THE THIRSTY GIANTS – a Minnesota intergenerational punk trio drop their debut album

PROMISE premiere “Chlorine”, discuss catharsis, control, and Italy’s growing hardcore scene

SCARED LITTLE TOASTER premiere a live session of “Scared of the Manual” recorded inside a converted container

Worcester’s BODY EVICTION trace the politics running through “Dead Civilians”

Keeping hardcore close to work, anger, and survival, with OUT OF LINE’s “Rec Center”

Melodic hardcore ON BORROWED TIME walk through “In The Dark Before The Dawn”

HEALING WOUND talk through eight songs of depression, dissociation and forgiveness on “Bodies of Heavenly Violence”

Cleveland’s RITUAL BRONZE close their debut with “Tortured Artist,” a song about a life spent in bands

From a secondary school music department poster to a 15,000-cap arena in Leipzig: Adam Jones and Dylan Plenty on a decade-plus of COBER MOUTH

A STATIC LULLABY look back at their 2003 debut, touring, the new era, and the live version of “…And Don’t Forget To Breathe”

“Wszystko robimy razem”: wracaj, bo ciemno and milion lat przestępnych turn 17 gigs of friendship into a split EP

AYODYLAN releases “Knuckle Head”, built around a song he wrote the morning he read about Kurt Cobain living under a bridge

HOAXXERS reunite Joe Jitsu’s original lineup on “Hard Luck”on Mom’s Basement Records

DEMERSAL preview an epic album about masculinity, loneliness, and hatred with “Som Sendt Fra Himlen”

awaywithroses (members of Serration dig into hospitals, scars and the Alberta scene on “My Involvement With Witchcraft”

SO–CRATES “V2” premiere “Reveal Itself,” three years of recording between England and Portugal

BEYOND THE STYX return with “DIVID” on Innerstrength Records, vocalist Emile breaks down the war, the borders, and the band’s slogan

Oslo’s industrialized hardcore band TRUEANDTRUE drops “NOSEDIVE”

KIDS OF RAGE map Barcelona’s vanishing hardcore, comment on staying loyal to 2000s hardcore through 16 years of lineup changes

OMOIYARI’s “Poisoned Seas” pulls Icarus, Odin, and willow trees into a bedroom-built heavy album opener