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COALESCE – Give Them Rope
reviewed by Thomas Pizzola

COALESCE – Give Them Rope

This special double-CD/vinyl reissue features two versions of Coalesce‘s Give Them Rope. Disc one contains the original 1997 release (with a slight remastering job), while disc [...]

SALT THE WOUND – Kill the Crown
reviewed by Ian Jones

SALT THE WOUND – Kill the Crown

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but these days you can most certainly judge music by its album cover, band name, [...]

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – The Best Of
reviewed by Dan Chapman

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – The Best Of

Between The Buried And Me’s recent The Best Of release fully embodies their atomically energetic sound with popular tracks from past albums, as well as [...]

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5

Presenting the new and improved Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 5! Fourteen delicious tracks (and one bonus track) fortified with vitamins, minerals, essential polypeptides, and 100% [...]

For Some Reason, Earth Crisis Finds it Necessary to Release a New Album and Tour in 2010

For Some Reason, Earth Crisis Finds it Necessary to Release a New Album and Tour in 2010

For those of you who like to get together with a group of like-minded individuals and then proceed to beat the living shit out of [...]

SAVING GRACE – Unbreakable
reviewed by Amanda Scifo

SAVING GRACE – Unbreakable

Not the hardest band you’ve heard, but the four-piece metalcore band from New Zealand Saving Grace can raise a few hairs on back of your [...]

VAMPIRE MOOOSE – The Reel
reviewed by Chris Aitkens

VAMPIRE MOOOSE – The Reel

One of the great things about metal/hardcore bands is that their lyrics can be about the most ridiculous shit and they’d still sound gravely serious. [...]

AT THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT – The Arcanum Order
reviewed by Jenny Carter

AT THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT – The Arcanum Order

These young lads are at an average age of 20 and they just kicked my ass! This is one of the most extreme, progressive, and [...]

DROID – S/T
reviewed by Jenny Carter

DROID – S/T

I would like to start off by saying “wow!” That’s literally what I said when I heard the first few seconds of the first track [...]

SAINTS NEVER SURRENDER – Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
reviewed by Seth Gotro

SAINTS NEVER SURRENDER – Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst

I’ve spun discs like this probably 200 times since I’ve been writing for this magazine. It’s good hardcore. It’s fast in all the places it’s [...]

UNDERMINDED – Eleven Eleven
reviewed by Jenny Carter

UNDERMINDED – Eleven Eleven

Socially conscious political hardcore has been done to death. It’s sort of a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s great to get youth thinking about [...]

BUILT UPON FRUSTRATION – The Book of Mourning
reviewed by Dr. Heid

BUILT UPON FRUSTRATION – The Book of Mourning

Old school. This is metal with a real hardcore feel to it. Don’t expect many wild guitar solos, don’t expect any catchy choruses or love [...]

HARLOTS – This is the Second Death
reviewed by Seth Gotro

HARLOTS – This is the Second Death

It sure is. I should’ve known this wasn’t going to be high-end when I got the press sheet out and it’s a torn up, scrap [...]

MISERY SIGNAL – Mirrors
reviewed by Peter Terebesi

MISERY SIGNAL – Mirrors

Wow! There have been a lot of great hardcore metal albums released in the last year, but few are as good as Misery Signals’ sophomore [...]

Interview: Jake Bannon of Converge
words by Billy Werner | photo by Ryan Russell

Interview: Jake Bannon of Converge

In 1996, I was in a garage on Long Island to see a rare area appearance from a relatively unknown (at least in New York) [...]