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Manchester doesn’t really do half measures. It builds pressure in basements and lets it detonate in clubs that sweat through the walls. And right now, few bands embody that pressure better than Guilt Trip. The metallic hardcore crew have kicked off 2026 by swerving the algorithm and dropping a surprise […]
Post Death Soundtrack‘s fourth full-length release “Veil Lifter” is a tempestuous, 10-track Molotov cocktail channeling doom, grunge, hardcore, and thrash into a crushing new record. Following the orchestrated industrial soundscapes of their third album, “It Will Come Out of Nowhere,” Jon Ireson and Stephen Moore have taken a sharp turn […]
Newly formed modern metal/hardcore band HOSTVGE has released their debut single ‘Prison of My Mind,’ and you can get your first preview of the Brasov-based project below with the lyrics video. Here we have a 3-minute chunk of modern heavyness. Their sound is energetic and cinematic, combining fast-paced polyrhythmic grooves […]
SXOKONDO (pronounced shock-ondo, from the Esperanto for shockwave) is a Swiss hardcore band based in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The band’s first full-length, “Altered Ego” was released on 28th October 2022, on Division Records. This album is a new beginning for the band and the result of various reflections, including the will […]
Formed in 2008, Heerenveen-based band SWIM OR DROWN conjures pure metallic hardcore adrenaline. The Dutch quintet has brought absolute hell for 14 years with the same lineup. “We are so fucking proud of this, and we hope that we can add another 14 years,” states the vocalist Jan. They have […]
The Northern Netherlands metallic hardcore squad Swim or Drown has released their EP, “Torment”, on 01 July 2022 via WTF Records. Vocalist Jan de Groot states: “‘Torment’ is our fourth EP, and we are proud of it. Full of rage, the EP expels our frustrations. The title track is the most important song of […]
The Nika Riots is a musical quintet from Oslo, Norway featuring members of such bands as Man the Machetes, Carnival Kids, and Torch. Pulling in influences from modern metal and post-hardcore, the group has kept busy since first appearing via 2018’s “Set Fire” EP, touring with bands like Sibiir and Black Debbath, and playing Øya Festivalen and […]
Paris-based Post Hardcore collective Anna Sage has just shared a music video for a brand new track from their self-titled debut album, which is set for release on April 15th on CD/Digital via Klonosphere with a vinyl release planned for later this year via several underground labels (Dingleberry Records, Itawak Records, Urgence Disk Records, Vox […]
Oslo-based Metallic Hardcore five-piece group The Nika Riots have recently shared a lyric video for another song from their first full-length album “Derelict”, which is set for release on April 29th via Mas-Kina Recordings. This song is about losing track of time and yourself due to isolation. Every week feels the same, life has become […]
After already releasing a debut EP in 2019, two digital singles last year, and unveiling a first video glimpse from its upcoming album with ‘Trust Less’, French Groove/Hardcore gang from Bordeaux Albercave digitally released the song as an official single through the main legal platforms. This brand new song from the band; which has […]