Outbreak Festival 2026’s Best Performances
Outbreak Festival is the most consistently hailed event in European hardcore. Now, four years into that title, how can it possibly live up to the hype?
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Square One and Turn of Phrase Create Powerful Melodic Hardcore
Pale Skies pairs two of the melodic hardcore’s strongest acts of the past year: Square One and Turn of Phrase.
Exit Dream Make a Grandiose Return with “Out Your Skin”
Exit Dream’s Out Your Skin” combines post-rock with hardcore roots and pop songwriting to create a cinematic soundscape.
Touché Amoré’s ‘Stage Four’ Is a Harrowing Journey Through Grief
Time doesn’t heal all wounds, but we have music to help. Touché Amoré’s Stage Four is as raw a statement on grief as there has ever been.
Militarie Gun Don’t Need God to Save Them
If you loved Militarie Gun’s previous work, you will be singing along after a few listens this time, too. It’s an excellent, aggressive indie record with genuine heart.
Melodic Hardcore’s Stunning Mid-2020s Resurgence
Hardcore has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity since 2020. Subsequently, the past two years have brought a revived interest in melodic hardcore.
Touché Amoré’s Focus Is Razor Sharp on ‘Spiral in a Straight Line’
Jeremy Bolm is an expert at capturing the claustrophobic feeling of anxiety and depression, and Touché Amoré’s new album is another example of his talent.
Songs of Innocence & Experience: Rise Against’s ‘Revolutions Per Minute’ at 20
Rise Against’s masterpiece Revolutions Per Minute is a vital work about the loss of innocence in a fraught time and a call to arms to fight in a new one.
Turnstile May Have Created Pop Hardcore with ‘Glow On’
With the release of Glow On, Turnstile have let go of genre restraints by blending pop and hardcore punk and creating something new and original.
Touché Amoré’s ‘Lament’ Subtly Reinvents the Past
Touché Amoré's Lament doesn't push the band's sound in new directions. Instead, it builds on what the Los Angeles post-hardcore band do so well already.
Bad Religion Has Some Thoughts on the Trump Administration in ‘Age of Unreason’
It's good to know that Bad Religion are still out there standing up for science and rationality, especially at a time when those qualities feel like they're actually under attack.
Defeater: Abandoned
Continuing their narrative of a family caught in the throes of poverty and violence after World War II, Defeater scripts a plot twist with their most pummeling album to date.