Another week, another stack of new records and stories cutting across hardcore, punk, metal, and everything orbiting around them. Use the jump links below to head straight into the section that fits your taste and start digging.
⤵ Hardcore / Metalcore
Colombian hardcore unit RAW BRIGADE drop word of their new album 100%, landing November 14th on Flatspot Records. Cut in both English and Spanish, the record channels NYHC grit à la Outburst and Warzone, ripping through eleven tracks of straight edge pride and shots at corrupt systems.
Fresh singles “Another Struggle” and “BOGOTÁ 12-4Q” are already out with a Derek Rathbun-directed video showing Bogotá in full chaotic color. Vocalist Carlos Chavarriaga calls the first track his favorite, “an introspective thought about how sometimes we make life a complete rush with no breaks,” while the second locks in as a pure instrumental blast of his city’s fast, messy energy. Tours with End It and Agnostic Front follow close behind.
EPHEMERAL just came through swinging with Ultramarine MK2000 on Armageddon Records. Two and a half minutes of straight-up death metallic hardcore carnage—no frills, no filler, just pure punishment. It’s got that ugly riff energy that smacks you in the chest and leaves you gasping.
The eight track album was recorded and mixed by Nick Corcillo (Tracheotomy) at The Crypt Studios and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation). Sharing members with Collateral, Domain, and Undercrypt, and drawing influence from Deicide, Morbid Angel, and Suffocation, listeners can expect crushing violence, savage riffs, and guttural vocals.
Having already shared heavy-hitting single “Bled Dry,” today Ephemeral drop the formidable “Ultramarine MK2000.” A reference to the game Warhammer 40,000, the song is a feverish blend of metallic guitars, maniacal rhythms, and commanding vocals.
NYHC staples AGNOSTIC FRONT are back with a new full-length, Echoes In Eternity, set for November 7th. Their first album since 2019’s Get Loud!, it packs 15 tracks cut and mixed by Mike Dijan and Zeuss, with mastering handled at Planet Z. Opening shot “Way Of War” is already out, paired with a video from Todd Huber, laying down the first punch of what’s coming.
Hardcore band GUMM have announced their second full-length Beneath The Wheel, due out October 31 via Convulse Records. The Chattanooga crew previewed it with “New From The Pain,” a jagged two-minute blast of stomping drums and post-hardcore guitar twists. Vocalist Drew Waldon ties the record’s themes to isolation and self-preservation, saying, “I don’t want to be defined by feelings of isolation, I want to use the pain to make myself stronger and more open and vulnerable.” The band will be on the road this fall, including a stop at Furnace Fest.
Portland metalcore unit DYING WISH drop their new album Flesh Stays Together today via SharpTone Records. Vocalist Emma Boster calls it “a discovery, a journey of grief and a statement… Flesh is a vicious wake up call.” First single “I’ll Know You’re Not Around,” co-directed by Eric Richter and Pedro Carrillo, cuts into themes of regret, dependency, and betrayal. Produced by Will Putney, the record follows 2023’s Symptoms of Survival and lands as another uncompromising slab of heaviness. The band tours this fall with shows across the US and Europe alongside Malevolence, Speed, and Psycho-Frame.
London punks JJ AND THE A’S have dropped their first full-length Rhetoric of Trash via LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS. Twelve songs rip through themes of post-colonial decay and capitalist overconsumption, stitched with droning melodies, dissonant synths, and flashes of SoCal punk grit. The record nods toward 80s fixtures like T.S.O.L. and Redd Kross, with a few hardcore stomps cutting through, but mostly it sounds like a band stubbornly carving their own lane.
BURY YOUR DEAD closed out their 24-year run with a final set at New England Metal & Hardcore Festival in Worcester, MA on September 20th. The show brought back former members, including ex-vocalist Myke Terry, for one last sendoff.
Mat Bruso, who had first hinted at his departure during Furnace Fest 2023, told the crowd this was his last show “for good,” adding: “This is their band and I had the privilege of borrowing it for like 20 fucking years.” He ended by thanking fans: “If this band has ever meant anything to you before, just know you mean so much more to me than you could possibly ever realize, for changing my fucking life.”
UK melodic hardcore unit DOWNPOUR return this Friday, September 26, with their self-released single “Barely Afloat.” Formed by Rich Lardner (LOCK & KEY) alongside ex-WE STRUCK GOLD members, the band pulls from COUNTERPARTS, THE GHOST INSIDE, and STICK TO YOUR GUNS, pushing a sound that balances ferocity with melody.
The track dives into mental health struggles, written during a period when guitarist/vocalist Jesse was facing serious health issues. Vocalist Richard explains: “I connected deeply with that, having fought my own battles with health. Together, we were able to channel those experiences into something that, despite its origins, radiates a sense of positivity.”
GODSEYES drop their new single “And Fear” via Silent Pendulum Records. Clocking in at just over three minutes, the track delivers a brutal and explosive arrangement, slowly building before hitting with pounding intensity and eerie ending.
Hardcore compilation DESDE AFUERA has been dropped by YHR with help from Wince Fernandez, bringing together 16 bands under the banner of Latino hardcore.
Cuts range from BLOODMONEY’s “Ziti” and BORN TO SUFFER’s “Crucify Him Again” to DIE YOUNG (TX)’s remastered “Asco Puro,” mixing demos, covers, and old material. Luis Ramirez handled the artwork, riffing on La Noche Triste with a bronze-and-black color scheme nodding to the “bronze people” of Latin America. Proceeds go to RAICES, backing immigrant families with legal and social support in increasingly dark times.
Hardcore crew SPACED have dropped their new single “Pressure”, taken from the upcoming EP No Escape, due out October 17, 2025 via Pure Noise Records. The track locks into a pounding groove with lines circling around exposure, accountability, and the walls closing in.
“No Escape'”s five songs are packed with stomping riffs and psych-tinged aggression that offer a perfect introduction to SPACED’s unique brand of self-proclaimed “far out hardcore” and “Pressure” showcases both the swirling textures and eye-bulging ferocity that define the group.
Hardcore shapeshifters EXCIDE just dropped a three-song single Pariah, out now via Sharptone. The release lines up ahead of their debut album Bastard Hymns, set for November 28. Tracks “Pariah,” “Worth Your Salt,” and “Your Flowers” show the band’s usual collision course—basement hardcore pressure colliding with alt-90s fuzz and a taste for bigger hooks without sanding down the edges.
Tyler Washington shares, “Lyrically, ‘Pariah’ is sort of an inward look back to when I was growing up. Not ever really fitting in anywhere or with anyone, wrangling with the religion and politics of your own family and friends, and sort of losing hope at a point that you’ll ever find where you’re supposed to be.”
Texas noise-slingers THE GRASSHOPPER LIES HEAVY have announced their new album Heavy, out November 14 on Learning Curve Records. The lead single “We Are All the Antichrist” comes stacked with twisting riffs, a lyric about “decompos[ing] with your bros,” and a guest vocal from Capra’s Crow Lotus that frontman James Woodard calls “raw, intense, and exactly what it needed.” Known for shifting between post-rock ambience and punishing sludge, the band leans all-in on the latter here—Woodard says it’s their “most uniformly heavy record to date,” with nods to Sepultura and Napalm Death buried in the mix.
D.C. hardcore staples GOVERNMENT ISSUE have finally put their 1984 record Joy Ride up on Bandcamp. Originally dropped through Fountain Of Youth Records, the album packs in rippers like “Blending In,” “Time To Escape,” and the title track, plus bonus live cuts including “Hey Ronnie!” Produced by Brian Baker alongside guitarist Tom Lyle, the set captures the band’s rawest era with John Stabb up front—his presence still missed but stamped all over these 13 tracks.
German metallic hardcore wrecking crew DAGGERTHREAT have unleashed a new single, “Tissue,” pulled straight from their upcoming record Bleed///Reboot, due January 23 via Blood Blast Distribution. The track is a raw, festering cut—lyrics spit out like open wounds: “I am the wound… stitch me up and rip me again.”
The band dropped a video for the song, shot and cut by Darklab Visuals, and they’ll be tearing across Europe in October with dates in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Antwerp, and more before closing out at Corefest in Stuttgart this November.
GUMM just dropped New From the Pain — straight-up hardcore punk energy out of Chattanooga. Mid-paced groove, sharp vocals, built for two-stepping in the pit. Out now via Convulse Records.
MISERY SIGNALS’ final chapter is being documented in Love Is Forever, Blood Is Forever, set for release on October 19th. Directed by longtime fan Morgan Tedd, the film captures the band’s closing shows at London’s Electric Brixton and Edmonton’s Starlite Room and Union Hall, marking the end of their two-decade run.
Tedd, who previously worked on the band’s Live in Isolation set during the pandemic, said: “I wanted to capture the bond between the band, their fans, and the music itself… This film is my love letter to the band, and a shared celebration from one fan, to every fan.” Additional footage comes from Jim Madden and Tyler Hamende.
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Baltimore’s crusty hardcore wrecking crew GASKET have lined up their self-titled debut for November 21 on Blue Grape Music and dropped a video for the single “Blood To Bone.”
Singer Flynn Zimmer calls it “the first song we wrote after we released the Babylon EP… it’s about being put in uncomfortable positions and wronged by a friend.” Formed in 2022, the band have already bled through two EPs, endless East Coast shows, and now nine new tracks that grind punk, old school hardcore, and metal into one filthy, metallic sludge.
BLIGHT TOWN dropped the official video for Go Go Gadget Bulletproof Head! and it’s as chaotic as the name suggests. Jagged riffs, unhinged vocals, and that weird mix of humor and fury that makes their stuff stick.
The track flips between venom-soaked lines and a kind of sing-along nihilism—“sing me all your favourite lies / you know we live in f-d up times”—perfect snapshot of where their heads are at. It’s cathartic, messy, and fun in the most destructive way possible.
HELLFEST WEST has been announced for Orange County, California, set to hit The Observatory on February 20–21, 2026. Presented by Trustkill and SOS Booking, the lineup stacks heavy with names like PATH OF RESISTANCE, MIND FORCE, DISEMBODIED, E-TOWN CONCRETE, TURMOIL, IT DIES TODAY, TWITCHING TONGUES, and a long list of others, with more bands still to be revealed. Local tickets go live September 25 at 10 AM PST, with general on-sale following September 26.
