Hardcore

The Well-Intentioned Virus
Shaking off the slumber
dB rating: 8/10

Happy Hump Day, Candiria fans! The band has dropped a new live video for “Wandering Light” and announced both East and West Coast runs in 2017. 

Spazz is rereleasing a collection of live and studio recordings from 1995-96. 

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.

Withdrawal are finally poised to release their first full-length album at the beginning of November, but you can hear another new single and read about Never here first.

Horror movies abound in this new video from Tutti I Colori Del Buio.

The Extermination series of hardcore compilations has featured a top notch roster of bands in the past. Piece By Piece and Friend or Foe join that roster on The Extermination: Vol. 3. 

Grim
Goddess of fertility and riffs
dB rating: 8/10

The legendary Integrity is currently recording a full-length for Relapse — news that would be cause for celebration/preparation under any circumstances, but with word coming down that ex-Pulling Teeth guitarist/A389 Recordings founder/superior nasty riff generator Domenic Romeo is leading the six-string slaughter this time out feels more like some straight up Book of Revelation seal-breaking shit.

Counterparts combines emotional lyrics with aggressive hardcore in their new music video for “Stranger.” 

Rheia
Dawn of a different apocalypse
dB rating: 8/10

Experience pure sonic violence with Trap Them‘s Crown Feral, then recover from your beatdown with a macabre arts & (darker hand)crafts lesson from vocalist Ryan McKenney. 

Italy’s Hierophant unleash a palpable burst of anger on “Forever Crucified” as they prepare to release Mass Grave. 

Dwell wrote a hardcore record partially inspired by C.S. Lewis. Listen to the album in full here. 

Knocked Loose is on a roll right now, touring with The Acacia Strain, waiting to hit the United States and Europe with Stick to Your Guns and Expire and putting out a full-length album, Laugh Tracks, on September 16. Go behind the scenes of the new album in this new video.

Integrity’s Those Who Fear Tomorrow, a genre-defining hardcore record, receives a 25 Year Anniversary reissue. Listen now.

The anti-everything iconoclasm this election season deserves.

Revelation Records announce reissue of legendary Warzone debut LP this September. 

In Contrast of Today.

Calli crossover crew Mizery delivers the adrenaline rush you need to make it to the weekend.

Nails deliver a their first Decibel cover and 2016’s first Album of the Year contender.

End of Days
Heart-D-beat of a nation
dB rating: 8/10

Three of the band’s best-loved albums (Pope On A Rope, Toilet Slave and War Of The Superbikes II) will be released in limited run vinyl pressings from three separate labels.  Come learn how to win copies. 

The Decibel Hall Of Fame inductee (along with the rest of Agnostic Front for Cause For Alarm) talked to us earlier this year about the old New York and his new life thousands of miles away in Arizona.

Tell us what hardcore album should be inducted into the HOF next, win an album. Good deal!

Freedom
Party Harder Program
dB Rating: 9/10

Agnostic Front has provided their New York brand of hardcore beatdown to generations of listeners. Incredibly, they are still at it it today more than three decades after their formation. Their new album The American Dream Died shows that they haven’t lost their edge even if a few members are a little longer in the…

Long before guitarist Ryan Butler joined Landmine Marathon he played with the Phoenix hardcore band Unruh. During their five-year run (from 1995 to 2000) they released multiple demos, two albums and toured widely. In addition to seeding Landmine they birthed a rogue’s gallery of Arizona hardcore bands. Unruh recently celebrated their 20-year anniversary with a…

This is the time of the year to acknowledge the things you’re thankful for. One of the things we’re very thankful for is that we’ve been alive to experience multiple Sick Of It All shows. SOIA has long exported their brands of New York City hardcore to the world – as well as their intensely…

Hope you’re ready to get dirty this morning, people — the super-pissed self-titled EP from Wilmington, North Carolina hardcore upstarts Society Sucker streaming below is rife with gloriously grimy grooves, rancid earworm riffage, and nasty, nasty straight-from-the-gutter breakdowns. Officially out on September 16th, preorders for Society Sucker are on seafoam green, gold/yellow clear or black…