Articles by Connor Atkinson
Xibalba Commit to Their Unique Metal Sound on 'Años en Infierno'
PUBLISHED May 29, 2020
For 13 years, Xibalba have weathered through trends of the hardcore and metal world without compromising any facet of their sound: pummelli...
Drain
California Cursed
PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2020
A home-state set at last year's Sound and Fury Festival in California cemented Drain as one of the most chaotic and amusing new acts in har...
Are Kruelty the Hardest Band on the Planet, or Hilarious Sweethearts Pretending to Be Scary?
PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2020
Heavy music is inherently scary, especially to those who first encounter the genre. Then, occasionally, a band like Kruelty come along; cra...
Mundy's Bay Use Dream Pop to Unite Anglo and Franco Montreal
PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2020
"If you enjoy music, why put it in a box?" asks Mundy's Bay bassist William Love. Speaking to Exclaim! from their Montreal practice space...
Code Orange
Underneath
PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2020
Code Orange pushed the worlds of metal, hardcore and rock festival sleaze through a perpetual hazing during their I Am King and Forever cyc...
Mundy's Bay
Lonesome Valley
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2020
Incubated within Montreal's hardcore punk scene, formed through a collective embrace of '80s music, Mundy's Bay hail from the cheapest big...
Hear Koyo's Love Letter to Long Island's Emo-Tinged Melodic Hardcore
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2020
With members of Typecaste, Rain of Salvation, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Hangman and Adrenaline in their lineup, Koyo are an innovative melodic har...
Kruelty
A Dying Truth
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2020
Kruelty are a Japanese hardcore band combining ravaging beatdown fume with droning doom and death metal; a striking combination of One Seco...
