵ Metal, ⤵ Rock, ⤵ Experimental / Other, ⤵ Pop.
⤵ Hardcore / Metalcore
Australian hardcore powerhouse SPEED have dropped their new three-song EP All My Angels through Flatspot Records and Last Ride Records, along with an intense video for the title track. Produced by Elliott Gallart at The Chameleon Studios, the release channels grief and defiance, written in memory of three close friends lost in recent years. Vocalist Jem Siow says the song “wrestles through the immense hurt and confusion that comes with the loss of those deeply loved, especially in the instance of suicide.” The band hits Brooklyn’s Xanadu on October 25 for a release show with End It and MSPAINT before heading to Europe with MALEVOLENCE, DYING WISH, and PSYCHO-FRAME.
In other news, SPEED’s full set from Tied Down 2025 in Detroit is now live on hate5six.
EQUAL VISION RECORDS will release a remastered deluxe edition of ENDPOINT’s 1992 hardcore landmark Catharsis on November 19. The expanded digital and double LP release features 17 tracks, including the Idiots EP and songs from the band’s split with SUNSPRING. The vinyl version includes an etched D-side and new artwork. The remastered version of Caste is streaming now — watch here.
FLIORA have released their new EP Iron Harvest today via Bitter Melody Records. The Asheville metalcore outfit delivers six tracks that balance chaos and precision, merging hardcore and death metal influences into a technically charged sound. Lyrically more personal than their debut, the EP dives into themes of anxiety, death, and social critique.
French rap-metal hardcore force RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR have dropped a new single and video, Falcon, ahead of their upcoming album Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!!, out November 14. Mixing atmospheric hooks with crushing grooves, the track follows A.I.R. Max, Neo Paris, and Back 2 Basics (featuring LANDMVRKS). Vocalist Vitia calls it “a prayer… a message of hope” dedicated to lost friends and those still standing strong. The album was recorded in Paris and Marseille with LANDMVRKS’ Florent Salfati and will arrive in multiple editions, including limited colored CDs and vinyl.
KURSHA have released a new single titled Touch Grass, featuring BRAINROT. The Samara-based metallic hardcore act blends dense, dark energy with moments of melodic tension, delivering a sound that’s both punishing and atmospheric. Active since 2015.
What a banger.
ANGEL DU$T have announced their new album Cold 2 The Touch, out February 13 via Run For Cover Records. The record delivers 26 minutes of genre-bending punk and rock & roll energy, continuing the band’s fearless evolution. The title track, out now with a new video, pairs Justice Tripp’s sharp vocal style with galloping drums and razor-edged riffs. ANGEL DU$T will hit the road in November for a U.S. run with NARROW HEAD and OVLOV, followed by early 2025 festival dates including Something In The Way Fest and Treefort Music Fest.
WALKING WOUNDED just dropped a new two-track EP, “Bend the Knee / Pray for Death,” via Relapse Records. Both tracks hit hard — cold, hostile, and straight to the point. You can stream it now, or grab the Flexi 7″ free with any Relapse.com vinyl order over $20. Physical copies are also up for grabs tonight at The Roxy in Lakewood, OH, where the band opens for DYING FETUS.
DISCOURAGE have dropped “The Tyger,” a new cut from their upcoming LP In Lieu of Flowers out soon via War Records. The track features Matt Wilson from SET YOUR GOALS and was produced by drummer Matt Tyler with Marc Estabillo and Alex Jacobelli. Raw, bleak, and self-aware, it leans into the idea of running out of things to hold onto — that moment when nothing fixes the weight anymore. The title nods to William Blake’s poem, circling the same uneasy truth: some questions don’t have answers.
The Pomona hardcore scene takes center stage in Xicano Hardcore: A Mosh For Youth Documentary, a new short film by Latina filmmaker Magdalena Aparicio. The 12-minute piece follows Victor Campos—frontman of BARRIO SLAM and founder of MOSH FOR YOUTH—as he turns underground shows into scholarship fundraisers for students across East LA, Pomona, and San Bernardino.
We covered it in our full feature at this location.
HEAT are back with Act Of Mercy, their new EP due November 14 via LIFE LAIR REGRET RECORDS. First track Fooled Me Once (featuring TIME ENDS) is now streaming, marking the Melbourne band’s return after two years of refining their sound into five tracks of sharp, bouncy hardcore.
STREETS OF HATE just announced preorders for INVOKE’s Enemy Of The Sound Perception CD — a full-length blast of unrelenting, evil hardcore. Nine tracks deep, the record promises pure violence and chaos from start to finish.
COMBUST are heading to Europe this winter for a three-week run with SPEEDWAY and IMPOSTER (UK only). The New York City hardcore/metal crew will hit clubs, basements, and small halls across the continent starting January 22 in Antwerp and wrapping up February 8 in London. Tickets are on sale now — better move fast before these rooms turn into warzones.
See their top under the radar NYC bands here.
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Ohio straight edge crew CASTXDOWN just dropped their new single “STRAIGHTXEDGE” to mark Edge Day 2025 — a short, heavy blast of classic straight edge hardcore energy. Heavy as hell. Listen for yourself.
Italian hardcore collective 217 have dropped their new single “You Can Get Rid Of The Past!”, the first taste of their upcoming album In Your Gaze, out November 7th via Time To Kill Records. The track channels the raw emotion of mid-’90s new school hardcore — think 108, Life Of Agony, and Into Another — fused with the darker tones of Bauhaus, Joy Division, and Killing Joke.
The band describes it as a reflection on breaking free from personal burdens: “Through a path of solitude and silence, you can free yourself from the chains of your past. The time is now—no more burdens on your back.”
BACKSTAB have just released their debut Self-Inflicted Mental Torture via Enigmatic Records. The Poznań-based hardcore punks deliver a vicious mix of hardcore, metal, sludge, and grind-infused powerviolence, drawing comparisons to GULCH, DYSTOPIA, SPY, and FULL OF HELL.
UNBROKEN’s final EPs, Fall On Proverb and Absentee Debate, have been reissued together as “Fin”, now available on limited edition color vinyl via Three One G Records.
The release captures the closing chapter of the San Diego band’s legacy — dark, melodic, and emotionally charged hardcore that helped redefine the genre in the mid-’90s. Combining raw aggression with vulnerability, UNBROKEN’s work stood apart from their peers and continues to influence generations of bands drawn to that same mix of honesty and intensity.
Greek melodic metalcore / hardcore force ABOVE US THE WAVES have dropped their new EP “Counting Seasons”, out now on all streaming platforms. Mixed and mastered by Kyle Black (Paramore, Comeback Kid, Volumes), the release strikes a sharp balance between melody and aggression — equal parts emotional weight and metallic precision.
Quebec metallic hardcore outfit NORTHWALK just dropped their new single “Betrayed”, the first taste of their upcoming record A World Undone, out November 1 via Death Farm Records.
Formed in 2013, the band carries that early-2000s hardcore edge — metallic, emotional, and sharpened with a modern touch.
GO! return with “Impact” on Bandcamp, a raw NYHC document collecting their 2006–2007 7”s Reactive and What We Build Together, plus a full WFMU live set from the same era. Fast, political, and self-aware, the record captures the band’s blend of hardcore urgency and progressive ideals — pro-LGBTQ, feminist, anti-violence, and rooted in compassion.
