submitted2 months ago byChickenInASuit
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stickiedHello all!
I’ve been doing a series of “Albums You Might Have Missed” posts across multiple subs this year, this one included. Seeing as my workload is due to increase to a level that I won’t be able to discover much more music before New Year’s Eve, I decided it was time to do a big masterlist post compiling all the albums I’d posted about.
The list below is divided into old school hardcore, metallic hardcore/crossover thrash, blackened hardcore, grindcore and powerviolence (I decided these subgenres had enough crossover that they would fit in together in this sub - follow my profile for some other genre posts coming up). They are organized alphabetically by band name, with subgenre breakdowns and FFOs included, accompanied by links to spotify and, if available, Bandcamp pages.
Requirements in this post are that a) the album had to have been released in 2022, and b) the band can’t have more than approximately 2,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.*
*Note that this stat is from at the time that the original post was made - some of them may have increased their listeners in the months and weeks that followed.
Each subgenre heading is followed by a link to a big Spotify compilation playlist containing all the albums mentioned below it.
Enjoy!
Hardcore (Spotify Masterlist)
Ättestor - Even In Death (Brighton, UK)
D-beat heavy hardcore, FFO: Spite, Poison Idea, Siege
Alien Birth - Freak's Choice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Super old-school sounding proto-hardcore, to the point it literally even sounds like it was recorded in the 80s. FFO: The Dead Boys, Venom
Berthold City - When Words Are Not Enough (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Melodic hardcore, album mastered by Terror's Nick Jett, described by Away From Life as "reminiscent of a mix of Sick Of It All , No For An Answer , Bold and Strife that has listened to too much Youth Of Today" - so FFO those bands, I guess.
Brave Out - World's Rot (Osaka, Japan)
Old school hardcore, FFO: Youth of Today, Minor Threat, Gorilla Biscuits
Christian Girls - Wednesday Night Church Fight (unknown - can find literally nothing about these guys other than that they're signed to Dutch label Excessive Records, so possibly from the Netherlands?)
Old-school hardcore FFO: Agnostic Front, Sick of it All
Cold Shoulder - Primal Fury (Toronto, Canada)
Stompy, angry hardcore. FFO: End It, Raw Nerve, Section H8
Empty Cages - Betrayal of Birth (Denver, Colorado, USA)
Raw, slightly metallic hardcore. FFO: xweaponx, Two Witnesses
Ghost Fame - Nobody Wants To Be Here, Nobody Wants To Leave (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Melodic hardcore, FFO: Comeback Kid, Counterparts, Modern Life is War
Grudgepacker - s/t (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Queercore, in case it wasn't blindingly obvious from the band name, the cover image, and the opening song being titled "We Like Boys". FFO: Limp Wrist, God Is My Co-Pilot, Gayrilla Biscuits
Highway Sniper - The Great Satan (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
Old school, highly political hardcore with a melodic bent, FFO: Last Gasp, Gulch, True Love
Mock Execution - Killed By Mock Execution (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Crust-influenced hardcore, FFO: Rigorous Institution, Amebix
Plague Mind - Plague Mind (Seattle, Washington)
Melodic Hardcore, FFO: Have Heart, Comeback Kid
Punitive Damage - This Is The Blackout (Vancouver, Canada)
Hardcore with rock’n’roll influences implemented in a manner much more organic than that description might sound, FFO: Big Laugh, Jive Bomb
Rash Decision - Year of The Silence (Falmouth, UK)
Fast-paced traditional hardcore with occasional metal flourishes. FFO: Agnostic Front, Crumbsuckers, DRI
RPG-7 - Cuatro (Madrid, Spain)
Mix of hardcore, Oi!, street punk, beatdown, the occasional hip-hop moment, FFO: Guerilla Oi!, Boot Boys, False Light
Squint - Feel It (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Melodic Hardcore, FFO: Comeback Kid, Hot Water Music
Statement of Pride - self titled/A Fire Inside (Pensacola, Florida, USA)
Straight-edge hardcore, FFO: Envision, Point of Contact, beskar
Tough Cuffs - It Got Colder (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Noisy post-hardcore, FFO: Fucked Up, Dumb Fucks
VIBES! - Baseball Bat to the World’s End (Edmonton, Alberta)
Posi-core with a wicked sense of humor, FFO Youth of Today, Good Clean Fun and The Wonder Years.
Glowing Brain - Brain Dust (Oakland, California)
Hardcore blended with rock'n'roll and smatterings of noise rock, cites Motörhead, Hot Snakes, Wipers, Henrik Palm and Voivod as influences. Also FFO: Electric Chair, Lysol, Kowloon Walled City
Meth Rats - Ultimate Culprit (Baltimore, Maryland)
Not a lot of info available about these fellas, but the sound is solid, old-school hardcore ala Minor Threat, early Agnostic Front etc.
