Milan Trachta — Mr. Banana to anyone who spent time on the European hardcore circuit — didn’t set out to write a music feature. He was dealing with some health issues, had
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There is a line running through Ebdromeer’s debut single “Leper” that lands harder than any big origin myth: a person
Long before “This Room Could Be Heaven” was lined up as ZBR400, before the pre-orders and the sold-out splatter variant,
Blasart never moved in a straight line, and that is all over “Depravatus Christianis Sacris.” The Chilean blackened death metal
Somewhere between a 2am drive back from a gig and a 4am alarm for a work shift, Indecision became a
“Islands” started as a journal entry about loneliness. Then a blog post. Then an apartment demo performed at Memphis house
Deep Sky Objects formed in January 2025, started playing shows almost immediately after, and had their second EP finished inside
Somewhere in the middle of making “Dream,” Gentilesky’s second album, Yaprak Kırdök wrote a song in her mother tongue for
Eight tracks. Eighteen-second blasts sitting next to a three-minute-forty-six closer. Los Angeles powerviolence that took over a year to get
There’s a steel water tower at the end of a gravel turn on the outskirts of Portland, half-swallowed by evergreens,
Rovaniemi is best known for Father Christmas and tourist selfies with reindeer. Threat Letter, apparently, didn’t get the memo. The
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“This is all very bleak.” Andrew Elter‘s opening note on “Collateral Damage” isn’t a warning label — it’s the point. When we covered Tension last October around the “Drought” single, the Edmonton
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Not many bands can play this hard and still make it stick melodically. Daggers have been at this long enough to know the difference — the kind of band that’s eaten from more than one table, and it shows. “El Mundo Kaput” hits like
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4am, phone in hand, watching protest livestreams from Wright Park in Tacoma.
Nine years is a long time to leave people hanging, but Antwerp’s
The name Gr4v1 is lifted from Roadside Picnic — the Strugatsky brothers’
There’s a line in guitarist Justin Smith’s notes about the current state
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Taroug’s new album starts before he was born, with a story his mother carried into the family before he turned it into music. “A long time ago my mother decided to hop on her motorbike for a road trip from the north to the
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There are some songs that stop belonging to the bands who wrote
Straight-up rock’n’roll doesn’t come up too often around here, which is exactly
April 30 has long carried a particular weight across Europe. In folklore,
There’s a fixed image at the center of Give Vent’s new EP:
