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Rotten to the Core // April 2021

April 5, 2021

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 // March 2021

Calder Dougherty

March 1, 2021

Columns, Rotten to the Core

It’s been a year since we last spoke. January and February felt like a full year, right? The last thing I remember was spending a week holed up writing blurbs about bands like END and Clown Core and now we’re ... 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...

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...

156/Silence – Irrational Pull

Matt MacLennan

June 1, 2020

Reviews

The choice to leave the label system and release a new LP on their own is one that 156/Silence made without hesitation; taking their future firmly in their own hands and making sure that new LP Irrational Pull ... Read More...

Rotten To The Core – Add Several Heaped Spoons of Hate (Season Liberally)

Matt MacLennan

February 21, 2020

Rotten to the Core

Food and kitchen analogies are pretty rife in metal journalism and I'm definitely guilty of slopping cheap comparisons onto thinly sliced metaphors. Writing this now I'm just realising that the fucking title of... Read More...

Vatican – Sole Impulse

Scott Murphy

December 3, 2019

Reviews

Over the past few years (and specifically in 2018), I've been taken aback by the critical affinity with metalcore. It's not just because of the music itself, though I'll admit that I'm not particularly fond of... Read More...

Earth Moves – Human Intricacy

Trent Bos

November 26, 2019

Reviews

Fresh off a short UK tour with rising formidable heavy weights Conjurer and LLNN, Earth Moves are back with a gripping and powerful sophomore release of emotive post-metal, Human Intricacy. Their debut The Tru... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Not Your Friends!

Scott Murphy

September 19, 2019

Listen To This!

Short bursts of off-kilter aggression have yet to go out of style for me. As much as I've gravitated toward longer and more complex music, I still periodically revisit my high school affinity for the '00s math... Read More...

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