One of the great longtime holdouts has returned. The Tacoma, Washington band Botch figured out a style of complex, frantic, math-damaged hardcore in the late ’90s, when peers like Converge and the Dillinger Escape Plan were fucking with that formula in similar ways. But while Converge and Dillinger went on to become hugely successful t...

Last month, Jordan Olds great video series Two Minutes To Late Night kicked off a new miniseries called Hardcore Summer, wherein some of the greatest musicians in hardcore are paying tribute to one another’s bands. Thus far, the series has already saluted Botch and Deadguy, and both of those covers have featured members of Converge: Gu...

Last week, Jordan Olds’ great video series Two Minutes To Late Night kicked off a new sub-series called Hardcore Summer, in which different musicians from the hardcore world are covering songs from their peers and influences. The series began with a crew that included Converge’s Kurt Ballou and former Dillinger Escape Plan le...

New take on To Our Friends in the Great White North is first in a series of Hardcore Summer sessions

At some point in the ’90s, a few different hardcore band started messing around with metallic riffage and math-rock time-signature insanity, and they came up with a whole new complex, concussive, chaotic take on hardcore. Some of those bands, like Boston’s Converge and New Jersey’s Dillinger Escape Plan, eventually ...