Brand New- “Science Fiction”Rating: 5/10Stream and purchase the LP here. Since their inception, Brand New have been the face of the modern emo scene. Any emo artist you can think of that formed after Brand New has been influenced by them i…
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Brand New- “Science Fiction”Rating: 5/10Stream and purchase the LP here. Since their inception, Brand New have been the face of the modern emo scene. Any emo artist you can think of that formed after Brand New has been influenced by them i…
PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell Rating: 8/10 iTunes PVRIS, the pop/rock group that took the world by surprise with their debut record White Noise in 2014, are back with their sophomore record All We Know of Heaven, All W…
Pyrrhon- “What Passes for Survival’ Rating: 10/10 Stream and purchase the album here. Pyrrhon is a New York technical death metal band that formed in 2008 in a subway station, which is probably the most New York way I’ve ever heard of a b…
Trapped Under Ice - “Heatwave” Rating: 6.5/10 Trapped Under Ice are a band that I hold very dear. I discovered them when I first began listening to hardcore when I was about 15 or 16 years old with their then-latest offering, 2011’s Big Ki…
The Crooked Sound- “Lotus-eaters” Rating: 6/10 Listen to the EP here If you’re active in the Connecticut hardcore scene, you’ve probably seen the name The Crooked Sound pop up quite a few times. Hell, if you’ve been reading this blog, you…
Wage War - Deadweight Rating: 9.3/10 iTunes Wage War, a metalcore group formed out of Ocala, Florida, rose to the top of their genre with their debut record Blueprints in 2015. Now the group is back and ready to take the crown again after…
Ev0lution - Uprise Rating: 3/10 Bandcamp From the start, Ev0lution seemed like a dream come true for fans of EDM and metal, combining the best of both worlds with your favorite deathcore vocalists and metalcore singers, but Uprise proves o…
Tyler, the Creator- Scum Fuck Flower Boy Rating: 9/10 You can listen to the LP here Back in 2007, Tyler, the Creator started the music collective known as Odd Future with Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean, among others; underground rap and R…
Khemmis - HuntedRating: 9/10Listen and buy on their Bandcamp Doom metal and stoner metal don’t do much for me. In my experience, they’re insular genres resistant to change, sticking to the sluggish bpms that defined it in its infancy. I ca…
Integrity - “Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume”Rating: 8/10You can stream the album in full on Youtube There’s not much to say about Integrity that hasn’t been said countless times before. Arguably the first ever metalcore band, the…