post-hardcore
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Cult of Luna’s latest effort sees the Swedish atmospheric sludge outfit maintaining its sound with mid-paced tempos and heavy guitars, but the songwriting seems to have lost a disappointing amount of detail and diversity. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Bonjour Machines EP by Bonjour Machines Indie rockers Bonjour Machines bring together elements of indie, emo, and post-hardcore in the same way contemporaries like Cloud Nothings would. Stream their new, self-titled EP via the widget above.
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Screamo outfit Circle Takes the Square are back with their first full length in about 8 years. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Sweden’s Cult of Luna sticks to its guns on this new track from their forthcoming album, Vertikal, which is set to drop January 29th. The new track, “I: The Weapon” mixes the heavy, spacious sounds of atmospheric sludge metal with the melodic sensibilities of post-hardcore very nicely. The song
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On their third album, Washington D.C.’s the Evens prove major changes aren’t necessary when great songwriting, strong messages, and tight playing are the main ingredients in your recipe. WATCH THE REVIEW
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mono no aware: between eternity and the burial by shizune Italy’s Shizune, which is a group of post-hardcore revivalists that I’ve featured on the site before, have a new EP streaming on their Bandcamp, and the band’s production sounds slightly improved. Nice! Of course, their tight playing,
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Some very intense and haunting sludge metal here from Belgium’s Amenra. I really cannot stress enough just how haunting this song is. The vocals are filled with a sort of furious pain that sounds so distant like it is being sucked up by the instrumentation, but not in such
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Some loose, dissonant post-punk from Silver Arm on the track “Man the Falcons,” which hits the ears with a pretty wild groove right from the get-go. Clearly noise and psych rock are influences in addition to danceable punk grooves, and the performance the band gives in the track ain’t
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On their third full-length release, Boston’s Pile connects the heavy hitting sounds of post-hardcore with the dramatic and melodic songwriting prowess of frontman Rick Maguire. WATCH THE REVIEW
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dripping by Pile Bring on the moody, noisy, strange post-hardcore, please. Thank you! Pile is a Boston band, and Dripping is their latest full-length effort, and I’m really enjoying what I’m hearing on the album thus far. It’s a pretty solid offering of slightly off-kilter rock tunage,
