Category: Hardcore

9 June 2022 / Hardcore

FØES/Heated – A War on Everything (Split EP)

FØES and Heated are road companions who saw their livelihoods threatened and their sanity disturbed when the USA went into lockdown in 2020. The former hail from Oregon and mix…

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24 May 2022 / Hardcore

Terror – Pain into Power

Californian hardcore legends, Terror, are one of the most enduring bands of the last twenty years, but few extreme metal fans realise how much their music crosses over with their…

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17 May 2022 / Hardcore

Cleaver – No More Must Crawl

You can rely on Klonosphere Records to scout the best metal and hardcore talent in Francophone Europe with recent classics from Tranzat, Scarred and Exanimis to their name in the…

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2 May 2022 / Hardcore

Cage Fight – Cage Fight

James ‘Metal’ Monteith is the resident metalhead in Tesseract, a bit like the role Jim Martin had in Faith No More. During lockdown, he and long-time friend, Jon Reid, revisited…

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27 April 2022 / Hardcore

Anna Sage – Anna Sage

Paris-based hardcore purveyors, Anna Sage, first appeared on the scene with 2014’s The Fourth Wall EP and followed it up in 2018 with another extended play called Downward Motion. Now,…

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26 April 2022 / Hardcore

Trading Hands – Clobberknocker

Powerviolence quartet, Trading Hands, features some of the most recognisable names from the extreme metal scene in the English home counties. SBR readers might know one or two of them.…

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14 April 2022 / Hardcore

Eunoia – Psyop of the Year

Cincinnati trio, Eunoia, have roots in the hardcore scene but like to experiment with mathcore and noise rock. They also have a college humour that carries weight in certain circles…

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31 March 2022 / Hardcore

Nequient – Darker Than Death or Night

Chicago crust-grind quartet, Nequient, are as intimidating as the streets of their crime-ridden city. These boys live among the pollution and pork barrel politics of a great metropolis where wealth…

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23 March 2022 / Hardcore

Bitter Branches – Your Neighbors Are Failures

Ex-Deadguy vocalist, Tim Singer, is back with a new band and a cast of hardcore veterans, including former Kid Dynamite guitarist, Dan Yemin, on bass. Many of you will be…

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10 February 2022 / Hardcore

Vvorse – Kurjien elegia

Finland has an abundance of melodic death metal bands, but few hardcore groups come our way. Vvorse are a quartet from Jyväskylä with one previous album to their name and…

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