Since I Love Your Lifestyle dropped “Summerland” back in 2024, nothing in the emo-adjacent world has grabbed us with quite the same force — that record basically lived in our ears for
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The last time we ran a piece on Carrion Spring was in late 2023, around the release of “How it
December was hectic. But Piebald’s Travis Shettel sent over a video, and some things are worth revisiting regardless of the
Mitchell Layton spent a year and a half yelling vocals in his mom’s basement and recording DI guitar parts on
Van Gogh on the cover, Throbbing Gristle inside, a turtle, a balloon, and a proverb: anyone without a habitat is
Legbiter had already wrapped the “Worms” EP. Recorded and mixed by William Blackmoon (Gadget) at Overlook Studios in Gävle, mastered
“This is all very bleak.” Andrew Elter‘s opening note on “Collateral Damage” isn’t a warning label — it’s the point.
Nine years is a long time to leave people hanging, but Antwerp’s Toxic Shock are making it count. “Creeping Reaper”
Six tracks, four members, and a recurring question that runs through all of it: how much weight can a body
Sokratous 26, in Omonoia at the dead centre of Athens, was running as a musicians’ building since the early 2000s
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There’s something about Italian screamo that hits the same nerve as the French variety — that particular European register of density and precision that feels less like a genre exercise and more
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The name Gr4v1 is lifted from Roadside Picnic — the Strugatsky brothers’ novel where the zones surrounding an alien visitation are riddled with incomprehensible phenomena, including gravitational anomalies that warp physical space without explanation. Tarkovsky adapted it as Stalker. Alberto Casu and Giovanni Santagostino,
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There’s a line in guitarist Justin Smith’s notes about the current state
Six notes on a guitar, looped and warped through pedals until it
A small Buddha magnet sat on the piano while Ania Babrakowska wrote.
Twenty-six years after its original release, Hudson Valley, NY’s Joshua went back
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A blood alcohol level so high the nurse couldn’t believe Jeff Corso was still talking. Somewhere in the middle of it, apparently, he was belting out “The Warrior” by Patty Smyth at the top of his lungs. He doesn’t remember that part. He doesn’t
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Kater’s debut had a bit of an identity problem, and they’ll be
The word “off” does a lot of quiet work. It can mean
Raging Nathans frontman heard Fat Heaven’s “Crybaby” in his car before he
Oceano’s “Mass Produced” was the exact moment Nic Heidt checked out. Not
