Reviews

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Dream Ritual, Trips Around the Sun (Self-Released, 2019)

By Hannah Fitzmorris |

"...psychedelic and wandering interludes and lush and fertile hooks."

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Beyond Pain, Humans Are Actual Pain. (To Live A Lie Records, 2018)

By Adam Yoe |

FFO: Capitalist Casualties, Sex Prisoner, Grief

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Damagers, Victory (Deranged Records, 2018)

By Adam Yoe |

Canadian band brings to mind '80s hardcore punk in all its ferocious glory.

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Hate Force, Hate Force (Closed Casket Activities, 2019)

By Gabe La Torre |

Members from some high-profile hardcore bands combine forces in the name of death metal.

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Incisions, Incisions (TNSrecords, 2018)

By Adam Yoe |

FFO: Black Flag, Minor Threat, UK82

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Vegas feat. 647, Tetralogy (Self-Released, 2019)

By Adam Yoe |

FFO: Holy Terror hardcore

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The 1865, Don't Tread on We! (Mass Appeal Records, 2019)

By Freddy Alva |

"Music with a message is at an all-time low point these days..."

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Wristmeetrazor, Misery Never Forgets (Prosthetic Records, 2019)

By Bruce Hardt-Valenzuela |

"...an openness that doesn’t alienate, offering a biting solace that few modern screamo bands offer."

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Physique, The Evolution of Combat (Distort Reality, 2019)

By Michael D. Thorn |

"...glass shattering short sharp shock attack that represents a fierce and primal auditory backlash..."

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Wristmeetrazor, Misery Never Forgets (Prosthetic Records, 2019)

By Caleb Newton |

"...noisy hardcore and relentlessly chaotic screamo and blending them to a somehow tasty pulp."

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Spiritual Cramp, Television (Deranged Records, 2018)

By Michael D. Thorn |

"...a record that grows on you rather than leaping up and punching you in the throat."

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Neolithic, Cult of Ignorance (Deep Six Records, 2018)

By Adam Yoe |

Essential crust. Essential metal. Essential hardcore. It’s all in here.

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Pyralis, Everything Is Emptiness (Good Fight Music, 2018)

By Ned Kelly |

Without question, this is the most unique write-up we've had on the site to date.

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Mere Mortal, Tartarus (Quality Control HQ, 2018)

By Mike De Lorenzo |

UKHC scene musicians conjure up the spirit of classic thrash metal.

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Graf Orlock, Examination of Violent Cinema, Volume 1 (Vitriol Records, 2018)

By Caleb Newton |

"...wildly noisy, exciting, and ultimately unique..."

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Wake of Humanity, Fight/Resist (Bitter Melody Records, 2018)

By Adam Yoe |

FFO: Earth Crisis, Chokehold, Racetraitor

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Kaonashi, Why Did You Do It? (Get This Right Records, 2018)

By Caleb Newton |

"For as brutal of a band as the alt-metalcore outfit Kaonashi is, they’re remarkably sensitive."

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BustDown, TRANSILLUMINATI (Fake Crab Records, 2018)

By Adam Yoe |

A crushing marriage of grind, screamo, power violence, and hardcore.

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