Doing a little research before jumping into this album gave me pause. I heard what sounded like another Hatebreed/Pantera crossbreed, the likes of which...

What do I know about Lucid Skies? Absolutely nothing. So it was a pretty fucking cool surprise that I enjoyed Hounds as much as I did. Digging...

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,...

As I've said plenty of times before, any form of heavy loud music, be it grindcore, death metal, hardcore or anything in between, treads...

To put into words just how much a record meets our approval without coming across as obsequious or trite (or, worse still, bland) is...

Sometimes, you'll listen to an album that's full of "almost"'s. Letters Home by Defeater is unfortunately one of those. Letters Home can never seem to slap it all together...

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...

Deafheaven doesn't really play black metal, and they'd be the first to tell you that. Black metal's influence on the music they play can't be...

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...

If you like metal or hardcore, than you probably know all about Hatebreed. Even the idiots at CNN namedrop Hatebreed. So when they put a new album...