Haley, Alex, Devin and Wills here! We just got home from touring the UK and EU supporting I Prevail and just released a new EP. Ask us anything!

All of there stuff is solid and the band just seems to get better and better and meaner and nastier with each album but it’s still Boundaries while a lot of bands lose the edge Boundaries just keeps dialing it up

FFO: Your Spirit Dies, View From The Soyuz, early Parkway Drive, Hatebreed, Fuming Mouth

Tracklist:
1.Through The Catacombs
2. Nothing To Fear
3. Bare Hands
4. Storm The Gates
5. War Will Kill Us All
6. Last One Standing
7. Called To Resist
8. Kings And Queens
9. Payday
10. Into The Morgue

I did write a longer piece for this, but upon hitting post it seemingly went nowhere and returned me to an empty new post, so now we get this more abbreviated review/discussion primer.

You might look at the FFO: and think "wait, what?", but I genuinely do hear a bit of all that in there. It's a metallic hardcore base, lots of chugs and moments for clearing the pit with an arm swing or two, but also an undeniable level of melodeath influence. They fall into a small camp of bands doing that in the here and now without sounding like they're ripping Undying or Prayer For Cleansing. A track like Bare Hands opens up sounding like Darkest Hour, for example. The guitar tone, though, is the fuzziest, HM2-est version of the style that I think I've ever heard and that does at times call to mind a hardcore-friendly death metal band like Fuming Mouth.

It's worth saying that this represents a considerable step forward for the band. I gave a cursory listen to some of their earlier material after being impressed by the singles for this debut full length and it's mostly devoid of the melodeath influence that adds so much to the sound here.

As the track titles suggest, there's some broadly political theming to some of the lyrics, early favourite Payday stands out perhaps because it becomes extremely topically direct. An explicitly anti-fascist barn-stormer with a tasty gang vocal part. Not hard to understand why a German band might be writing a song like this with the rise of the AFD in their country.

Really enjoyed this. Cleaner production and slightly more angular riffing than a lot of sludge but still absolutely nasty.

Found this local band when I went to Subscape in Baltimore that I really really like and I was wondering what style of music this would be considered or any similar bands that you know sound like this. Thanks!

Bandcamp:

https://xmemoriestoburnx.bandcamp.com/album/self-portrait-as-healing-wounds

Hiii :)

I'm a big fan of metalcore as well as other adjacent genres like deathcore, but lately I feel like I miss a lot of the things that are happening in the scene. Years back I used to get to know about new things in the punk rock mba channel, but I stopped seeing that guy when it was clear that the guy was a douche.

Since then I'm mostly disconnected from the new albums or bands; aside from like 4 or 5 bands the last LPs I listened are from 2022-24 like Oh What The Future Holds, The Dark Pool or The Death We Seek.

And bc I'm not very used to look to reddit that often, I was hoping to find some suggestions of accounts that talk about the scene and the new cool things that are happening rn in yt or ig.

And well, btw, if any of yall want to share some suggestions, apart from the LPs that I just mentioned, I too am a big fan of KL, Darko, Omerta, Greyhaven, Boundaries, Shadow of Intent, Thornhill or TDWP, and I would love to hear that too ^^

It was the first album by them I ever heard which means I'm lucky to not have nostalgia blindness twist my opinion on it. if it wasn't for horizon's it would be my favorite PWD album. IRE is also the last PWD album I've really fucked with and I want to know y'alls takes on the album

1. A Genocide

2. HVNTED

3. Bathe In Blasphemy...

4. ...Sons To The Flame (ft. Alex Koehler of Ameonna, Ex-Chelsea Grin)

5. Substraction

6. The Brink

7. Blood For Blood

8. To See In Color

9. My Death Is Forever Near

10. Misery

11. Cowardice

12. Cherish

Genre: a blend of Metalcore and Deathcore, more on the Metalcore side of things. Some nu metalcore elements are also here

A pretty unique underground album with great production and solid vocals with fun instrumentation. One of the better albums of the year, highly recommend

Huge Metalcore and PHC fan but have never found another band or album that scratches the itch this album does - aside from Hopesfall’s ep No Wings To Speak Of. Closest thing I’ve found is Poison The Well’s second and third albums.

Any recommendations?

Also keen to hear any recommendations for stuff like their later work, but that isn’t very Metalcore tbf

thanks!

(edit for typo)

I'm not a huge fan of this band, but this song & The Man Behind The Hands are a bop!

Day 23 of posting KOG’s entire discography, in chronological order, to celebrate the upcoming 2026 album, Usurper.

THIS SONG WAS REMOVED FROM STREAMING BECAUSE OF THE SAMPLED AUDIO.

FUN FACT: THIS IS THE MOST STREAMED SONG FROM GROUND CULTURE (ON YOUTUBE/ EXCLUDING MUSIC VIDEO SONGS)

DANA WILLAX WAS FUCKING PUTTING EVERYTHING INTO THESE LYRICS.

LISTENING TO THIS ONE NOWADAYS HITS HARDER THAN EVER.

THERE IS NOT ONE ALBUM WITH LYRICAL CONTENT LIKE GROUND CULTURE.

MY DREAM IS TO BE 2014 DANA WILLAX.

Damn this song makes such an amazing interlude.

The opening speech and the lyrics push you and make you question if you’re living life to the fullest. Reminding you to stick to your guns and follow your dreams. You’re a man and not some computer bullshit.

I can’t believe this is still the same Kingdom Of Giants

Ground Culture

1. Lion’s Mouth
2. Eternal Burn
3. Endure
4. Ground Culture
5. The Silence Mill
6. Virtue

7.

Every Wave of Sound

1. My Compromise
2. Obstacles
3. In Focus
4. Delusionist
5. Voltage
6. Hope
7. Broken Ocean
8. Vice Versa
9. Guns and Girls
10. Griever
11. MJ Returns

Abominable

1. Who I Once Was
2. A Test Of My Survival
3. Watch Me
4. Onslaught
5. The Overlord
6. Guns and Girls

Fox Lake has "Gut Check" and Filth has "Chin Check". What other body parts should metalcore bands tell us to check next?

It gets me EVERY TIME