GO! was a New York hardcore band 1989-91, playing alongside contemporaries Citizen’s Arrest, Rorschach, and SFA. Reuniting in 2006, they recorded a new 7″ that year, and another the following year, combining hardcore with their usual thoughtful lyrics, on topics from political divisions to same-sex marriage to wildlife conservation, with some fun tossed in to keep it from getting too serious.
GO! NYHC “IMPACT” collects both those 7″s on side A, and on the reverse side features a 2006 live show recorded on WFMU, produced by Pat Duncan and Charles Maggio of Rorschach.
WILTWITHER release “Obsolete,” the second single from their upcoming album Pure Light, out October 31 via 3DOT Recordings. The South Carolina band pushes metal into unpredictable territory — fusing hardcore aggression with traces of R&B, shoegaze, and hip-hop — while telling a story of telepathic connection and moral collapse. “Obsolete” hits near the record’s end, channeling resentment and betrayal between characters losing their grip on humanity. It’s heavy, cinematic, and uncomfortably close to real emotion — a sound made for the edge of breakdown.
SPACED return with No Escape, a five-track EP out now via Pure Noise Records, pairing psych-drenched textures with hardcore urgency. The Buffalo band’s latest cut, “How Did It Come To This?”, hits with phased-out guitars, crushing grooves, and lyrics that wrestle with burnout and existential suffocation. Recorded with Jay Zubricky, the release captures the band’s evolution into something heavier, stranger, and sharper.
SKYCAMEFALLING’s 10.21 just got a full rework through STICK TO THE CORE, remixed and rebuilt from the ground up for 2025. The Long Island metalcore landmark sounds heavier, sharper, and way more punishing than it ever did back in 2000 — every track hits like it’s been dragged through two decades of underground evolution. The guitars cut deeper, the breakdowns breathe harder, and the emotional weight finally matches the myth. A long-overdue resurrection of a record that shaped early-2000s vibe.
Croatian metallic hardcore outfit SURVIVED BY NOTHING just dropped Autumn Promo ’25, featuring two new tracks — No Remorse (with guest vocals from Matt Horvat) and Nameless. The release leans heavier on riffs, breakdowns, and straight-up aggression, marking another step in the band’s violent evolution. Can’t wait for more.
KOYO hit the road this week for a North American run that kicks off October 23 at Velvet Underground in Toronto. The Long Island melodic hardcore band will bring their emotionally charged sets through the Midwest, West Coast, and down to the East Coast before wrapping up in New York on November 23. Tickets and full routing are available at koyolihc.com.
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ROMAN CANDLE have dropped a new single and video, This Band Has Led Me To Places I Wouldn’t Go With A Gun, out now via SUMERIAN RECORDS. The Las Vegas hardcore outfit channels last year’s personal and creative turmoil into a volatile mix of tension and resolve — a track about refusing to quit even when walking that tightrope feels unbearable.
Following Fire In The Night Sky Forever, the new song digs deeper into their brand of emotionally charged hardcore rooted in the legacy of SAETIA, TOUCHÉ AMORÉ, and POISON THE WELL. Watch the video here
and stream the track across all platforms.
RECOLLECTION — members of HAYWIRE, SKINHEAD, HAMMER BROS, and more — announce debut EP Vivid Dreams, out November 7 via POP WIG RECORDS.
Self-described hard indie blending punk grit with melody, the EP was recorded by Taylor Young (MILITARIE GUN, MSPAINT). New single Less Is More out now.
A MOURNING STAR will release their new album Necessity Has Clipped My Wings on October 31 via DAZE. The Vancouver six-piece blends metalcore, melodic death metal, and hardcore, with production handled by Andre Urquidi and mastering by Stuart McKillop. Guest vocals come from Jay Breen and Conner Elmes, adding extra weight to the band’s atmospheric aggression.
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SUFFER NO FOOLS have dropped their new single Mental Maze, featuring MIKEY PETROSKI of NEVER ENDING GAME. Rooted firmly in the grit of Michigan hardcore, the track channels that classic Detroit heaviness — raw, direct, and unapologetically tough.
Australian grind freaks CHOOFIN BASTARDS are crossing the ditch this November for four shows through Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, and Hawkes Bay, backed by local wreckers POSTNATAL ABORTION and DOLE BLUDGER. The band’s been tearing through Australia all year and now plans to “come abuse the neighbours,” promising a mess of blastbeats, chaos, and whatever’s left of the venues once they’re done. The run’s pulled together by HBHC Presents, with local supports still to be announced.
Italian metalcore outfit REGROWTH have dropped a new single and video, Downpour, the first taste of their upcoming album A Story Worth Listening To, out November 28. Produced by Lorenzo Mariani and mastered by Brad Boatright, the track dives into themes of hardship and self-awareness, capturing what the band calls “the sensation of having been born into a wounded world.” The dystopian video, directed by Marco Camarda and Paolo Angelo Loi, follows a character escaping into a digital world only to rediscover meaning in reality. Downpour marks the beginning of a larger conceptual and emotional arc that will unfold with the full record.
Sydney hardcore crew ROBBER have a new live set on the way, filmed at a secret Marrickville warehouse on July 5, 2025. Shot entirely on DV cameras by the team at Downgrade, the session captures the band in their rawest form—sweaty, chaotic, and loud enough to peel paint. The unreleased video aims to bottle the energy of a real underground show, stripped of gloss and full of grit.
Nearly two decades after is:means, REDS return with The Truth of Impermanence, out October 24 via Council Records (LP) and Jean Scene Records (cassette).
Premiered earlier this week on IDIOTEQ, the record finds the New York post-hardcore band confronting decay, renewal, and survival through a DIY lens that’s as vital as ever. Recorded with Steve Roche and mastered by Will Killingsworth, the album channels both reflection and resistance — a mature yet urgent document of hope and persistence. “It’s not REDS in 2005,” says bassist Colin Bartoldus. “It’s a modern version of REDS.”
Hull sludge-metal hardcore crushers MASTIFF have unleashed their new record For All the Dead Dreams, out today via Church Road Records. The five-track EP finds the band at their most focused and punishing yet — a brutal mix of sludge, doom, and hardcore that follows their acclaimed 2024 LP. Recorded at Green Door Recordings, the release features tracks like Soliloquy, Decimated Graves, and A Story Behind Every Light, each grinding through themes of despair and decay with surgical precision.
Austin hardcore punks MUGGER have dropped their new one-sided 12” EP Want The World via Quiet Panic, just in time for their appearance at The Fest 23 this weekend. The four-track release channels the band’s signature mix of ’77 punk attitude and blown-out hardcore energy, focusing on themes of power, inclusion, and collective strength. Formed by Anna Troxell, Daniel Fried, Lisa Alley, and Patrick Troxell, the group features members of CREEPOID, RADIOACTIVITY, and THE WELL, quickly becoming a standout in Texas’ underground scene. Upcoming shows include Tampa, Gainesville, and Austin, with the new record available now on Bandcamp.
THE UNDERTAKING! unleash their new single All Smiles, a chaotic blast of melodic hardcore with a gritty southern rock undercurrent and raw, blood-on-the-lips energy. It’s the sound of getting punched in the mouth — literally or metaphorically — and laughing it off. Taken from their upcoming EP Only Left Alive To See The End, the track rips from start to finish before ending on the line, “Had a bad habit of eating teeth,” summing up the band’s mix of feral aggression and defiant humor.
