For a stretch there โ around the mid-2010s, give or take โ the internet consensus on post-rock was that the well had dried up. Too many builds, too many crescendos, too many
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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
No Turning Back was written before the worst of it. Hold Me Tight‘s vocalist Franz put down the lyrics and
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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
The new Onesie video moves through places where Ben Haberland’s father lived:
For most of their run, Boston’s rowdy oi punk rockers Badterms has
Call it post-metal or call it sludge โ the name matters less
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SEUM came together in a Montreal parking lot. June 2019, three French immigrants approaching 40 met for the first time outside the now-defunct Katakombes, waiting for Dopethrone to start a set at the nearby Club Soda. Gaspard had been in Lord Humungus, Piotr in
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First spin on Menderbug’s new single โ the instinct was to file
Rope’s Alessio wrote this album using what he calls guided visualization in
Corporate Job named their debut EP “Dinner Leftovers” and then made the
Experimental music moves across a wide field with a lot of shades,