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Heavy beatdown heavy hardcore JORELIA have a new single out — “VILE” is streaming as BDHW Rec. announces the upcoming EP Cold Damned Life, available for pre-order via BDHW Records. Hailing from Pavia, Italy, the band have been working the DIY route since 2019; after a lineup change they’re described as darker, heavier and more uncompromising than before. The sound is forged in “beatdown fury and loaded with death metal weight,” and the lyrics don’t mess around — “You’ll fucking pay” and “I hope you burn in hell” land without apology.
Swedish hardcore icons REFUSED have mapped out their last ever run of shows, closing December with hometown stops in Gothenburg, Norrköping, Stockholm and Umeå under the banner Refused Are F**king Dead. Drummer David Sandström called the lineups “stacked with old friends, comrades and collaborators,” but also admitted the band was never good for his relationship with Dennis Lyxzén. He added that the four members have “a new band with no baggage, no fans to please, limited only by our wildest musical hopes and dreams.”
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Denver’s CHEW THRU just let loose their new EP Curb Cuts, five bursts of hardcore punk chaos that barely let you catch your breath. Tracks like “Hunter Hunter” and “Feral” hit quick and dirty, while “Force Field” stretches things just enough to show off some weird edges.
Powerviolence wrecking crew HONG KONG FUCK YOU just dropped 8 Years of Violent Audio Terrorism! through No Time Records. The release, out September 17, 2025, crams the band’s whole discography into one blast—25 tracks that veer from the 9-minute chaos of “Hong Kong fucks you for 9 minutes and 5 seconds” to the 9-second detonation “Fuck You. Just Die.”
Provocative noise-leaning outfit SPLIT//BITE have dropped the five-song EP ILOVEYOU, out September 26, 2025. It’s a tight run — “Clown,” “Love-Letter-for-You.txt.vbs,” “LOOK2ME,” “Never so blind I cannot see” and “Mother (s)” — that lands with a glitchy, in-your-face aesthetic (the release even flashes a cheeky “PLAY! INFECT YOUR HEAD! DESTROY YOUR WORLD! WITH [ILOVEYOU]” message). Credits note Yngve Andersen producing and Torarinn Garlick engineering, with Tom Chalk on mixing and mastering; the record appears via Fucking North Pole Records / SLIT//BITE.
Hard-hitting hardcore unit PUSH! have dropped a new video for “Beyond Exhaustion,” a scorched-earth anthem from their corner of the scene. Out now via Useless Pride Records (digital) and Frozen Records (LP), the track’s all jagged riffs, punishing drums and lyrics about climbing a “ladder of thorns” only to find no rest at the top.
POSER have dropped a new Demo, out now via Burnout Records. The three-track release (Hindsight, Poser, Slip Away) clocks in under eight minutes and captures the Irish band’s raw, jagged hardcore sound.
The Carlow/Galway outfit last put out the Sick EP in 2022, a five-song blast of punk energy that included Superficial Superman and Heatstroke.
DOWNPOUR release their new single “Barely Afloat” today. The UK melodic hardcore outfit, featuring members of LOCK & KEY and former WE STRUCK GOLD, channel themes of resilience and mental health struggles into a track that blends ferocity with melody. Following their debut album earlier this year and a string of UK shows, the band continues to rise with airplay on BBC Radio 1, Triple J, and more.
STRAY FROM THE PATH are calling it quits overseas with one last European and UK run. The tour brings ALPHA WOLF, GRAPHIC NATURE, and CALVA LOUISE along for the ride, hitting spots from Leipzig and Zurich to Paris and London before wrapping in Bristol on November 28. That Bristol date’s already gone, and the band says Birmingham, London, Leeds, Glasgow, Hamburg, and Cologne aren’t far behind.
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TRAIDORA have unleashed their debut full-length Una Mujer Trans Sin País on LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS. Led by Venezuelan-born trans artist Eva Leblanc, now fronting a four-queer lineup, the record rips through thirteen blasts of raw Spanish-sung hardcore. Influenced by the heaviest side of Latin American punk—think Drop Dead colliding with Masacre 68 and Los Crudos—the album cuts at borders, gender, and power structures with a sharp trans-feminist, immigrant voice.
Heartworm Press has announced two releases for December 5: the 25th anniversary reissue of AMERICAN NIGHTMARE’s Year One and the debut LP from STATUE OF HEAVEN, Hung From Rope Woven By Hope.
Year One brings together the band’s first two 7”s, originally recorded by Kurt Ballou and released by Bridge 9, now reimagined with new artwork and presented on 180-gram vinyl. To mark the anniversary, AMERICAN NIGHTMARE will play a special Year One set at Rough Trade NYC on December 18.
STATUE OF HEAVEN, Wesley Eisold’s new project, strips hardcore to a raw, blackened form, pairing minimalist lyrics with a colder sound shaped by 80s punk and 90s metallic hardcore. The album features the original demo tracks plus three new songs, pressed on white marble vinyl with a zine insert.
NEGATIVE LOVE have dropped their debut single Shades From Inside via Static Era Records. The track crashes through hardcore intensity, slips into grunge-driven alt-rock, and finally dissolves into an experimental haze. Brendan Williams’ vocals cut with a mix of anguish and restraint, reflecting on the weight of silent struggles and the grind of day-to-day survival.
Crushing metalcore crew WALLS have unleashed their new EP Endeavour of Destruction along with a video for “Gears of the Cold Machine.” Picking up where last year’s Endeavour of Adaptation left off, the new record shifts from survival to destruction, laying into the idea that systems are built to fail us while we keep them alive. Lines like “We bleed for nothing, yet beg for more” and “Honestly I’m done / Trying to pretend that this is not the end” hammer the point home.
We have the full feature on it here.
ThrashTapes fires off Four Square Fastcore Flexi (Thrash#19), a 4-way split stacking SICK BURN (Sacramento), V.V.M. (San Francisco), TOTAL VACATION (Los Angeles), and TOLAKKOK (Malaysia). Four tracks, all-go-no-slow, channeling SIEGE, HERESY, RIPCORD, and early DRI — fastcore stripped to the bone, built for pits, dives, and quick burnouts.
Twin Cities straight edge newcomers SKEWED just dropped their Demo! through Delayed Gratification Records. Five tracks of hardcore in the Lockin’ Out tradition — think Justice, Righteous Jams, Jaguarz — fast, sharp, and straight to the point. Tapes are up now on purple shells, limited to 100.
H2O pulled a surprise in Nashville when Hayley Williams from Paramore jumped on stage with them. The clip shows her trading vocals alongside Toby Morse, throwing a little pop-punk royalty into a hardcore set and sending the crowd into overdrive.
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Vermont’s maple violence scene just spat out NOSEPICK, who crash in with their First Try demo on ThrashTapes. Fifteen songs in five minutes — female-fronted, skate-damaged fastcore/powerviolence with Vera (17) on vocals, Levi (21, GONE WRONG/YOUTH DISPUTE) on strings, and Max (52, SPAZZ/WHAT HAPPENS NEXT) behind the kit. Mastered at Dead Air Studios, out now as Thrash#20 in collab with 625 Thrash and Coxinha.
Vicious metalcore beast FALSE THOUGHTS just dropped a new track, “rip & tear,” clocking in at 6:31, merging June’s earlier cut featuring Izabel Lavin. Same venom, same broken-family rage, stretched out into something even more suffocating.
Groove-heavy metallic hardcore unit DOWNSWING drop new single and video “Too Little Too Late,” featuring Chris Roetter, ahead of the album And Everything Was Dark out October 24 via MNRK. The track leans on “a wall of sound that suffocates the listener,” with the band saying it’s about being in a dark place where help shows up after the damage: “something constantly pulling you down, making you feel less like yourself every day.” Tours roll through September with He Is Legend and back out in November with Great American Ghost.
Florida’s HEAVY//HITTER are dropping their new EP Coming To Terms on October 10 via Blue Grape Music, recorded with producer Austin Coupe (The Devil Wears Prada, Silverstein). The title track, featuring Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill, just got a video release and leans hard into breakdowns that feel like concrete collapsing.
Vocalist Austin Hays frames it as survival music: getting through betrayal, bad relationships, demons in the closet — and stepping out stronger, sharper, and unafraid. The band has already logged miles with CARNIFEX, CRYPTOPSY, and VCTMS, and this EP doubles down on their mix of precision extreme metal and raw deathcore heft.
Mancunian bruisers GUILT TRIP tore through Hellfest 2025 with their trademark mix of thrash-weight riffs, brick-wall breakdowns, and groove that swings like a bat to the jaw. Forget politeness — their brand of hardcore is all fists, sweat, and busted noses, the kind of camaraderie that only comes with a punch in the face. Filmed by Sombrero & Co, the set just went live from Clisson.
RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR’s Hellfest 2025 set is now streaming via ARTE Concert. Invited last-minute to replace ULTRA VOMIT, the Paris crossover crew brought their Japanese pop-culture-meets-heavy-music vision to Clisson on June 19, 2025.
⤵ Screamo / Post Hardcore
Raw emoviolent skramz, melodic emo MySpace stuff, but also rockish 90s post hardcore.
Screamo outfit MOURN RECIF link up with sibling band A RECORDED DAWN for a new split cd on Zegema Beach Records. MOURN RECIF’s three tracks, laid down during the same session as their self-titled EP, mark the last recordings with the original lineup—swinging between melodic atmosphere and sharper, heavier bursts. A RECORDED DAWN ditch the emo/slowcore shades of their early days for two sprawling cuts of dark, atmospheric screamo that nod toward Ostraca, Process//Sleep, and Infant Island. Art comes courtesy of Cameron Lyon.
Danish outfit DEMERSAL return September 26 with Vi kunne ikke blive her for evigt, vel?, their sharpest and most expansive work to date. Built around the theme of consumerism—not just as economics but as a corrosive force running through climate collapse, war, genocide, and personal loss—the EP shifts between screamo roots and wider textures: indie shimmer, ambient drift, even experimental pop touches with piano, harmonica, and whispered vocals cutting through raw shouts.