GRINDWAR RECORDS just dropped Nothing Good Ever Happens… by TANNERITE, a powerviolence wrecking crew from Coeur d’Alene and Spokane. Co-released with MACABRE MEDIA, the record is pure chaos—five cuts of scorched-earth grind meant to be blasted until your speakers give out.
⤵ Screamo / Post Hardcore
Raw emoviolent skramz, noise punk, melodic emo MySpace stuff, but also rockish 90s post hardcore.
Also, be sure to visit ⤵ Rock section, it’s full of post hardcore and emo infused sounds, too!
DAITRO celebrate 20 years of Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes with a deluxe reissue shipping December 18 via Echo Canyon Records. Originally released in 2005, the Lyon collective’s landmark LP defined the fusion of French emo and hardcore—raw, atmospheric, and rooted in DIY intensity. One of our favourites Euro screamo records EVER!
This anniversary edition features a Ginger Gold or Lavender Haze LP, metallic copper foil jacket, printed inner sleeve, 24-page zine booklet, stickers, postcard, and Sean Mahan’s original artwork.
ONLY have released their new single Baratro, now streaming everywhere. The Berlin-based screamo band — whose members come from Venezuela, Scotland, and Italy — continue to channel early 2000s screamo through a raw and modern lens. Baratro captures their signature blend of catharsis, aggression, and melody, bridging hardcore energy with emotional dissonance.
PARLOR dropped their new album Tears for Everything on October 24 via Source Atone Records. The Paris quartet — Guillaume Quincy, Boris Patchinsky, Yann Desti, and Arthur Leparc — deliver a bleak, relentless descent through alienation, self-destruction, and corporate exhaustion. Each track pulls the listener deeper into a fractured psyche, from the illusion of control (In Charge) to the collapse of identity in Abyss and Tunnel. It’s not a record that seeks comfort — just the sound of breaking under modern life’s weight.
HOPE COURT have dropped Dormition Testament, a one-track release from their ongoing Urban Mysticism Pt. I series. Hailing from Thessaloniki, the band moves between black metal, emoviolence, and post-hardcore, mixing chaos and ritual in equal measure. The track pairs liturgical ferocity with raw, skramz-styled aggression — a short, blood-soaked glimpse into their fractured spiritual world.
The Philadelphia trio DRILL FOR ABSENTEE return after more than two decades with Strand of a Lake Volumes 1 and 2, out October 24 via Expert Work Records. The release bridges their 90s math-rock and post-hardcore roots with a more exploratory, textural approach shaped by distance and time.
Check out out full track by track feature here.
Lovitt Records and Solid Brass Records will release Memory Minus Plus Minus, a complete SLEEPYTIME TRIO discography, on October 24. The collection compiles all studio recordings by the Virginia post-hardcore band, newly remixed by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage Studio and remastered by TJ Lipple.
Formed in 1995 as an offshoot of MAXIMILLIAN COLBY, SLEEPYTIME TRIO became known for their chaotic, emotionally charged live shows and a sound that bridged raw energy with technical precision. The lineup — Drew Ringo, Ben Davis, Jonathan Fuller, and Dave Nesmith — shared stages with acts like SHOTMAKER, HOT WATER MUSIC, and FRODUS before disbanding in 1998.
Irish math/noise rock force GOD ALONE have dropped their new full-length The Beep Test via Prosthetic Records. The record dives into chaos with angular riffs, rhythmic spasms, and a sardonic edge, following the band’s recent single “Tony Gawk.” Described by drummer Jake O’Hanlon as “super-fast” and influenced by mathcore intensity, the track was inspired by a night of sickness that blurred the line between delirium and possession — a perfect metaphor for GOD ALONE’s manic, off-kilter sound.
DOG KNIGHTS PRODUCTIONS has announced its final release of 2025, DK189: HOLLOW JAN – Day Off, now available as a deluxe 180-gram gatefold 2xLP reissue.
Originally released in the mid-2000s and long out of print, Day Off stands as a cornerstone of South Korea’s screamo and post-rock scene—an emotional, atmospheric record that has quietly influenced a generation. The label’s founder describes the reissue as “a long-overdue vinyl treatment for a criminally overlooked classic.” The release coincides with HOLLOW JAN’s upcoming special show in Seoul on November 23, where the band will perform select tracks from Day Off.
ALEXISONFIRE are gearing up to record their first new album since Otherness (2022). Speaking with Rock Sound at When We Were Young, Wade MacNeil confirmed the band has written and demoed a full record’s worth of material, now searching for the right studio and producer. Bassist Chris Steele described the new songs as a natural evolution — mixing “heavy ripping stuff,” classic AOF energy, danceable rhythms, and moody, new wave-inspired tones reminiscent of Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode. Ahead of the sessions, the band will release their covers EP Copies of Old Masters in the coming weeks.
⤵ Post Rock / Post Metal
Belgian post-metal visionaries PSYCHONAUT have released their new album World Maker via Pelagic Records. Written during frontman Stefan De Graef’s transition into fatherhood, the record turns the band’s cosmic heaviness inward, exploring love, loss, and resilience with striking emotional depth. Featuring tracks like Endless Currents, Stargazer, and And You Came With Searing Light, it’s both intimate and expansive — a reflection on life’s fragile balance between creation and grief. Catch PSYCHONAUT on tour this fall across Europe and check out our full track by track feature here.
TIDES FROM NEBULA have released a live version of When There Were No Connections, marking their return ahead of the “18 + 4” anniversary tour — their first with original member Adam since 2018. The band will perform their debut album Aura in full across Poland this winter, revisiting their cinematic post-rock roots with a series of nostalgic shows in Olsztyn, Szczecin, Poznań, Wrocław, Łódź, Kraków, Gdańsk, and Warsaw.
K L P S (KOLLAPS\E) have shared multicam footage from their crushing live set at Klubb Fredagsmangel in Sweden, recorded on September 19, 2025. Shot by Lars Minkkinen with photos by Daniel Johansson, the video captures the band’s dense wall of sound in full force — a slow-burning mix of post-metal weight and sludge-laced atmosphere.
Their self-titled album, out now via These Hands Melt, dives deep into the tension between collapse and release, with tracks like “Tribulation” and “Undertow” pushing emotional gravity to breaking point. It’s the sound of concrete cracking under pressure — meditative, relentless, and heavy as hell.
Finnish doomgaze artist SHEDFROMTHEBODY has released her new album Everything Out There Has Teeth, a haunting eight-track work that merges doom metal, dark folk, and ambient soundscapes into something both crushing and ethereal. The one-woman project—known for blending delicate vocals with heavy, distorted textures—follows her 2020 debut A Dead and Aimless Hum and deepens her exploration of shadowy, introspective themes. Tracks like Crossing, Heima, and Shattermind highlight her ability to balance beauty and despair, layering dreamlike melodies over dense, atmospheric weight. The album is available now on Bandcamp.
LONG DISTANCE CALLING have released Out There, the second single from their upcoming live album Live at Lichtburg, due December 5 via earMUSIC. Recorded at the band’s sold-out 2024 performance at Essen’s historic Lichtburg Cinema, the track showcases their expansive, cinematic sound and emotional intensity. Following the earlier single Kamilah, this live version of Out There highlights the band’s dynamic interplay and storytelling through pure instrumental performance.
⤵ Punk Rock
Punk, Pop Punk, Folk Punk, raw, fast, melodic, and more.
