COLD PHASE wrap up an intense year of fast work, name changes, and figuring out how to move forward

Eddie Gobbo of SOMETHING IS WAITING drops a new live album and walks us straight into his “Best for Business” wrestlers of 2026

Goth rockers COLD IN BERLIN return with “Wounds”, built around the scars people carry and the strange strength that rises from them

Experimental rockers MAIN ERA capture a year of shared walls, shifting identity, and blurred reality on “Four of Wands”

ELBOWSWAY introduce themselves with “common sense” as one of the first shoegaze voices to emerge from Tashkent

In Shorts: November 21-28

Post hardcore band KO-MA expose corruption, fear, and collapse in “N.Fit” and the upcoming album “ANTHROPOLIS”

“A Story Worth Listening To” by REGROWTH captures a generation trying to keep its footing while the world keeps tilting

TROY THE BAND release the frenzied “Nothing” ahead of their 2026 album “(des)”

French post hardcore act MAPS AND FOILS close out a hectic 2025 with “Nulle part” video from their concept album

Post metallers IAN fold humor, friendship, and slow-burning weight into “Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!”

Vancouver emo post hardcore act OFTEN WRONG premiere “The Figs are Starting to Rot”

Dark shoegazers UN-Ter arrive with “Autoreverse” built from car-radio tape failure, doom-scrolling logic, and a DIY summer session

meandergreen: tracing memory, loss, and brotherhood into “fallow and cancer, it was the night sky”

GHOLD push their progressive sound into stranger territory with “Bludgeoning Simulations”

Metallic post hardcore pack SURRENDER THE WEAPON folds decades of New Jersey hardcore lineage into one multifaceted three-tracker

In Shorts: November 14-21

THE PATH play their final show this Saturday, joined by a rare GET A GRIP reunion and unreleased tracks from 2017

2024 board tape captures DRUNKS WITH GUNS doing what their old records only hinted at

LEISURE HOUR tell the story of a town with nothing and a record with everything