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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The quickest way into Krein’s Low-Budget Death Extravaganza is through the accident that started it: a joke name tossed around
You don’t hear many bands talk about forming at the exact moment their local scene starts breathing again, but that’s
The Scabby Knees’ story starts in familiar territory for anyone who grew up inside the late-nineties and early-noughties punk orbit.
Season to Risk spent the early 90s on the road (see their touring in van survival guide here), building a
With December already in full swing, a quick heads-up — this is the last weekly roundup of the year. With
The first volume of Noise Real Records’ new “Noise Pollution Series” lands with something the label didn’t have to overthink:
On 5 December 2025, MONOLITH release their sixth studio album “The Price of Their Heaven”, a self-recorded, self-released ode to
The new split 7” arriving December 5 via Sweet Cheetah Records and Poptek Records lands like a small time capsule:
The split EP “When emo meant friendship on Myspace era” arrives today through Ghost Palace/Cargo, tying together two projects that
Berlin can make you feel like you’re shoulder-to-shoulder with half the continent while somehow drifting further from yourself. ONLY know
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Rise of the Northstar come from the Parisian suburbs with a mix they’ve been hammering out for over a decade—metal, hardcore, rap, manga—four words they’ve been using to sum up their whole
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The note came casually — Derek Allen checking in, mentioning that two members of Lower Automation had started a new project called Grave Gnaw and had an EP ready for December 4th. Last year we covered Lower Automation’s “Welcome to My Deathbed”, a jagged
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KO-MA, a post-hardcore trio from Tours, France, are set to release their
MAPS AND FOILS end the year by circling back to the moment
It’s hard not to feel a MySpace-era déjà vu when a band
Libbianski’s next move is clear from the first seconds of “Continue The
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Main Era’s second full-length album, “Four of Wands,” comes out of a year when the Boston-based experimental-rock quartet decided to live under the same roof in Allston and build a record from the inside out. They tracked and produced it themselves between December 2024
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A band announcing itself from a city not usually tied to shoegaze
The first thing that grounds “Autoreverse” is how plainly it comes together:
This Saturday, November 22, The Path will play their last show at
The thing that hits first is how unlikely it feels: a band