ARMATAGE SHANKS have dropped Rise Up, a new B-side from their recent release Story Untold. Backed by the track Not The Same, the single channels their trademark raw punk energy with jagged riffs and unfiltered attitude.
BARAKA FACE JUNTA have unleashed Do Piekła via Trująca Fala — a mind bending session captured live at Studio Dobra 12 in Białystok. The record hits with nine cuts of anarcho-punk energy steeped in coldwave tension and avant-jazz dissonance. Guitars cut sharp, bass and drums hold the chaos together, and the saxophone tears through it like a warning siren. Think CRASS, CONFLICT, THE EX, but wired through John Zorn and James Chance.
VIOLENT WAY just dropped My Dearest Friend, the third and final single from their upcoming LP A Need for Something More, out soon via Longshot Music, Contra Records, and Battle Scarred Records. Recorded and mixed by Jay Zubricky and mastered by Will Killingsworth, the track hits with the band’s signature Buffalo street-punk vibe — melodic enough to stick, raw enough to bruise.
CF98 have released their new full-length Stupid Punk today via Double Helix Records (USA) and SBÄM Records (EU). The Polish pop-punk veterans deliver ten loud, honest, and high-energy tracks that channel early 2000s nostalgia while keeping a modern, heartfelt edge. Songs like 1993, Find Your Own Way, and Nobody Wants to Party mix humor, frustration, and friendship in a burst of melodic energy. With raw vocals, punchy drumming, and infectious hooks, Stupid Punk proves that punk doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to be real.
TWITCHING TONGUES have released Twitchfits Vol. 3, the newest entry in their Misfits cover series, out now through Closed Casket Activities. The EP features five reimagined classics — “Cough/Cool,” “Attitude,” “Ghouls Night Out,” “Angelfuck,” and “Dig Up Her Bones” — all drenched in the band’s signature mix of metallic hardcore weight and doom-laden groove.
Berlin post-punk rockers LIIEK have released their third full-length Living In A Fiction, now streaming in full via ADAGIO830.
The LP’s vinyl pressing is delayed after the original plant shut down, with new copies expected in 5–6 weeks (black and limited orange variants).
DIY punk torchbearers CELEBRATION SUMMER and werewolf punks WOLF-FACE just dropped their Live at The Fest split LP via DCxPC Live, now streaming through Punk Rock Theory. Captured in Gainesville across two FEST weekends, the record pairs Northern Virginia’s melodic grit and political edge with St. Petersburg’s feral, tongue-in-cheek chaos. CELEBRATION SUMMER bring that D.C.-bred urgency and heart, while WOLF-FACE snarl through their set with sweat, masks, and short shorts. Both bands hit The FEST this weekend — WOLF-FACE on Friday at Vivid, CELEBRATION SUMMER on Saturday at Heartwood.
Cleveland punks SAINTS OF LORAIN are set to drop their new EP Before We Were Saints on November 1, All Saints Day. Carrying the DNA of late-’90s underground act AL & THE COHOLICS, the band isn’t chasing nostalgia—it’s pushing forward. Formed out of loss and persistence, the lineup now includes original guitarist Greg Melnyk and newcomer Dill Hams, merging old grit with new fire. The record’s a shot of raw street punk, fast and unfiltered, nodding to RANCID and THE CASUALTIES. Singles Nothing to Lose and Pen in Your Jugular are out now, with a release show locked for The Hydrant in Berea, Ohio.
STATE CHAMPS are celebrating ten years of Around The World And Back with an eight-date U.S. headline tour in early 2026, joined by guests including CARTEL, ORIGAMI ANGEL, REAL FRIENDS, DRIVEWAYS, BROADSIDE, and JUST FRIENDS. To mark the anniversary, exclusive vinyl variants featuring new artwork and four cover tracks — “Stitches,” “Stay The Night,” “The Sharpest Lives,” and “Welcome To Paradise” — are now up for pre-order. The band also released their new single Common Sense via Pure Noise Records, a high-energy track showcasing their evolving yet classic pop-punk sound.
Mild Chaos Records celebrates October 24 with a long-overdue reissue of Here to the End, the 2005 full-length from Hudson Valley punk outfit TROUBLE BOUND. Pressed for the first time on translucent purple-and-yellow splatter vinyl, the twentieth-anniversary edition revives a record that fused melody, frustration, and blue-collar grit into one relentless run.
See our fetaure with full track by track here.
⤵ Rock
Alternative, Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Emo, Noise Rock, Post Punk, Grunge, Shoegaze and more
Belgian trio BRUTUS have released a live version of Paradise, recorded during their sold-out show at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The performance previews their upcoming Live in Brussels album, due November 28 via Hassle Records, with the full concert film premiering worldwide on Veeps next week and later arriving on YouTube on November 29. Fans in Brussels can catch a one-night-only cinema screening this Friday at White Cinema, supporting local charity De Warmste Week. The album will be available on triple vinyl, double CD, and cassette formats.
BUM MOTION CLUB have released their new album Distracciones today, marking a new chapter in the Madrid band’s evolution. Co-produced by Alejandro Leiva and Carlos Hernández Nombela, and mastered by Javier Roldón (Vacuum Mastering), the record blends dream pop, shoegaze, and alternative rock with a refined melodic sensibility.
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS have returned with a new single titled Wreckage, following their January EP Sandpaper and Silk. Released today, the track arrives just ahead of the band’s U.S. headlining tour in November, marking another chapter in their ongoing evolution of post-hardcore and emotional melody. Alongside the new single, the band has also reissued their 2012 album Hope on vinyl for the first time in 13 years, writing that “hope has always been the one true force that never lets you down.”
SPANISH LOVE SONGS have released their new single Heavenhead featuring ILLUMINATI HOTTIES, from the upcoming EP A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time, out November 21 via Pure Noise Records. The track captures the fear that happiness is fleeting — bright, melodic layers framing Dylan Slocum’s anxious confession, “I’ll be standing on the shore, begging for that tidal wave.” Produced by Collin Pastore and featuring Sarah Tudzin’s signature harmonies, Heavenhead follows collaborations with Kevin Devine and Tiger’s Jaw, marking another introspective yet cathartic step forward for the band.
CARDINALS drop their new single “The Burning of Cork”, ahead of their album Masquerade out February 13th via So Young Records. It’s a short, sharp track — rough-edged, political, and pissed off, taking its name from the 1920 attack on Cork by British forces. Recorded at RAK Studios with Shrink, the song feels tense and grounded, more statement than anthem. The video by Greg Purcell keeps it stripped down and symbolic, matching the band’s straight-faced delivery.
AVENGED SEVENFOLD keep their Halloween streak alive with a new MISFITS cover, taking on Some Kinda Hate from Legacy of Brutality. Released via Metal Injection, the track adds the band’s polished punch to one of MISFITS’ catchiest cuts while keeping its raw punk energy intact. In their announcement, the band wrote: “In keeping with the spirit of the season, this year’s offering of Some Kinda Hate is available for all to enjoy.” The cover continues their annual tradition of celebrating Halloween with classic horror-punk tributes.
HAIL THE SUN have released their seventh studio album cut. turn. fade. back. today via Equal Vision Records. The California post-hardcore rock veterans continue their streak of dynamic, emotionally charged records with a collection that balances heaviness, melody, and introspection. Frontman Donovan Melero confronts personal demons, addiction, and social division through sharp lyricism and intricate musicianship, while tracks like Relapse Is a Love Affair and Rightless Destiny showcase both vulnerability and defiance. It’s another meticulously crafted entry in the band’s ever-evolving catalog.
