Hardcore

This week Demo:listen gets knocked out by Swedish sludge/hardcore punk duo Nembutal Sleep.

From reactivated screamo stalwarts to revolutionary hardcore punk, there’s something for every hardcore fan this year.

Simulakra and Year of the Knife vocalist Tyler Mullen link up for the band’s new song, “Follow the Flies.”

Decibel gets the lowdown from Harley Flanagan on circa 2022 Cro-Mags, the upcoming tour, and how getting beat down on the jiujitsu mat can prepare one for hardcore touring.

Terror frontman Scott Vogel talks about collaborating with former guitarist/current Nails frontman Todd Jones for the band’s new album, Pain into Power.

Check out the new song and video from the hardcore crushers in Model Prisoner, off their new EP, Compulsion Analysis.

There are only 100 exclusive color cassettes and 300 CD longboxes of Municipal Waste‘s Electrified Brain available to Decibel readers for pre-order. Don’t blow it.

Hear the fresh-yet-old-school-based hardcore attack of Last Wishes in advance of their gritty, bouncy, defiant debut full-length Organized Hate.

Catching up with hardcore OG and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris on the band’s return to the stage after 15 years.

This week’s Demo:listen is gonna hit a little harder than usual when we introduce Florida’s Let Them Die.

Sometimes a name perfectly encapsulates what a band sounds like. And Portland’s Dry Socket found the exact right moniker to describe their painful, impossible-to-ignore approach to hardcore punk.

It’s been a long goddamn while since a hardcore band blasted out of the gate with a sound as feral and kinetic – yet savvily refined in construction – as Guardrails. Hear them now.

Featuring members of Strife, World Be Free, and Internal Affairs, Berthold City brings the straight edge hardcore fire to lead us “Out of Darkness.”

Spin the entirety of Caterwaul from punk blasters Milquetoast and pre-order it in advance of a January 28 release from Wise Blood.

Hear Quebec sextet, Apes, offer up nightmare-inducing, black metal-flecked grindcore lullabies on their new four-song EP.

Hear Indianapolis post-hardcore quartet Sundown tear through a sludgy, jittery anthem from their upcoming Wise Blood debut.

The new NSFW video from Take Life, featuring current and former members of One King Down, Most Precious Blood and Insvrgence, has more than a little blood on its hands.

East Coast meets West Coast when Brick by Brick and Cutthroat join forces for a split seven inch.

Calgary heavy crew Trench sense “Imminent Power Looming.”

Metallic hardcore outfit Brick by Brick is sick of a lot of things, but not this classic jam from Sick of it All.

Chaotic hardcore band Blistering Joy release video for “Funeral for the Death of My Dreams.”

Eye Spy a double-dose of hardcore punk in VHS-inspired form from To Live a Lie Records.

Legendary DC hardcore photographer Jim Saah shares images and ’80 punk tales from his book In My Eyes: Photographs 1982-1997.

Decibel brings you a double-dose of early ’90 hardcore and late-’90s post hardcore from Fast Break! Records signees Z9 and MH Chaos!

Revisiting hardcore label Harvcore Records.

Dive into a riff-blizzard with Atlanta crossover thrashers Turn Cold as they unleash their three-track EP, Break Your Faith.

Hardcore mainstays Turnstile embrace new sounds on Glow On.

Check out the new EP and video from Richmond hardcore heroes, Under Attack!

Wolf King release a live session from California studio Rapture Recordings.

DARE deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Rotting Out, Mizery, Incendiary and others at the vanguard of hardcore.