Zuzanna Pazola

London’s FALSE REALITY are not a band interested in half-measures. Since their formation in 2023, they’ve become one of the city’s most explosive live forces. Their upcoming debut album, Faded Intentions,  is a record that finds clarity through chaos, shaped by years of immersion in the scene and unafraid to rip up its rulebook. Pulling together threads of every corner of the alternative ecosystem, from beatdown and thrash, to grunge and even shoegaze, hardcore rarely feels this cinematic....

HOME FRONT’s Watch It Die turns grief and disillusionment into something vital. The Edmonton duo GRAEME MACKINNON and CLINT FRAZIER have always worked at the crossroads of punk grit and synth-pop shimmer, but this record feels like a leap forward. It’s sharper, bolder, and more alive, shaped by the experience of becoming a fully-fledged live band after their earlier albums, Think of the Lie and Games of Power. Where Games of Power  felt cold and intentionally claustrophobic, Watch It Die...

There’s a special kind of madness at work in The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me. The new album from New Zealand’s BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS isn’t just heavy, it’s completely possessed. For those who have been paying attention, this record feels like a natural and unsettling evolution of what the band have been building towards. Their 2023 record Rejecting Obliteration proved they could play tech-death with terrifying precision, but here they sound freer,...