EMBERS OF OUROBOROS offers a grim, reflective debut with “The Autumnal Decline and Hermetic Maturation”

KAONASHI close the chapter merging chaos with clarity on “I Want To Go Home”

FIN DEL MUNDO return to Europe with a new album and a string of intimate memories

Modern nu metallers OCEAN OF ANOTHER confront personal trauma and systemic collapse on their new EP “Loneliness Of My Kin”

PETRICHOR’s debut EP takes childhood myths and Grey’s Anatomy and filters them through DC punk and teenage angst

PHANTOM HEIR channels resistance into four-part anti-authoritarian tech/post-metal EP “Fragile Immortals”

BURIAL TREE returns with “The Power of Myth,” an extended three-track statement featuring Dave Lombardo, Bill Laswell, and Peter Apfelbaum

STATICO confronts industrial tragedy and systemic greed in new track “Not A Catwalk”

ART OF HEARTWORK’s emotive metalcore debut tear through personal collapse and Balkan rot on their debut EP

Americana infused alt rockers BURNTWOOD explore disconnection, nature, and renewal on debut album

NEW BRUTALISM release “089,” first single off upcoming EP recorded by Steve Albini

Hardcore punks LAUGH TRACK channel post-surgery frustration into Hope Less, a DIY Gothenburg record captured in two nights

POISON TRIBE’s new EP drags Denver crust out of the grave and back into the pit – top Colorado under the radar bands

GRIDIRON drop “Heavy Metal Money (Seen It All Before)” feat. Big Body Bes video

Screamy rockers KARABA F.C. premiere “Tides”

Losing things, holding on, and starting over together – an interview with Italian emo screamo band BYMYSIDE

Screamo act YOUTH NOVEL return with “Made in Heaven,” reflecting on ketamine therapy and depression

Alternative shoegaze rockers FLYING NUNS reissue their 1992 demo and prepare a new EP after 18 years of silence

Spook Records nears 20 years of DIY hardcore, still riding for the CD format

HAYWIRE roll through the U.S. with “Summer Nights” video premier and shows booked in Alaska and Hawaii