80s Hardcore Punk Or Metal? Split The Difference With the New HEADSPLITTERS LP ‘Curse Of Life’ Last month, New York City’s Toxic State Records released their slate of releases for Winter/Spring 2025, and needless to say, It’s an absolutely stacked... Eric Anderson16 hours ago
Crust Hardcore Punk Since ’95: Check Out Prank Records’ Latest Releases In my recent efforts to fill in the gaps of my record collection, I’ve gained a big appreciation for labels releasing faithful reissues of... Eric AndersonFebruary 20, 2025
Crust Hear the Post-punk Crust Rage of KNIVAD “Häktad” KNIVAD is Swedish for “stabbed in the throat” and as I listen to their single “Häktad” I can feel their vicious crust-meets-post-punk at my... MeghanAugust 25, 2021
Experimental Exhalation Denial: A Look At Pestilential Breath, The Catastrophic New Collaboration By FED ASH and GOD OF GAPS When I reviewed Fed Ash’s monumental 2020 LP, Diurnal Traumas, I was sure that the band had produced the harshest, most terrifying release of... EvanMCAugust 18, 2021
Film Get High on the Noise Punk of SMIRK “Minuscule Amounts” I’ve long pondered the apparent symbiosis of music and drugs. And I don’t mean weed or mushrooms or LSD. I mean the drugs that... MeghanAugust 13, 2021
Art BRAT: Where Pageants Meet Punk All good death metal begins with a “BLEGH.” That’s exactly what New Orleans death metal/hardcore group BRAT does on their debut EP, Mean Is... Teddie TaylorAugust 11, 2021
Features Real Punk SHIT! EXIL interviewed by razorblades & aspirin + An Exclusive Premiere Exil formed during the pandemic, yes? What was the impetus for the band – I know you’ve all done prior projects together in various... Sean ReveronJuly 16, 2021
Music EXPERIENCE THE bombastic Explosive pUNK ZEALOT R.I.P’S “Red Queen Phenomenon” ZEALOT R.I.P got me on my bull shit ready to slap the taste out of a cops mouth or castrate the pope for all... Sean ReveronJuly 15, 2021