Metalcore

Check out a new song from hardcore/metal unit Farooq.

Watch a new video from rising metalcore unit Vatican.

Vein frontman discusses Errorzone, nu metal comparisons and more.

Stream a new song from hardcore crushers World Demise.

Watch a new video from chaotic hardcore outfit American Standards.

Hardcore rising stars Purgatory deliver sonic carnage on Cold Side of Reality.

Spastic hardcore quartet Faus get crazy on “Magnum Oppress.”

Stream the title track to Light This City‘s Terminal Bloom.

Chaotic, mathy and silly, it’s a new single from Shaving the Werewolf.

Watch a new video from Ondt Blod now.

Harm’s Way discuss Posthuman, nu metal and constantly reinventing their sound.

Obnoxious Noise Fest will feature a headlining set from grindcore stalwarts Pig Destroyer, plus performances from Skycamefalling, Internal Bleeding, Artificial Brain and more.

Stream Torn Shore‘s unhinged new album, Reduced.

Departed deliver a beatdown of seismic proportions on their debut EP.

With so many killer metal releases this year, you may have overlooked these 5 hardcore records that deserve a spot in your regular rotation.

If the glorious new track, “Betrayer” is any indication, Trivium’s new album should be a chance for metalheads to revisit Florida’s metal heroes.

Watch a new video from metalcore bruisers Kublai Khan now!

Metalcore legends Zao sense danger on new song “The Host Has Bared Its Teeth.”

Stream the flattening new EP from hardcore heavyweights Vatican NOW before its release on Friday.

Integrity‘s Dwid Hellion on his creative process, new album Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume and the blues. 

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks to Decibel about the fifteen-year anniversary of Alive or Just Breathing and Killswitch’s new beer collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. 

A nice fireside chat about metal, hardcore, the early-to-mid 2000s, and the future of extreme music.

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

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

Metalcore forward-thinkers Norma Jean always have something new up their sleeve, a trend that continues on Polar Similar.

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.

Mike “Gunface” McKenzie — the perception-scrambling metal visionary hitherto best know as the guitarist of The Red Chord guitarist and mastermind behind Stomach Earth — recently recorded a song for Sesame Street entitled “6 Steps to Potty Training.”

I Love the Mid-’90s. If you have a similar soft spot for “metallic hardcore” don’t sleep on Eternal Sleep.  

To co-opt/augment Riki Rachtman’s old Headbanger’s Ball sign-off, on Written in Blood Darkness Divided has one foot in the metalcore gutter, one fist in the Between the Buried and Me/Devin Townsend-y gold. And for those who don’t reflexively hate the former, the latter will be a very welcome development indeed. Anyway, here’s your chance to…

Looks like it’s time to storm the gates of Hell again, kids. That’s right. Demon Hunter returns today with Extremist, an aptly-titled album that raises all of the various and sundry elements of the band’s burly signature sound to new maximal intensities before melding the whole shebang into a more cohesive, focused whole than ever…