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$UICIDEBOY$

One look at the underground rap duo known as Suicideboys (styled $UICIDEBOY$) and you won’t’ be surprised that they’re from New Orleans.

Wu Tang Clan

One of the most revolutionary hip-hop acts, Wu-Tang Clan helped prove rap to be an art form, establishing a hip-hop enterprise in the process whilst delivering their uncompromising, dark sound and hard-hitting, intelligent wordplay.

Public Enemy

Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill is an American hip-hop group hailing from South Gate in California, USA. Cypress Hill was the first Latino-American hip hop group to have both platinum and multi-platinum albums.

Slaughter To Prevail

Kostolom is the epic second LP from the duo Alex Terrible and Jack Simmons’ band Slaughter to Prevail. The album expands on the dynamic extremes of their 2017 debut, Misery Sermon — pairing Alex’s dark, cathartic lyrics with Simmons’ pummeling riffs and tense, cinematic solos. “We wanted to make each song for us stand out in a different way,” the guitarist says. “On some of the songs, we focused on wanting to keep it uptempo, building to a breakdown as the focal point. Other songs it was about groove or the chorus — ‘how can we make this melodic?’ The albums we love the most have those dynamics, and we want to use them to make each part hit harder.”

The songs evolved over several years, the first demos constructed shortly before the release of Misery Sermon. And they finally finished the material in late 2020, with everyone (Alex, Simmons, bassist Mikhail Petrov, guitarist Dmitry Mamedov) having tracked their respective parts at home. (Evgeny Novikov recorded his drums at a nearby studio in Moscow.)

Tracks like “Made in Russia” and “Head on a Plate” pile-drive their detuned riffs straight into your skull, offering a platform for Alex at his most menacing. But the frontman also stretches out across the record, adding clean choruses to anthems like “Baba Yaga” and “Your Only.”
Alex’s words — largely sung in Russian, with occasional bursts of English — are also more balanced than the bleak song titles may suggest. “The lyrics,” Simmons says, “are quite personal to anyone who listens, I think — of personal struggle, keeping a positive mental attitude and going through the shit to have a better life and achieve your goals.”

As always, Slaughter to Prevail aim to provoke you, even as they empower you. “We want something that causes an emotion — whether it’s good or bad, disappointment or excitement or whatever,” Simmons says. “We don’t want something that’s stereotypical.”

Coheed and Cambria

Taking inspiration from two main characters Claudio Sanchez’s fictional works, prog-rock band Coheed and Cambria from New York, US who since formation in 1995 have steadily climbed to the top of the ranks while achieving global success with their Children of the Fence firmly by their side.

Dethklok

Three 6 Mafia

Insane Clown Posse

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Kublai Khan TX

Energetic, aggressive, and passionate music. A four piece metalcore band based in north Texas. We say whats on our hearts to express how we feel, who we are, what we stand for, and wont stand for, as well as the problems of our generation. In hopes of tapping into the underground and revealing the unseen lives and feelings of the youth in modern American society. We are fighting to make an impact in a music scape bogged down with meaningless lyrics and recycled with mindless music. Trying to push messages that often get overlooked or ignored in the nation today, hoping to use our music as a vessel to relate with people and emit hope.

Underoath

TEETH. OUT NOW. tpato.com

They’re Only Chasing Safety World Tour // Tix on sale now ⬇️

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Drain

Anyone who’s seen Drain live has felt it. The electricity coming off of the stage. The communal energy of the fans singing upfront. The primal thrills of fists flying in the moshpit. The uninhibited joy emanating from every banging head, screaming lung, and airborne foot in that room. There’s nothing like a Drain show. There’s no other hardcore band like Drain. The Santa Cruz band is an institution in their genre and an affable neighbor to their adjacent ones. Punks love Drain. Metalheads love Drain. Haters can’t help but love Drain. Drain is for everyone. Well, venue security guards might not love Drain. But to everyone else: Drain…Is Your Friend.

Drain -- frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro, guitarist Cody Chavez, and drummer Tim Flegal -- formed back in 2014 and cut their teeth in Santa Cruz’s fertile DIY hardcore scene. COVID lockdown couldn’t stop their 2020 debut, California Cursed, from making waves, and their 2023 follow-up, Living Proof, hit the hardcore scene like a Cali beach during hurricane season -- a torrential classic. Since then, Drain have blazed through hundreds of shows worldwide: headlining festivals, taking their friends and heroes on tour, and even playing arenas with Blink-182. Regardless of whether they're opening for pop-punk jukeboxes like Neck Deep or grabbing the stage-dive torch from Terror, Drain’s only goal is to make the crowd go buckwild.

“We call the shots for these 30 minutes,” Ciaramitaro beams excitedly while describing Drain’s nightly ritual. “I’m the boss and I’m gonna turn this place into a warzone. We’re ripping shit up, we’re breaking shit, but it’s coming from a good place in our hearts. People are feeling alive and we’re sharing this energy back and forth.”

