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Arriving a decade after the formation of the Atlanta emo-punk trio, the 10 sophisticated, visceral songs on this debut feel like a release of pent-up energy.

Doing away with their blues-stomp/desert-rock hybrid in favor of something more mellow and downbeat, the Canadian duo’s sophomore LP is a collection of deep sighs and broken hearts.

The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile.

The “post-glacier” goblin-punks discuss their new album Daydream Indignation, Portland, Oregon’s flourishing music scene, and manifesting friendship.

The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.

Vocalist Coco Kinnon fills us in on the journey to making the Nashville-based pop-punk trio’s debut album My Apologies to the Chef sound “100 percent” their own.

These nine shelved recordings remain resplendent explosions of emotion and wonder 34 years later, despite the then-nascent Boston shoegazers clearly striving to find their sound.

The tender pain of Jojo Orme’s post-punk debut mostly maintains the sinister nature of its dual inspiration—suffering brought upon by war and through fractured relationships—quite well.

Recorded in 2001, originally released in 2010, and newly remastered, there’s a bristling energy that runs through this EP that maximizes the weird terror of these 16 bursts of grindcore.

The Acid Bath vocalist offers a cryptic introduction to 7 Songs for Spiders, his first solo release in 15 years.

Written through an older and wiser lens, the NYC hardcore punks’ new EP contains the same kind of ebullience that the band possessed when they last released material 25 years ago.

More of an immersive art installation than an album, this 90-minute drone project is every bit as moving as its pop predecessor despite feeling deliberately difficult.

Carré Callaway’s friend and collaborator Roger O’Donnell of The Cure fame is featured in the new clip, which was co-directed by Callaway.

With the Brooklyn band’s new album Closer To; out today via Equal Vision Records, frontman Julian Rosen takes us deeper into its heavy themes in a brief Q&A.

Lagwagon’s Joey Cape discusses his pop-punk project’s return nearly two decades after their last album with these reworked versions of old songs.

This new era of evident Dire Straits influence builds on and redefines the Hot Water Music vocalist’s legacy and reputation as a songwriter.

Carl Shane’s anxiety about becoming a parent in this American dystopia has inspired a particularly dystopian set of noise-rock songs—as well as a newfound desperation to break free.

With the emo/jazz band returning with their first album in 20 years, frontman Geoff Farina walks us through 15 tracks that have helped shape the group’s vision from the beginning.

Named in reference to the death toll in Gaza, the post-rock pioneers’ ninth full-length sounds like a requiem to the world as it is today—albeit one permeated by rays of occasional light.

Frontman Justin Buschardt also talks revisiting the track from the band’s debut album, as well as the early material they plan on releasing in a new compilation.