See our full feature and track by track rundown here.
Post-hardcore band COILGUNS just dropped a new two-track EP called Lost Love while grinding through an 80-date tour that’s currently in Mexico.
Pulled from the same sessions as their Odd Love album, the cuts “Nightshifter” and “Homeworking Patriarch” were deemed too dark at the time, but they’ve surfaced now, sharpened by Scott Evans of Kowloon Walled City and mastered by Magnus Lindberg of Cult of Luna.
The band also put out a video for “Homeworking Patriarch,” a track that dives back into their early cryptic chaos—jagged beats, suffocating riffs, and a lyrical gut punch about toxic father figures and the claustrophobia of lockdown. Singer Louis Jucker summed it up: “The paradoxical good thing about a global crisis is that it provides an opportunity for global learning… we wanted to show our support for all those who weren’t as lucky as we were.”
Post-hardcore cult figureheads SLEEPYTIME TRIO have shared a newly remixed and remastered version of “Rock Candy,” ahead of upcoming shows with Frail and Policy of 3. The track comes from Memory Minus Plus Minus, a discography collection arriving in October via Lovitt Records and Solid Brass Records, with mixes handled by J. Robbins and remastering by TJ Lipple. Active from 1995 until their 1998 hiatus, the Virginia band built a reputation for chaotic live sets and later spawned groups like Engine Down, Rah Bras, and Milemarker. They return this fall for dates in Brooklyn, Richmond, DC, and Philly, before a Chicago slot at Several States Fest in January.
French screamo/emo outfit IUSEDTODREAMINCOLOURS just dropped andnowitsallgrey via Spleencore Records, with support from Fragile Records (UK), Wormwood Records (Canada), and Oliver Glenn Records (US). Out September 26, the release stacks five tracks of raw, anguished energy — from the opener “a geography made of bruises” through the minute-long gut punch “your silence screams louder than i ever could.” It’s emoviolence and post-hardcore shaded with shoegaze, bleak but unflinching.
AMERETAT have dropped their self-titled LP through LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS, a record shaped by the Iranian diaspora and stitched together from both modern and traditional sounds. S and K fuse crust and hardcore grit with feedback that echoes regional drone instruments, drawing lines from LSD to Rudimentary Peni to Union Of Uranus and Dystopia. Lyrics move between Persian, Avestan, Lori, Kurdish, and English, turning themes of war, power, love, and despair into something both raw and deeply rooted.
Belgian grungy post hardcore outfit BRIDLE have dropped a new track, “Pennies,” via White Russian Records. A fresh band made up of familiar faces, they lean straight into their emo and punk rock roots on this latest cut.
Philly punks SPARES just dropped a split with Durham’s Treasure Pains, stitched together by Council Records. SPARES bring two outtakes from their last EP sessions—“Joke” and “New Indignities”—while Treasure Pains features Zach Large, brother and Youth League bandmate of SPARES’ own Mike Large. The whole thing landed September 26 on a single-sided 12-inch with a screenprinted flip, but the real point is the songs: raw, jagged, and carrying that split-release charm where friends trade scars across state lines.
French post-rock infused post-hardcore duo FIRST DRAFT have dropped a new single, “Agnostalgic,” ahead of their album An Instant Before the Promise of Dawn, out October 10 via Vlad Productions. The track dives into memory, fascism, and the necessity of remembering in order to resist its resurgence, blending heavy tones with raw emotion. Recorded at Drudenhaus Studio and mastered at Finnvox, the record threads melody and rage through seven tracks that reflect the band’s shared view of a fractured world and their call to collective resistance.
⤵ Post Rock / Post Metal
Post-rock veterans GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT have revisited their landmark track “All Is Violent, All Is Bright” for its 20th anniversary, remixing, partially re-recording, and remastering the piece. The new video, directed by Aaron Ryan, pairs the updated sound with stark visuals. The band will take the track on the road this October, with dates across Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Serbia.
Norwegian outfit SUNDROWNED have unveiled their new album Higanbana via Fysisk Format. Rooted in post-metal but draped in shoegaze haze, the record sits somewhere between Cult Of Luna weight and Alcest-style dreamscapes. Across seven tracks—like the shimmering “Primrose” and the nine-minute closer “Jacob’s Ladder”—the band ties their sound to themes of life cycles and renewal, continuing the alchemy-inspired journey they began on 2021’s Become Ethereal.
Manchester post-rock collective CIVIL SERVICE have released their new single “Black Giraffes,” taken from the upcoming album Dark ///, out November 21 via A Cheery Wave and Ripcord Records. Written in the wake of their 2019 trip to Kyiv and first performed at a Ukrainian benefit gig in Leeds in 2022, the track incorporates quotes from aid workers and civilians on the front line, set against heavy, apocalyptic soundscapes and violin parts from the Severn Duo.
The band describes the record as a darker counterpoint to last year’s /// Light, shifting from the search for meaning to the immovable walls of despair, collapse, and isolation. Inspired by acts like MOGWAI, MONO, and GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, CIVIL SERVICE channel expansive atmospheres into bleak confrontations with tyranny, mental health struggles, and fractured societies.
Finnish doomgaze outfit SHEDFROMTHEBODY have announced their new record Everything Out There Has Teeth, set for release on October 23. The first taste comes with track six, “Spine,” a three-minute drift through their trademark mix of shadowy folk, post-metal weight, and gothic haze. The album runs eight songs deep, from “Crossing” to closer “Ginger,” promising another dive into the band’s bleak but strangely luminous soundworld.
MEZMER have returned after two years with Eternal Bloom, a two-track single out now via Have Time, Be Empty. The release features the title track alongside Melodrama, the latter stretching to seven and a half minutes—the longest piece the artist has shared so far.
Both songs carry the hallmarks of MEZMER’s approach: dynamic post-rock that moves between quiet restraint and explosive surges. Melodrama in particular feels like a statement piece, described by the artist as the first step into a new direction, a sound that embodies contrast—“everything and nothing all at once.”
⤵ Punk Rock
Punk, Pop Punk, raw, fast, melodic, and more.
Midwest emo-soaked punks EDLP have dropped their debut single for White Russian Records, “Pretty.” The track swings between catchy riffs and raw self-doubt, channeling that late-night insecurity of not being enough for the person you’re crushing on. Born out of friendship and the idea that “crying in the moshpit is absolutely valid,” EDLP turn vulnerability into pure shout-along energy.
NOFX have dropped a new single, What Are We Doing This For, featuring CODEFENDANTS. The track landed today, September 26, 2025, via Fat Music and clocks in at just under two minutes.
Fat Mike’s other artist project – Codefendants – lent a helping hand to NOFX on this one – making for the ultimate collaborative moment blending NOFX’s signature sound with the trio’s defiant genre-fluid sound that mixes punk, hip-hop, and hardcore.
Fat Mike admits he “liked the lyrics… but it needs two singers,” so he tapped his other band to carry the overload of words—“some people call it rapping.” The result lands somewhere between punk grit and crossover bite, with Mike, Melvin, Hefe, and the CODEFENDANTS trading fire on disinformation-era paranoia. It’s one of only a handful of new NOFX songs left, as Mike put it: “enjoy this one. It’s all there is for a while.”
Japanese mathy emo punk rockers WITHOUT just rolled out a new three-song single Mind Haze. Out September 24, the set lines up “Mind Haze,” “Fire,” and “Internet Explorer,” all cut with their usual mix of tangled guitars, dual vocals, and sharp rhythm work. Formed in 2016 and rooted between Yokohama and Tokyo, the band’s been grinding the Japanese scene for years, and this release keeps them leaning into that wired-up, melodic punk energy.
Sunderland punks RED ALERT are getting a lost piece of history dug up by Serial Bowl Records. They Came In Force drops October 18, pulled from a mixing desk tape of a rowdy 1982 Darlington gig.
Frontman Steve “Cast Iron” Smith recalls the chaos: after breaking down and missing the original date, tensions flared the following week—“it started with football chanting, it became a Sunderland/Newcastle thing for some reason and up it went, big time. Lots of glass broken with some people hurt.” The set rips through 13 tracks of raw street punk energy, finally seeing daylight more than 40 years later.
Chicago outfit 0 MILES PER HOUR just put out a new single, “Bite It Off,” through New Morality Zine. It’s the first cut from their upcoming EP Gallop, landing in October.
The track digs into that weird space of feeling alone even while in a relationship, carried by sharp lines like “I’ll chase my tail and bite it off / There’s nothing left that’s bone you saw.”
UK hearty punks ARMATAGE SHANKS just dropped a loose one called Not The Same. It’s a leftover from the Story Untold sessions, a track that didn’t make the final cut but still carries their bruised-heart energy. Raw, tuneful, and straight from the cutting room floor—sometimes the B-sides sting harder than the singles.
California emo-punk misfits THANKS! I HATE IT have dropped their new record Scatterbrain, a 12-track run that clocks in just under 37 minutes. Based out of Hollister and rooted in mid-west coast emo, the band formed in 2018 but only locked in the full lineup with vocalist Sam Hogan in 2021. Their earlier debut Lovers Lane came out via Take This To Heart Records, and Scatterbrain pushes further — song titles like “These Noodles Aren’t That Spicy,” “My Chemical Imbalance,” and “Tonight’s The Night You Fight Your Dad” set the tone for a record that’s equal parts sharp humor and raw sentiment.
San Diego emo punk rockers AREN’T WE AMPHIBIANS have rolled out their debut full-length Parade! Parade!, a ten-track trip that flips the genre’s usual gloom into something messy, loud, and oddly uplifting. First single “Dunce Hat” set the tone—Joshua Talbot howling “All that it took / was all that I had” like he’s already crossed the finish line—while the rest of the record bounces between breakdowns, horns, and even a King Of The Hill sample. Formed by Talbot with lifelong friends Brandon and Tyler Cunningham, the trio treat every awkward phase as fuel, urging listeners to stop wallowing and throw themselves a parade instead.
Pop-punk outsiders COMBAT just dropped a new cut, “Bob Dylan To Me,” through Counter Intuitive Records. Clocking in at two minutes flat, it’s set to open the label’s upcoming 10-year compilation.
