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The best hardcore bands so often leave us too soon, but they also leave behind an impact that grows and grows long after they’re gone. Have Heart, who formed in 2002 and broke up in 2009 after wrapping up the tour behind their second and final album Songs to Scream at the Sun, are one of those bands. They amassed a diehard fanbase during their initial run for their forward-thinking take on aggressive yet tuneful hardcore, and even more so for the deeply emotional, positive messages that vocalist Pat Flynn weaved into his lyrics and stage banter. The Massachusetts straightedge band funneled the ..read more

Agnostic Front guitarist Vinnie Stigma is the latest guest to appear on Colin Young (Twitching Tongues, God’s Hate) and Bo Lueders’ (Harms Way) HardLore podcast, and while he was on the show, Colin asked him what his four favorite hardcore albums ever are–a question HardLore stirred up a viral moment with earlier this year. “I could give you the usual answer,” Vinnie said after sharing his list, “but like, you know, I switch it around a little.” His list included the 1982 Faith/Void split (“because it’s a little bit of a combo”), the 1982 Negative Approach 7″, the self-titled Minor Threat reco ..read more

To go along with our list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, we’re also posting some genre-specific lists and here’s our list of 10 punk & hardcore albums from the first half of 2024 that are not to miss. It ranges from street punk to metallic hardcore to a variety of different genre-blurring records in between, with a mix of rising bands, reunited veterans, a star-studded supergroup, and more. Defining similar subgenres always gets kinda tricky, and if you’re looking for stuff more on the emo/post-hardcore side, we also posted a list of 10 emo & post-hardcore albums from 2024 t ..read more

Drain are doing it again! Like last year, they’re going on a massive headlining tour with so many other bands from the hardcore scene that it’s basically a mini festival. Terror and End It are on all dates, Scowl are on leg one and Angel Du$t are on leg two, and select shows are with Madball, Regulate, King Nine, Twitching Tongues, Mindforce, God’s Hate, H2O, Haywire, Trail of Lies, Mutually Assured Destruction, Cosmic Joke, Dead Heat, and Slugger. Wow! “The Good Good Tour is so insanely stacked that it looks like a fake fest generated by someone’s Spotify Wrapped haha,” Drain vocalist Sammy C ..read more

Toronto melodic hardcore band Mil-Spec released one of last year’s best punk albums with Marathon, and the band doesn’t tour very often, so it’s exciting that they’ll be hitting the road this year, with a Japan run in March followed by an East Coast US/Canada run in April. Even more exciting is that the US/Canada shows will be with the great California hardcore band Diztort and the fast-rising Florida hardcore band Collateral. Those dates include Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus on April 8 with local support from Dead Last and Top Dollar. Tickets are on sale now. Some venues on the tour are still TBA, b ..read more

The hardcore scene continues to reach new heights every year lately, and 2023 was no exception. From the melodic crossover bands to the heavy ass-beaters, from the promising young bands to the veterans that are still killing it, and everything in between, this was a killer year for hardcore of all stripes. There were so many great hardcore records released this year, and we’ve narrowed them down to our 20 favorites. Some caveats: we didn’t include metalcore (like Jesus Piece, Dying Wish, Year of the Knife, and END), but we have a separate metalcore list for that. Making a hardcore list means b ..read more

Dying Wish are one of the best hardcore/metalcore bands around, and their recently-released sophomore album Symptoms of Survival is one of the best new albums in that style. They’re already the kind of band that you can picture young bands looking up to one day (if they aren’t already), and if you’re wondering what bands they looked up to, you’re in luck. Vocalist Emma Boster has made us a list of her 10 favorite hardcore albums of all time, which range from Hatebreed to Foundation to No Warning, with commentary on each pick. Read on to see what she had to say, and see upcoming Dying Wish tour ..read more

Axe To Grind is one of the best and the most consistent hardcore podcasts out there. Every week without fail (and even more if you sign up for their Patreon), they release a new 60+ minute episode filled with hardcore knowledge, news, opinions, gossip, show reports, and more. Hosts Tom Sheehan (of Indecision & Most Precious Blood), industry vet Bob Shedd (ex-Revelation Records, Sound and Fury co-founder), and Patrick Kindlon (of Drug Church and Self Defense Family) are all hardcore lifers with years of experience and current knowledge that they bring to the table on each episode, switching ..read more

With fall approaching, we’ve been looking back on some of the albums we love that came out during spring and summer of 2023. Yesterday we looked at 10 post-hardcore & emo albums that came out during the year’s warmer months, and today we’re looking at something a little more aggressive: 10 hardcore albums from that same time period. We don’t want to get into a subgenre debate, but if you’re looking for the new Scowl, Militarie Gun, Fiddlehead, and Angel Du$t, we included those in the post-hardcore list, and this list focuses a little more on bands who haven’t (yet?) crossed over (but we ar ..read more