SPIRITUAL CRAMP have released their new album Rude today via Blue Grape Records. The San Francisco punks follow up their acclaimed 2023 debut with a sharp, self-aware collection that blends zippy punk rhythms, swaggering attitude, and social bite. Vocalist Michael Bingham describes the record as a reflection on keeping “your side of the street clean,” drawing from life between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS have returned with their fiery new single Burn, marking another step in their powerful comeback. Following July’s Six Feet, the Denver post-hardcore / rock act leans into darker, more aggressive territory while keeping their trademark chaos and theatrical energy intact. The track explores themes of destruction and rebirth, signaling a renewed intensity from the mid-2000s icons — whether as a standalone release or part of a larger rollout yet to come.
Canadian post-hardcore rockers SECOND HARBOUR have signed with SharpTone Records and announced their new EP Coalesce, arriving December 12. The band—brothers Xavier and Vincent Morency with John Muggianu—also dropped the first single Relative, a track Muggianu calls “urgent, vicious, and unrelenting.” The group says Coalesce marks a turning point, breaking from scene conventions and pushing their sound further than before: “This collection of songs is Second Harbour. Coalesce IS Second Harbour.”
Post punk rock band BÆNCH have released Let Your Lover Change You (Edit), a reworked version of one of the standout tracks from their EP Go-Go-Go. Newly mixed and mastered, the song distills their cinematic post-punk energy into a sharper, more immediate form — balancing raw emotion with melodic intensity. Drawing comparisons to INTERPOL, FONTAINES D.C., THE MURDER CAPITAL, and THE NATIONAL, the Danish band continues their rise following performances at Roskilde, SPOT, By:Larm, Reeperbahn, and their first London show at Paper Dress Vintage.
DAYSEEKER have unveiled a cinematic video for Crawl Back To My Coffin, the latest single from their upcoming album Creature In The Black Night, due October 24 via Spinefarm. Directed by Jensen Noen, the video unfolds like a gothic short film set in a graveyard, echoing the song’s themes of love, pain, and resurrection. Produced by Daniel Braunstein and mixed by Zakk Cervini, the album marks DAYSEEKER’s heaviest and most immersive work yet — darker, riff-driven, and threaded with horror-inspired imagery. The band recently toured with ICE NINE KILLS and IN THIS MOMENT, and will continue touring through 2025.
FOO FIGHTERS have announced their 2026 North American stadium tour — their first major run since Everything or Nothing at All. Kicking off August 4 in Toronto, the 12-date trek includes stops in Chicago, Nashville, and Las Vegas, with support from QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, MANNEQUIN PUSSY, and GOUGE AWAY. Alongside the tour, the band dropped a new single, Asking for a Friend, which Dave Grohl describes as “a song for those who have waited patiently in the cold.”
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TIME SPENT DRIVING return with a reflective new single, “Brackney,” out Oct 24 via Sell The Heart Records. Written as a closing chapter to the band’s early, relationship-heavy era, the track didn’t fit the mood of their forthcoming album and instead lands on the split A 7 Step Guide To Happiness alongside Her Head’s On Fire, Hotlung, Shotclock, Bear Away, Hauntu, and Neckscars.
We premiered the new song here.
OUR DIVIDE have released their new single Who I Am, now streaming everywhere. The song speaks to anyone struggling with self-doubt and the fear of embracing their true identity, pairing heartfelt lyrics with an emotional alt-rock sound. “I wish I could be who I always meant to be but I can’t,” the band writes — a line that captures the essence of vulnerability and growth at the core of the track.
CAPILLARY have shared two new singles, Lost Sleep and Time Before The Order, marking their return ahead of a full-length set for 2026. The New Jersey emo/alternative band—signed to 51st State Records—leans into the melancholic tone of suburban nostalgia and quiet longing, drawing influence from RITES OF SPRING, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, and MINERAL. Both tracks were recorded at Studio 4 with Justin Bartlett and follow the band’s 2024 self-titled EP.
SOFTCULT have released a new single, She Said, He Said, taken from their debut album When A Flower Doesn’t Grow, out January 30 via Easy Life Records.
The Montreal duo confronts the culture of disbelief surrounding sexual assault allegations. Mercedes Arn-Horn explains that the song reflects how survivors are often blamed and dismissed, while predators escape accountability.
Philadelphia’s indie-punk darlings MODERN BASEBALL are back with MOBO Presents: The Perfect Cast LP feat. Modern Baseball (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition), a reissue celebrating ten years of their cult EP The Perfect Cast. The new edition, made with Lame-O Records, features live cuts mixed by Jake Katz, mastering by Ian Farmer, and updated visuals from Jess Flynn and Perry Shall. Originally dropped in 2015 between You’re Gonna Miss It All and Holy Ghost, the record captured the band mid-swing—awkward, funny, painfully honest. “Excited to share that this month we celebrate 10 years of The Perfect Cast EP,” the band wrote, adding, “thank you again for all the love and support, love y’all lots.”
MIDDLERreleased their debut album Sacrosanct via Saturated Ideals, followed by a launch show at The Belfast Barge the next night. The record feels less like a debut and more like a reckoning — forged in a Holylands living room turned studio, where tension and exhaustion bled into creation.
It’s a dense, volatile work built on distortion, rhythm, and restraint, wrestling with self-erasure and rebirth. There’s an almost liturgical gravity in its sound — a collision of faith and noise, control and collapse. Belfast hasn’t produced something this inward and unflinching in a long time.
LIMP BIZKIT bassist and founding member SAM RIVERS has died at 48. The band shared a statement calling him “our brother, our heartbeat… the soul in the sound.” They added, “From the first note we ever played together, Sam brought a light and a rhythm that could never be replaced. His talent was effortless, his presence unforgettable, his heart enormous.”
DJ LETHAL wrote, “We are in shock. Rest in power, my brother! You’ll live on through your music and the lives you helped save with your music, charity work, and friendships.”
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Rivers co-founded LIMP BIZKIT in 1994, helping define the nu-metal era with albums like Significant Other and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. He left the band in 2015 due to liver disease caused by heavy drinking, later received a transplant, and rejoined three years later. The cause of his death has not been disclosed.
Atlanta emo-folk duo HEY, NOTHING return with their new three-track single Seeing You, out now via Music Soup / Interscope Records. At just 20, Tyler (he) and Harlow (they) balance sharp humor with gut-level honesty, building on the confessional tone of last year’s Maine EP. The release threads together delicate melodies and lyrical self-awareness, tracing the tension between love, loss, and growing up too fast.
Michigan post-hardcore rockers 84 TIGERS — featuring brothers Mike and Ben Reed of Small Brown Bike and Jonathan Diener of The Swellers — have released their sophomore LP Nothing Ends via Spartan Records. Produced by Marc Jacob Hudson, the album channels themes of loss, resilience, and renewal across tracks like Two Rivers (with Rocky Votolato) and Regeneration Days (featuring Aaron Stauffer of Seaweed). The band celebrates the release with shows at Dark Horse Brewing Co. and FEST in Gainesville, FL.