The Baltimore crew won’t be sitting still either — they’re heading out on the road this fall, splitting dates between their own headline run and support slots for Pinkshift and LustSickPuppy. The Earthkeeper Tour with Pinkshift kicks off October 10 in Asbury Park and winds through the U.S. and Canada until mid-November, with COMBAT linking up from late October onward.
BLINK-182 pulled a surprise at Riot Fest when Stephen Egerton of DESCENDENTS jumped on stage to rip through “Hope” with them. Fan-shot footage shows the band trading off energy with Egerton, turning the classic cover into one of the weekend’s standout moments.
In other DESCENDENTS news, the band will mark 40 years of I Don’t Want To Grow Up with a definitive reissue on November 21 via Org Music. Originally released in 1985 through New Alliance Records, the album followed Milo Aukerman’s return from college and introduced guitarist Ray Cooper, steering the band toward brighter melodies without losing urgency.
The reissue comes in multiple formats—LP, CD, cassette—and includes a “Punk Note” edition with artwork by John Yates, reimagining the cover in the style of classic Blue Note jazz sleeves. It follows last year’s Milo Goes To College reissue, part of an ongoing campaign now that DESCENDENTS have regained ownership of their masters.
Montreal ska-punk vets THE PLANET SMASHERS are back with their tenth album On the Dancefloor, out now via Stomp Records, and we featured it this week.
Frontman Matt Collyer still shrugs off ska-punk’s critics, stressing the balance between messy fun and real talk on injustice, while nodding to new Canadian bands like Taxi Girls, General Chaos, and Thunder Queens. Three decades on, the pit pals spirit that started it all in a crammed Montreal bar still fuels the ride.
Boston heavy emo/soft punk outfit UNSEEMLIER have shared a new video for “Power Chord Career Criminal,” filmed by Christine Atturio and Nick Bowen and edited by Atturio. The track comes off their debut album I Have a Screw Loose, Somewhere, released June 13 on Sell The Heart Records, a 23-minute blast written after frontman Mike Assatly’s move back to Massachusetts from California.
Formed in late 2023, the band tackles addiction, loss, suburban malaise, and the grind of trying to stay positive. October finds them on the road with shows in Allston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Lansdale, Asbury Park, Tampa’s Pre-Fest, and FEST 22 in Gainesville.
JOKER’S REPUBLIC have shared Welcome Back, the final single before the release of their new album The Hand You’ve Been Dealt, out October 10 via Punkerton Records.
The song takes on personal weight for bassist Billy Smollen, who steps into the role of lead vocalist for the first time. Written after a car accident that totaled his vehicle while the band was on tour, Welcome Back frames the aftermath as a story of recovery, resilience, and the support of community. Musically, it leans into power-pop-punk hooks while carrying the band’s ska punk energy.
Stockholm punks STRIKT have dropped their new album Hur fan kunde vi stå ut (“How the hell did we endure”), out digitally September 12 and on vinyl September 19 via Beat Butchers. The record rips through eleven tracks of exhaustion, collapse, and fury—burnout, panic, police violence, political betrayal, and class rage all smashed into raw Swedish punk with no posing and no nostalgia.
Rooted in the grit of ’80s Swedish and British punk, STRIKT sound like everything breaking at once, sharp and grounded in the wreckage of the present. Previous releases include the 2024 split EP Stockholm Brinner with HYRDA KNEKTAR, but this full-length pushes harder: pressure, presence, and a refusal to look away.
Canadian garage-punk trio HUMAN MISSILE CRISIS just dropped their new single “Snake in the Grass,” the first taste of their upcoming two-song EP Waste Away. Written after a surreal walk through a rattlesnake-filled vineyard in Osoyoos, the track cuts sharp at betrayal — the kind where someone smiles while sharpening a knife behind your back. Frontman DJ Vaters calls it “upbeat, raw, and with a Bloc Party kind of vibe,” built on fast drums, slidey riffs, and a bass solo that sneaks in where you don’t expect it. They’ll test it live opening for Propagandhi in Halifax on September 23.
London punks LUXURY APARTMENTS have signed with Venn Records and dropped a new single, “Troubling Time,” recorded with Jonah Falco over Easter 2025. The track cuts into the current state of the world with vocalist Matt Turner reflecting, “We live in a time where we can live stream nightmares… protesting in the street is completely futile.” Formed with ex-members of CHUBBY & THE GANG and BAD BREEDING, the band builds on their wiry post-punk roots, pushing further into raw, urgent territory. Live dates include London’s New Cross Inn on October 2 and Manchester’s Deaf Institute on October 17.
Oi!-flavored punk pranksters KONG KONG drop their new LP Gorilla Anthems via TKO Records, pulling together cuts from their run of EPs between 2020–2025 plus a pair of new exclusives. The band’s shtick lands somewhere between rough-edged street chants and sugary power pop hooks, all delivered with the wink of a gorilla mask. Call it satire, call it gimmick, or just call it catchy — tracks like “Backbone” and “Heroes Gone Were Never Heros At All” set the tone for what’s billed as Gorilla City’s finest export.
Edinburgh pop-punk crew HAPPYDAZE have dropped a new single, “Daydreaming.” It lands in the middle of a heavy year for the band — first UK headline run, shows with Young Culture, plus a UK tour alongside WSTR and Dream State. Formed in 2020, the band’s been steadily building from their debut EP Underground Summer Sound through last year’s A Brand New Day, and now “Daydreaming” finds them still pushing that balance of catchy hooks and raw energy.
Gothenburg drunk’n’roll punks SPØGELSE have a new video out for “Speedfreaks,” a track off their upcoming album Spøgelse II, due October 24 on Welfare Sounds & Records. True to form, it’s fast, chaotic and one beer away from collapse — the same energy that’s kept them spilling across Swedish stages for the past five years. Fifteen tracks of raw, uncompromising punk are on the way, with “Speedfreaks” showing just how unhinged they plan to keep it.
⤵ Post Punk / Shoegaze
Belgrade’s goth rock/post-punk shadow BLEJZ drops the new single “Tramvaj 12” on September 24. Centered on the city’s overlooked tram line, the track moves like the silent undercurrent of Belgrade itself — cold melodies wrapped around a cry for salvation. Blažo Kljajić has been fusing poetry with music since 2019, carving out a space for Serbian post-punk that feels both intimate and haunted.
Berlin-based neo-psych shapeshifters THE DHARMA CHAIN drop their new single “See through” this Friday, September 26 via Spinda Records. The standalone track lands between their debut Nowhere and a second album due spring 2026, threading shoegaze haze, post-punk pulse, and a dreamlike sense of disillusion. Built around the push-and-pull between faith and emptiness, the song drifts from searching tension into surrender, closing on the mantra-like refrain, “keep on rockin’ me baby.” A UK and Netherlands run follows in late October and early November, with shows in Amsterdam, London, Manchester, and more.
Esoteric dystopian post-punk unit PROLES are set to drop their new EP Inauguration on October 3, followed by a release show that night at Koto in Salem. The five-track set moves through corruption, deception, ego, fallacy, and tyranny, opening with the pulse-heavy “Inaugural” and pushing hardest on the single “Another One for the Fire.” The Boston foursome frame it as cinematic chaos, an atmosphere built to expand and contract both on record and in their live multimedia setup. As Jay O’Blivion puts it, “The music here can be an escape or a confrontation. It all depends on who receives the broadcast.”
⤵ Metal
Alt Metal, Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Black, Thrash, Sludge, Nu Metal, and more.
Crushing dirge machine BELIEVE IN NOTHING have dropped their second single “The Children Are Cattle,” lifted from their debut full-length Rot due October 31 on Church Road Records. Frontman Caine Hemmingway frames it as “about a future with no sun, no rain, no dignity, just defeat. A world where children are grown in sacks and hunt in hordes.” The track drags quiet tension into punishing riffs and harrowing screams, another slab in their slow-motion collapse of extreme noise.
SOULFLY have dropped a new track, “Nihilist,” pulling in NAILS frontman Todd Jones for a venomous guest spot. It’s the third single off Chama, the band’s upcoming record out October 24 on Nuclear Blast.
Cavalera and Jones aren’t strangers—they last linked up on NAILS’ “Endless Resistance” back in 2019 and have even shared the stage ripping through SEPULTURA covers. This new collab keeps that bond grim and heavy.
REVOCATION release their ninth album New Gods, New Masters today via Metal Blade Records. The Boston tech-death/thrash veterans, led by Dave Davidson, push further into darker, death-driven territory while keeping their trademark technicality and progressive touches intact. Guests include Travis Ryan (CATTLE DECAPITATION), Jonny Davy (JOB FOR A COWBOY), Luc Lemay (GORGUTS), and jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman. Early reviews praise the record’s brutal grooves, inventive solos, and balance of heaviness with proggy flourishes.
Deathcore juggernaut THE ACACIA STRAIN have dropped a video for their new single “Swamp Mentality,” a sludge-soaked warning wrapped in riffs. “The swamp is a place of rot, death, and decay; but it is also ripe with life and regeneration,” the band says. “You are safe from God in the points of darkness and decomposition. Seek your sanctuary. No one leaves the swamp.” The track lands ahead of their upcoming record You Are Safe From God Here, due out October 24 via Rise Records, which the band themselves summed up bluntly: “It’s angry, it’s sad, it’s us. We made a record that made us feel uncomfortable. We hope it makes you feel the same way.”
Boston metal outfit KARATE STEVE have unveiled the video for “Time Under Tension,” the title track to their third album due October 24. Guitarist/vocalist Ben Davis says the cut was chosen because it “thematically represents the rest of the record,” tackling anxiety and insomnia with a barrage of riffs, turnarounds, and a solo section. Formed in 2015, the band mashes death metal, hardcore, thrash, and sludge into riff-heavy chaos, landing them alongside acts like Gozu, Worshipper, and Weedeater. The new record, tracked with Alex Allinson and mastered by Carl Saff, delivers nine tracks in under thirty minutes — groove, grit, and volume cranked into the red.
Danish melodic death metal veterans PITCHBLACK drop new single “La Hora De La Muerte,” a political call-out on corrupt power and chaos. It leads into their new album Walking On Burning Ground, out November 28, packed with 11 tracks of thrashy riffing and sharp interplay, mixed by Jacob Bredahl and mastered by Brad Boatright.