With their third full-length album and second for Epitaph Records, …Is Your Friend, Drain had two primary goals in mind: to capture their quintessential live essence on recording, and to write new songs that’ll make their next shows even crazier. Their previous albums were written before Drain were on the road all year, and they spent the last few hundred nights onstage making note of which songs their fans respond best to. …Is Your Friend is designed to maximize their audience’s shit-losing abilities. Its 10-song tracklist includes the heaviest mosh parts, the catchiest choruses, the tastiest thrash riffs, and the most scream-able lyrics Drain have ever written. Producer Jon Markson (The Story So Far, Drug Church, One Step Closer) tracked the whole album live -- 100% real-time drums, no metronome, no programmed bullshit. It sounds the way Drain were always meant to: crisp, serrated, animated.

“There are a few moments that we call the Drain push and pull,” says Ciaramitaro, who played bass on this record for the first time in Drain’s history. “I’m pretty sure every one of these songs gets a little faster before the chorus. Just because we’re feeling it, it’s fucking happening right now. It feels alive.”

Drain are a group of best friends playing at the top of their game, and …Is Your Friend flexes their instinctive chemistry. Therefore, it made sense for Ciaramitaro to take a similar approach while writing the album’s lyrics. Instead of intently scribbling his words into a notepad like on previous Drain records, the frontman put the pen down and freestyled many of the album’s subjects off the dome. The words flowed easily because so much has happened to Ciaramitaro since California Cursed, both within the band and on a personal level. Ciaramatiro got married. Drain became a full-time touring machine. So many of their wildest dreams became everyday occurrences. However, every coin has its flipside, and Drain’s success hasn’t come without its disadvantages. The trio are spending less time at home with family, losing touch with longtime friends, and occasionally feeling weird energy from people who treat them like they’ve changed just because their band has grown.

…Is Your Friend takes stock of both the good and the bad. In the bouncy banger “Nights Like These,” Ciaramatiro pauses to cherish the lifelong goals that have become Drain’s average Tuesday: leveling a 1,000-capacity room, hopping in the van with their dearest pals, and motoring off to the next city while commencing their version of a rowdy night on tour. “Basically, it’s like a seventh grade sleepover, but we’re 30-year-old men,” Ciaramitaro quips. In the thrashy “Nothing But Love,” Ciaramitaro gives Drain’s fairweather friends the middle finger while simultaneously taking the high road: “There’s room for all of us to win/just worry about yourself and stop watching my fucking pockets,” he barks.

”I want to be a good person,” Ciaramitaro says. “But sometimes I’m like, ‘you know what? Fuck these guys!’”

There couldn’t be a better visual representation of that thematic dichotomy than …Is Your Friend’s cover art. The visual depicts the band’s iconic kewpie mascot lounging back on a beach chair, grinning into the sunlight while an angel and a devil hover above each shoulder, taunting Drain’s cartoon protagonist with two opposing paths. “That little kewpie character is exactly where I personally want to be,” Ciaramitaro says. “There’s good, there’s bad, and then there's me in the middle just tuning out all the bullshit, listening to music and trying to vibe exactly where I am. Also, the art is just sick, dude. Devils, angels -- kind of badass.”

The cover art also illustrates where Drain see themselves on a macro level. Not on either side of the punk/metal spectrum; not entirely posi-core nor one-dimensionally brooding; not just for scene newbies and not just for grizzled pit veterans. But right at the center of it all. For anyone who’s ever felt it, for everyone who wants to.

“My favorite thing right now is for someone to say, ‘I’ve never heard of you but I’m excited to see you play,’” Ciaramitro says. “This band is for everybody. We’re not different from you, we’re not going to treat anybody different than us. I’m gonna give the same respect to the kid at his first show as I will to the dude from the really cool band in that city. No one’s too cool at the Drain show.”

The title puts a bow on it. …Is Your Friend is a slogan that Drain have been printing on merch since they were playing to 15 people on a floor. Over the years, Drain have gotten bigger, their crowds have gotten more diverse, and their music has become more eclectic. But Ciaramitaro underscores what this album makes abundantly clear: their founding ethos remains unchanged. “Drain is your friend, Drain was your friend, Drain will forever be your friend.”

Paleface Swiss

P.O.D.

Cradle of Filth

Belched from Hell’s depths into the rustic charms of the Witch County, Suffolk thirty long and disturbing years ago, CRADLE OF FILTH are undisputed giants of the heavy metal realm. Imperious purveyors of a perennially unique strain of dark, dastardly and wilfully extreme metal, with deep roots in the worlds of gothic horror and occult curiosity, the band led by Dani Filth has weathered three decades of tumult and trial, earning a formidable reputation as both a singular creative force and one of the most riotously entertaining live bands the metal world has ever produced.

From primitive early works like 1992 debut 'The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh' to more expansive and theatrical classics like 'Cruelty And The Beast' and 'Midian', CRADLE OF FILTH defied trends and constructed their own idiosyncratic world of foul grandeur, becoming one of the UK’s most notable metal bands in the process. Since then, they have traversed the world countless times, hoovering up plaudits and praise from an ever-expanding international fan base. Resolutely prolific, the band’s catalogue has grown in depth and stature all the while, irrespective of line-up changes or the whims of the faithful.

