Southern California hardcore punk outfit Human Issue signed with Smartpunk Records and unleashed a first new single and video with ‘Waking’!
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UK rock duo Haggard Cat just released a video for their latest single ‘Warpath’, a track from their upcoming album ‘The Pain That Orbits Life’, set to be out in May via Church Road Records!
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War On Women announced their new album ‘Time Under Tension’ to be out in May with Smartpunk Records and shared their new single ‘Messages Unsent’!
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Punk outfit Koyo announced their new album ‘Barely Here’ to be out in May via Pure Noise Records and shared the new single and video ‘Irreversible’!
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Agnostic Front unleash the lyric video for “You Say”, a ferocious blast of hardcore defiance from their latest album ‘Echoes In Eternity’, released last year with Reigning Phoenix Music. They start the European leg of the “Echoes In Eternity Tour” with WISDOM IN CHAINS and RAW BRIGADE as support next month, don’t miss out!
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Hardcore punk trailblazers A Wilhelm Scream are set to release their next album ‘Cheap Heat’ at the end of next month through Creator-Destructor Records and shared their new single ‘Let It Ride’!
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Brutal Assault reveals massive lineup update for the 2026 edition with Body Count, Primus, Periphery, synthwave titans Perturbator and Carpenter Brut, Cradle of Filth and a bunch more heading to the fortress! Get your tickets!
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Amsterdam’s hardcore legends Vitamin X are back with their seventh album ‘Ride The Apocalypse’ in March 2026 via Svart Records and shared a first track with ‘Chop Chop Chop’!
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Angel Du$t unveiled the new song and video ‘DU$T’, another track from their upcoming album ‘COLD 2 THE TOUCH’, set for release in February 2026 via Run For Cover Records!
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War On Women recently signed to the roster of Smartpunk Records and shared a new single with ‘Precious Problem’, giving us a taste of what is to come with a new album in 2026!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Helldorado Stage a serving of punk and hardcore with Funeral Dress, The Casualties, Cro-Mags, Madball and Life of Agony, modern metal from Sylosis and post-metal with The Ocean!
A selection of Vaim’s best captures of 2023, after a long and grueling process of elimination, with pictures from bands like Battle Beast, Gaerea, Trollheim’s Grott, Avslut, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Amenra, Igorrr, Aesthetic Perfection, HIDE, SKYND, Ice Nine Kills, Utuk Xul, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Stratovarius, Testament, Michael Monroe, Volbeat, Hellacopters, Pensées Nocturnes, Amorphis, Biohazard, Killswitch Engage, Converge, Agnostic Front, Taake, Public Image Ltd, A.A. Williams, Butcher Babies, Clutch, Finntroll, Electric Callboy, Ghost, Gojira, Imperial Triumphant, Lorna shore, The Hu and Urne!
Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!
With Gary’s selection of his favorite pictures, we dive into his 2023 in punk with The Adolescents, The Interrupters, Fea, Sloppy Seconds, The Svetlanas, The Damned, L7, Madam Bombs, Roy Ellis & The Aggrolites, The Casualties, Surfbort and Suzi Moon captured at Punk Rock Bowling, The Darts, The Soap Girls and Tokyo Honey Trap captured at some of the smalles venues in his area, and The Rumkicks and Hi-Fi Spitfires captured at Rebellion Festival!
We set the hard task for our photographers to choose the best 30 pictures that they have shot in 2023 out of possibly thousands of captures, and here is the result of Tom Treuten’s selection with Butcher Babies, Fateful Finality, Fear Factory, Thundermother, Hypocrisy, Spiritbox, Behemoth, Dog Eat Dog, The Cult, Skillet, Agnostic Front, Scorpions, May The Silence Fail, Cannibal Corpse, Ataraxy, Dark Funeral, Goldmann, Solstafir, Ingested, Antiheld, Lansdowne, Völkerball (Rammstein Tribute), Fettes Brot, Danko Jones, Royal Republic, Team Tot, and Mindead!
Nonpoint, one of our photographers’ favorite bands to see live, made a stop at The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on their “The Milliion Watts Tour 2023” and with the help of (hed)pe, Sumo Cyco and VRSTY turned the night in an absolute barn burner!
Kvelertak wrapped up their “Krøterveg te helvete” tour in Trix, Antwerp with support from the Canadian hardcore punk formation Cancer Bats!
Kvelertak and Cancer Bats started quite the riot at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki some weeks ago!
When a legend like John Lydon comes to a venue near you with his almost as legendary band Public Image Ltd., you know you can’t miss out! And so did our photographer when they took over the stage at Ääniwalli in Helsinki with the support of local hardcore punk heroes Bob Malmström!
Second day at an exciting edition of Alcatraz we had a very black metal heavy one with Gaerea, Taake and Belphegor, old school punk with The Exploited, gloomy industrial from Godflesh and one of Finland’s favorite bands Amorphis!
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