Long before “This Room Could Be Heaven” was lined up as ZBR400, before the pre-orders and the sold-out splatter variant, Concealer were sitting in Justinโs living room in Orlando writing until four
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There’s a part of “Porno” Elsa Yepes doesn’t remember playing. Her brain literally cuts the recording. “My brain faces fear
The cover catches you before anything else โ a naked figure on the ground in a snowy forest, edelweiss at
The Korg Prologue that defined SSAANN‘s sound wasn’t even theirs. In the winter of 2024, Melissa Simes was stepping in
When the question came up about how emoviolence, blackened hardcore, and post-metal cross over on House of The Blood Choir’s
The Wolfess arrives somewhere between worlds. On “Hunter in the Veil,” the second single from Urzah‘s incoming LP, that figure
The April sun in Warsaw isn’t fixing anything. It’s cold out โ the kind of cold that makes the calendar
Nicholas Pentabona wrote “Aroused” thinking about his partner, Jenice Taylor โ specifically about how she’s had several major life events
DC teen band PETRICHOR take aim at wealth extraction and ICE terror on “Richest Witches of the West”
You can read a thousand pieces about how 2026 teenagers are being eaten by their phones. Petrichor โ four DC
Post-hardcore these days is such a catch-all term that bands filed under it can sound like emotional pop-rock with extra
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There’s been a strong run of post-rock coming across the desk lately โ a wave of epic, beautifully built records from bands clearly at their peak. Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet sit
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A band in Calgary got caught making their album and song art with AI. Benjamin Howells heard about it and it steered his own record the opposite direction โ fully analog, one recurring image, a 1984 Minolta X-700 as the only camera. That image
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When “Senicarne” came out in July 2020, Fall Of Messiah watched it
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Three letters that have done real work in hardcore: PMA. Positive Mental Attitude. Bad Brains and HR pulled it out of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and turned it into something closer to a spiritual posture โ a way to stay upright in
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Rope’s Alessio wrote this album using what he calls guided visualization in
