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![]() | Just to clarify for those without patience for long bodies of text, we’re not talking the kind of metalcore you’ve heard before. “Prophets” will indulge your ears without limits while igniting the fire needed to push on. Get on board fast, because this bandwagon is about to fill up like the titanic. | More |
![]() | This is powerfully melodic, blackened death metal written by some of the pioneers from before Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, and Unearth were born. Think Dissection, early At The Gates, Iron Maiden, all the greats. One of the year’s top ten without a doubt. Get this double-disc cacophony of evil, somber music. | More |
![]() | Born Low ultimately delivers hard-as-nails, real-deal hardcore built upon years of frustration and a willingness to struggle on. | More |
![]() | If you’ve never heard Living Sacrifice before and are a fan of heavy metal, you’ve got twenty years and 7 albums worth of catching up to do. Do yourself an act of kindness and start with “The Infinite Order.” | More |
![]() | Disembodied were one of the more disturbing and abrasive hardcore bands of the wild 90’s era. “Psalms of Sheol” provides ample insight to some rare classics which kids lost their heads over year after year back then. Let the anvil fall. | More |
![]() | With the majority of Stigmata’s releases increasingly difficult to track down, “The Wounds That Never Heal” should give you enough material to mosh to in your basement until the balance of their material is re-released. Pick this up from one of the leading labels in hardcore, I Scream, as Stigmata were one of the most underrated NY hardcore bands in history. | More |
![]() | Goatwhore are a special band, and “Carving Out The Eyes Of God” is a special record. Overlook it, and risk missing out on one of 2009’s top 5 extreme crossover metal albums. | More |
![]() | If they haven’t done so already, these French Canadian death metal wiggers will change the way you have come to accept death metal or hardcore, whichever scene you call your own. | More |
![]() | People who can digest and be satiated by bands like Burnt By The Sun, Coalesce, Made Out Of Babies, Cave In, The End, Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Led Zeppelin, Jesus Lizard, and Dim Mak may just possess the tools to open the pandora’s box known as “Invisible City.” | More |
![]() | This is deranged and technically-meticulous death metal for outcasts and non-believers with a discerning taste for standout extreme music. | More |
![]() | This is pure metalcore dished out once again by the genre’s leading pioneers. This is how metalcore should look and sound. No posturing. No feminine stage costumes or antics! Just pure testosterone fueled metal influenced hardcore! | More |
![]() | Fans of Burnt By The Sun, Coalesce, early Dillinger Escape Plan, Fortydaysrain, Deadguy, The Red Chord, The Acacia Strain, and Disembodied will fill their pants with feces once they hear “Desolo.” | More |
![]() | “Forever Wounded” is the kind of record that can successfully bludgeon metal-hungry audiences just as much as fickle hardcore kids, provided Morrissey isn’t your God. | More |
![]() | If Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein and Full Blown Chaos’ Ray Mazzola had a child, it would look like Swamp Thing and sound like The Destro. | More |
![]() | No other band blends every generation of metal fan’s favorite style with as much fearlessness and heaps of fun as do The Black Dahlia Murder. “Deflorate” will be the soundtrack to more bedroom push-moshing than any other extreme crossover album this year. | More |
![]() | Whether you’ve been searching for the most volatile brand of metal/hardcore crossover since Dillinger Escape Plan burst onto the scene a little over a decade ago, or you’re simply tired of nearly every new release sounding exactly like another, Burnt By The Sun’s “Heart Of Darkness” will knock you flat on your ass and then curbstomp you for good measure. | More |
![]() | “Your Future’s End” will finally see a presentation to the new generation of hardcore fans looking for something heavier and darker than the average band. And like all that revered Holy Terror sound that never seems to get old, Day Of Mourning live on and maintain their relevance within the current scene. | More |
| Thrice once again proves that they will not allow you to nail them to one genre. They have just given the world their best album and aren’t begging anyone to pay attention, they’re demanding it. You will listen. | More | |
![]() | Imagine if Obituary had a child with D.R.I and Carnivore. But straight-edge. If you didn’t already know Bishop, get a clue. | More |
![]() | If Dying Fetus have been taking a back seat to their successors in recent years, “Descend Into Depravity” will effectively stop that trend dead in its tracks and firmly re-establish the band and its leader John Gallagher as not only built to last, but to destroy all opposition for once and for all. | More |