Oxnard, California’s Nails have been a fairly difficult band to categorize since their formation in 2009; they’ve been called grindcore, powerviolence, hardcore, and death...

Max and Igor Cavalera have been responsible for some of the heaviest and most groundbreaking metal of the last 3 decades, starting with the...

With a name like All Pigs Must Die, you expect greatness right off the bat. I mean come on, how much more instantly confrontational can your...

In 2011, Nails created what I'm entirely secure in calling a perfect hardcore album. Unsilent Death was swift, loud, breakneck, merciless, well-paced, instantly memorable, and...

There's no shortage of good deathgrind on Southern Lord produced by Converge's own Kurt Ballou. It's not exactly a small market, but for the most...

So in 2009, metalcore legends Converge dropped Axe to Fall on an unsuspecting public, and everyone collectively went nuts over it. For good reason,...

Are we able to agree on a name for this new wave of deathgrind yet? I've been calling it Entombed-core, since every band in...

"We're still a really young band, and I think that we have a lot of room to grow - and grow we will."

More often than not, an album doesn't have to be long to be good. Every hardcore thrasher remembers the first time they dropped the...