Mike Bromberg says he was lucky. Born in New York when the hardcore scene was happening, young enough to be right in the middle of it—shows, bands, records, fanzines, the whole structure
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Every year, seasonal depression creeps back in. When autumn and winter roll around, I find myself reaching for shoegaze —
You know that feeling — the one where a riff kicks in and you’re immediately back in 2004, watching some
There’s a version of this band that never came back. Still Feel Gone formed in the summer of 2016 in
Somewhere between a small town near Offenbach and the basement venues of Frankfurt and Darmstadt, four people figured out that
This hardcore band exists because someone didn’t check their messages for over a year. Aaron Friedman moved to Austin, reached
“Nothing Is The Same Anymore” is out today, February 16, 2026. It’s the debut full-length album by London melodic hardcore/emo
“Hunab Ku” doesn’t feel like a band coming back so much as a band resuming a thought mid-sentence. The album
Bristol trio Epimetheus play in drop F. The guitar is a self-assembled baritone with an aluminium neck. The bass sits
French screamo — whenever I hear those two words together, I’m immediately in. There’s something about that combination that just
If you’re after a record that throws crossover, thrash, and hardcore into a blender and never once hits pause —
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Three years since their last record VOR, the German outfit formerly called Tourette Boys comes back swinging. Thanks, I Hate It drops Friday through Exile On Mainstream, and the title tells you
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A south east London four-piece recording shoegaze in a living room with a podcast mic — that’s where Foolspring made “Flytrap,” and it sounds exactly like it should: close, ethereal, heavy with feeling. Foolspring sit in what they call “the nocturnal corner of dreamy
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There’s this Lee Bains + the Glory Fires record from 2022 called
“Vell i cabrejat” translates roughly to “old and pissed off,” which is
Argentine instrumental outfit Monovoth returns with “To live in the Breath of
The new Damasco album arrives with a clear frame. “Fear is one
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Someone, at some point, decided to wire a synthesizer into a punk song, and it was one of the better ideas in modern music history. We’ve heard decades of loose amalgamations since — some heavier, some weirder, some barely holding together — but fakeyourdeath
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A one-man instrumental project walks out of a decade-long drawer and straight
If you’re after nonstop action — thick, muscular riffs crashing into bark-raw
Pittsburgh hardcore outfit Unreal City went silent after their 2020 debut “Cruelty
Bristol’s Sugar Horse have announced their third album, “Not A Sound In
