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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: New Fawn Limbs Will Leave You “Twitching, Lapsing”

June 21, 2021

If you're into the darkest and most chaotic sides of extreme music and aren't familiar with Fawn Limbs, you've got some catching up to do. The dissonant, grinding mathcore trio have shaken the scene of late wi... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Manipulator Got Nothing to Hide on “Naked and Open”

Jordan Jerabek

June 14, 2021

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For me, the true beauty in grind is in its power, density, directness, and brevity. It’s not the place for savoring anything other than the lasting burn of getting completely scorched for 10 minutes, like the ... Read More...

Yautja – The Lurch

Eden Kupermintz

May 10, 2021

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Depending on how you choose to count things and which albums you consider as "full", it has been either seven or six years since Yautja's last "full" album and by Jove, I've missed them. There are a lot of rea... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // April 2021

Calder Dougherty

April 5, 2021

Rotten to the Core

Welcome back to Rotten to the Core, where much like the inexorable pressure of our late-stage capitalist hellworld clamoring to squeeze everything back into a state of blissfully hypnagogic consumerism post-pa... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // 2020 In Review

Calder Dougherty

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Rotten to the Core

It’s been a hell of a year, and we’ve needed every ounce of good music to get us through. 2020 saw a huge resurgence of insane mathcore, traditional metalcore revival, crossover hardcore, and much of the djent... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // December 2020

Calder Dougherty

December 7, 2020

Rotten to the Core

Nothing pithy or pissy this month. The world continues to burn, but we’re getting through it one riff at a time. Happy holidays from ours to yours! Stay safe out there and mosh responsibly. - Calder Dougher... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Watch Beaten to Death Explode With A “Flatulence of Emotions”

Eden Kupermintz

November 26, 2020

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Yes, you read the name of the track right. By now, I would hope that if you read this blog you'd know who Beaten to Death are. In case you've forgotten, these guys make some of the best grindcore ever, temperi... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Brighten Your Miserable Day With PlasticBag FaceMask’s “Put a Light In a Cloud”

Matt MacLennan

November 19, 2020

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The last project I wrote for high school music a decade and a half ago was titled "Spandex Death Mask". It was a terrible Dillinger rip that had trombones and sax runs (Ire Works had just come out, give me a br... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

Calder Dougherty

November 9, 2020

Columns, Rotten to the Core

As I write this, the US Senate has just confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, a mere week before he is expected to lose reelection. The only thing remotely ‘supreme’ about Barrett i... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // October 2020

Calder Dougherty

October 5, 2020

Rotten to the Core

Welcome back to Rotten to the Core, where we like to think of life as one big stage dive through a parting crowd. Sure, you may permanently disfigure yourself in pursuit of passing nirvana, but at least you pu... Read More...

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