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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 16h
Between the beautiful Alpine slopes of northern Italy, there’s hardcore too. Morbegno had its own little scene, with bands, zines and DIY gigs. Sottomissione Zero grew up in the middle of it and are still playing together 25+ years later. Full story at idioteq.com/italian-alpi...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 20h
Sardinian melodic hardcore crew REGROWTH have released "Shattered Pieces", a five-track EP marking ten years of the band. All five tracks are streaming on regrowth.bandcamp.com/album/shatte...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Winnipeg metallic hardcore crew Withdrawal have released "In The End, Again, An End..." after quietly reuniting the lineup behind their 2011 A389 release "Faith, Flesh & Blood" in June 2025 withdrawal.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Springfield, Illinois straight edge hardcore band Prevention have joined Triple B Records and announced their debut LP, "And Nothing's Mine", out October 30 through Triple B and Delayed Gratification Records. The first cut, "Tell Yourself" is up! bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-no...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blistering #screamo with sharp jazz and atmospheric turns, GHOLA bring togetherac Crowning, Itto, Lord Snow, Stormlight, Inosuke, Oaktails, Frail Body, Bleached Cross and Greed Worm. 8-track debut out via Zegema Beach Rec - “Black Knight Satellite” up now zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aeon
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grinding death metal with a mechanical, bitter edge - Leng Tch'e return with “Hammered Into Collapse,” a new single out via Season of Mist.T he track circles around wasted time, parasitic dependence and a slow mental collapse. lengtchesom.bandcamp.com/track/hammer...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ecstatic black metal pushed into a raw live setting, Agriculture are streaming “Bodhidharma (Live in Cologne 2026),” the seventh track from their upcoming The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026. agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Firstline put migration, family-party salsa, Wisin & Yandel and life between Colombia, Venezuela and Madrid into "TRIBU". Full feature: idioteq.com/madrid-latin...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rosetta are back with "Temporal Lapse", their final album in the band's current form. Work started in '19, survived the pandemic, a house fire, deaths in the family and several years of stops and starts. "This is the final album. We're not breaking up,". 27 Nov @pelagic_records
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Frank Navetta and Tony Lombardo singing lead on a Descendents record. That is the 1979 single, back on "Bonus Fat" with the "Fat" EP, out November 13th via Org Music on 12-inch, CD and tape.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
MANIFEST X just landed with some proper California straight edge energy. Members of Human Garbage, Section H8 and more, 8 tracks, no bullshit. Full EP drops October 17 for Edge Day, pre-orders are up now on @TripleBRecords triplebrecords.net/collections/...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Special emo post hardcore gem coming up tomorrow on IDIOTEQ>com
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
HIRS have released Empty Urn, a 15-track collection of rare cuts pulled from comps, splits, b-sides and out-of-print releases, all newly remastered. hirs.bandcamp.com
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fast, melodic punk with emo and indie-rock edges - Bilbao trio OHIL return with eta maiz ez da beste ezer, 8 high-energy tracks sung in Euskera - laagoniadevivir.bandcamp.com/album/ladv22...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Modern deathcore pressure, dissonant atmosphere and an intense 2min attack mark Suicide Silence’s return with “Graceless,” their first new music in 3 years. And boy it slaps! It opens the band’s newly announced 8th album of the same name, due Nov 20 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2zV...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Post rock maestros Caspian @caspianofficial are back with beautiful new single "Remain", streaming now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPV... #postrock #caspian
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SOUL GLO, by Robb Klassen
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Soul Glo just dropped with “February Theory,” their first new release since 2023. The track deals with grief, depression, self-destructive habits and getting emotionally numb after losing people. It opens NA I'M GON GRAB ALLAT, due Jan 15 via Epitaph - youtu.be/w-rLBnA-cJU?...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A key piece of European screamo history is back in print. Raein and Daïtro’s 2004 split has been reissued by Persistent Vision Records on 12" vinyl and cassette, 22 years after the original 10". Physical copies ship in October - raeinband.bandcamp.com/album/raein-...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We talked to False Body about Edmonton hardcore, 15 years of Lee and Justin playing together, Not Enough Fest, Dylan, and why their first LP finally gave them room to get weirder. “Tomorrow Starts Without You” is out September 25 via Wax Vessel idioteq.com/false-body-d...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A rare, blink-and-you-miss-it return from Carry On lands at FYA 13 @FYAFest in Orl on Jan 9–10, 2027. The band said at Sound & Fury they’re only playing a handful of shows before calling it again, with Floorpunch, Fiddlehead and more also on the bill at Orlando Warehouse. Sick.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jacksonville's own Step 2 This just dropped Break the Game via Triple B. Coming hot off the heels of The First Step, this new joint brings straight-up ignorant, high-energy bounce that pulls from late-90s snotty punk grit and hard-hitting 00s Boston style. bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/break-...
