Kero Kero Bonito- “TOTEP” Listen to the EP on your preferred streaming service here. Kero Kero Bonito, often abbreviated to KBB, is a British electro-pop trio that combines the genre with some elements of j-pop and hip-hop. Formed in 2011…
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Kero Kero Bonito- “TOTEP” Listen to the EP on your preferred streaming service here. Kero Kero Bonito, often abbreviated to KBB, is a British electro-pop trio that combines the genre with some elements of j-pop and hip-hop. Formed in 2011…
Cane Hill - Too Far GoneRating: 6.8/10Listen and buy here Cane Hill were cagey about their influences on the self-titled EP; more grounded in post-hardcore and metalcore than later albums, only that telltale “bounce” gave away the Slipknot…
Watain - TRIDENT WOLF ECLIPSERating: 5/10Stream here Watain are a black metal band. They have tried to make that clear by including the word “dark” in the names of two albums, Lawless Darkness and Sworn to the Dark, and by sneaking it onto…
Jeff Rosenstock- POST- Rating: A Stream and buy the LP here. Jeff Rosenstock is a Long Island musician who started his music career with the Arrogant Sons of Bitches before moving to arguably his most well-known project, Bomb the Music In…
Bloodbather - PressureRating: 7.5/10Stream the record on Youtube or the band’s Bandcamp. Bloodbather are a metalcore band from Broward County, Florida that play an aggressive, dissonant style in the vein of bands like Eighteen Visions and…
Glassjaw - Material ControlRating: 9/10 Fifteen years have passed since Glassjaw graced the music scene and our ears with their critically acclaimed second LP, Worship and Tribute. Though the Long Island-based post-hardcore unit has releas…
Vitriol - Pain Will Define Their DeathRating: 9/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp It wasn’t hard for Those Who Lie Beneath to claim the throne of the heaviest deathcore band. An Awakening, their one and only record, is about as frightening a recor…
SECT - No Cure for DeathRating: 7/10Stream on Bandcamp SECT are a pretty interesting supergroup. Consisting of former members of Cursed, Undying, Earth Crisis, and Fall Out Boy, one would expect their sound to be diverse and eclectic. If t…
Saarkoth - Demo 2017Rating: 8/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp The point of a demo isn’t to create much of an atmosphere or to plumb every nook and cranny of a band’s sound. Its job is simply to present what a band can do and imply more and better…
Axis - ShiftRating: 7.5/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp Metalcore is in transition. An exciting underground force in the 90s, its breakthrough in the ’00s permanently segregated the genre into two or three distinct groups: one, spearheaded by Ki…