LAS TRUMIEN (Katowice/Wrocław) have released their new record “Breslau Spleen” today. The band’s cellar-bred sludge/doom, paired with Polish lyrics inspired by true crimes, continues their dark trajectory after last year’s Budowniczowie grozy. The album is out now via Bandcamp.
French crossover thrash/death crew SHRIMPALER are set to drop their debut EP Already Doomed on September 19, 2025. Three years in the making and fully DIY from recording to artwork, the release blends gritty HM-2 distortion, mid-tempo riffing, and raw energy in the vein of POWER TRIP and PROWL.
Formed by four friends in Lyon, the band spins an absurd yet cutting concept: a giant shrimp rising from the depths to punish humanity’s arrogance. Beneath the tongue-in-cheek sci-fi imagery lies a focus on human flaws and apocalyptic tension, with vocalist/bassist Émile’s thrash-inflected delivery locked tightly to the band’s heavy, groove-laden attack.
Progressive death metal wrecking crew BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS just dropped a new single, “Cafuné,” pulled from their upcoming concept record The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me, out October 10 via Prosthetic Records. Vocalist Stace Fifield says the album follows “the psychological unraveling of a person consumed by unrequited love,” with fixation mutating into obsession, delusion, and violence. On the single itself he adds: “‘Cafuné’ is a poetic ode to new love, expressed through confrontational progressive death metal… the lit fuse before the bomb, the first glimpse of a story that holds more weight, more danger, and more complexity than it seems.”
Southern California deathcore crew SPITE have unleashed the video for “New World Killer,” the title track off their upcoming album due October 31st via Rise Records. Directed by Eric Richter, the clip leans on the band’s live-room intensity.
Guitarist Alex Tehrani calls the track “the conclusion to a looming theme throughout the album — the constant battle between internal monologue and morality in the real world,” while vocalist Darius Tehrani adds, “This video portrays the authenticity of the band. Step into the room with Spite. This is what you get.” A North American run with Fit For A King, Make Them Suffer, and 156/Silence kicks off October 30th in Tempe.
JUDAS PRIEST have dropped a charity cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” trading lines with the late OZZY OSBOURNE. It’s the first and only time Rob Halford and Ozzy ever cut a duet, and Halford called it “colossal.”
The track funnels all profits to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s, tying back to the guitarist’s own diagnosis in 2018. Priest had originally recorded the version when they couldn’t make the Back To The Beginning mega-show, and Sharon Osbourne pitched bringing Ozzy in. The result is a rough, heavy tribute—equal parts history and farewell.
Belgian death metal unit ABYSMAL DESCENT will unleash their debut LP Dismal Thoughts on October 31, 2025 via Nuclear Winter Records. Formed out of the remnants of Dehuman and bolstered by members tied to Putrid Offal, Echo Solar Void, Terrifiant, Neptunian Maximalism, and Saqra’s Cult, the Brussels collective digs deep into the oppressive tradition of Immolation, Morbid Angel, and Incantation. The title track is already streaming, a cavernous glimpse into a record built on menace, decay, and suffocating dread.
Canadian death metal wrecking crew SCORCHING TOMB just dropped their new single “Diminished To Ashes,” a blast of tortured screams, punishing drums, and riffs that sound like they were written to level concrete. It’s the second taste of their upcoming record Ossuary, out October 24 via Time To Kill Records, a follow-up to their Primal Tomb split and stacked with bone-breaking mosh parts and gutturals that don’t let up. Formed in Montreal back in 2018, the band now rolls with Vincent Patrick Lajeunesse, Philippe Leblanc, Miguel Lepage, and Émile Savard, carrying on a tradition shaped by CRYPTOPSY, QUO VADIS, and DESPISED ICON.
Swedish melodic death dealers AFTER EARTH just dropped a new video for “Skinwalker,” now streaming via Decibel, who called it “a thundering rampager with all the necessary Swedish DM accoutrements.” The track lands on their second full-length Dark Night of the Soul, out this Friday, September 26, and draws from Navajo legend—witches twisting themselves into animal form for power. The band say it’s not meant to inspire but to “play with the thought of giving in to your darkest desires,” and the video mirrors that warped transformation.
Milan’s own Gabriele Gramaglia (Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis) has unveiled a new death-black project under the name LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT. Born in spring 2025, the band pushes into more brutal, feral territory than his other work, with a debut demo landing October 31 through Nuclear Winter Records. Session drummer Claudio Invidia adds the percussive hammer to Gramaglia’s wall of riffs and screams, first heard on the single “Of Vengeful Intransigence.” Three cuts of annihilating death twisted with black and speed metal, recorded and mixed at his Crepuscular Sound Studio.
Industrial bruiser AUTHOR & PUNISHER has rolled out “Titmouse,” the third and final preview from the new record Nocturnal Birding, out October 3rd on Relapse. Tristan Shone says the track channels the grind of migrants crossing brutal terrain with little to live on, both physically and mentally. Musically it’s a knot of guitars, drums, synths, and vocals tangling into each other. As Shone notes, the Tufted Titmouse itself is a bird with a razor-sharp memory, able to recall thousands of hidden seed stashes—a strange, fitting metaphor for the track’s own labyrinth.
FLAGELO are pushing their Colombian underground fury worldwide: their debut EP Insaciable lands October 31, 2025 through Nuclear Winter Records (CD/LP) and Night Terrors Records (MC).
Originally self-released earlier this year, the record is five tracks of black/death/grind steeped in suffocating speed, cavernous doom weight, and a bleak blackened haze. Vocals switch between guttural bellows and piercing shrieks, throwing curses at a collapsing world.
Italian death metal horror unit TENEBRO just dropped the first details of their new record “Una Lama D’Argento,” coming later this year via Time To Kill Records.
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Artwork by Julian Ibanez sets the tone, and the band promises eleven tracks stitched together as a single nightmare tribute to Dario Argento’s giallo classics like Deep Red, Suspiria, and Tenebre. Expect riffs like blades, guttural growls straight out of the dark, and scenes of cinematic mutilation twisted into claustrophobic sonic attacks. Line-up stays raw: Il Becchino on guitars and vocals, Il Beccamorto handling bass, drums, and guitars.
Finnish melodic death veterans OMNIUM GATHERUM have dropped a new single, “Walking Ghost Phase,” their last preview before the album May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way lands November 7. Jukka Pelkonen frames the track as a study in addiction and self-deception, linking it to the “walking ghost” state seen in Chernobyl’s aftermath: “After a while, they seemed to be cured, but that was only a deception.” Markus Vanhala calls it the record’s straight-ahead banger, one built for fists in the air and sweat-drenched gigs. The band will take it live soon, with North America in November and December, then Europe and Finland lined up into 2026.
Swedish death metal wrecking crew KATAKOMBA just dropped a video for “Mori in Absentia,” the lead cut off their upcoming second album The Second Death, out October 10 via Majestic Mountain Records. The band calls it “the natural follow up” to their 2022 debut, this time leaning harder into raw energy and a punk edge. Expect buzzsaw guitars, feral grit, and that trademark HM-2 roar pushed even further into the red.
Avant-garde death metal project IMPLANT SOUL has dropped its debut full-length Artefact, released January 9 and now streaming everywhere. The record dives into themes of duality—organic vs. synthetic, pleasure vs. pain—under the guidance of guitarist/composer Ivan Lozovskyi, drummer Dmitry Kim, bassist Tata Early, and trumpet player Jerome Burns.
Guests stack the deck: Brian Kingsland (Nile), Eugene S. Robinson (Buñuel, Oxbow), John Jarvis (Scour), Garett Bussanick (Aeviterne), Kyle Thomas (Exhorder), and Will Smith (Reeking Aura) all make appearances. With its skewed experimental edge and heavy pedigree, Artefact pushes IMPLANT SOUL into that weird space where extreme metal collides with the avant-garde.
Danish electro-death metal unit LIGHTCHAPTER just unleashed their second album Where All Hope Begins, a fusion of brutal riffs and synth-heavy 80s atmospherics shaped with Tue Madsen. Frontman Mikkel Ottosen calls it “a fully realized sonic universe where aggression, deep emotions, and an honest, experimental evolution of our sound merge together.” The band plays a sold-out release show in Aarhus on September 27, with more Danish dates lined up into 2026.
COFFIN CAROUSEL have unleashed their fifth full-length Quantum Chainsaw Part: Three Six Nine, out today. The Melbourne horror punk/sludge outfit dive deeper into Swedish death metal territory with HM2 chainsaw riffs, drone feedback, and throat-ripping vocals across eleven tracks. The release marks another step in the band’s evolution, pushing heavier than ever while retaining their haunted, horror-infused identity. Album launch show is set for October 24 at Revolver Upstairs in Melbourne with support from FALSE DICHOTOMY, ATRIOX, and AMAH.
LoHud/NYC’s experimental menace GRIDFAILURE has unleashed the video for “Species Deconstructivist,” a track stuffed with guest turns from members of Today Is The Day, Les Chants Du Hasard, Secret Cutter, Thetan, and more. The single leads into Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, dropping October 3 on Nefarious Industries as part of the project’s sprawling five-album saga about ecological collapse and human self-destruction. Creator David Brenner calls the Anthropocene “not a warning” but “a promise,” framing the record’s eighty-plus minutes of genre-warping noise, sludge, jazz, and blackened chaos as the soundtrack to our own undoing.
COSMIC REAPER are streaming their new album Bleed the Wicked, Drown the Damned in full ahead of its September 26 release via Heavy Psych Sounds. The Charlotte-based doom crew lean further into psych-doom’s bleak core, moving away from stoner tropes toward something heavier, stranger, and more apocalyptic. The record fuses Sabbath and Saint Vitus lineage with shades of Soundgarden and even Snapcase, while new guitarist Pete Snasdell adds depth to the twin-guitar weight. Themes range from tyranny and revenge to lust and betrayal, wrapped in horror, sci-fi, and history.
