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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Defeater — Travels
Released in 2008, Travels is Defeater’s first album, from the Massachusetts band that would become one of the major names in melodic…
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Have Heart — The Things We Carry
Released in 2006, The Things We Carry is Have Heart’s first album, and it was enough to place the Massachusetts band at…
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Incendiary — Thousand Mile Stare
Six years after Cost of Living, Incendiary returned in 2023 with Thousand Mile Stare and confirmed their place among the standard-bearers of…
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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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Xibalba — Tierra y Libertad
Hailing from California, Xibalba built its identity on a powerful blend of metallic hardcore, death metal and doom. Tierra y Libertad, released…
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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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Deez Nuts — Stay True
Born from the energy of JJ Peters, former drummer of an Australian metalcore band, Deez Nuts immediately took the opposite tack from…
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Kickback — Forever War
Kickback holds a place apart in the history of French and European hardcore. A sulfurous, often controversial band, it built its myth…
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