JAGUERO on the displacement, burnout and defiance running through “Make Me Feel Alive Again”

OBJECT FICTION map Austin’s heavy shoegaze corner, from Whisper and Late Wife to gallery shows and smoke shop gigs

BOTTOM FEEDER talk debut EP “I”, bringing early-2000s metalcore back home, and Calgary’s all-ages scene rebuild

London progressive duo THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA channel AI rage into “Misantropi”

SPARTA talk “Cut A Silhouette,” and feeling like a band again

DEAD TO FALL revisit the 2001 demo that landed them on Victory, first vinyl pressing out now!

ROBO PUMPKIN’s indie emo debut “The Autumn Here” arrives without a single guitar on the record

Introducing: Belgian hardcore quartet WRVNG – “Spectacle of Fear” single dropped!

Nebraska emo band LOU LOU LOUIE! discuss small emo scene, four-hour round trips, and “Social Smoking”

Polish grungegaze quartet MARCH DOVE on Jungian shadows, Japanese shoegaze, and the One Piece scenes hiding in their songs

Gab De La Vega returns to Canada for a month of solo shows

Instrumental math rockers COMPREHENDING step outside Sweden for the first time with FOR EXAMPLE JOHN this summer

Indian mathcore machine MANEATING ORCHID Maneating Orchid pull Bad Brains, Gorguts and a Zorn-style swing section into “Cosmic Shroud”

BRAT FARRAR channel early Wipers and Husker Du on “Group”, their first full-band album

Philly’s BLUNT FORCE push back on apolitical hardcore across their harsh debut demo

ALARM! return with “Failure By Design,” shaped by a closed Corby steelworks and a Chomsky documentary

Bergamo’s horror punk rockers THE CRIMSON GHOST wrap their three-EP horror cycle with Witchcraft

DISPOSAL bring HM-2 death and beatdown filth to a Barcelona scene

END OF THE LINE on summer 1991, Ebullition, and reunion shows with Downcast: an interview with Matt Anderson and Cory Linstrum

Washington’s emo act EVERETT TEA discuss “long-tailed cat” ahead of LP “smoke signals”