Hello and welcome to what has become a bit of a tradition for me: a roundup of my ten favorite 7-inches of the year so far. I won’t lie, 2026 had a slow start for me records-wise, not really kicking in until about March. Since then, things have gone into hyperdrive, with new albums coming […]

Active Slaughter are one of those bands I’ve been following since their beginning in the early 2000s. The band’s five-track debut EP, Smash HLS, came out in 2002 and took a militant animal liberation stance against Huntingdon Life Sciences, Europe’s largest contract animal testing corporation. But while there have been many vegan hardcore and punk […]

I enjoyed Sunset Overdrive on my very first listen, but somehow it took a lot of replays to finally be able to put all my thoughts about the record into words. I’ve grown used to niche music being so tightly framed within the confines of single genres, even ones claiming to be experimental, that I […]

Extinction of Mankind, based in the North of England, have been around for over 30 years, so they should not need an introduction, but just in case you are new to them… First there was Discharge, rewriting the sound of punk with a more raw sound. Then Icons of Filth and Antisect combined the harsher […]

Faircamp is a free software tool for artists who want to publish music on their own terms. You point it to a folder of audio files, and it generates a clean, portable, self-contained static website where others can stream or download your work. There is no database, no platform account, and no business sitting between […]

When Ondt Blod started around 2012, they were probably among the world’s northernmost hardcore punk bands. Based in Kirkenes, in the far northeast corner of Norway, the band came from a place known to be part of Sápmi, the traditional homeland of the Indigenous Sámi people. From the beginning, this Indigenous tradition has influenced the […]