The influence Discharge have had on extreme music couldn’t possibly be overstated; Metallica, Slayer, Napalm Death, and Repulsion have all listed them as a major...

Crust punk has been on the fringes of extreme music for roughly three decades now; it has constantly straddled the fence between hardcore punk...

Grindcore should be a simple style of heavy metal, right?  Focus on short songs, heavily distorted guitars, vocals that are barked, shrieked, or both,...

The best hardcore will move you. And I don't just mean in the sense that a really beautiful piece of music will move you,...

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...

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...

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...