Released in 2008, the debut album by La Dispute, a band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, immediately stands out as a singular piece…
La Dispute’s third album, Rooms of the House, came out in 2014 on the band’s own label, Better Living. The Grand Rapids,…
Touche Amore’s third album, Is Survived By, came out in 2013 on Deathwish and marks a step into maturity for the California…
Touche Amore’s second album, out in 2011 on Deathwish, Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me is a landmark of emotional post-hardcore…
Few bands marked 2000s hardcore with as much intensity as Have Heart. A Boston outfit led by Patrick Flynn, it embodied a…
Released in 2002, Perseverance confirms the heavyweight status Hatebreed had forged on the metallic hardcore scene. Led by the charismatic Jamey Jasta,…
Released in 1984, My War is Black Flag’s second studio album and one of the most radical records of their career. The…
Released in 1988, We’re Not in This Alone is the album that turned Youth of Today into a standard-bearer for the straight…
Released in 1989, Best Wishes is the Cro-Mags’ second album and one of the most metallic records to come out of the…
Released in 1989, Blood, Sweat and No Tears is Sick of It All’s debut album and one of the founding documents of…
Released in 1997, Built to Last is Sick of It All’s fourth album and one of the peaks of their major-label years.…
Released in 1986, Cause for Alarm is Agnostic Front’s second album and one of the most debated documents in New York hardcore.…
Released in 2009, Grey Britain remains one of the most ambitious works ever to come out of British hardcore punk. The second…
When Speed Kills arrived in 2020, it sounded like a record beamed in from another decade, and that is exactly its strength.…
Coming out of Pennsylvania, One Step Closer has established itself as one of the standard-bearers of melodic hardcore’s revival. This Place You…
Formed in Santa Cruz, Drain brought a welcome breath of fresh air to the hardcore scene with California Cursed, their debut album…
Released in 2018, Only Self is the debut album by Jesus Piece, a Philadelphia act that established itself as one of the…
Released in 2008, Iconoclast is one of the most emblematic albums by Heaven Shall Burn, a German act that built its reputation…
Misery Signals’ third album, Controller, appeared in 2008 and marked a pivotal step for this North American act devoted to a dense,…
When The Chariot released Long Live in 2010, the Atlanta band had already built a reputation resting as much on their live…
Released in 1998, Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest marks a turning point for Zao and for a whole swath of late…
The debut album from the Kansas City band, Give Them Rope arrives in 1997 and lays one of the first stones of…
Norma Jean’s debut, released in 2002, Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child arrives like a chaotic jolt out of Georgia. The…
The third album from the Massachusetts band, The Fall of Ideals is the 2006 record where All That Remains finally locked in…
Released in 2004, The War Within stands as the commercial and creative peak of Shadows Fall, the Massachusetts band that played a…
With The Oncoming Storm, released in 2004, the Massachusetts band Unearth established itself as one of the spearheads of American metalcore of…
Released in 2007, An Ocean Between Us stands as a peak in the discography of As I Lay Dying. The California band…
A French trio that deliberately keeps a low profile, Birds in Row has established itself as one of the most respected names…
Fiddlehead holds a singular position in contemporary melodic hardcore. This American band brings together musicians drawn from respected acts of the scene,…
Colourmeinkindness arrived in 2012 in a peculiar context: the British band Basement, from Ipswich, announced a hiatus at the very moment they…
When Title Fight released Floral Green in 2012, the Kingston, Pennsylvania band closed one door in order to open another. Where their…
Released in 2010, Rohnert Park is a pivotal record in Ceremony’s trajectory, the Californian band taking its title from the name of…
Released in 2008, Travels is Defeater’s first album, from the Massachusetts band that would become one of the major names in melodic…
Six years after Cost of Living, Incendiary returned in 2023 with Thousand Mile Stare and confirmed their place among the standard-bearers of…
Hailing from California, Xibalba built its identity on a powerful blend of metallic hardcore, death metal and doom. Tierra y Libertad, released…
Kickback holds a place apart in the history of French and European hardcore. A sulfurous, often controversial band, it built its myth…
