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San Antonio post-punks Nocturnal Prose have released "Western Interests". Yole Centeno talks about leaving Amygdala, why post-punk is political, and Total Agency's work bringing DIY releases and mutual aid together. idioteq.com/san-antonio-...

NJ/Baltimore hardcore band Wall Breaker took eight years to finish LP number two, changing drummers three times along the way. Now "Breaking Down" is out on Indecision. We talked to the band and GO!'s Mike Bromberg about how it all happened. idioteq.com/nj-baltimore...

"We were dust, and we will return to dust." Turin melodic hardcore band Selce premiere "Polvere", a song about mortality and accepting the things beyond our control. It's also the track they use to open their gigs. idioteq.com/turin-melodi...

DIY emo fest special! Years of shared shows, Baltic trips, a WBC/MLP split and one memorable night at 3G all meet at TANIO FEST 2026. Maurycy Jędrzejewski + all six bands on the 50 zł Warsaw fest and the connections behind its lineup. idioteq.com/warsaw-tanio...

HEADBUSSA just dropped “MANHUNT” and this thing is mean as hell. Pure swing, metallic crunch and “End Your Line For Good” barked like a threat. Debut LP “SURVIVAL MEASURES” lands Nov 13 via DAZE. vyd.co/HeadbussaMan...

20 yrs of “Into Oblivion”. Rise and Fall’s monster second LP is getting a fresh Deathwish pressing, newly remastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. The original was mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City, and it still sounds fucking vicious. They’re also back onstage Nov 7 in Ghent!

This week's IDIOTEQ reading: Chad Gilbert's 2013 "Sticks and Stones" interview revisited, Ray Harkins on hardcore and his interview archive, Portuguese screamo/crust/folk from RUEN, plus French screamo, Italian d-beat and plenty more. idioteq.substack.com/p/weekly-und...

20 yrs into their strange take on post-rock, Milan's Threestepstotheocean bring dark folk, industrial hip-hop and new voices into "Death of Permanence". Three years after questioning the album format, they're back with six tracks and a new approach to DIY. idioteq.com/milan-post-r...

São Paulo's magnólia have taken Caru's bedroom screamo into a full five-piece band on "ternura e violência". We talked about reworking the old songs, recording with two generations of Brazilian emo musicians and the current São Paulo screamo scene. idioteq.com/sao-paulo-sc...

Early-2000s metalcore from the Pacific Northwest. Erosion Choir are out with their debut EP "Curse of Memory", and we're premiering their new video. Kyle Bond and ex-Enterprise Earth guitarist Willow Garcia-Fitzpatrick give us the full story. Up now on IDIOTEQ.

The Number Twelve Looks Like You are revisiting "Mongrel" and releasing their first album in 7 years. We spoke to all four members about the breakup and reunion, the new lineup, recording "Howls", working with Foxy Shazam and revisiting their old songs. idioteq.com/the-number-t...

Boom! Deafheaven surprise-release their heaviest EP yet, inspired by the nuclear weapons industry. New "Hunter" film was shot by Polish cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, the two-time Oscar winner behind "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan". idioteq.com/deafheaven-s...

Power Trip are back on record. "Precinct 3" and "Scavenger" are their first new songs with Seth Gilmore, recorded in Texas with Jacob Hansen and Blake Ibanez. A new album follows in spring 2027. idioteq.com/power-trip-r...

This rips. Dream X World just dropped “When Freedom Dies” via Youth 2 Youth Recs. Seriously, start with track 5, “Dream World”. Straight edge hardcore dedicated to friends, sxe and cruelty-free life. I need to see what this one does to a room. youth2youthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-f...

This is gonna be wild. TURNSTILE are playing a free show at the Washington Monument on Oct 24, raising money for humanitarian aid in Palestine, Sudan and Lebanon. After last year’s Wyman Park chaos in Baltimore, with endless stage dives, u already know what this could turn into.

Portland metallic hardcore returns with "Monopoly on Pain" after the band scrapped their six-piece-era songs. idioteq.com/portland-met...

CASPIAN just dropped “Far Country”, eight minutes of stripped-back guitars, distortion and zero unnecessary extras. Their self-titled sixth LP lands Oct 16 via Wax Bodega, followed by a full UK/EU run. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rls9...

CULT OF LUNA dropped “The Rift”, an 8-min epic that swings from some of their quietest stuff to what the band call their fastest music yet. J. Persson wrote it around loneliness, belonging, echo chambers and the point where community turns into exclusion. cultofluna.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

WALLS OF JERICHO are back with “True Til’ Death”, the third single from their first album in a decade. Heavy breakdowns, straight-ahead hardcore riffs and Candace Buckingham turning old rage into fuel. “System Error: Humanity” drops Nov 13 via Napalm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zA...

WINNERZ CIRCLE return with "FULL CIRCLE", a five-track EP out October 28 via life.lair.regret.records and BIG Records. New single "BETTER DAYZ" is out now, with Three Knee Deep and Cruel Intentions appearing elsewhere on the record. lifelairregretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/full-c...

Katowice hardcore pack HOLLOWMAN drop new tracks! hollowmanhc.bandcamp.com/album/promo-...

Born From Pain are heading into their 30th year with a new EP, reissues and a possible return to Poland. Rob Franssen talks Heerlen’s mining history, the story behind “De Letste Sjiech” and why there’ll be no nostalgia line-up reunion. idioteq.com/born-from-pa...

Shizune and Noverte just dropped a new 4-track split, two songs each. Shizune go inward with collapse, pressure and time, while Noverte hit shame, rage, anti-fascism and the urge to disappear underground. shizune.bandcamp.com/album/novert...

