There had never been a band like Unbroken before. How they sounded, how they looked and what they said all came from a place that baffled a lot of hardcore kids back in the 90s.

But Justin Pearson got it.

Cleveland’s Gorepunch features ex-members of System Divide, as well as Mike Heller of Malignancy/Fear Factory. 

Two weeks ago, you had a chance to listen to Lychgate’s new album, An Antidote for the Glass Pill.  Now hear from the music’s creator about how philosophy and dystopian literature contributed to the organ-saturated black/doom album.

Tampa metallic hardcore brutalists Blistered follow up last year’s debut EP, Soul Erosion, with full-length The Poison of Self-Confinement.

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USDA-choice noise-rock
dB Rating: 9/10

Here you are kids: the full, slightly abridged, version of the Publicist UK interview that appears in the Upfront section of the latest issue.

Hit the “Open Road” with this old-school Christian Mistress video.

Carousel, a Thin Lizzy/Diamond Head-influenced quartet, are just about ready to drop new album 2113.

Said Gino Filicetti, founder of the magazine, on their decision, “It is with a heavy heart that we came to this decision, but the timing seemed right given the changing face of metal journalism. Chronicles of Chaos was always dedicated to thoughtful, long form articles that put more emphasis on quality and insight than on scooping everyone else.

It should come as no surprise that the new Skepticism album, Ordeal, is a monolithic slab of incredible. The group’s status purveyors of the ultra-slow motion (aka funeral doom) isn’t for everybody—even the mustached, carabiner-on-belt-loop crowd—but that doesn’t matter. The magic of stomach-churnin’ heaviness, death rite fervor, and mind-numbing repetition is best when observed, commented on, absorbed, and enjoyed by the few.