Reviews
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: pummellin...
Articles By Connor Atkinson
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FeaturesAre Kruelty the Hardest Band on the Planet, or Hilarious Sweethearts Pretending to Be Scary? Published Mar 25, 2020Heavy music is inherently scary, especially to those who first encounter the genre. Then, occasionally, a band like Kruelty come along; craf...
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FeaturesMundy'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 spac...
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ReviewsCode Orange Underneath Published Mar 11, 2020Code Orange pushed the worlds of metal, hardcore and rock festival sleaze through a perpetual hazing during their I Am King and Forever cycl...
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![Hear Koyo's Love Letter to Long Island's Emo-Tinged Melodic Hardcore]()
StreamsHear Koyo's Love Letter to Long Island's Emo-Tinged Melodic Hardcore Published Mar 10, 2020With members of Typecaste, Rain of Salvation, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Hangman and Adrenaline in their lineup, Koyo are an innovative melodic hard...
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ReviewsMundy's Bay Lonesome Valley Published Mar 10, 2020Incubated within Montreal's hardcore punk scene, formed through a collective embrace of '80s music, Mundy's Bay hail from the cheapest big c...
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ReviewsKruelty A Dying Truth Published Mar 05, 2020Kruelty are a Japanese hardcore band combining ravaging beatdown fume with droning doom and death metal; a striking combination of One Secon...
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FeaturesSilverstein's Emo Ages Well Because They Don't Pretend They're Young Published Mar 05, 2020Shane Told is happy to be one of the forefathers of emo, if that's what you want to call him. "We look back on our old music with love, and...
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ReviewsOrthodox Let It Take Its Course Published Feb 04, 2020Orthodox are from Nashville, TN; Orthodox make nu-metal music, unabashedly so; Orthodox are a straight-edge band; Orthodox are one of the we...
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ReviewsVarious Artists Hot Shit Attitude: The Outburst Covers Record Published Jan 28, 2020Manhattan in the '80s was not the shining tourist destination many know it as today. Those who did not conform to Reaganomics and participat...
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![Downpresser The Long Goodbye]()
ReviewsDownpresser The Long Goodbye Published Jan 03, 2020There's an unwritten history in California hardcore of strong releases followed by unaddressed absences. Harness, What's Good, Skinfather —...
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ReviewsOrville Peck Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, December 5 Published Dec 06, 2019Orville Peck played his 120th ("or something like that") and final show of the year on Thursday night in Toronto, ending his explosive 2019...
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FeaturesCounterparts Are Not as Miserable as You'd Think on 'Nothing Left to Love' Published Nov 04, 2019When listeners hear Counterparts' new album, Nothing Left to Love, many will presume that vocalist Brendan Murphy is objectively miserable....
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ReviewsCounterparts Nothing Left to Love Published Oct 29, 2019Brendan Murphy and his roster of melodic hardcore masterminds have been haunted by past since their initial first wave of success. This year...
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![SeeYouSpaceCowboy Kill Off 'Sasscore' with 'The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds']()
NewsSeeYouSpaceCowboy Kill Off "Sasscore" with 'The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds' Published Sep 25, 2019With the release of new album The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds, SeeYouSpaceCowboy have officially grown out of their scene p...
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ReviewsSeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds Published Sep 24, 2019On their (proper) debut LP, The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds, the days of SeeYouSpaceCowboy's flashy political jabs and outr...
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ReviewsKnocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue Published Aug 20, 2019There is something about Knocked Loose. Nobody is quite sure what it is. Their 2016 debut, Laugh Tracks, certainly showed promise throughout...
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NewsKnocked Loose Discuss the Growth — and Ghost Story — That Birthed 'A Different Shade of Blue' Published Aug 19, 2019Knocked Loose were recording "In the Walls," a track from their new album, A Different Shade of Blue, when the band connected with… somethin...
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ReviewsSanction Broken in Refraction Published Aug 13, 2019On Broken in Refraction, Sanction show the world through their eyes — twisted, anxious and distanced from life's simple pleasures. Truth...