In more recent times, CRADLE OF FILTH have hit an unmistakable hot streak of creativity and urgency. As a new line-up coalesced around the creation of 2015’s 'Hammer Of The Witches', fresh impetus propelled the band to new heights, as the revitalised crew became more in demand around the world than ever before. 2017’s 'Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay' repeated the trick with even more explosive flamboyance. Until a global pandemic brought the music industry to a jarring halt, CRADLE OF FILTH were almost permanently on the road and absolutely fucking flying. As a result, it should surprise no one that the band’s brand new album, 'Existence Is Futile', is yet another monumental and electrifying journey through the dark.

Atreyu

Named after the lead character in the fantasy novel “NeverEnding Story”, Atreyu is a metalcore band based in Orange County, California, US, noted for crossing intense screamo stylistics with strong pop sensibilities.

Finch

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/finch

Senses Fail

Senses Fail is an American rock band whose sound encroaches on genre variants ranging from post-hardcore, emo, screamo, and punk. They cite influences that encompass introspective and emotionally bare indie acts like The Promise Ring as well as brazen non-authoritative punk rockers like The Nation of Ulysses.

Spite

Instagram: @spiteofficial
Twitter: @spiteCA

Drowning Pool

The Black Dahlia Murder

The Black Dahlia Murder is an American metal band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2000 and currently consists of Trevor Strand, Brian Eschbach, Ryan Knight, Max Lavelle and Alan Cassidy.

Bodysnatcher

Debut album "Death Of Me" available 11.10.17 via Stay Sick Recordings

Haarper

PeelingFlesh

Alesana

Alesana, the genre-defying post-hardcore band from Raleigh, North Carolina, captivates audiences with cinematic storytelling and electrifying performances. Formed in 2004 by Shawn Milke, Dennis Lee, and Patrick Thompson, the band blends elements of screamo, metalcore, progressive rock, and pop punk. Known for emotionally charged lyrics and intricate compositions, Alesana draws comparisons to bands like Underoath and Chiodos.

Their unrivaled stage presence and high-energy performances engage fans like no other. Deeply rooted in literature, their artistic vision pulls from influences such as Edgar Allan Poe, Greek mythology, and Dante, particularly in the critically acclaimed Annabel Trilogy, which weaves together themes of gothic horror, romance, and suspense. This work has earned them a dedicated global fanbase.

With their recent 20th anniversary on October 31, 2024, the band—composed of Shawn, Dennis, Patrick, Shane, and Jake—remains committed to their fans, creating memorable experiences and sharing their passion for music and storytelling.

Nekrogoblikon

We have a goblin.

Psychostick

Comedy metal. Guacamole recipes. Feelings.

Rivers Of Nihil

Self-titled fifth album out May 30th. Preorder at riversofnihil.com

Silly Goose

Eyes Set To Kill

Eyes Set to Kill have taken the hardcore community by storm with an intense live show and a crushing EP. They unleash a whirlwind of melodic guitar riffs that violently flood into the ears of listeners, emotionally capturing screams, and hypnotizing melodic vocal hooks that seethe with emotion.

Originally conceived by as the two piece of consisting of Alexia Rodriguez (Lead Guitar, Vocals), and Anissa Rodriguez (Bass Guitar), this Phoenix, AZ screamo outfit attempted to create a unique sound that would combine the soft, melodic feel of female vocals and gut-wrenching screaming, backed up by powerful instrumentals with a post-hardcore influence.

“Having a screamer and a melodic singer has just always been our vision. We wanted to try something different because we didn’t want to be the typical screamo band,” said former singer Lindsey Vogt. “We didn’t try to make our songs a certain sound. We play what we feel.”

Searching the local area for talented and dedicated musicians to create this sound the group was frequently ignored and turned down by sexist musicians, despite their obvious talent and potential. The girls were classified, stereotyped, and rejected by the ignorant music scene before their demo was given a mere listen.

“People just assumed we were going to be just another chick band that has no musical talent," Vogt said. "Since we were girls, no one took us seriously and assumed that we couldn’t play and write good songs.”

After struggling to be heard for what seemed an eternity, the girls found their missing pieces in early 2006 with the addition of Greg Kerwin, (Guitar), Brandon Anderson (Vocals), and Caleb Clifton(Drums) to an already blistering line-up. From there the band would shared stages with the likes of Chiodos, Blessthefall, Goodbye Tomorrow, My American Heart, and Greeley Estates and even did a stint on the Warped Tour.

"We booked our first tour this summer completely through MySpace," says Screamer Brandon Anderson about the young band embracing a ‘do it yourself’ work ethic. "The band operates our own MySpace; reply to all comments, messages, and friend requests and does a lot promoting. Our manager made our DVD, music videos and live videos. We do everything on our own and don’t wait around for anyone."

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