Street Sects- The Kicking Mule The Kicking Mule drops October 26th via The Flenser. Preorder here. Street Sects have quickly become one of my favorite modern music acts. Forming in 2013, they released their two Gentrification EPs the fol…
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Street Sects- The Kicking Mule The Kicking Mule drops October 26th via The Flenser. Preorder here. Street Sects have quickly become one of my favorite modern music acts. Forming in 2013, they released their two Gentrification EPs the fol…
ANLMA- Secular Eden Secular Eden is coming soon. In 2012, a progressive metal act formed from the ashes of New York local metalcore outfit We Are Outnumbered. This band was Perspectives, and while they were metalcore through-and-through, t…
Brockhampton- iridescenceStream the LP here. Brockhampton are the best boyband since One Direction. Forming in 2015, these boys released their debut mixtape All-American Trash a year later, but didn’t really strike the heart of the music w…
Pig Destroyer- “Head Cage” Stream the LP here. Buy it here. Pig Destroyer. What’s not to say about them? After a rocky debut LP with Explosions in Ward 6, these guys put out three of the most celebrated grindcore LPs in history: the beaut…
Lorna Shore - This Is Hell9.4/10Release: 9/7/2018 New Jersey deathcore band Lorna Shore has been in the headlines frequently the past few months after some lineup changes and Lil Uzi Vert was caught moshing to their catalog at a show in Ph…
Thou- MagusStream and buy the LP here. Thou are a five-piece doom metal band who have been recognized as one of the few remaining metal bands to really live off the original DIY-punk ethos. This is shown in various forms, from all their sp…
Roseblood - No One Here Gets Out Alive Rating: 8.7/10 Stream/Download on Bandcamp //Support on Facebook New Jersey metalcore act, Roseblood dropped their debut record No One Here Gets Out Alive the other night and it is as diabolical as t…
Locked Out - Dissociation Score: 7.6/10 Album releases on August 3rd, 2018 Facebook Connecticut has never been shy about introducing brutal and impressively intense metalcore acts into the world and today is your introduction to Locked Out…
Death Grips- “Year of the Snitch” Stream the LP here. Death Grips. A name that has truly taken the internet by storm. This experimental hip-hop trio has released new music every year since forming in 2010, whether in EP or LP form, and th…
Atonement - In Search of DivinityListen and buy on their bandcamp. If you’ve been even semi-adjacent to the Connecticut hardcore scene in recent years, then there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve heard the name Atonement. They released…