Tag: epitaph records
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Recommended Album: Joyce Manor – ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’
The Torrance pop-punk trio can’t quite escape the hands of time in the physical sense, but there’s no signs of aging in their sound on their seventh album.
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Converge – “We Were Never the Same”
The metalcore institution are harvesting the world’s chaos and ruthless nature into their already-extremist sound while demanding we not overlook our own culpability in escalating matters.
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Joyce Manor – “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives”
In which Joyce Manor’s off-the-tracks inner aggressions shouted out are a head-on collision that gives you life.
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Recommended Album: DRAIN – ‘…IS YOUR FRIEND’
Another electric performance in modern hardcore thrash from the Santa Cruz trio is what happens when all of the right elements between its people parts come to together and have each others backs.
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Converge – “Love Is Not Enough”
The Boston metalcore veterans remain a timeless beacon of reckoning when we need it most on the lead single and title track from their 10th studio album.
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Joyce Manor – “Well, Whatever It Was”
The Torrance punk darlings make a really bad day sound like a human highlight reel on the latest single off their new album, ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’.
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Joyce Manor – “All My Friends Are So Depressed”
In which the Torrance punk-pop darlings ask, “Who needs to let out their frustration in a mosh pit anymore when the gentle pits of despair are enough?”
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La Dispute – “Environmental Catastrophe Film”
If this were attempted by anyone else, it’d be a mere deep dive into chaos. Through La Dispute’s hands, it’s evidence of an intelligent design on destruction.
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DRAIN – “Nights Like These”
The Santa Cruz hardcore trio grants you permission to remember that joy exists, very loudly at that, on the lead single off their new album, ‘…IS YOUR FRIEND’.
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La Dispute – “I Shaved My Head”
In cutting so close to the surface, the experimental post-hardcore band are sounding heavier than ever on the highlight from their first act off their fifth studio album, ‘No One Was Driving The Car’.