I’m not going to be kind, and it’s because I shouldn’t be: This is the same type of bland metalcore generica where dreams go to die.
Based on the strength of this EP, I can foresee a horde of twenty-somethings dusting off their Trainwreck LPs while simultaneously recruiting an unsuspecting cadre of...
Lance Marwood arrived early to share some words of wisdom (and general misanthropy) with Matt Fox, Shai Hulud's guitarist, vocalist, and sole remaining founding member.
Punk bands in Toronto seem to only be interested in purist versions of hardcore or screamo. But what about a band that wants to crossover these...
So it's been 36 years since they released their infamous LP Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, am album that helped create D-Beat, shape Crust Punk,...
Watch as Lance Marwood attempts to describe an entire subgenre of heavy music using less than 300 words. There’s a bonus playlist of essential artists and...
Lance ranks the bands he watched on Day 3 of Desertfest from worst to best. So how do Godflesh, Blood Ceremony, and Electric Wizard, and more...
Coming out of Hamburg, Germany, this four-piece manage to incorporate more dark atmospheric elements into its brand of hardcore without diving into the tired tropes that...
What do you get when you put the greatest heavy and noise artists from Japan together? You get the greatest such album of the past decade....
In this post Lance Marwood helps us to highlight five Toronto and Montreal, Canada bands that, while still underground, absolutely deserve your attention. So, without further...
Grab a bottle from behind the bar, run out into the snow, and pass out with this fire in your ears!
There’s very little that I can say about this release that I hate. With that said, there’s even less that I can say I like.
Ever wanted to hear what Crowbar and Isis' love child would sound like after eating shrooms and snorting a line? Well then listen to this album,...
Watch as Lance Marwood attempts to describe an entire subgenre of heavy music using less than 300 words (or, the equivalent of three breaths). This time...
Kennedy's debut full-length is precisely the kind of conscientious, chaotic hardcore that one can expect from a five-piece out of Montreal. Its seething attitude, frantic energy,...