HPGD just dropped Remnants Of Horror: The Final Cut by PERCUSSOR. Originally out in 2017, the band revisited the record with Mike Usifer (PRIME EVIL) to finally deliver the atmosphere and intent they envisioned. This marks PERCUSSOR’s final release with HPGD and completes their discography on the label — raw old school death metal in the vein of BOLT THROWER, MORBID ANGEL, OBITUARY, and early SLAYER.
⤵ Rock
Alternative, Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Emo, Noise Rock, Grunge, and more
Shoegaze-leaning alt sad rock crew SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS just shared a gorgeous new visualizer for their track “Nevermore.” The song drifts between post-rock swells and melancholy haze, with lyrics weighed down by isolation, fading hope, and the quiet wish to fall in love again. Heavy but fragile, it hits like a cold November night that never seems to end.
French indie/post-hardcore crew KARABA F.C. just dropped a new single, “Neighbours.” The Paris/Brest outfit has been carving a sound that blends 90s emocore vibes (think Sunny Day Real Estate, Thursday) with 2000s indie rock moods (Bloc Party, Placebo) and the jagged edge of modern screamy post-hardcore (Touché Amoré, Birds in Row).
Heavy and atmospheric alt-rock outfit THE COMFORT have dropped a new EP, Garden State, as a precursor to their full album Let The Love In landing October 3. The Brisbane band frame the record as born of “pain, hate, fear, betrayal, anger, guilt, hopelessness and longing,” calling it their darkest work yet—rock bottom, but also the start of change.
In their own words: “The hardest thing to do after experiencing the worst the world has to offer, after losing all you have is to still have hope. So after everything there is only one thing we can do. Let The Love In.”
IOTA have released their new single Heaven, a track that leans into the band’s mix of grunge weight, shoegaze haze, and early 2000s alt-rock grit. Produced with Sam Bloor, it builds from whispers and dreamlike harmonies into the band’s trademark distorted peaks. In their own words, the release comes stripped of flashy promo—“raw and dark”—with the focus squarely on the song itself. Alongside the drop, IOTA are heading out on tour with dates across the UK and Europe, plus a stop at Castlefest UK this weekend.
84 TIGERS have shared their new single Fathom, taken from the upcoming album Nothing Ends out October 17 via Spartan Records. Built from a stray riff at practice, the track leans into discordant ’90s post-hardcore grit—somewhere between HANDSOME and QUICKSAND. Guitarist/vocalist Mike Reed says it’s “about running a marathon,” carrying both abrasion and momentum.
The Michigan trio—formed by brothers Mike and Ben Reed (SMALL BROWN BIKE) and Jono Diener (THE SWELLERS)—turn grief and loss into catharsis on their second record, produced by Marc Jacob Hudson. Nothing Ends follows their 2022 debut Time in the Lighthouse and features guests like Rocky Votolato and Aaron Stauffer (SEAWEED, GHOST WORK).
ELWAY are back with their seventh full-length Nobody’s Going To Heaven, due October 10 on Red Scare Industries. Mixed and mastered at The Blasting Room, the record pairs melody with biting political critique, showing the band at their most ambitious and scathing yet.
Frontman Tim Browne doesn’t hold back: “Live in the western world in 2025 and tell me that our society has the mandate of God in its breast pocket… None of us deserve [heaven]. Best to spend the rest of your life mending what you’ve broken and squeezing every last drop of happiness you can from the rinds.”
BORN LOSERS RECORDS just rolled out news of Music For Everyone Vol. 2, a stacked compilation curated by John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday and Straylight Run. Out October 24, the set benefits the American Civil Liberties Union and already has advance cuts streaming from Sparta, Straylight Run, and L.S. Dunes.
The lineup pulls from all over the alt-punk map — Taking Back Sunday, letlive., Jeff Rosenstock, Catbite, Kevin Devine, Fuckin Whatever, and more — with Nolan himself dropping a track called “There’s No Hate Like Christian Love.” Like the first volume, it’s less about genre than solidarity, rallying big names and DIY lifers around the same cause.
THE STARTING LINE have returned with Eternal Youth, their first full-length in 18 years and the debut release on their own Lineage Recordings. Produced by Will Yip and Rich Costey, the record finds the original lineup locked in, stripping things back to essentials while keeping their melodic edge intact.
Lead single “Sense of Humor” sets the tone, with Ken Vasoli framing it as both a nod to the absurdities of their career and a reminder of the trust built over decades together. The band are also hitting the road for the Eternal Youth Tour, their first major headlining run in years.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE have released Live On Tour 1993, a compilation of untouched recordings from their first world tour. Captured across cities like Washington D.C., Orlando, Paris, Milan, and San Francisco, the set drops listeners straight into the raw vibe of the band’s earliest shows — the same fire that cemented their reputation in the early ’90s.
Punk rock lifer DAVE HAUSE has dropped his seventh solo album …And The Mermaid on Blood Harmony Records, a turn back toward his roots after the Americana tones of Blood Harmony and Drive It Like It’s Stolen.
The opener “A Knife In The Mud” teases with a lone trumpet before guitars and drums rip the curtain down, setting the pace for ten tracks that juggle swagger, grit, and hooks. “Cellmates” fires off like a caffeine shot, “Mockingbird Blues” nods to Devour, and “Revisionist History” feels like Hause locked in a room blasting IDLES. There’s Tom Petty shine in “Yer Outta My Hair” and a leftover Americana heartbeat in “Bible Passages,” but mostly this one swings punk fists with melodic polish.
Shoegaze newcomers GLIMMER just dropped “Been Down,” the latest cut off their debut full-length Get Weak, out October 3 and up for pre-order now. Recorded in Brooklyn with Jeff Berner and mastered by Will Yip, the record threads fuzzed-out weight with softer, dreamier stretches. To mark the release, the band is hitting the road with northeast and midwest dates running October 9–18, kicking off in Philadelphia and wrapping in Beaver Falls.
Noise rock duo PAMPLEMOUSSE are back with their fourth album Porcelain, out September 26 on A Tant Rêver du Roi. Now based in Lorraine after their start on Réunion Island, the band tracked the record analog at Black Box Studio with Peter Deimel, keeping the sound raw and uncompromising. From the opening blast of “More Beautiful Than Madonna” to the hypnotic closer “Brick Head,” the album grinds between noise fury and sharp indie-punk edges, with cuts like “Bad Penny” showing their knack for controlled chaos.
More than ten years since their last full-length, SAINTHOOD REPS returned this week with Dull Bliss, out September 26 on Smartpunk Records. The record pulls no punches—eleven songs cut from depression, anxiety, addiction, and fractured ties, told less like polished stories and more like fragments that won’t fade.
Psyched-out garage dwellers THE WYTCHES are back with the title track from their upcoming fifth album Talking Machine, due October 10 on Alcopop! Records. Inspired by Thomas Edison’s old nickname for gramophones and the band’s own fixation with raw, human recording, the record finds them scrapping studio trickery for live-in-the-room grit. “The most important thing is that it doesn’t sound sterile,” says frontman Kristian Bell, framing the album as both a nod to the past and a jab at present-day fears of tech replacing flesh-and-blood players.
Grunge icons NIRVANA’s 1991 Halloween set at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre has resurfaced via ARTE Concert, streaming until November 24. Just five weeks after Nevermind detonated into the mainstream, the band tore through a chaotic, unhinged set—Kurt Cobain spitting lines with raw fury, Dave Grohl pounding like his life was on the line, Krist Novoselic’s pick-driven bass anchoring the storm. From the jagged Vaselines cover “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam” to a riotous “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the show captures the moment NIRVANA were shifting from underground noise to generational voice, still unaware of the shadow they were about to cast.
Leeds noise rock oddballs IRK premiered their new album The Seeing House on IDIOTEQ today with a full track-by-track. Out September 26 via Nefarious Industries, the record mixes jagged rhythms, absurd humor, and clattering metallic percussion into ten warped cuts.
SILLY GOOSE just dropped the official video for “Split,” another taste of their upcoming album Keys to the City (out October 17 via Blue Grape Music). The track pulls back from their usual rapid-fire delivery, leaning into a sung chorus and more restrained verses. Frontman Jackson Foster calls it “one of the outliers” on the record — a song about the moment when letting go feels impossible.
“Split” is the fourth single ahead of the album, following “Now Dance,” “Keys to the City,” and “Neighbors.” The full LP packs twelve tracks, balancing their rap-rock chaos with moments like this where melody takes the wheel.
The band is on the road this fall, opening for LANDMVRKS with THORNHILL and RESOLVE across North America, before hitting Europe in November for their I Don’t Care About the Neighbors tour, including stops in Berlin and Cologne.
OASIS have kicked off ‘Project Rock N’ Roll Stars’, selling limited edition lyric and photo prints to raise funds for UK state schools. The project, launched with CIRCA, ties into the band’s ongoing Live ’25 reunion and commits all Oasis royalties – half of proceeds – to providing instruments for schools.
The collection includes handwritten lyrics to classics like “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova,” plus a print of Liam and Noel walking hand-in-hand at Wembley earlier this summer. Prints are available until November 25, while the band continues their tour with upcoming Wembley dates alongside Richard Ashcroft and Cast.
French post-hardcore/grunge trio LOONS just dropped their debut single “Among The Mourners” alongside a video, paving the way for first album Life Is due November 28 via Howlin Banana, Head Records, and Les Disques du Paradis.
Singer/guitarist Elio Richardeau calls it “about mourning the past, and letting go of all pessimistic thoughts,” with the line “Dye your hair, so I can see colors among the mourners” acting as the spark to move forward. Directed by Pierre Rouby, the video mirrors that 90s-tinted intensity and symbolism, setting the tone for what’s next.
Emo crew EQUIPMENT just dropped a three-song set called First Time Using Slang. Titles read like a lab safety poster — “Gloves,” “Lab Coat,” “Facial Protection” — but the delivery runs 13 minutes of jagged, stretched-out catharsis. It’s their first new material since hurt way less, and it lands right before they head out on a 12-date tour with friends across the scene, kicking off next week.
Belgian rock heavyweights BRUTUS are releasing Live in Brussels, a full concert film and album recorded at their sold-out 2024 run at Ancienne Belgique. Out November 28, the set captures sixteen songs and ninety-two minutes from the final stretch of the Unison Life tour, which spanned three years, more than 20 countries, and nearly 200 shows. As the band put it: “Live in Brussels is what we want to leave behind after three years of touring Unison Life across more than 20 countries and almost 200 shows.”
