Bordeaux screamo band SOLITONE return after eight years with a politically sharpened new EP “Le champ des possibles”

TRAINFANTOME turn shoegaze grimy on “Constant Farewells”

STABBER, Oslo hardcore punks, return with ‘EP II’ and a guide to their city’s scene

Gord Taylor builds “Made in Hell” from distance, old lessons, and bagpipes without Scotland attached

BOI TOI plays with post post-hardcore on “That’s Boss”, super adventurous, crazy 5-tracker worth your time

HOLD ME TIGHT turn inward cruelty into rebirth on biting new single “Silence Before Rebirth”, feat. DESOLATED!

MELTT turn soft psych-pop into a warm map of memory on “Pathways”

hairpin pair Angel Du$t-style power pop with hardcore intensity on “Framing”

FOREIGN FILM, the Sacramento mellow post rock band formed by Will Haven members, walk through every track on “A Love Letter”

Endless Fest gathers 26 bands across three generations of NYC hardcore to benefit ABC No Rio

After three bandmates passed and 30 years of silence, melodic hardcore band SIDE OVER finish the album they couldn’t make in 1993

MILLION MOONS walk through “You Be Good, I Love You” track by track

After ten years chasing NOFX, ALL COASTED deliver their darkest record yet on “Time For Disruption”

MELTING want extreme metal to feel frightening again on “A Pathetic Excuse For A Life”

Asylum Metal: AGARWAEN on “The Murder Trend, theater school discipline, blood bag disasters, and 15 clowns in the crowd

Italian punk veteran Paolo Palmacci returns with “No Capitulation”, a compilation of seven imaginary bands fronted by 1980s scene contributors

MAN LOOKING MAN pull from Mussorgsky and Botch on their self-titled debut

Staycation: VOLYNKA discuss Fugazi, Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, and a record about confinement that grew out of post-lockdown years in Athens

LA’s MERMAID ISLAND turn punk rock survival mode into a self-titled debut

GEN AND THE DEGENERATES take aim at bisexual erasure on new single “Favourite Jumper”