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Kyle Bond grew up with pages from Hit Parader plastered across his bedroom walls, getting into Shadows Fall, Unearth, Chimaira, Lamb of God and God Forbid, then catching those bands live at Dos Amigos in Odessa, Texas. That stuff stuck with him. These days he’s fronting Erosion Choir, a five-piece metalcore band from the Pacific Northwest. Their debut EP, “Curse of Memory”, brin...

The Number Twelve Looks Like You have two records to deal with this autumn, nearly twenty years apart. The New Jersey mathcore veterans are playing their 2007 album “Mongrel” in full for the first time, just as they prepare to release “Howls From The Holographic Heart”, their first full-length since 2019. Some of the old songs have never been performed live, and drummer Michaela...

There’s a lot of ground between the quiet piano passages and distorted guitars on “Inevitable“, the debut album from Waterloo, Ontario alternative rock band Awake & Dreaming. The ten tracks move through art rock, darker electronic sounds and some fairly big arrangements, with the songs following a carefully planned sequence about technology, personal loss, relationships and ...

Among the newer generation of São Paulo screamo bands, magnólia have become closely associated with screamo fofo, the affectionate Brazilian term for “cute screamo“. Their music has the screaming, distortion and sudden changes in tempo you’d expect, alongside softer melodies and bits of indie folk. ternura e violência by magnólia Their fourth album, “ternura e violência“, is the...

When Fiori del Male took their anti-war song “Allarme Rosso nel Golfo Persico” onto the Teatro Ariston stage in September 2026, they were playing music that had followed them since their early days in the alternative rock underground of Scampia, Naples. Written during the Gulf War in 1991, the song had survived decades of moves between cities, changing lineups, other musical pro...