He Is Legend: I Am Hollywood
The debut album from the North Carolina band, I Am Hollywood arrives in 2004 and offers a metallic hardcore steeped in Southern…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Bleeding Through: This Is Love This Is Murderous
In 2003, Bleeding Through released This Is Love, This Is Murderous, an album that concentrates the energy of the Orange County metalcore…
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Being as an Ocean: Dear G-d
The debut album of the American band Being as an Ocean, Dear G-d appeared in 2012 and immediately laid the foundations of…
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Balance and Composure: The Things We Think Were Missing
In 2013, Balance and Composure confirmed with this second album that they hold a place apart in the American post-hardcore scene. The…
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Verse: Aggression
Released in 2008, Aggression is a pivotal record for Verse, the Rhode Island band that embodies a melodic hardcore fed by political…
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Year of the Knife: Internal Incarceration
Released in 2020, Internal Incarceration is one of the most brutal metallic hardcore records of its generation. The Delaware band seeks neither…
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Harm’s Way: Posthuman
A band from Chicago, Harm’s Way made its name through a metallic hardcore fed by industrial influences, a combination that gives it…
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Bulldoze: The Final Beatdown
A band from New Jersey, Bulldoze stands among the pioneers of beatdown, that subgenre of hardcore cut for pure crushing. The Final…
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Twitching Tongues: Disharmony
Twitching Tongues never played hardcore like the others. The Los Angeles band built a reputation apart by blending the heaviness of metallic…
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Expire: Pretty Low
A band from Milwaukee, Expire built its reputation on a no-nonsense hardcore, without compromise or artifice. Pretty Low, released in 2014, confirms…
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Backtrack: Lost in Life
With Lost in Life in 2014, Backtrack delivers a record that cuts to the core of New York hardcore and its Long…
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Stray from the Path: Only Death Is Real
Few modern hardcore bands own their political dimension as openly as Stray from the Path. Coming from Long Island, in New York…
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Bury Your Dead: Cover Your Tracks
In the mid two thousands the American metalcore scene is boiling, and Bury Your Dead holds a place apart within it. The…
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Wisdom in Chains: Class War
Some bands sing the street because they grew up in it, and Wisdom in Chains is one of them. Coming from Pennsylvania,…
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First Blood: Killafornia
Released in 2006, Killafornia is the record that brought First Blood to attention well beyond the tight circles of Californian hardcore. The…
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Death Before Dishonor: Friends Family Forever
Some bands embody a whole city, and Death Before Dishonor carries Boston in every one of their chords. Released in 2005, Friends…
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All Out War: For Those Who Were Crucified
Released in 1998, For Those Who Were Crucified establishes All Out War as one of the most uncompromising bands in the metallic…
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Strife: In This Defiance
The mid nineties saw hardcore harden, load itself with metal, gain in heaviness and compactness. Strife fully accompanied that movement, and In…
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Turning Point: Its Always Darkest Before the Dawn
Some bands vanish too soon to reap in their lifetime the recognition they deserve. Turning Point belongs to that category. Its Always…
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Bold: Speak Out
Speak Out, released in 1988, sits at the heart of the youth crew wave that was then redefining American hardcore. Bold, a…
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Warzone: Dont Forget the Struggle Dont Forget the Streets
Some album titles ring out like oaths. Don’t Forget the Struggle Don’t Forget the Streets, released in 1988, is one of them:…
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Airbourne: Breakin’ Outta Hell
Fourth album, in 2016, Breakin’ Outta Hell sees Airbourne tighten the bolts after a Black Dog Barking judged a little routine. The…
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Airbourne: No Guts. No Glory.
Two years after a debut that had won everyone over, Airbourne go again in 2010 with No Guts. No Glory. The principle…
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Chat Pile: Who Loves The Sun
Rapturous early reviews: "the fury has metastasized". Out September 4.
7.5/10 September 1, 2026
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Turnstile: Never Enough: Versions
From Elton John to Dying Fetus, twenty-two wildly uneven reworks: not an album, a flex.
7.5/10 August 30, 2026
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Gorod: The Ember Gone
Bordeaux tech-death dares to be vulnerable. The craft is unanimous; the pacing divides.
7.5/10 August 30, 2026
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Mayhem: Liturgy of Death
77/100: the Norwegian black-metal legends deliver a solid if debated record.
7.5/10 August 29, 2026
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Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark
Her most accessible album, still haunted. Critics and public aligned at 77/100.
7.5/10 August 26, 2026
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Frozen Soul: No Place of Warmth
78/100: the Texans' glacial, old-school death metal stays fearsomely effective.
7.5/10 August 24, 2026
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Portrayal of Guilt: …Beginning of The End
78/100: the Texan blackened-hardcore crew spit an ever more desperate violence.
7.5/10 August 23, 2026
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This Is Hell: Sundowning
This Is Hell arrives from Long Island with a hungry hardcore.
7.5/10 August 15, 2026
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Epica: Aspiral
78/100: the Dutch symphonic-metal act roll out their usual grand spectacle.
7.5/10 August 15, 2026
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Hooded Menace: Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
78/100: Finnish death/doom in all its melancholic heaviness.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Arkangel: Hope You Die by Overdose in a Filthy Toilet at a Party Where Nobody Knows Your Name
Arkangel returns with the same fury, two decades later.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Angel Crew: Another Day Living in Hatred
Angel Crew imposes an uncompromising Parisian hardcore.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Deftones: Saturday Night Wrist
The album of crisis: born in pain, cracked but haunted.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
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