Hardcore

Interview: Terror Frontman Scott Vogel Discusses Todd Jones Collaboration on ‘Pain Into Power’

May 2, 2022

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

Video Premiere: Model Prisoner – “Dirt Merchant”

April 1, 2022

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

Pre-Order MUNICIPAL WASTE’s New Album ‘Electrified Brain’ on CD Longbox and Cassette RIGHT NOW!

April 1, 2022

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.

Track Premiere: Last Wishes — “Loyalty”

March 30, 2022

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

Q&A: Keith Morris on the CIRCLE JERKS Reunion

March 30, 2022

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

Demo:listen: Let Them Die

March 15, 2022

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

Exclusive EP Premiere: Dry Socket – “Cessation”

March 11, 2022

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.

Track Premiere: Guardrails — “Yours Truly”

March 9, 2022

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.

Track Premiere: Berthold City — “Out of Darkness”

March 2, 2022

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

Full Album Stream: Milquetoast’s ‘Caterwaul’

January 26, 2022

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

Full EP Premiere: Apes – “Lullabies For Eternal Sleep”

January 6, 2022

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

Track Premiere: Sundown – “Not My Jam”

January 4, 2022

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

Video Premiere: Take Life – “Leper Shepherd“ (NSFW)

December 9, 2021

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.

Full EP Stream: Brick by Brick / Cutthroat

December 3, 2021

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

Track Premiere: Brick By Brick – “Just Look Around” (Sick of it All Cover)

October 27, 2021

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

Video Premiere: Blistering Joy – ‘Funeral for the Death of My Dreams’

October 5, 2021

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

Video Premiere: SPY – “Obtained Under Duress / Exceptional American”

October 1, 2021

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

Jim Saah On His Defining Photos of DC Hardcore, Black Flag, Minor Threat and More

September 17, 2021

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

Double-Header Track Premiere: Fast Break! Records’ Z9 and MH Chaos

September 14, 2021

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

Five Times Harvcore Records Ruled

September 13, 2021

Revisiting hardcore label Harvcore Records.

Album Premiere: Turn Cold – ‘Break Your Faith’

September 1, 2021

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

Listen: Turnstile Release New Album “Glow On”

August 30, 2021

Hardcore mainstays Turnstile embrace new sounds on Glow On.

Video Premiere: Wolf King – Live at Rapture Recordings

August 24, 2021

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

Album Review: DARE – ‘Against All Odds’

August 18, 2021

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

Video Premiere + Interview: Eyes of Perdition – “When Deeply Ingrained Traumas Spill Forth Like Maggots in Carrion”

July 20, 2021

Chameleonic frontwoman Lindsay O. (Coma Cluster Void, Natalia) embraces her slam/death side with Eyes of Perdition. Watch their new video and read an interview with Lindsay here.

Video Premiere: Ingrown – “Waste”

July 6, 2021

Watch Idaho’s killer hardcore power trio Ingrown in their natural habitat in the new video “Waste.”

Album Premiere: Vorvaň – ‘Awakened’

May 26, 2021

Russian hardcore/sludge outfit Vorvaň rise from slumber to release their bruising sophomore record, Awakened.

Track Premiere: Blue Ox – ‘Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition’

May 17, 2021

Blue Ox dole out sludgy, metallic hardcore on “Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition.”