SILLY GOOSE have unleashed their debut full-length Keys To The City, out now via Blue Grape Music. The Atlanta chaos-bringers channel the wild spirit of early-2000s nu-metal into a mix of rap-rock swagger, hardcore attitude, and tongue-in-cheek absurdity. The record balances mosh-ready energy and self-aware humor, with tracks like Cowboy and Playing Games leaning into both parody and passion. The band will tour Europe and the U.S. this fall alongside HOT MILK.
DEFTONES have reissued their Dia de los Deftones lime-infused Mexican lager ahead of the festival’s sixth edition. The 5% ABV beer — brewed with Belching Beaver Brewery — is now available for preorder through store.belchingbeaver.com, featuring new 2025 artwork. Distribution to California and Arizona retailers begins next week, though online delivery remains limited to California residents. Too bad it’s not warm enough to actually enjoy a cold one (at least here in Europe).
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Dia de los Deftones VI will take place November 1st at Petco Park in San Diego, headlined by DEFTONES with performances from Clipse, 2hollis, Rico Nasty, Deafheaven, Regulo Caro, Ecca Vandal, Glare, and University.
DEADPEACH return to their roots with The DemoTapes — a digital resurrection of their first two cassettes, Green (1995) and Touch Me I’m Peach (1996), both originally released alongside the cult Peach Zine.
Recorded live in a single day at Day Records Studio with Paul Chain, Green captures the raw pulse of Italy’s mid-’90s underground — fuzzy riffs, tape hiss, and all that sweaty DIY soul that once glued zines, bands, and scenes together. Fully restored and remastered at Tam Tam Studio, these tapes bring back a time when “share” meant handing someone a dubbed cassette, not sending a link.
TALKING VIOLET return with “Destroy,” a subdued yet heavy reflection on closure and acceptance. The track pulls from the same emotional thread as Everything At Once, turning the pain of change into quiet resolve. Goyeau’s lyrics sit between love and loss, tracing the moment when you stop trying to fix what’s already gone. It’s fragile, unguarded, and real — the sound of finally letting go.
THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS reunite with longtime collaborator Shane Drake for the video to “Perfection,” the latest single from their new album X’s For Eyes out now via Better Noise Music. The clip follows five marginalized characters who find belonging through shared imperfection — a visual echo of Ronnie Winter’s lyrics about scars as strength. Nearly twenty years after Don’t You Fake It, the band’s original creative circle has reassembled, channeling the same emotion and drive that once made Face Down an anthem.
SUDS have dropped a new single, Hook Me Out, through Big Scary Monsters, teasing their upcoming record Tell Me About Your Day Again, out November 21. The Norwich-based quartet — Maisie Cater, Dan Godfrey, Harry Mitchell, and Jack Ames — stay true to their tender, midwest-emo-tinged indie sound, weaving grief and friendship into soft melodies and brass textures courtesy of George Baker (DOG AT THE OPERA, BAG OF CANS). Written in isolation but grounded in human connection, the album reflects on distance, small talk, and the quiet things that keeps people together.
SUBZERO FUN resurface with “Space Drone 4”, the lead single from their debut album Ten More Years, out October 24. The track unfolds like a memory half-remembered—distant frequencies dissolving into thick layers of drone, melody, and faint club afterglow. It captures the trio’s synth-heavy evolution from shoegaze into something colder, more cinematic, and detached. A decade’s worth of material reworked and reimagined, Ten More Years feels like both reflection and warning — beauty dissolving into static.
TRUSTcompany and Smartpunk Records have joined forces to release The Lonely Position of Neutral on vinyl for the first time, marking 23 years since the album’s original 2002 debut. Limited to 2,000 copies—500 of which are Smartpunk exclusives—the reissue celebrates the band’s gold-certified milestone featuring classics like Downfall and Running From Me. Vocalist Kevin Palmer called the release “wild” and a reminder of how the record continues to resonate decades later.
PUSCIFER have announced Normal Isn’t, their first new album in five years, out February 6 via Puscifer Entertainment / Alchemy Recordings / BMG. The record leans into post-punk and goth influences with darker, more guitar-heavy textures — “where goth meets punk,” as Maynard James Keenan puts it.
The band just dropped the first single Self Evident along with a live-shot video directed by Mat Mitchell and María Aceves Diego, filmed at Exchange L.A.
SOCIAL YOUTH CULT will release their debut album The Lighthouse on November 2. The Newcastle post-punk outfit blend heavy, rhythmic grooves with gothic atmospheres inspired by BAUHAUS, KILLING JOKE, and THE POP GROUP. Recorded at The Bunker in Sunderland, the eight-track record marks a shift from their earlier darkwave sound toward something more experimental and ritualistic.
Athens noise-punk band COMMUTER drop their new single Guilt Beats Hate. Self-released and recorded raw, the track channels the chaotic energy of their live shows — loud, messy, and straight to the point. Influenced by post-punk from Canada and the UK’s new wave, COMMUTER have shared stages with DRY CLEANING, PROTOMARTYR, THE STEAMS, and DEAF RADIO.
Metalcore veterans THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA have dropped a new rock single, Everybody Knows, ahead of their ninth album Flowers, due November 14 via Solid State Records. The track leans into anxiety and exposure—“that moment when you realize everyone can see you’re not holding it together,” the band says—and comes with a sleek, performance-driven video. Following their charting single For You and a packed Summer of Loud tour, the band is set to hit Europe with ICE NINE KILLS and CREEPER this November and December.
Sheffield indie emo trio PALE SAILOR release their debut EP you’re not yourself, a four-track reflection on exhaustion, frustration, and the slow climb toward recovery. Written and recorded entirely DIY in guitarist Eamonn Hall’s attic and local university studios, the record blends midwest emo and pop punk with intimate, literary lyricism.
See our full feature on this release here.
Italian dream pop and shoegaze quartet SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS have unveiled a short documentary (premiered here on IDIOTEQ), Nevermore / Eight and a Half: The Movie, capturing the recording process behind their recent double single.
Berlin heavy psych rockers KADAVAR have released Explosion in the Sky, the final single from their upcoming album K.A.D.A.V.A.R. (Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity and Ruin), out November 7 via Clouds Hill. Written after a near-death experience in Sardinia, the track captures chaos, clarity, and mortality in equal measure. “It’s about realizing that safety is just an idea,” says vocalist and guitarist Lupus Lindemann. Fueled by the afterglow of a FLAMING LIPS concert, the song channels bright euphoria through Kadavar’s signature analog heaviness. The band is currently on a European tour, with upcoming shows in Leipzig, Hamburg, Cologne, Utrecht, Antwerp, Warsaw, and Berlin.
Salt Lake City rockers BOX ELDER have shared their new single Post College Days, out now via Sweet Cheetah Records. Blending late ’90s emo and early 2000s indie with a modern pop-punk edge, the track captures the bittersweet process of growing up and losing touch with old friends. “It’s about the changing landscape of friendships as you start navigating adulthood,” says frontman Chris Mason, who dedicated the song to his late friend Kylie. The band is planning a 2026 full-length and spring U.S. tour, with upcoming shows across Wyoming and Utah, including Eleanor’s Halloween Show in Jackson on October 31.
FRANK TURNER has shared a heartfelt cover of GRACE PETRIE’s Northbound, the latest track unveiled from his upcoming triple vinyl collection The Next Ten Years, out November 7, 2025. Turner calls the song “the kind of songwriting that cuts straight through,” describing his version as a tribute to Petrie’s spirit and honesty.
