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By sounding a little like everything you’ve ever heard, the whole sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. In 2012, the Guardian wrote these lines...
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By sounding a little like everything you’ve ever heard, the whole sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. In 2012, the Guardian wrote these lines...
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...
On the metal-punk spectrum, there are a few holdout bands who choose one end or the other and dig their heels in, disavowing the...
In 2020, Internal Rot threw out any sense of nuance and restraint in order to produce what was (at least in my opinion) the...
If any Old Head is cynical about the state of hardcore today, they should listen to Heavy Discipline. If there’s a young kid who...
All hail the return of Floridian Hardcore beast Horsewhip. For those who missed it, the quartet dropped a powerful opening statement in 2018 with...
It might be trite to hold the music—particularly R&B, hip hop, and alternative—of the ‘90s on some pedestal. That said, alternative musicians of the...
Hardcore has never been apolitical. A righteous anger has fueled bands like Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Youth of Today, Earth Crisis, Refused, and Los...
It seems so obvious: if you want an extremely tight, rhythmically inventive hardcore outfit with driving tempos and compelling pacing, take three drummers and...
Irony is a crucial weapon of post-modernism against the meaninglessness of contemporary life. And it’s where the uncomfortable feeling of the age of comfort...