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Break the Game, by Step 2 This
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Finnish screamo and emotional hardcore - Alas return with Anatomia, a nine-track LP out September 4. Raw, tense and inward-looking, it circles distance, jealousy, grief, stagnation and the pressure of becoming what others expect. alasyhtye.bandcamp.com/album/anatomia
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Spanish Love Songs have announced “Future Nausea”, out November 6 via Pure Noise Records. New single “Good American” is out now, written around the US military system, trans soldiers and the political anger running through the album.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lifesick are back with a new single, “Hard to Kill”. The Danish metallic hardcore band released it today and have more shows coming in September. @lifesickhc #Hardcore - lifesickhc.bandcamp.com/album/hard-t...
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Hard to Kill, by LIFESICK
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Russian Circles are back with "Nine". We talked with Brian Cook about writing across three cities, returning to Electrical Audio, the strange ideas behind the record, and the song they thought could be their crossover track but left off "Gnosis". idioteq.com/russian-circ...
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RUSSIAN CIRCLES talk "Nine", art under pressure and twenty years without a formula - IDIOTEQ.com
Russian Circles passed twenty years as a band in typically unspectacular fashion. They were halfway through the touring cycle for "Gnosis", their eighth
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remembering Jonny - Jon Aaron, better known as Jonny Bones of The Still Spirits and Bone Daddies, passed away on Saturday. We spoke with him in March about "Small Time Crime", his illness and the Vancouver punk community. idioteq.com/vancouver-pu...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Puebla post-hardcore report: acróbata. on local shows, DIY costs, Spanish lyrics, Violeta Parra and the long road behind "tèlesma". Full story idioteq.com/acrobata-tal... #posthardcore
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Antillectual @antillectual.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The lovely @idioteqcom.bsky.social people asked us to write a report on the last couple of shows we did (KNRD Fest ao) while reflecting on being a band for 25 years. They molded it into a really fun read, if we may say so? 🖤🔥
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ANTILLECTUAL look back on 25 years of touring, politics and DIY work - IDIOTEQ.com
Antillectual are spending 2026 marking twenty-five years as a band. After anniversary shows in the Netherlands and Canada, their summer run reached Germany
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stickfigurerecords.bsky.social @stickfigurerecords.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey everyone, Stickfigure is releasing the Inkwell discography entitled Remembrance on 9/25. Preorders for the lp version will start being accepted via Bandcamp next week. @idioteqcom.bsky.social published an excellent feature about Inkwell idioteq.com/inkwell-burn... #screamo #emoviolence
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INKWELL burned through Atlanta hardcore in two years. Thirty years later, their story is finally on one record - IDIOTEQ.com
By spring 1995, Inkwell had already survived an awkward start, a badly received first show, a demo, a tiny East Coast run and the departure of their original
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Frayed Ends BC go deep on "Nothing At All", Belfast hardcore, ADHD, housing, Gaza, guest spots from Bayway, Knuckledust, Lost To Life and more. idioteq.com/belfast-hard...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"DIY music isn't a subculture, it's a counter culture." idioteq.com/inside-the-e...
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Inside The End Of Impact fest 2026 - an interview with Cady, Shooting Daggers, Víbora, L'Idylle, Laurie Bird and Lumière - IDIOTEQ.com
"A catastrophe in which individual boundaries dissolve into a collective whole." That's how Warm Room Collective frame THE END OF IMPACT, borrowed straight
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bratlash @bratlash4ever.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
bratlash chats with @idioteqcom.bsky.social about our Debut EP! idioteq.com/bratlash-deb...
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bratlash walk through their debut EP, discuss power, transmutation, an all-femme production chain, and staying off Spotify - IDIOTEQ.com
At Obrien's Pub in Allston, after bratlash's debut EP release show, a woman came up to Jett Hexx to say she'd heard the band for the first time that night.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New screamo meg a feature just landed! New Friends Fest '26 Special: 36 bands, four reunions, and a 15-band roundtable. idioteq.com/screamo-summ...
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"Screamo summer camp": 36 bands, 4 reunions, and 15 bands on what New Friends Fest '26 means to them - IDIOTEQ.com
In 2018, around a hundred people showed up to the first New Friends Fest in Toronto. The organisers, including members of Respire and La Luna, had spent the
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Unlettered @unlettered.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thank you @idioteqcom.bsky.social for featuring Unlettered and our new album "Devil's Bowl"! idioteq.com/unlettered-r...