The Next Ten Years follows 2015’s The First Ten Years and gathers rare and unreleased material recorded between 2015 and 2024, including B-sides, covers, live sessions, and collaborations.
UGLY STICK’s cult classic Absinthe is back — remastered and reissued on vinyl for the first time via Hovercraft Records. Originally released in 1993, the Delaware, Ohio cow-punk outfit fused punk grit, alt-country swagger, and garage rock heart into what became known as the Columbus sound. Blending the raw energy of X and The Cramps with Americana storytelling, Absinthe captures the tension of small-town decay and Midwestern resilience. This expanded edition includes bonus live and studio tracks, reaffirming UGLY STICK’s place as one of the true pioneers of genre-bending American underground rock.
COLD EQUATIONS return with their new single Satellite, out now via Sweet Cheetah Records. The Nashville shoegazers dive deep into the cyclical pull of memory and repetition, wrapping buried vocals and orbiting melodies in thick layers of distortion, delay, and reverb. Recorded in a single day at Smoakstack Studios, the track balances aggression and beauty — a hazy meditation on patterns we can’t escape, anchored by hypnotic rhythm and a fuzz-drenched solo that spirals into controlled chaos.
⤵ Metal
Alt Metal, Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Black, Thrash, Sludge, Nu Metal, and more.
THE ACACIA STRAIN have unleashed their new album You Are Safe From God Here, out today via Rise Records. The record finds the Massachusetts heavyweights diving deeper into their signature blend of sludge, doom, and death metal while holding onto the hardcore fury that’s defined them for two decades. Frontman Vincent Bennett channels raw misanthropy and existential dread across tracks that are as punishing as they are introspective.
SOULFLY have unleashed their 13th album Chama today via Nuclear Blast. Translating to “fire” in Portuguese, the record reignites Max Cavalera’s primal energy with a mix of tribal fury, grindcore aggression, and industrial edge. Tracks like Storm the Gates, Nihilist, and No Pain = No Power channel the spirit of Roots and Primitive, while Soulfly XIII and the title track explore psychedelic and progressive territory. It’s a defiant, hard-hitting statement proving that Cavalera and company are still burning hotter than ever.
INGESTED drop their brutal new single Nefarious Tongues, a mid-tempo onslaught of modern death metal laced with hardcore groove and precision. Lyrically, it tears into the decay of morality in a world consumed by vanity and self-interest — a self-devouring society feeding on its own collapse. Accompanied by a striking video and limited-edition merch designed by Rudi Gorgingsuicide, the release precedes the band’s massive Evisceratour 2025 North American headlining run kicking off November 6 in Fresno, CA with support from DISTANT, OV SULFUR, CELL, and CRUCIFICTION.
CONJURER return with Unself (out October 24 via Nuclear Blast), a powerful blend of heaviness and vulnerability that reclaims the emotional intensity of their debut Mire while pushing further into personal and sonic extremes. Balancing devastating sludge and chaotic blasts with haunting melodies, the album reflects guitarist Dani Nightingale’s journey of identity and disconnection through moments that feel both crushing and cathartic. It’s CONJURER at their most complete — raw, emotional, and brilliantly unrestrained.
KARATE STEVE are streaming their new album Time Under Tension. The Boston groove-heavy sludge/metal band delivers nine crushing tracks packed with a lot of meaty riffs.
Find our full track by track rundown here.
Philadelphia sludge veterans SUNBURSTER emerge with No Semblance of Peaceful Existence, their long-awaited debut LP out October 24 via Knife Hits Records. After over a decade of punishing EPs, the band delivers ten tracks steeped in grime, despair, and blues-drenched heaviness.
See our full feature on this release at this location.
SABLE HILLS have released a new single Namu accompanied by a striking music video. The Japanese metal band fuses precision and emotion, layering massive riffs and thunderous drumming with frontman Takuya’s mix of guttural roars and soaring melodies. Lyrically exploring mortality and resilience, Namu captures the band’s balance of brutality and beauty, continuing their rise as one of modern metal’s most commanding acts.
TESTAMENT have released their blistering cover of METALLICA’s Seek & Destroy, the latest single from No Life ’Til Leather – A Tribute To Metallica’s Kill ’Em All, out November 14 via Silver Lining Music. The compilation features an all-star lineup including SAXON, DIAMOND HEAD, MOTÖRHEAD, SOEN, DAVID ELLEFSON, and RAVEN. Vocalist Chuck Billy commented, “Songs like this started a movement!” The video for the track, directed by Freakshot Film, is streaming now.
Denver-born, now New Jersey–based heavy trio THE MUNSENS return with Degradation in the Hyperreal, a dense and deliberate expansion of their doom-rooted sound. Recorded with Felipe Patino at Green Door Recordings, the album gathers six years of writing into one cohesive, aggressive statement that bridges reflection and resistance. Drawing influence from Flemish art and personal loss, the record explores themes of deceit, mortality, and mental struggle through tracks like Eternal Grasp, Drauga, and The Knife.
See our full feature here.
TENEBRO channel the nightmare once again with their new album Una Lama D’Argento, out December 12, 2025 via Time To Kill Records. The first single, “Impiccata,” rips straight from the hanging scene of Dario Argento’s Suspiria — a sharp, merciless piece of death metal that cuts through silence like a knife through flesh.
SLIPKNOT have filed a lawsuit to gain control of the Slipknot.com domain, accusing an anonymous registrant of cybersquatting and trademark infringement under the U.S. Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
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The complaint states that the domain, registered in 2001—years after the band’s mid-’90s formation—is being used to generate ad revenue from links tied to Slipknot merchandise, tickets, and VIP packages, misleading fans into thinking it’s official. Records list the registrant’s address in the Cayman Islands under “Slipknot Online Services, Ltd,” though no such entity appears in U.S. business databases.
The case follows reports of Slipknot nearing a $120 million deal with HarbourView Equity Partners to sell their music catalog. Since debuting in 1999, the band has earned a Grammy, multiple platinum albums, and six Top 10 Billboard 200 entries, with The End, So Far marking their latest global No. 1 across several countries.
Not bad for a band that used to tear down crumbling shacks in Iowa back in the day. Start a band, kid!
STELLAR CIRCUITS have released Bury the Ashes, a new three-track single via Nuclear Blast Records, marking their next step toward the upcoming album Phantom :: Phoenix due in 2025. Following Sight to Sound (2023), the Winston-Salem progressive metalcore act continues to expand their sound — cinematic, heavy, and emotionally driven. The new release includes “Bury the Ashes,” “Corridor,” and “I See Your Spirit,” each balancing technical precision with introspective weight.
Puerto Rican death metal units NECRONEMESIS and GANGRENESIA join forces on Putrid Sanctity, a new split out now via HPGD. NECRONEMESIS return with two vicious cuts, pushing their sound further into chaotic extremes after last year’s Warfield Forever EP. GANGRENESIA, formed in 2022, crash in with their HPGD debut—pure slamming brutality dripping with old-school rot. Together they tear through breakdowns and gutturals built for fans of CANNIBAL CORPSE, DYING FETUS, and SUFFOCATION.
North Carolina death metal force BLACKWATER DROWNING will return February 27th with Obscure Sorrows, out via Bleeding Art Collective and Blood Blast Distribution. Mixed and mastered by Cryptopsy’s Christian Donaldson, the record expands the band’s melodic death metal and metalcore foundation with orchestral textures and sharper rhythmic turns.
