New Native (AT - Midsummer Records) After releasing three EPs ("Twisting" (2014), "Soul Cult" (2015) and "Swing Low" (2016)), tours and numerous shows with bands like PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH, SEAHAVEN, THE STORY SO FAR and SUPERHEAVEN, the Viennese four-piece is finally releasing their debut full length "Asleep" in spring 2018, through Midsummer Records (02.02.2018 […]

GIVER (DE - Holy Roar Records) About five years ago while on tour with The Homeless, there was a show with 5-ish people attending. Also playing was a German band, also on tour, called GIVER. Since then, The Homeless called it quits and GIVER went from one tour to another. They saw every corner of […]

LISTENER (USA - Black Basset Records / Tangled Talk Records) If your best friend was a band, who would they be? I think they might be something like Listener. Because Listener is a band of best friends, who have experienced the best and worst of times, and have survived on songs. No one knows you […]

THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE … (USA - Epitaph Records) The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die have released their third full-length, Always Foreign. Always Foreign follows the Connecticut-bred collective’s acclaimed 2015 album Harmlessness. Produced by TWIABP guitarist Christopher Teti, Always Foreign confronts everything from the opioid […]

INCENDIARY (USA – Closed Casket Activities) Formed in 2007 on Long Island, New York and now Brooklyn-based, Incendiary have always been a band out of time. Drawing a strong influence from the past decades local favorites (Vision of Disorder, 108) and even nodding to New York State at large (Snapcase, Earth Crisis), the references to […]

Casey (UK - Hassle Records) We've had melodic hardcore, emotive hardcore and the likes. For Casey, we really need to use the term emotional hardcore band. Not afraid to sound tragic or fragile nor to scream their lungs out. Casey is about purity and reality. Recorded at rural Wales’ illustrious Monnow Valley Studios and produced […]

AMERICAN NIGHTMARE (USA - Rise Records) Aka Give Up The Ghost. After seven years of disbandment, the band reunited under their original name and performed two reunion shows in Deathwish Inc. reissued the albums Background Music (2001) and We're Down Til We're Underground (2003) to coincide with the reunion dates. Since the original 2011 reunion […]

We're sticking with Skramz Over Antwerp because just like the term skramz, we're not sure if we should take this event seriously or not. Death to self proclaimed emo. Long live real screamo. portrayal of guilt (US - Miss The Stars Records / Deathwish Inc) Blackened screamo/violence at its best, in the vain of Deafheaven […]

Movements (US - Fearless Records) Music and emotion share a timeless physiological, psychological, and spiritual bond. A chord, a melody, or a lyric can lift spirits and inspire. Movements achieve that sort of reaction on their full-length debut, Feel Something . Threading together spacey guitars, evocative and introspective lyricism, ponderous spoken word, and tight songcraft, […]

CAN'T SWIM (US - Pure Noise Records) Can’t Swim is a five-piece post-punk band from New Jersey who are collectively redefining what it means for music to be cathartic. Between poignant vocals and dynamic instrumentals, listening to Can’t Swim feels like relinquishing the chains of a nine to five normality for a life of pure […]

THE DANGEROUS SUMMER (USA - Hopeless Records) The melodic, catchy emo-pop band the Dangerous Summer formed in August 2006 in Ellicott City, Maryland. Taking their name from the classic Ernest Hemingway novel and looking to groups like the Starting Line, Third Eye Blind, U2, and Name Taken for influence, the Dangerous Summer hit the studio […]

RVIVR (US) Finally! Finally! Finally! First time in Belgium since 2014 for these DIY FEST legends. In the meantime their hit loaded, /w socially / politically drenched values, back catalog grew out to be known as one of the very best in the genre. Amazingly catchy songs supported by Mattie Jo Canino (ex-latterman) and Erica […]

BEING AS AN OCEAN (US - independent) Ever since their inception in 2011 this band has been hitting all the right chords. Being As An Ocean’s post-hardcore is pretty exclusive, with the unique “talk-music” vs screaming vocal style Joel Quartuccio uses. Over the span of their 4 full length studio albums the band als threw […]

JESUS PIECE (USA - Southern Lord Records) Jesus Piece is a Pennsylvania hardcore band who play heavy music—like Xibalba, Harm’s Way heavy. This down-tuned five piece—made up of vocalist Aaron Heard, guitarist Dave Updike, drummer Luis Aponte, bassist Anthony Marinaro, and guitarist John DiStefano—play a mix of heavy hardcore and spastic metal that can slow […]

Emma Ruth Rundle (US - Sargent House) Emma Ruth Rundle is a musician and visual artist from Los Angeles, California. It isn’t unusual for artists to glean inspiration from emotional upheaval, transcending pain through a kind of mental osmosis, so that the turmoil in their lives provides the fuel for their artistic fire. Only some, […]