Metal playlists from the underground
HATEBREED announces the March Metal Meltdown Matinee. 30TH ANNIVERSARY HOME STATE SHOW SET FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 17 AT 12PM ET – AND IT’S THEIR BIGGEST HOMETOWN BLOWOUT EVER! Fresh off two sold-out shows at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY and a four night, completely sold out, four-night residency at Amityville Music Hall in Long Island, […]
Berlin-based indie label Thirty Something Records has released ‘Pretend I’m Human,’ the third and final album by legendary New York City post-hardcore band Orange 9mm. Available for the first time in twenty years and for the first time ever on vinyl, cassette tape and digital, the reissue features fully remastered tracks and new artwork and packaging. Vinyl and cassette pre-orders have […]
Comeback Kid wants you to “Surrender Control” to their new teeth-kicking music video single. The track is from the upcoming Outsider album due September 8 on Nuclear Blast Records. This will be CBK’s sixth full-length studio album. “This time around, we were really focused on songs that we knew would connect from the stage,” said […]
Maintaining the classic NYHC sound and a no frills DIY mindset from the days of yore, Olde York comes barreling down the lane with an authentic 12-track tour de force entitled EMPIRE STATE. Embodying the spirit of hardcore’s CBGB Sunday matinee glory days while skillfully blending the styles of acts such as Cro Mags, Warzone, […]
Spastic and noisy hardcore with underpinnings of melody best describe the racket exerted by Chicago quartet Millions, whose eight-track offering GATHER SCATTER goes from the gutter to outer space in approximately 27-minutes. Emblazoned in dissonance, songs like “Saddle Up and Ride” exhibit the rhythm section playing like a wrecking crew drunkenly demolishing a skyscraper, while […]
German experimental hardcore troupe flu.ID have made an album proper by repackaging two previous 10-inch releases with a few bonus tracks and a strange assortment of electronic interludes to create a 15-track collection of schizophrenic heaviness and offbeat weirdness titled IOTS. Imagine Refused jamming out with Dillinger Escape Plan while a techno party looms in […]
16 years on the job and still going strong chugging out memorable heavy tuneage, Pro-Pain follows up their recent string of solid offerings with NO END IN SIGHT. This 11-track endeavor finds Gary Meskil and crew pumping the usual meat and potatoes hardcore metal might with the blue collar work ethic that warrants this band’s […]
Showcasing a punk hardcore hybrid that takes its lyrical content strictly from the game of hockey, Hanson Brothers (the band, not the characters from Slapshot) play with a straight-up raucous energy on their latest live offering IT’S A LIVING. This squad’s Ramones meets the Misfits in the penalty box sound is bolstered by heroic tales […]
South Carolina metalcore crew The Classic Struggle merge Euro thrash, hardcore, and metal for a blistering 10-track offering in the form of BRING BACK THE GLORY. While this unit’s infernal heft is sure to leave quite the impression, tactics like implementing the sludgy breakdown before the beatdown on “Beyond the Walls” and the dramatic tempo […]
The latest endeavor by Ohio’s Mouth of the Architect marks a continuation of this unit’s post-hardcore sludgy sojourn, as QUIETLY runs just shy of an hour within an eight-track span. Dense rhythms and suffocating guitars immerse your eardrums in a tantalizing go-round of sound on the oppressive menace “A Beautiful Corpse” and the undulating “Rocking […]