A melding of some of hardcore’s most explosive players (and one indie-pop singer) yields Commitment and their truly savage debut.
Category: Albums
As they continue to get bigger and more daring, the original personality that made Don Broco so entertaining gets whittled away.
In this Review Round-Up, strong black-metal-adjacent work comes courtesy of GAEREA and Hellripper, while Dry Socket are equally great in hardcore.
Even with their base of hard rock and metal having barely changed after all these years, Black Label Society have still got it.
The knotted gloom of The Twilight Sad’s post-punk is still deeply arresting, seven years since their last album.
Once a legitimately promising metalcore prospect, Moodring blast away any and all personality to rest firmly in their genre’s doldrums.
Striking while the iron is hot, Mallavora’s debut full-length packs in everything they’ll need for a career of alt-metal superstardom.
The strains of the modern music industry may have worn Pet Needs down, but in their resilience, they’ve produced some pretty great alt-punk as a result.
A good return from Poison The Well succeeds most in bringing some much-appreciated volatility to metalcore.
Awash with urgency and a forward-thinking thrust, Shoreline’s new album confidently stakes their claim for being among emo’s most promising risers.