Hardcore

Silence Equals Death flex their muscles on the first song from their Eulogy Recordings debut.

We present Trappist’s “No Corporate Beer,” a pit-churning blast against macrobrews and the sheep who drink them.

Jagged Vision punish the listener with thick riffs and aggressive delivery on “Euthanasia.”

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Six Feet Under, Xibalba, and King Woman. 

Hellkeeper aren’t holding back on their debut album if “Drown” is any indicator.

Xibalba issues an angry, mournful goodbye on the third and final song on their new EP, Diablo, Con Amor… Adios. 

There’s something for everyone on the new Dying Whale album, Last Moments of Misery. 

Joy‘s new video from their 2016 EP underscores the raw anger and chaos in “Cut to the Nerve.”

Primal Rite just keeps cranking music out. “Sensory Link Through Pain” is part of a 7″ that will be released through Revelation Records. 

I AM filmed the title trick to their debut album, Life Through Torment, in the basement of a pizza shop. 

Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016. 

The Well-Intentioned Virus
Shaking off the slumber
dB rating: 8/10

Happy Hump Day, Candiria fans! The band has dropped a new live video for “Wandering Light” and announced both East and West Coast runs in 2017. 

Spazz is rereleasing a collection of live and studio recordings from 1995-96. 

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.

Withdrawal are finally poised to release their first full-length album at the beginning of November, but you can hear another new single and read about Never here first.

Horror movies abound in this new video from Tutti I Colori Del Buio.

The Extermination series of hardcore compilations has featured a top notch roster of bands in the past. Piece By Piece and Friend or Foe join that roster on The Extermination: Vol. 3. 

Grim
Goddess of fertility and riffs
dB rating: 8/10

The legendary Integrity is currently recording a full-length for Relapse — news that would be cause for celebration/preparation under any circumstances, but with word coming down that ex-Pulling Teeth guitarist/A389 Recordings founder/superior nasty riff generator Domenic Romeo is leading the six-string slaughter this time out feels more like some straight up Book of Revelation seal-breaking shit.

Counterparts combines emotional lyrics with aggressive hardcore in their new music video for “Stranger.” 

Rheia
Dawn of a different apocalypse
dB rating: 8/10

Experience pure sonic violence with Trap Them‘s Crown Feral, then recover from your beatdown with a macabre arts & (darker hand)crafts lesson from vocalist Ryan McKenney. 

Italy’s Hierophant unleash a palpable burst of anger on “Forever Crucified” as they prepare to release Mass Grave. 

Dwell wrote a hardcore record partially inspired by C.S. Lewis. Listen to the album in full here. 

Knocked Loose is on a roll right now, touring with The Acacia Strain, waiting to hit the United States and Europe with Stick to Your Guns and Expire and putting out a full-length album, Laugh Tracks, on September 16. Go behind the scenes of the new album in this new video.

Integrity’s Those Who Fear Tomorrow, a genre-defining hardcore record, receives a 25 Year Anniversary reissue. Listen now.

The anti-everything iconoclasm this election season deserves.

Revelation Records announce reissue of legendary Warzone debut LP this September. 

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