After returning from a 17-year absence last year, Birmingham, Alabama’s post-hardcore/emo/metalcore-leaning Furnace Fest will be back this fall. When Furnace revealed its first wave of 2022 artists in January, some of the highlights included Louisville emo greats Elliott (reuniting for their first show in 19 years) plus the Ghost Insid...

Back in 2007 -- when they were still an underground treasure and not yet a full-blown indie-rock cause célèbre -- Dirty Projectors released an album-length cover of Black Flag's Rise Above, a twisted and impressionistic "re-imagining" of the hardcore classic based on fleeting memories from Projectors maestro Dave Longstreth's childhood. Thirte...

The New Jersey band Deadguy released exactly one album, 1995's Fixation On A Co-Worker. That album is a straight-up classic of punishing riffs and bad feelings. Deadguy were on Victory Records, the same label that gave us Earth Crisis and Snapcase and Integrity and Hatebreed, and they came from that same raw-throated, roaring '90s metallic&#...

New York metalcore veterans Earth Crisis have unveiled a brand new track.

Earth Crisis will be kicking off the first leg of their Firestorm EP 20th anniversary tour this week where the band will be performing the EP in its entirety along with other rarely played songs