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Prison Of Hope
December 18, 2025

Questioning Your Privileges, with Stuttgart fierce hardcore band PRISON OF HOPE

Achers
December 17, 2025

Top underground records in 2025 – ACHERS share their picks, tease “Bottom of the Hill” EP

Ruona Neida
December 17, 2025

Heart shattering screamo band RUONA NEIDA discuss debut album “Permanent Guilt”

Value Of Nothing - Radge Post Hardcore & NOWT DIY
December 17, 2025

Leicester punks VALUE OF NOTHING drop biting debut EP “Mental Gymkhana”

Bodega Dog
December 17, 2025

Acoustic alt emo act BODEGA DOG introduces himself with debut single “Faces”

TWINS, by Anna Wyszomierska
December 17, 2025

Post hardcore band TWINS decompose “It’s complicated”, new striking album reckoning with loss, responsibility, and what comes after survival

Man Dead Set
December 17, 2025

Kuala Lumpur hardcore pack MAN DEAD SET return with new EP “Lobbyist”, aimed at power, pretence, and everyday pressure

Carrion Sky - new band from Warsaw Poland
December 17, 2025

Dark post metallers CARRION SKY document “As our hearts devour us” as a slow, striking response to collapse and continuation

motte
December 17, 2025

MOTTE turn drifting years into quiet, imperfect indie rock

Ko.ma:
December 17, 2025

Ko.Ma release the debut EP “Exile” alongside the single “All Uncertain”

ROY BATTY, by @davidjsr13
December 16, 2025

Portuguese noisy post hardcore band ROY BATTY trace noise, anonymity, and internal friction on debut EP

EXCIDE
December 16, 2025

Blurring hardcore and alt-rock on “Bastard Hymns” – an interview with EXCIDE

Guilt Trip
December 16, 2025

GUILT TRIP discuss lockin’ in Roadrunner Records, new single “Burn,” and carrying their Manchester work ethic into a heavy touring cycle

Taken Alive
December 15, 2025

Emo alt rockers TAKEN ALIVE introduce their debut full-length era with “Ashes”

NUR
December 12, 2025

Blackened sludge hardcore post metallers NUR return with “Shock Mentality”

Private Hell
December 12, 2025

PRIVATE HELL look back at a year of loss, pressure, and small surviving embers on “To Dust You Shall Return”

Chalk Hands
December 12, 2025

“Breaking Waves” arrives as the first look into CHALK HANDS’ “The Line That Shapes the Coast of Us”

Spiritual Decay by @jotapixel, Jota Pê
December 11, 2025

Lisbon emotive post hardcore band SPIRITUAL DECAY mark their first step with “People Fade Fast”

Mt Dagger!
December 11, 2025

Metallic hardcore beast MT. DAGGER teases “Nothing Personal. Just Misery.” with “Inertia”, a story marked by violence in a relationship

Xain
December 10, 2025

XAIN shape “Xaraba” into a remote-built collision of mathcore and Azerbaijani mugham

Too Late, But Still
December 10, 2025

“Night Songs” lands in the Twin Cities with four post hardcore pieces of lived-in reflection from TOO LATE, BUT STILL

MPB
December 10, 2025

Stockholm noise rockers MPB trace a harder line on “Flattened”, return to English and writing straight into crisis

mountain peaks
December 10, 2025

MOUNTAIN PEAKS trace the shape of their year with “what could have been (i could have been more)” and “stargazers”

KREIN'S LOW-BUDGET DEATH EXTRAVAGANZA
December 9, 2025

KREIN’S LOW-BUDGET DEATH EXTRAVAGANZA rockin’ “Evil Love” with their warped take on punk

KENYA
December 9, 2025

KENYA’s rise from Bali’s post-COVID reboot to the Outbreak stage tells a bigger story about a scene rebuilding itself

Scabby Knees
December 9, 2025

Emotive pop punk rockers THE SCABBY KNEES return with “Rosy Hues”, shaped by old friendships, local punk DNA, and a heavy dose of honesty

Season To Risk
December 8, 2025

SEASON TO RISK discuss thirty years of “In A Perfect World”

letter_to_you_a_roses_diary
December 5, 2025

A split EP born from Myspace friendships and two decades of shared emo memory

Lori
December 5, 2025

An intercontinental 5-way screamo split arrives with new tracks from Jamais Vu, Razones para el olvido, Portia, Löri, and Ümit

ONLY
December 5, 2025

ONLY stare straight into the burn of modern life on “Eyes Wide Open”

Rise Of The Northstar by Danny Louzon
December 3, 2025

RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR map out the full “Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!!” universe with a track-by-track look inside

Modern Guilt, by Mia Mo╠łllberg
December 3, 2025

No Peace in Silence: MODERN GUILT push into their own storm with new single

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