Bungler - The Nature of Being New Rating: 9/10Stream or buy on Bungler's Bandcamp Bungler is a three-piece hardcore act hailing from Buffalo, New York who has gotten some attention for their energetic live performances and insane use of pe…
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Bungler - The Nature of Being New Rating: 9/10Stream or buy on Bungler's Bandcamp Bungler is a three-piece hardcore act hailing from Buffalo, New York who has gotten some attention for their energetic live performances and insane use of pe…
Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin 9.8/10 iTunes Lorna Shore is a deathcore group that formed in 2010 out of New Jersey that have certainly made their mark over the past few years with releases such as Psalms and Maleficium. They are back to make…
This False Ghost - “Love Dies//Rewind”Rating: 8/10You can follow them on Facebook while they make their Bandcamp, or check out their EP as Tamerlane This False Ghost is a hardcore band from Anchorage, Alaska. Just a few weeks before the r…
AFI - The Blood Album Rating: 4/10 iTunes AFI, short for A Fire Inside, is a Californian punk band who has been in the game for well over two decades. Through this time, hey underwent some serious changes, going from a hardcore punk act on…
Aversions Crown - Xenocide 9.5/10 iTunes Favorite Track: Cynical Entity Australian heavy-hitters Aversions Crown started off the new year with a bang by releasing their new full length record on Nuclear Blast, Xenocide. Following the intro…
Gaia - Chaos EPRating: 6.5/10 Connecticut band Gaia share a couple of things in common with Construct Paradise, apart from a home state: both bands graft the mid-range, digitized guitar tones of djent onto the growled verses and sugary cho…
Values - “Losses”Rating: 9.2/10 The first time I saw Values was at the (now closed, once great) Point Beach Clubhouse in Milford, Connecticut, opening for puke rock outfit My Ticket Home. It was both my first time at Point Beach and my fi…
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage 3/10 iTunes Avenged Sevenfold is a heavy metal band hailing from California who has achieved quite some success through their very melodic sound. The group started off as a metalcore group with records such…
Traitors - Mental State 6.6/10 iTunes & Big Cartel Traitors is a downtempo deathcore band from Florida that have made quite the name for themselves over the past three years with albums such as The Hate Campaign and their most recent EP,…
Fit For a King - Deathgrip Rating: 8/10 iTunes/MerchNow Christian metalcore is becoming quite the popular thing with bands such as Silent Planet and The Devil Wears Prada gaining quite the following, but we can’t forget about the pioneers…