hardcore punk

Everyone’s favorite punk rock agitators, Drug Church, have returned! Today the band have announced their highly anticipated fourth full-length, “Hygiene”, due out on March 11th, 2022, via Pure Noise Records.

Drug Church are one of the most singular bands in modern guitar music and on “Hygiene” the band’s uncompromising nature has resulted in a bold leap forward.

Bristol, UK-based band RXPTRS, who blend rock, metal, punk, and hardcore with a seamlessness that is enviable, creating something that is unique that seethes with boundless energy - have signed with Blacklight Media / Metal Blade Records.

The band, tipped by Alternative Press as one of 20 UK bands you need to know, has shared the video for the new single “Gutterflies”. Watch the clip, directed by Nathan Roach, below.

Okilly Dokilly the world’s only Nedal band, is announcing the “Tourdilly Do ‘22” tour on November 2nd, 2021 and it could be their last.

The “Tourdilly Do ‘22” tour will take the place of the previously rescheduled “When the Comet Gets Here” tour with shows occurring across the Midwest and Eastern US from April to May of 2022. Joining as special guests will be Medford, Oregon’s partycore rockers Steaksauce Mustache.

Today, one of the biggest names in modern hardcore, Comeback Kid announce their seventh studio album, “Heavy Steps” will be released on January 21st, 2022, via Nuclear Blast worldwide (and New Damage Records in Canada).

Long-running Seattle post-hardcore/sludge unit Heiress - featuring current and former members of Himsa, Undertow, Blightmaker, and more - will unleash their long-awaited “Distant Fires” full-length on October 1st, 2021, via Satanik Royalty Records. The follow-up to the band’s 2016’s critically adored “Made Wrong” offering will serve as the label’s first official release!
 

The Melvins announce their most ambitious project yet: “Five Legged Dog” (October 15th, 2021, Ipecac Recordings), a 36-song newly recorded, acoustic collection featuring a career-spanning collection of songs, from 1987’s “Gluey Porch Treatments” to 2017’s “A Walk With Love & Death”, the entire gamut of the legendary band’s catalogue is represented.

After recently signing with Napalm Records, Norwegian power trio Bokassa are fully charged up and ready to set everything ablaze on their upcoming album, entitled “Molotov Rocktail”, out September 3rd, 2021, via Napalm Records.
 

Authority Zero have just announced dates for their Ollie Ollie Oxen Free North American Tour, which kicks off this Fall. The tour begins on October 29th, 2021, in Yuma, AZ, and runs through February 5th, 2022. The band will be out in support of their 8th studio LP, the recently released “Ollie Ollie Oxen Free”.

“Asclepius” is the new album from the ever-evolving and adventurous collective Iceburn, who return with their first new material in twenty years, which Southern Lord shall release on June 25th, 2021, on LP and digital formats. 

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Wanderer has completed work on their debut LP, “Liberation From A Brutalist Existence”, finalizing the album for release in June. Alongside the album’s track listing, cover art, preorders, and more, a video for the lead single “Contented” is now playing below.