Articles by Bradley Zorgdrager

When Forever Comes Crashing: A Full History of Converge

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2017

In their April 2005 issue, Alternative Press published "Bringing It Back: AP's Hardcore Special." Only two of the 16 featured bands are sti...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Converge

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2017

Converge are in the unique position of being "a high school band that never broke up," as guitarist Kurt Ballou told Berklee College of Mus...

AXIS

"The Altruist"

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2017

AXIS have gifted the world "The Altruist," a new song from upcoming album Shift, available to stream now down below. Down a member since t...

SECT

"Open Grave"

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2017

SECT invite you into an "Open Grave" with the first song from their similarly bleakly titled second LP, No Cure for Death. According to th...

Spunk

"Tryna Chill It Out"

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2017

Spunk are "Tryna Chill It Out" according to the title of their latest single, but the music ain't exactly calm. Nope, it lives up to the GT...

Thursday's Geoff Rickly Reveals His Childhood Obsession with Commercial Jingles

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2017

Thursday's Geoff Rickly was raised around "the music of the hippies," but his childhood obsession with commercial jingles — specifically "M...

Head North

"White Light" (video)

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2017

Head North completed their transformation from pop punk to what they call "cosmic rock" earlier this year with The Last Living Man Alive Ev...

Hollow Earth

"Heliotropic" (Failure cover)

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2017

Hollow Earth didn't warn Houston when they went into orbit with a pair of 2016 releases — the Parting Remains EP and Dead Planet album — an...