A captivating new fusion of math, noise and indie-pop from members of Toronto's mathcore scene.

Editor's note: this review was written by Anthony DiGiacomo, long time friend and contributor to Heavy Blog! Carpenter Brut, to me and maybe to many others, is one of the pioneers of the synthwave genre. His album Trilogy still stands above most releases in the genre in the decade plus

from the album Winds Wept

Rounding up new releases from Møl, Urne, Hanabie., Nightmarer, Stabbing, Blackwater Holylight, Eximperitus, Fili Bibiano’s Fortress, Krateros, Invictus, The Buzzcocks, Gorrch, Anal Trump and more.

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in a doorway with a group of people and says bone ?

Two rapidfire reviews on the docket today, starting with Hundreds of Au's powerful blend of melodic hardcore and screamo, and the UK's Death Goals brandishing a fierce message wrapped in chaos and passion.

5 track album

When we receive an email that says FFO: Mastodon, Converge, Tomb Mold, Portrayal Of Guilt, Trap Them and Gorguts while describing themselves as neo-crust sci-fi death sludge, you know I'm opening it, and it's even better when the band can back it up.

Rounding up new releases from Visitant, Deftones, Malevich, Arcaedea, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Farseer, Hundreds of Au, Donella Drive, Unholy Alter, Fate's Messenger, The World is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die and bunch of other bands I no longer have the character-count for.

British upstarts Ba’al manage to rise above the throngs of mediocrity on their sophomore album The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here, remaining firmly rooted in post-black, but diverging into doom-metal, post-metal and even some death-adjacent riffing.

10 track album

Rounding up new releases from Outergods, Byzantine, Fallujah, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Agabas, Dolven, fromjoy, Dark Matter Secret, Disgustingest, Byonoisegenerator, Iron Mind, Standover, Avkrvst, Tupperwave, new takes on old classics from Sigh, letlive. and more!

New releases stretching the boundaries of noise rock, metalcore, mathcore, screamo, grind, deathcore, and a few bands showing why “blackened” is one of my favourite -core prefixes.  Featuring The Call...

track by Ithaca

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8 track album

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from the album Only Dust Remains