Canadian heavy psych doom quartet PALE HORSE RITUAL unleash their new single Holy Lies, a searing preview of their upcoming album Diabolic Formation, due November 28 via Black Throne Productions. The track takes aim at religious hypocrisy and systemic oppression, exposing “the contradictions between immense spiritual wealth and real-world suffering.”
TORTURE HAMMER unleash their self-titled second EP today via Creator-Destructor Records. Expanding from their original duo into a full lineup, the Santa Cruz death metal crew deliver six tracks of raw aggression and sharpened hostility, recorded and mixed by Charles Toshio at Panda Studios (SPY, SUNAMI, SCOWL) and featuring artwork by Martyrdoom Illustrations (200 STAB WOUNDS, KRUELTY). Following a West Coast run with ALL SHALL PERISH and shows alongside MAMMOTH GRINDER and IRON FRONT, the band’s latest material cements their reputation for pure, unrelenting heaviness.
Italian doom metal force SHORES OF NULL have unveiled An Easy Way, the opening track from their upcoming split Latitudes of Sorrow with Finnish funeral doom act CONVOCATION, out November 21 via Everlasting Spew Records. The song drags listeners through themes of depression and the fragile balance between endurance and surrender, which the band calls “the most straightforward track on the split… catchy, yes, but it leaves very little room for hope.” The release brings together two heavyweights of sorrow from opposite ends of Europe, pairing SHORES OF NULL’s melodic desolation with CONVOCATION’s abyssal weight.
⤵ Experimental / Other
PING have released their new concept album Songs from the Nebula via Apollon Record AS. The Oslo-based experimental rock collective, active since the late ‘90s, continue to blend melodic dissonance and progressive structures inspired by Zappa, Melvins, Fred Frith, Ween, dEUS, Tom Waits, and Wilco.
The album explores cosmic themes through warped narratives about black matter, time dilation, and interdimensional voyages, weaving 60s-rooted psychedelia with modern metal and electronic textures. Available now on digital, CD, and 180g gatefold 2xLP, Songs from the Nebula invites listeners to “play loud and travel light.”
PHEW and DANIELLE DE PICCIOTTO have announced Paper Masks, a joint album arriving February 20, 2026, via Mute. The project has been quietly forming between Tokyo and Berlin for nearly five years, merging Phew’s minimalist electronics and vocals with de Picciotto’s poetry and spoken word. Their first single, “Paper Memories,” is out now—muted, spectral, and full of static breath. The album moves between English and German, tracing memory, distance, and transformation with the precision of two artists who’ve lived through entire eras of underground sound.
DAN MICHIU has released 3.000.000 BCE via Beach Buddies Records, a two-part exploration that feels like sound clawing its way out of prehistory. Recorded at Bun Comun Studio in Bucharest, the record strips everything down to electric guitar and pulse — sparse, heavy, and oddly sentient. It starts soft, then caves in on itself, tumbling from fragile accents into grinding repetition until it collapses in certainty. Less an album, more like an organism learning to exist.
TRACE AMOUNT has dropped a new single, Seeing God on the L Train, featuring New Jersey rapper FATBOI SHARIF. The track appears on the upcoming album Flagrant, due November 14 via BLEAKHOUSE, the label run by KING YOSEF. Recorded with HARLAN STEED (SHOW ME THE BODY) and mastered by KRIS LAPKE (COLD CAVE, PRURIENT), the song blends industrial abrasion with hip-hop intensity, drawing influence from SCORN’s ominous soundscapes. The self-animated “video game” video, set in Brooklyn landmarks like TV Eye and the late Saint Vitus Bar, depicts a dystopian battle against data-mining robo-dogs — a perfect fit for TRACE AMOUNT’s techno-apocalypse aesthetic.
JULIET RUIN have released their new EP Regime, a fierce mix of power and vulnerability that dives deep into mental health, social reflection, and personal growth. The Edmonton metalcore band channels a decade of evolution into five tracks that swing between crushing heaviness and melodic hooks, with Jess Fleming’s raw vocals at the emotional center. From the eerie Poems By a Poltergeist to the explosive title track Regime, the EP blends groove and intensity with pop sensibility. Out now on all streaming platforms, the band is celebrating with Alberta tour dates in Edmonton, Medicine Hat, and Lloydminster.
HYPERWÜLFF return with Addendum Two: Background Music for a Game, the latest entry in their sludge-metal offshoot series. Following 2022’s Volume Three: Burrowing Kingdoms, the duo expands their cosmic mythos with five new synth-driven tracks designed as the soundtrack for a mini board game set in the worlds of Erion and Ktolon.
Blending dungeon-synth atmospheres with cosmic krautrock, industrial, and dark ambient tones, Addendum Two goes beyond a typical interlude — it’s an immersive audiovisual experience. Packaged in a Sega Mega Drive–inspired case, the cassette includes three playable game cards, a die, and a tarot card.
KAKUHAN & Adam Gołębiewski have released Repercussions via Instant Classic and Unsound — a boundary-blurring collaboration recorded in Kraków after their joint Unsound 2023 performance. The Japanese duo, known for their hybrid of electroacoustic precision and post-IDM experimentation, join forces with Polish percussionist and improviser Gołębiewski (Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore) to create an album that fuses intricate rhythmic sequences with visceral drumming and textural abstraction. Equal parts improvisation and control, Repercussions expands KAKUHAN’s concept into raw, spatially warped sonic territory — where time, tone, and structure dissolve into something entirely new.
⤵ Pop / Other
Pop shapeshifter GUV has announced Warmer Than Gold, his new album dropping January 30 via Run For Cover Records. The project of Toronto-born Ben Cook—formerly YOUNG GUV—takes a sharp turn into breakbeat-laced Britpop, stitching jangly hooks with glowing 90s textures. The first single, Let Your Hands Go, hits that sweet spot between indie shimmer and dancefloor pulse. Featuring contributions from James Matthew Seven, Darcy Baylis, Hatchie, and Meg Mills of Turnstile, the record folds Cook’s past lives into something both nostalgic and freshly alive.
Los Angeles-based dark dreampop duo MAGIC WANDS are releasing their new album Cascades this Friday, October 24 via Metropolis Records. Formed by Dexy and Chris Valentine, the band continues to expand their lush, shimmering sound—an ethereal blend of shoegaze, post-punk, and goth influences reminiscent of COCTEAU TWINS, LUSH, and THE CURE. The album includes previously released singles Hide, Armour, Moonshadow, Across the Water, and Time to Dream, which showcase the duo’s signature mix of textured guitars, synth-driven haze, and dreamlike vocals.
Oklahoma City duo BRAINWASHER, featuring Matthew Duckworth Kirksey and Tommy McKenzie of THE FLAMING LIPS, have released their debut full-length 39 Lightyears from Heaven via Mothland. A decade in the making, the record blends trip-hop, psych, and distorted electronica into a surreal, emotional journey shaped by years of touring and collaboration.
The band also unveiled a new video for Home, a dreamlike track exploring belonging and nostalgia, filmed across California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Utah. Co-directed with Blake Studdard and Wayne Coyne, the album’s visuals deepen its cinematic tone. 39 Lightyears from Heaven is out now on all platforms, with release shows set for November 21 in Montréal and November 28 in Oklahoma City.
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