.tourniquet. - i hate the way this makes me feel.Rating: 8/10Listen and buy on their bandcamp. For better or worse, modern day hardcore is full of bands desperately trying to emulate sounds pioneered by 15-to-20 year old bands. Some fail m…
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.tourniquet. - i hate the way this makes me feel.Rating: 8/10Listen and buy on their bandcamp. For better or worse, modern day hardcore is full of bands desperately trying to emulate sounds pioneered by 15-to-20 year old bands. Some fail m…
LIMBS- “Father’s Son” Stream and buy the LP here. LIMBS is a Florida-based post-hardcore project that caught my attention last year when I saw them with Capsize in Webster Hall’s Studio room. I’ve had a few of my friends tell me about the…
The Weeknd- “My Dear Melancholy,” Listen to the EP here. In March 2011, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye dropped his debut mixtape under his moniker The Weeknd. House of Balloons received widespread acclaim from both music consumers and critics for…
The Fever 333- “Made An America”Stream the EP and/or buy merch here. Last Independence Day, in the parking lot of Randy’s Donuts in California, three musicians performed a 12 minute exhibition that was nothing short of exhilarating. These…
Empty- “The Healing Process” Stream the EP here. Empty is a brand new post-hardcore act from South Carolina. Since forming in late 2017, the group has played a series of shows in order to get themselves more recognition in the game, slowl…
Between the Buried and Me- "Automata I" Stream the LP here. Between the Buried and Me. North Carolina-based progressive metal legends at this point. Forming in 2000 out of the ashes of metalcore/deathcore act Prayer for Cleansing, the gro…
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It Stream the record here. Rolo Tomassi is an experimental English mathcore act formed by siblings Eva and James Spence who broke into the world of extreme music in 2005. They have been perfe…
Turnstile - Time and Space Rating: 9/10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMi-KYUl8c Major labels can be either a blessing or a curse, especially for bands with origins in the hardcore scene. For some bands, a major label can give them the…
Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone Stream the record here. Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier, better known as Andrew W.K., is a musician who has been doing his thing since 1996. He didn’t start gathering attention, however, until the 2001 classic…
Genocide Pact - Order of Torment Rating: 8.5/10 Listen on bandcamp. Death metal’s a funny thing. While it’s by far the best subgenre of metal in my honest opinion, many of its bands that emerged post-1995 have a tendency to fall somewhere…