Articles by Connor Atkinson

xServitudex Serve Vegan Straight Edge Metalcore "As Extreme As Possible" on 'Bringing Your Hell'

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2019

Despite the progressive values espoused by his metalcore band xServitudex's recent EPs, January's Bringing Your Hell and 2017's Path to Amn...

Wristmeetrazor

Misery Never Forgets

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2019

Wristmeetrazor is an alias as endearing as it is alienating. Similarly, their music conceives the tongue-in-cheek, opaque sentiment of scre...

Old Wounds Suffer Health Scares and Lineup Conflicts Before Rediscovering Their 'Glow'

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2018

There aren't many things that Kevin Iavaroni likes to wake up for, but the Old Wounds vocalist affirms that the group's morale has never be...

Old Wounds

Glow

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2018

New Jersey metalcore alumni Old Wounds were on the cusp of something special in 2015. After a rewarding stint on that summer's Vans Warped...

King Nine

Death Rattle

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2018

King Nine have been sporting their insatiable "anti-human" mantra on their merchandise for several years, as their fan base anticipated the...

(Sandy) Alex G / Half Waif

Mod Club, Toronto ON, November 1

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2018

Alexander Giannascoli — known as (Sandy) Alex G, formerly Alex G — took to Toronto's Mod Club stage last night as a Rascal Flatts' renditio...

Drug Church

Cheer

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2018

For their first two full-lengths, Drug Church leaned on the distorted side of alt-rock, unifying grunge, punk and hardcore curated for the...

Terror

Total Retaliation

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2018

Terror's 2017 EP The Walls Will Fall was a perfected nine-minute crash course on hardcore essentialism, and a vital raised middle finger to...