San Diego’s SUNBENDR just dropped a new single, “Stay All Night,” and paired it with a full live set for the Pacific View Sessions — filmed in frontman Chris Coté’s old second-grade classroom, now a studio. The band tore through six songs with the same sweaty punch they’d bring to a club gig, then sat down for an off-the-rails chat with Not So Serious Radio. The track itself is the third cut from their five-song session with producer George Perks (Enter Shikari, You Me At Six), recorded earlier this year at Tom DeLonge’s private studio and Chris Prescott’s Belly of the Whale.
Brooklyn’s STAY INSIDE are set to release their new album Lunger on October 3 via Tiny Engines, following last year’s breakout Ferried Away. The latest single, Old Faithful, continues their shift from post-hardcore roots toward a broader palette where emo, indie, Americana, and grunge collide.
Chris Johns’ vocals cut between swagger and desperation, while the band leans into brass, fuzz, and twang with the same reckless energy that’s earned them nods from Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan, and Stereogum. The tracklist spans everything from the horn-driven chaos of Oh, Longshoreman to the jittery folk-grunge of Monsieur Hawkweed, showing how far they’ve stretched their sound.
Atmospheric indie rock outfit BURNTWOOD have put out a new single, “Outsiders,” an unreleased track from the sessions for their debut full-length Burntwood, released in July 2025. At over seven minutes, it drifts through the unease of not quite feeling comfortable with yourself—something the band says they loved creating, even if it didn’t quite fit the album’s sequencing. Now it finally sees the light, standing on its own.
Post-hardcore rockers THRICE will headline a run through Europe and the UK next March, touring their new album Horizons/West (out October 3). The trek pairs them with French noise-rockers Lysistrata and hits spots from Copenhagen to London, including long-missed cities like Nottingham and Glasgow. “We’re thrilled to announce we’re heading back… and we’re beyond stoked to have the incredible Lysistrata joining us,” the band said. Tickets drop this Friday at 10am local time.
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Hard rock nu metalers KORN are getting the anniversary treatment. Tempo Music will drop a 20th anniversary deluxe vinyl of the band’s 2005 record See You On The Other Side, complete with its bonus track “Last Legal Drug.” That cut, once only found on the old deluxe CD, also lands on streaming November 21 ahead of the album’s December 6 milestone.
THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR EARS have unveiled their new single “This Is Why”, released September 24, 2025, as the latest preview of their upcoming third album Funland, out October 10 via À Tant Rêver Du Roi, Luik Music, and Conicle Records (cassette).
Guitarist/vocalist Pierre-Yo explains the track reflects how love evolves over time—quirks once seen as charming eventually shift, deepening intimacy rather than erasing it. The video, directed by Antoine Bernays, stitches together decades of VHS and Super 8 family footage, focusing on how a couple’s gaze changes across years.
GREG WHEELER AND THE POLY MALL COPS dropped their new single “Slimephone (You Can’t Hide)” on Sept 24 via High Dive Records. The Iowa punk/garage trio take on smartphone surveillance and the pull of tech addiction, setting the stage for their upcoming album Slimephone Surveillance (out Oct 24).
Polish psychedelic stoner unit CTRL+Z just dropped their debut We Are Social Creatures through Interstellar Smoke Records. Hailing from the post-industrial grit of Łódź rather than desert sands, the quartet build songs out of jammed-out improvisations that morph into thick, intuitive compositions. The record mirrors the chaos and grime of their city surroundings, stitching together a hazy mosaic of noise, dust, and heavy psych atmosphere.
PORTUGAL. THE MAN have dropped two new tracks, “Tanana” and “Mush,” while announcing their new album SHISH, due out November 7, 2025.
Fans are already calling the songs a return to the band’s In the Mountain in the Cloud / Evil Friends era, pointing out the psych-rock textures, string arrangements, and heavier guitar-driven production. The response highlights a divide: listeners who discovered the band through mainstream hits like Feel It Still may be surprised, while long-time followers are treating this as a revival of the rawer, rock-forward side of PTM.
Philadelphia alt-rock crew GRAYSCALE dropped a new Audiotree Live session, taped in Chicago back in May and premiered September 24. Five cuts made the set—“Through The Landslide,” “Dirty Bombs,” “Some Kind Of Magic,” “Dance With Your Ghost,” and “Not Afraid To Die”—with Collin Walsh on vocals backed by Dallas Molster, Andrew Kyne, Nick Veno, and Noah Christian.
British punk infused rockers DREAM NAILS just dropped a new single The Information, lifted from their upcoming third record You Wish (out February 6 via Marshall Records). Anya Pearson says it’s about “imagining what it would be like to feel everything, all at once,” while drummer Lucy Katz calls it a joke turned serious: “I’m gonna download all the information.” The track leans into the tension between overwhelm and joy, framing celebration itself as resistance. Tonight they play a sold-out release show at London’s Third Man Records before heading out with Kid Kapichi in October.
French punk-meets-emo outfit FRAGILE just dropped “Celebrate,” the second single from their upcoming debut album Big Big Smile. Out September 24, the track features guest vocals from Ade and comes with a video directed by Joe Jeg.
The record follows their 2023 EP …About Going Home and years of grinding stages across France and Europe, pushing their tense, melodic mix of punk energy and shoegaze textures into sharper focus. A release tour runs through fall with dates in Paris, Bordeaux, Brussels, and beyond.
SILVERCHAIR frontman DANIEL JOHNS has announced a run of four “In Conversation” shows this November in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, and Melbourne. Each night will pair storytelling, film, and music around the premiere of his short feature What If the Future Never Happened?, with Johns sharing unseen photos, demos, archival footage, and unreleased Silverchair material alongside new solo work.
The James Medlam–directed film, shot in Newcastle on Awabakal Land, reimagines the 1990s through a sci-fi lens, with Rasmus King portraying a young Johns. It features orchestral reinterpretations of Silverchair tracks woven with new sound design, marking 30 years since Frogstomp. Tickets go on sale September 25, with Frontier Members gaining early access on September 24.
Unreleased footage of NIRVANA’s 1990 gig in Tijuana has surfaced and is heading to auction through Bonhams. Shot on two cameras and running over 45 minutes, the tapes capture the band promoting Bleach, with Kurt Cobain smashing both a pink Mustang he’d built himself and a ’70s Gibson SG. The lot includes original Sony Video 8 masters, digital transfers, an SSD with edited and watermarked versions, copyright papers, a tour poster from Raji’s, and a first press of Bleach on white vinyl. Estimated value: $100,000 to $150,000.
FOXING have announced an indefinite hiatus after 14 years together, explaining that their “sense of self without the band has eroded.” In a Patreon post, they said they’ll step away from writing, recording, and touring, with only two farewell shows planned in Chicago and St. Louis. The lineup—Conor Murphy, Eric Hudson, Jon Hellwig, and Brett Torrence—assured fans, “if you ever saw us at a show or listened to our records, you were getting the most from us we could possibly give.” They added: “We will come back if/when we feel that we have more to give.”
We interviewed the band in 2014, shortly after the release of The Albatross, when they were just starting to carve out their place in the emo landscape.
Indonesian alt-pop/rock outfit GIRL AND HER BAD MOOD have released their debut full-length Pop Songs, Sad World, out now via Haum Entertainment. The 12-track record unpacks quarter-life panic, heartbreak, fear of change, and fleeting joy with a mix of honesty and resignation, pulling directly from the band’s own mid-20s experiences.
Formed in 2018 by friends at Universitas Brawijaya, the Malang-based group cite Japanese indie acts like LUBY SPARKS, MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS, and FOR TRACY HYDE as key influences. Singles like “Chani, I Believe,” “Loves Hates Loves,” and “Heals” set the stage, while “Forced A Smile (I Will Always)” dropped just before the album’s release. The band now plans a showcase with COLDIAC and EASTCAPE, with hopes the record serves as a soundtrack for listeners navigating their own turbulent phases.
RUN FOR COVER RECORDS and THE BOWERY PRESENTS are bringing back SOMETHING IN THE WAY FEST in 2026, set for January 31 and February 1 at Roadrunner in Boston. The stacked lineup runs from legends like SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY to current staples MOMMA, CITIZEN, ANGEL DU$T, THE HOTELIER, TIGERS JAW, POOL KIDS, HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE, and plenty more. Presale kicks off September 23, with general tickets on sale September 26.
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Indie/alt-pop-rock outfit ABANDCALLEDLOVE. have put out their debut EP Thriving Season via Valiant Sound Co. The six tracks, produced by Corey Bautista, swing between soaring hooks and cinematic textures while frontman Ryan Chandler Love digs into themes of resilience, recovery, and self-discovery. Formed in Atlanta in 2020, the band has already sold out half of their sixteen shows to date and recently landed a guest spot on Woe, Is Me’s comeback single “Seminola Blvd.”
Berlin rock titans KADAVAR have unleashed “Total Annihilation,” the latest cut from their upcoming album K.A.D.A.V.A.R. (Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin), out November 7 via Clouds Hill. Lupus Lindemann calls the track “my idea of the end of the world: loud, frenzied, and merciless… one last burst of noise before silence remains.” The single follows “I Just Want To Be A Sound” and “Lies,” with the band sounding rawer and angrier, pulling back toward their early riff-obsessed chaos while folding in new blood from Jascha Kreft.
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY have dropped a loose, jammed-out cover of FREE’s 1970 classic “Fire And Water,” recorded on the fly while tracking their next album. Guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan recalls drummer Stanton Moore hearing the original for the first time in the studio: “He said, ‘let’s cut that!’ I said, ‘man, that’s friggin’ Free and kind of like holy ground,’ but we went for it and had a blast doing it.”
The track is the first in their Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions series and arrives as COC tour North America with JUDAS PRIEST and ALICE COOPER, mixing massive arena shows with their own headlining club dates.
