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Hardcore and its various offshoots suffer from a strange paradox: These genres have a history of creating special havens for women, People of Color,...
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Hardcore and its various offshoots suffer from a strange paradox: These genres have a history of creating special havens for women, People of Color,...
French writer Marcel Proust did not experience very happy last years of his life. The celebrated novelist and critic was plagued by health issues...
While California has always been one of the major epicenters for large movements in hardcore and metal, and while the Bay Area has produced...
Tourist earned the musical world’s attention with their 2020 release Domestic Scene, which was a sonic crossroads of Boston Hardcore, old school California powerviolence,...
All good hardcore is cathartic and confrontational, but it is the rare hardcore band that creates a sonic climate of aggression that is so...
My hatred for the system that promotes self-hatred, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all of the other ills of our society is real! As...
From UK punk’s roots in Jamaican dancehall culture and ska to the Latino and Black punks who were instrumental in the early American punk...
While politics have always been part and parcel of punk and particularly hardcore punk, far too many bands stick to the prescribed talking points,...
Pig City, the kings and queen of Copper State Crust, kicked in the door of the nation’s psyche with their 2019 To Live A...
Like so many creative endeavors of the last two years, Alec Tullio’s Casing was birthed from existential dread and societal disappointment, from claustrophobia and...
When Spy released Service Weapon (which Cvlt Nation reviewed here) less than a year and a half ago ago, the four-song EP quickly displaced...
There are some bands whose music is such a t-bone crash of a listening experience that you’re never quite ready. With each release—2015’s Dirty...
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...
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...
It’s time to put y’all up on some sick-ass game! MUTATED VOID is a totally bonkers band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, that blends blown-out...
