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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

Cold Phase by @hokkins_slaip_photography
December 1, 2025

COLD PHASE wrap up an intense year of fast work, name changes, and figuring out how to move forward

Livelick
December 1, 2025

Eddie Gobbo of SOMETHING IS WAITING drops a new live album and walks us straight into his “Best for Business” wrestlers of 2026

Cold In Berlin by Rupert-Hitchcox
December 1, 2025

Goth rockers COLD IN BERLIN return with “Wounds”, built around the scars people carry and the strange strength that rises from them

Main Era by Renee Newman, @rnphoto._
December 1, 2025

Experimental rockers MAIN ERA capture a year of shared walls, shifting identity, and blurred reality on “Four of Wands”

elbowsway
December 1, 2025

ELBOWSWAY introduce themselves with “common sense” as one of the first shoegaze voices to emerge from Tashkent

Regrowth
November 28, 2025

“A Story Worth Listening To” by REGROWTH captures a generation trying to keep its footing while the world keeps tilting

IAN
November 26, 2025

Post metallers IAN fold humor, friendship, and slow-burning weight into “Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!”

Often Wrong, by @wmmd._
November 26, 2025

Vancouver emo post hardcore act OFTEN WRONG premiere “The Figs are Starting to Rot”

UN-TER_photo by Malo ZWMK
November 25, 2025

Dark shoegazers UN-Ter arrive with “Autoreverse” built from car-radio tape failure, doom-scrolling logic, and a DIY summer session

meandergreen
November 24, 2025

meandergreen: tracing memory, loss, and brotherhood into “fallow and cancer, it was the night sky”

Ghold
November 24, 2025

GHOLD push their progressive sound into stranger territory with “Bludgeoning Simulations”

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