Swedish outfit SHIT THE COW have dropped Killing It, a six-track blast they describe as “garage hard rock stoner punk or something.” Recorded at Rissna City studio in the northern woods, it marks their 13th release and leans into what they call “scrapyard rock,” a collision of ’70s rock, ’80s metal, punk, and stoner grit. The lineup—Peter Söderberg, Daniel Kjellberg, Alexandra Lindqvist, Robin Lindqvist, and Erik Rosenberg—get an extra jagged edge this time with Elias Nilsson on sax.
BEARDED THEORY has rolled out the first wave for its 2026 edition at Catton Park, Derbyshire, set for May 20–24. PIXIES headline as part of their 40th anniversary, joined by SKUNK ANANSIE, BIG SPECIAL, FAT DOG, LAMBRINI GIRLS, PANIC SHACK, and PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT. The bill also features REVEREND AND THE MAKERS, GOLDIE, SPRINTS, FEROCIOUS DOG, POP WILL EAT ITSELF, NEVILLE STAPLE, TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS ft. Leba Hibbert, plus cult favorites like THE WEDDING PRESENT, SENSer, and BEANS ON TOAST. Stewart Lee returns too, alongside rave veterans UTAH SAINTS, Leeroy Thornhill of The Prodigy, and Phil Hartnoll of Orbital.
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KID ROCK won’t be playing California anytime soon. Governor Gavin Newsom announced on X that the state is banning him from performing “due to his awful music,” adding bluntly: “No thanks.” Rock, who had a few shows earlier this year, has no further dates lined up — and even if he did, California is off the map.
BECAUSE OF HIS HORRIFIC MUSIC, CALIFORNIA WILL INDEFINITELY SUSPEND KID ROCK FROM PERFORMING IN THE GOLDEN STATE. YOU’RE WELCOME! — GCN
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) September 20, 2025
Formed in 2019 by Martina de Lugnani, Laura Vainio, and later joined by Iñigo Torío, Barcelona trio MURINA use noise rock as a starting point but refuse to stick to definitions. Their new video for “Dolor sin rencor,” drawn from the debut Nueva forma de vida (LaRubia Producciones / Araki Records), takes its title from Alejandro Jodorowsky and frames pain as a ritual act of psychomagic. Built on mantra-like repetition, fractured chords, and raw noise, the track rejects polish in favor of instinct.
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Britpop giants OASIS just dropped an unplugged take on “Morning Glory” and “Acquiesce,” ahead of the 30th anniversary reissue of What’s The Story Morning Glory? landing October 3 via Big Brother Recordings. Produced by Noel Gallagher with Callum Marinho, the stripped-down versions lean straight on the original masters, giving a rawer spin to tracks that helped define the band’s peak years. The reissue bundles five new unplugged cuts, fresh artwork from Brian Cannon, and the 2014 remaster, while OASIS continue their massive Live ’25 world tour kicking off in Cardiff this week.
Rock veterans GARBAGE are calling it on full-scale U.S. headline tours. During their Washington, DC stop, Shirley Manson told the crowd the decision comes down to “the thievery of the record industry” making the economics impossible.
She stressed concern for younger bands stuck in vans and cheap motels, saying, “it really has to stop. It’s unsafe and it’s unacceptable.” The group’s current “Happy Endings” run is being billed as their last big American tour, with Manson adding, “this is kind of the last time that we’ve decided we’re going to get on a bus and just tour all over North America.”
SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan threw fans a curveball during a Substack livestream, saying flat out: “Currently, there is no new music. Sorry. Chrome Jets is it. Sayonara, new music. Someday I’ll tell you the real story.” He doubled down with, “There’s no album in the works. There’s no music. It’s the end of the rainbow, man. That’s it. No more new music.” Whether dead serious or just Corgan being Corgan is anyone’s guess—he’s pulled the “no more albums” line before, only to drop more records later.
Southern California post-hardcore crew DAYSEEKER just dropped a new single, “Bloodlust,” pulled from their upcoming album Creature In The Black Night due October 24 via Spinefarm. Rory Rodriguez calls it “one of the more eerie and chaotic tracks on the record,” about people who “want to metaphorically drain the blood from you.” Produced by Daniel Braunstein and mixed by Zakk Cervini, the record leans heavier than expected, with Rodriguez noting, “we’re riffing more, I’m screaming more. And it feels good. It feels honest.” The band will tour the US and Australia through 2025 before heading to Europe and the UK with Motionless In White in early 2026.
P.O.D. have taken a swing at The Beatles, dropping a cover of “Don’t Let Me Down” that leans on their mix of melody and crunch. Guitarist Marcos Curiel says the band’s always carried Beatles influence in their songwriting, calling the rendition “our own take on the classic… with nothing but the utmost respect.” The track lands just ahead of a fall tour where P.O.D. will join Seether and Daughtry across the U.S.
⤵ Experimental / Other
Industrial bruiser TRACE AMOUNT just dropped word of Flagrant, a new full-length coming November 14 via King Yosef’s Bleakhouse btw, be sure to check out our Bleakfest Vol 2 report here). The Brooklyn one-man wrecking unit — Brandon Gallagher, ex-drummer turned vocalist/producer — tracked the record with Harlan Steed of Show Me The Body, roping in Lana Del Rabies for the lead single “Clinical.” The video pulls raw soundboard and footage from a Mexico City gig, blurring tour grit with the project’s suffocating atmosphere.
Gallagher leans into pain — personal, political, cyber-horror fantasies — and dresses it up with pounding drums, glitch, and noise that feel less like songs than hostile environments. He calls the album title self-explanatory: “In basketball, the most aggressive foul you can get is a flagrant foul. That’s me. I am intentional. I am flagrant.”
NINE INCH NAILS just turned in the soundtrack for Disney’s Tron: Ares, and it lands closer to a proper NIN record than the usual Reznor/Ross film score gig. Out now via Null Corporation/Walt Disney Records/Interscope, the set mixes full-on songs — like the lead single “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” and the six-minute “Who Wants To Live Forever?” (co-produced with Hudson Mohawke, featuring Judeline) — with synth-drenched mood pieces that nod back to ’80s sci-fi futurism. Rolling Stone calls it “the first time he’s ever slapped the NIN brand on his film work,” while Stereogum notes the soundtrack leans heavy into club-pulse electronics, even echoing Wendy Carlos’ A Clockwork Orange. Consider it both a franchise tie-in and a preview of where the band’s current live show has been heading.
TODAY IS THE DAY are back with Never Give In, their fourteenth album and the first part of a two-record concept, out October 3rd on Steve Austin’s SuperNova Records. The latest single Pain And Frustration arrives with a warped, psychedelic video by David Hall, pushing the band’s metallic chaos through a hallucinatory filter.
The themes lean heavy: dystopia, antagonism, trudging through collapse, but still carrying the defiant thread that’s kept the band alive since the ’90s. As Austin puts it: “As long as I have love in my heart, I’m your worst enemy.”
New York duo THE AMERICAN DOLLAR have released Lofi Dimensions 3: Ambient Reworks, a 15-track collection where their songs are reshaped by a roster of collaborators from across the ambient and neoclassical spectrum. Names like Message To Bears, Crows Labyrinth, We Dream of Eden, and Dear Gravity bend the originals into hushed drones, drifting beats, and widescreen textures, turning familiar pieces into something both intimate and otherworldly.
MOTHLAND has announced Shwaya, Shwaya, the debut full-length from BOUTIQUE FEELINGS, set for release on November 21, 2025.
Led by Karim Lakhdar, the album blends hip-hop foundations with trip-hop, psychedelia, and electroacoustic textures, pulling in oud, flute, trumpet, and layered electronics. Lyrically, it moves between personal struggles — procrastination, imposter syndrome, doomscrolling — and broader concerns like war, disinformation, and social divides.
Canadian psych improvisers EARTHBALL have announced their new album Outside Over There, landing November 7 through Upset The Rhythm. Born in Nanaimo’s basements and steeped in free jazz chaos, noise and full-on psychosis, the record features a cameo from comedian Stewart Lee and liner notes by John Olson of Wolf Eyes. Recorded live in 2024 and mixed by drummer John Brennan, the eight tracks move like hallucinations uncovered rather than written, closing with the sprawling eleven-minute “And The Music Shall Untune The Sky.” Olson sums it up best: “if AI was called upon to conceive Outside Over There anew, it would just spit back, ‘F.U. in Tree Font.’”
CHAT PILE and HAYDEN PEDIGO have unveiled “Demon Time,” the second single from their upcoming collaborative album In the Earth Again, due October 31 via Computer Students™.
Unlike CHAT PILE’s usual abrasive noise-rock assault, “Demon Time” leans into Pedigo’s spacious guitar work, with Raygun Busch’s vocals carrying a bleak warning over sparse percussion and bass. The track expands the album’s recurring themes of decay and looming consequences.
⤵ Pop
Pop, Synth Pop
Pop-rockers WATERPARKS have dropped a new single, “If Lyrics Were Confidential,” via BMG, just ahead of their sold-out shows in Southern California, Chicago, and New York City. Frontman Awsten Knight calls it one of the more abstract tracks from the band’s upcoming album: “The premise is exactly what it sounds like—things I’d get into if I didn’t think anyone would ever hear the song.” Following January’s “Red Guitar,” the track runs through personal, uncomfortable topics at a rapid clip, staying true to the band’s confessional edge.
Indie pop / rock cinematic duo BEST BOYS just dropped their new EP Ride Out and a live video for “Pull Up.” The project comes from childhood friends Joe Rittling and Aaron Levison, who grew up together in Vermont before reconnecting years later. Rittling, also known for his work as BLACK FLY, and Levison both come from music production backgrounds, and the new material leans into their idea of something honest, warm, and quietly transportive.
⤵ General / Industry
Legendary New York label EQUAL VISION RECORDS has teamed up with Melbourne-based CIVILIANS (formerly Cooking Vinyl Australia) to expand its reach down under. The partnership kicks off with HAIL THE SUN’s new album cut. turn. fade. back. on October 24 and ARMOR FOR SLEEP’s There Is No Memory on November 7. Equal Vision, known for shaping modern rock and post-hardcore with acts like CONVERGE, PIERCE THE VEIL, COHEED & CAMBRIA, and CIRCA SURVIVE, now sets its sights on Australia with the help of CIVILIANS’ Stu Harvey, who calls the collaboration “an honour.”
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