It’s been three years since Northern California’s Arüspex introduced themselves with their debut full-length. Hawthorne & Henbane, as we mentioned in our review, offered an enchanting take on modern blackened crust, with enough power and melody to distance itself from the genre’s more predictable paths. Now, the band return with their second album, The Death […]

This is the kind of massacring raw punk wildness that immediately made it one of my favorite demos of the year so far. Massacre System come from Richmond, Virginia, and this tape is one of the latest releases from North Carolina’s finest, Bunker Punks. Richmond is already home to one of the best current d-beat […]

The ex-Yugoslav hardcore punk scene is carefully looked after by people within the region, yet much of it remains largely unknown around the world. This list changed several times while it was being written, with some bands eventually removed so that the final version would only include bands we have not previously covered at DIY […]

About a decade ago, post-punk was experiencing an underground renaissance. More specifically, it was the darker, more guitar-driven, DIY incarnation of the genre that felt most alive. The one that stretched from Crisis to Wipers, while naturally passing through the British legacy and the American one in the vein of Mission of Burma. It gave […]

I love when a band puts 7 short tracks on a 7-inch record, and the best thing about No Peeling is that they’ve now done it twice in a short time. What’s different here, at least for me, is that No Peeling are not some über-corrosive d-beat raw punk, crust, or other filth-driven noise unit. […]

It has already been two years since the release of ALARM!’s explosive self-titled debut. The Swedish hardcore crust band, which is in many ways a continuation of three-quarters of the titanically great Victims, featuring Outlast vocalist Henrik Lindqvist, managed to make a deafening impact on the contemporary scene. The band proved not to be a […]