With the end of the year creeping closer and releases piling up faster than anyone can reasonably keep track of, here’s another round of underground damage worth your time. Hardcore, screamo, punk,
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“Die Verge” opens “Mental Gymkhana” by throwing you straight into a noisy, splintered zone somewhere between punk rock, post-hardcore and
“Faces” is the first public release from Bodega Dog, a solo indie/emo-leaning project from Hudson Valley, New York, led by
Lobbyist lands like something hardcore has been circling around forever – power, suits, and people pulling strings they swear they
Carrion Sky formed in Warsaw in late 2022 as a three-piece, without a fixed concept or long-term plan. The band
In Roy Batty, the voice is there, the person behind it isn’t. The band’s vocalist stays anonymous, while the vocals
“Bastard Hymns” lands as Excide’s second full-length and first album released through SharpTone Records, following 2022’s “Deliberate Revolver.” It’s a
Back in September, GUILT TRIP confirmed a global signing with Roadrunner Records and introduced the partnership with “Burn,” their first
Taken Alive released “Ashes” on December 12, alongside a music video, marking both the first official step toward their debut
When NUR first landed on IDIOTEQ, they were already carrying the kind of weight that comes from years spent shaping
Private Hell don’t ease into anything here. The Richmond band frame their upcoming 7” “To Dust You Shall Return” around
track by track
The quickest way into Krein’s Low-Budget Death Extravaganza is through the accident that started it: a joke name tossed around by Filip Krein and Piggy Op long before the pandemic, which somehow
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The new single “Breaking Waves” lands today as Chalk Hands’ opening gesture toward their upcoming record “The Line That Shapes the Coast of Us”, out March 27th next year through Dog Knights Productions. It’s the first song they’ve chosen to let out into the
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The first thing Spiritual Decay offer is a moment that feels lived-in
The new split 7” arriving December 5 via Sweet Cheetah Records and
The split EP “When emo meant friendship on Myspace era” arrives today
Berlin can make you feel like you’re shoulder-to-shoulder with half the continent
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You don’t hear many bands talk about forming at the exact moment their local scene starts breathing again, but that’s how Kenya describe it. Their timeline lines up with how hardcore in Bali dipped, stalled, and then came back swinging. They grew up inside
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The Scabby Knees’ story starts in familiar territory for anyone who grew
Season to Risk spent the early 90s on the road (see their
It starts close to dawn, the moment when the body shuts down
Cold Phase started in 2023 when former members of Lumberjack Feedback, Bare