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UNLETTERED release "Devil's Bowl" today, scale personal grief into eleven tracks of post-punk pressure from Southwest Florida - IDIOTEQ.com
"Devil's Bowl," the new Unlettered LP out today, was written and recorded inside that pressure. Eleven tracks of guitars that grind low and patient, basslines
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Jesse @strictures.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Self-promo time: I’ve been playing bass in a band called Narrow Arm for a little while now, and we have a single that is debuting today! Karol from @idioteqcom.bsky.social was kind enough to craft a write-up for us as well — you can read it here: idioteq.com/narrow-arm-t...
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NARROW ARM stretch post-punk, make post-rock shorter, tighter and more physical on "Ticking Clock" - IDIOTEQ.com
Narrow Arm start with a room. "Ticking Clock" comes from three players tracking primarily live inside Distorted Forest Studio, a barn in the Rhode Island
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Knyvet @knyvet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
IDIOTEQ takes us through the history of Something Sneaky and collects the band's lineage of friendships and family, leading to a full track breakdown with the Boston foursome of new EP 'Old Notes'. ⚡ idioteq.com/something-sn... @idioteqcom.bsky.social
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
IDIOTEQ Explore is live. Two decades of our exclusive coverage of independent artists, now browseable by country, city, genre, label, and year. Interactive map, genre graph, country stats, full catalog search. Full write-up on how it works - idioteq.substack.com/p/idioteq-ex...
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IDIOTEQ Explore is live: map & genre atlas available!
20 years of underground coverage on world map and genres atlas
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Under The Radar Artists hunt continues. Another week on IDIOTEQ in the books - idioteq.substack.com/p/weekly-und...
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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Trapped Under Ice by Future Breed - Live at the Great American Hardcore Fest at Club Lido in Revere, MA on September 19th, 2009.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Torena have released Extinction, a three-track EP out June 12 via DAZE. “Born In Pain,” “Extinction,” and “Nothing But Revenge” - cultofluna.bandcamp.com/track/in-the... @DAZE_STYLE @Torenahc
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So now they’re gonna cancel END IT?
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
MADBALL drops “Tethered”, the opener to their 10th lp “Not Your Kingdom,” due July 24, a follow-up to 2018’s “For the Cause” and arrives via @nbeurope @nuclearblastusa // www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWld...
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Something very special coming up this week on IDIOTEQ.
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A Static Lullaby pulled a Taylor Swift on their own debut. 23 years on, Dan Arnold on the homemade hardcore starter kit Joe gave him in 2003. So glad we could talk about it. idioteq.com/a-static-lul...
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A STATIC LULLABY look back at their 2003 debut, touring, the new era, and the live version of "...And Don't Forget To Breathe" - IDIOTEQ.com
In 2002, Joe Brown handed Dan Arnold a stack of CDs and told him to do his homework. The two had been in different bands together through high school in Chino
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IDIOTEQ.com @idioteqcom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Geoff Rickly and Jeremy Bolm trading the closing lines of "Paris in Flames" together at Outbreak Fest 2024. Full clip up on YouTube via @daitanfilms
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stickfigurerecords.bsky.social @stickfigurerecords.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thank you @idioteqcom.bsky.social for premiering the reissue of #CarVsDriver's Deja Grateful. That's right, Stickfigure & #LunchboxRecords are reissuing Car Vs. Driver's Deja Grateful on vinyl. Once test pressings have been approved we'll start accepting preorders. idioteq.com/premiere-car...
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Premiere: CAR VS. DRIVER's "Without A Day" from "Deja Grateful" reissue, 30 years out of print - IDIOTEQ.com
Car vs. Driver existed for two years. Between 1993 and 1995 the Atlanta quartet put out two LPs, an EP, a split EP, a pile of compilation tracks, played
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Hammock @hammockmusic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@idioteqcom.bsky.social These questions were so thorough and thought provoking. idioteq.com/hammock-disc...
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Beauty Is Timeless: HAMMOCK discuss ambient music as a way of seeing, belief, perception, and misreading the world - IDIOTEQ.com
The title of Hammock's fourteenth album comes from a specific night. Two friends on LSD, both raised fundamentalist Christian, sitting on a gazebo over a pond
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Shore Dive Records @shorediverecords.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Out today the acclaimed debut by @s_i_l_k_b_a_n_d 💿 cds shorediverecords.bandcamp.com Vinyl: silkband.bandcamp.com #shorediverecords #shoegaze #indie #alternative #dreampop @idioteqcom.bsky.social
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