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Bloody Roots Thirty-Year Thrashback to 1986 on Sirius XM Week of February 27, 2016 Sat 3/19, 6PM ET Sun 3/20, 1PM ET Mon 3/21, 9AM ET Tues 3/22, 4PM...

The scent of death is truly in the air in Sweden these days, as all of the oldest local death metal bands come crawling...

Mike “McBeardo” McPadden appears on the latest episode of highly- and widely-recommended podcast Awkward Moments with Collin Bullock.

"As longtime and proud losers ourselves, we’re exceedingly happy to be able, in some small way, to help further the education of art-enthused misfits from the NW."

Our comrades at Jackpot Records in Portland have seen fit to prepare Green River's dirty, caustic 1984 demos for vinyl release to indie record...

Several months after the final European show by Nuclear Assault, and the bitter pain of loss still haunts the denim hordes. Danny Lilker's post-apocalyptic...

While remnants and replicas of hardcore punk haunt CBGBs continue to spread freely across the globe, Jen Carlson at Gothamist has lent her keen investigative...

The tireless Freddy Alva has produced a documentary about his own classic New Breed cassette—an heavy-hitting product of its environment that holds up extremely well.

BLOODY ROOTS OF GRINDCORE Week of March 12, 2016 Sat 3/12, 6PM ET Sun 3/13, 1PM ET Mon 3/14, 9AM ET Tues 3/15, 4PM ET Thurs 3/17, 9PM ET From the pre-grind...

In celebration of Decibel Magazine editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian’s revised and expanded edition of Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, Dying Fetus, Nails,...

Lo and behold, one of Sweden's oldest extreme metal acts has released its debut (!!) album, a ripe 30 years after releasing arcane classic demos like...

This weekend at SXSW in Austin, TX, directors Jeff Krulik and John Heyn are kicking off the 30th anniversary of their heavy metal movie...

The meanest-but-most-loveable band in NYHC, Sheer Terror, has launched a Pledge Campaign for the stand-up purpose of releasing The Bulldog Box, a career retrospective...

For our dear readers living in the hardcore punk hotbed of the U.S. Midwest, here is a show for the books—specifically our recent releases...

Leaving a slow, sticky slime trail since crawling out of a Northern California cave in the early 1990s...

NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990 author Tony Rettman has begun hosting a weekly podcast, "Green Room Radio"—or G.R.R.!— where he interviews hardcore punk legends...

Straight out of Göteborg circa 1990, here's some footage of Grotesque at their most...well..grotesque! Disinterred from the beyond the crypts of time, this gritty...

MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW author, Bay Area music scene fixture, and all-around madman Harald Oimoen has hammered the bass in D.R.I. for nearly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WBZDnQEmF8 above: “The Winner Has Lost” track from Dead Dawn L.G. Petrov's band Entombed A.D. has gotten down to business, releasing its second album in as...

Bloody Roots of Metallica's Master of Puppets at 30 on SiriusXM Week of February 27, 2016 Sat 2/27, 6PM ET Sun 2/28, 1PM ET Mon 2/29, 9AM ET Tues...