Coilguns are a hardcore/noise rock band from Switzerland and this is their fifth album.
After 2024’s amazing Odd Love, you’d better believe that Everything We Love, We Destroy is highly anticipated. Coilguns are a band that more people deserve to know, so what does this new album have to offer us? Continue reading “Coilguns – Everything We Love, We Destroy (Review)”
Walls of Jericho are a US Hardcore/Metalcore band and this is their sixth album.
Has it really been a decade since No One Can Save You from Yourself? Apparently so. Well, Walls of Jericho are back, in no uncertain terms. System Error: Humanity explodes out of gate, all muscular chops and beefy attitude. Walls of Jericho mean business. Continue reading “Walls of Jericho – System Error: Humanity (Review)”
This is the fourth album from UK mathcore band Frontierer.
Welcome to Frontierer’s wonderful world of angular chaos. Ultraviolet Parasite is eagerly awaited by many adherents of frenetic mathcore, and with good reason. Frontierer have long-established their capabilities within their chosen style, and this new collection of songs sees them continue their trend of releasing high quality material. Continue reading “Frontierer – Ultraviolet Parasite (Review)”
Kōya are a post-hardcore band from Denmark and this is their debut album.
Pendula consists of 38 minutes of material that is impressively wrought, especially for a first record. Kōya bring a few different influences together well, and the result is an album as devastating as it is well-rendered. Continue reading “Kōya – Pendula (Review)”
This is the debut album from US hardcore band No Cure.
No Cure play a merciless form of metallic hardcore, laced with elements of death metal that provide extra kick. On It Is Going to Get Dark the band spend 34 minutes showing exactly what they can do, delivering a collection of energetic bruisers that hit the spot. Continue reading “No Cure – It Is Going to Get Dark (Review)”
Snag are a Screamo band from the US and this is their third album.
Snag play a form of Screamo that takes additional influences from other related styles, (and some less related), into itself very capably. Across 26 minutes All the Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn to Dust has a lot to offer fans of emotive hardcore. Continue reading “Snag – All the Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn to Dust (Review)”
Converge are a hardcore band from the US and this is their eleventh album, (or twelfth if you count their collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe).
A second Converge album in the space of a few months you say? Apparently so. Love Is Not Enough hasn’t even cooled, yet Converge are back at it again, treating the world to their distinctive brand of idiosyncratic hardcore. Continue reading “Converge – Hum of Hurt (Review)”
Erdve are from Lithuania and play blackened hardcore/sludge and this is their third album.
Following on from 2018’s Vaitojimas and 2021’s Savigaila, Epigrama delivers 43 minutes of material for listeners to get stuck into. Erdve combine blackened hardcore, sludge, and metallic heaviness into a record that takes no prisoners. Continue reading “Erdve – Epigrama (Review)”
Portrayal of Guilt are a blackened hardcore band from the US and this is their fourth album.
…Beginning of the End is the sound of Portrayal of Guilt pushing their sound harder and deeper. Across 31 evocative minutes, the band reach across genres and styles to grasp what they want in an unyielding iron grip. …Beginning of the End brings a lot to the table. Continue reading “Portrayal of Guilt – …Beginning of the End (Review)”
Poison the Well are a hardcore band from the US and this is their sixth album.
When such an iconic band releases a brand new record 17 years after their last one, it’s a time of expectation, hope, and excitement, but also concern, and even suspicion. Can Poison the Well come close to their previous quality levels? Will time have dulled their unique edge? Do we need another Poison the Well album? Continue reading “Poison the Well – Peace in Place (Review)”