CALATHEA's "Flowers & Knives" came out back in March 2025, but it just found its way back into rotation here and fuck, this one still hits hard. Seven tracks of heart-ripping screamo and post-hardcore - shoverec.bandcamp.com/album/flower...

Between the beautiful Alpine slopes of northern Italy, there’s hardcore too. Morbegno had its own little scene, with bands, zines and DIY gigs. Sottomissione Zero grew up in the middle of it and are still playing together 25+ years later. Full story at idioteq.com/italian-alpi...

Sardinian melodic hardcore crew REGROWTH have released "Shattered Pieces", a five-track EP marking ten years of the band. All five tracks are streaming on regrowth.bandcamp.com/album/shatte...

Winnipeg metallic hardcore crew Withdrawal have released "In The End, Again, An End..." after quietly reuniting the lineup behind their 2011 A389 release "Faith, Flesh & Blood" in June 2025 withdrawal.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

Springfield, Illinois straight edge hardcore band Prevention have joined Triple B Records and announced their debut LP, "And Nothing's Mine", out October 30 through Triple B and Delayed Gratification Records. The first cut, "Tell Yourself" is up! bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-no...

Blistering #screamo with sharp jazz and atmospheric turns, GHOLA bring togetherac Crowning, Itto, Lord Snow, Stormlight, Inosuke, Oaktails, Frail Body, Bleached Cross and Greed Worm. 8-track debut out via Zegema Beach Rec - “Black Knight Satellite” up now zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aeon

Grinding death metal with a mechanical, bitter edge - Leng Tch'e return with “Hammered Into Collapse,” a new single out via Season of Mist.T he track circles around wasted time, parasitic dependence and a slow mental collapse. lengtchesom.bandcamp.com/track/hammer...

Ecstatic black metal pushed into a raw live setting, Agriculture are streaming “Bodhidharma (Live in Cologne 2026),” the seventh track from their upcoming The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026. agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

Firstline put migration, family-party salsa, Wisin & Yandel and life between Colombia, Venezuela and Madrid into "TRIBU". Full feature: idioteq.com/madrid-latin...

Rosetta are back with "Temporal Lapse", their final album in the band's current form. Work started in '19, survived the pandemic, a house fire, deaths in the family and several years of stops and starts. "This is the final album. We're not breaking up,". 27 Nov @pelagic_records

Frank Navetta and Tony Lombardo singing lead on a Descendents record. That is the 1979 single, back on "Bonus Fat" with the "Fat" EP, out November 13th via Org Music on 12-inch, CD and tape.

MANIFEST X just landed with some proper California straight edge energy. Members of Human Garbage, Section H8 and more, 8 tracks, no bullshit. Full EP drops October 17 for Edge Day, pre-orders are up now on @TripleBRecords triplebrecords.net/collections/...

Special emo post hardcore gem coming up tomorrow on IDIOTEQ>com

HIRS have released Empty Urn, a 15-track collection of rare cuts pulled from comps, splits, b-sides and out-of-print releases, all newly remastered. hirs.bandcamp.com

Fast, melodic punk with emo and indie-rock edges - Bilbao trio OHIL return with eta maiz ez da beste ezer, 8 high-energy tracks sung in Euskera - laagoniadevivir.bandcamp.com/album/ladv22...

Modern deathcore pressure, dissonant atmosphere and an intense 2min attack mark Suicide Silence’s return with “Graceless,” their first new music in 3 years. And boy it slaps! It opens the band’s newly announced 8th album of the same name, due Nov 20 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2zV...

Post rock maestros Caspian @caspianofficial are back with beautiful new single "Remain", streaming now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPV... #postrock #caspian

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Soul Glo just dropped with “February Theory,” their first new release since 2023. The track deals with grief, depression, self-destructive habits and getting emotionally numb after losing people. It opens NA I'M GON GRAB ALLAT, due Jan 15 via Epitaph - youtu.be/w-rLBnA-cJU?...

A key piece of European screamo history is back in print. Raein and Daïtro’s 2004 split has been reissued by Persistent Vision Records on 12" vinyl and cassette, 22 years after the original 10". Physical copies ship in October - raeinband.bandcamp.com/album/raein-...

We talked to False Body about Edmonton hardcore, 15 years of Lee and Justin playing together, Not Enough Fest, Dylan, and why their first LP finally gave them room to get weirder. “Tomorrow Starts Without You” is out September 25 via Wax Vessel idioteq.com/false-body-d...

A rare, blink-and-you-miss-it return from Carry On lands at FYA 13 @FYAFest in Orl on Jan 9–10, 2027. The band said at Sound & Fury they’re only playing a handful of shows before calling it again, with Floorpunch, Fiddlehead and more also on the bill at Orlando Warehouse. Sick.

Jacksonville's own Step 2 This just dropped Break the Game via Triple B. Coming hot off the heels of The First Step, this new joint brings straight-up ignorant, high-energy bounce that pulls from late-90s snotty punk grit and hard-hitting 00s Boston style. bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/break-...

Finnish screamo and emotional hardcore - Alas return with Anatomia, a nine-track LP out September 4. Raw, tense and inward-looking, it circles distance, jealousy, grief, stagnation and the pressure of becoming what others expect. alasyhtye.bandcamp.com/album/anatomia

Spanish Love Songs have announced “Future Nausea”, out November 6 via Pure Noise Records. New single “Good American” is out now, written around the US military system, trans soldiers and the political anger running through the album.

Lifesick are back with a new single, “Hard to Kill”. The Danish metallic hardcore band released it today and have more shows coming in September. @lifesickhc #Hardcore - lifesickhc.bandcamp.com/album/hard-t...

Russian Circles are back with "Nine". We talked with Brian Cook about writing across three cities, returning to Electrical Audio, the strange ideas behind the record, and the song they thought could be their crossover track but left off "Gnosis". idioteq.com/russian-circ...