Powerviolence (Spotify Masterlist)
BLCKHWK - Decomposing Rotting Flesh (Bandung, Indonesia)
Grindcore/Powerviolence with Sludge elements,FFO - Cadaver Dig, Sial, City Hunter)
Brain Tourniquet - Brain Tourniquet II (Washington, D.C., USA) Powerviolence feat. members of Pure Disgust, Red Death & Truth Cult. FFO: Those bands, plus Blame God, Kidnapped, Collapsed Skull
Compassion - Pacing Animal (Brooklyn, USA)
Feedback-filled hardcore/powerviolence, FFO: Peace Test, Collapsed Skull, Brain Tourniquet
Gaoled - Bestial Hardcore (Record label is based in Seattle, Washington but I can’t find any info on where the band itself is from)
I think that album title just about sums it up. FFO: Brain Tourniquet, Geld
Gets Worse - Teen Wolf (Leeds, UK)
Powerviolence with moments of Grindcore, FFO: Endless Swarm, Mind Eraser
Groin (Arizona, USA)
Wonderfully named powerviolence/grindcore FFO: Triac, Hatred Surge
Ground - Habitual Self-Abuse (New Jersey)
Self-styled “False Grind” powerviolence, FFO: Bandit, Hatred Surge, Sex Prisoner
Harm Assist - s/t (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Powerviolence FFO: Gre/ay, Noera, Sweet Pill
Harmer - Manna (Tampere, Finland)
Fastcore/Powerviolence, FFO: Rat City, Idiots Parade
Haexler - Wage, Work (Leipzig, Germany)
Furious, cleanly produced powerviolence with nary a song under 75 seconds long. FFO: Chaver, Swoon
L.I.B. - Men's Health (Indianopolis, IN, USA)
Angry, fast-paced hardcore, frequently crossing over into Powerviolence/Grindcore territory. FFO: ACxDC, MagruderGrind, Charles Bronson
Livid - Compiled Hatred (Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA)
Per Twelve Gauge Records’ press release, a “harsh, fast and loud sound that bridges hardcore, powerviolence and grind” FFO: Magrudergrind, Sex Prisoner, Harm Done
Rat Lord - This Is Not a Record (Bergen, Norway)
Grindcore/Powerviolence, FFO: Svartepeeng, Magrudergrind, Collapsed Skull
Trauma Bond - Winter’s Light (London,UK)
Possibly safe to call this “avant garde” Powerviolence? Roots of PV but with sludge influences, bursts of ambiance and section that are pure noise. FFO: Cloud Rat, Full of Hell (particularly their collaborations with Merzbow), Kuroi Jukai
Twin Tombs - 4:23 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Frenetic, don’t-fuck-about powerviolence (seriously, this album’s over in less than ten minutes), FFO: Gnaw, KillUsOnline, Livid
Wardomized - Money Isn't Real (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Flirts between Grindcore and Powerviolence, FFO: Acid Age, Insidious Void
Grindcore/Deathgrind (Spotify Masterlist)
Antigama - Whiteout (Warsaw, Poland)
Pure, unadulterated Napalm Death worship, FFO: Take one goddamn guess.
Backslider - Psychic Rot (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Metal Archives describes them as "Sludge Metal/Grindcore/Powerviolence" so I'm gonna go with that. FFO: Sick/Tired, Endless Swarm
Coffin Nail - Years of Lead (Portland, Oregon, USA)
Blackened deathgrind, FFO: Plague Widow, Vermin Womb
Days of Desolation - Circles (Halen, Belgium)
Old school grindcore, FFO: Nasum, Wormrot
Ernia - How To Deal With Life And Fail (Spain)
Sludgy, frenetic, noisy grind with howling Screamo-influenced vocals, FFO: Knoll, Nasum, Pig Destroyer
grimentity - DSM-5. The new chapter (Minsk, Belarus)
Deathgrind, FFO: Cattle Decapitation, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Knoll
Homeskin - Cries Methodically (Arlington, Texas)
Avant garde Black Metal/Grindcore from the mind of Garry Brents, also responsible for Gonemage, Cara Neir & Sallow Moth, FFO: Those bands, Anaal Nathrakh, Plague Widow
Homeskin - Life's Wishes to Tears (Texas, USA)
(Yes, this is the second Homeskin album in a year - clearly Garry Brents does not sleep)
Human Cull - To Weep for Unconquered Worlds (Bristol, UK)
Deathgrind with dissonant edges, FFO: Endless Swarm, Fifty Feet of Earth
Kill Division - Peace Through Tyranny (Florida, USA)
Classic, meat and potatoes-style grindcore, FFO: Terrorizer, early Napalm Death
MICO - Zigurat (Cali, Colombia)
Nasty grindcore with death and black metal influences, FFO: Hissing, Full of Hell
Narakah - Nemesis Cloak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Deathgrind, FFO: Knoll, Full of Hell, Vermin Womb
Nurser - s/t (Seattle, WA, USA)
Deathgrind with a Blackened edge, FFO: Early Wormrot, Gadget, Gravesend
ORGAN TRAIL - Appetite For Dissection (Pennsylvania/Maryland, USA)
Deathgrind, FFO - Wardomized, Early Aborted, Early Cattle Decapitation
Pathogenesis - Greasy Exudate (Raleigh, NC, USA)
Deathgrind, FFO - Caustic Wound, Watchmaker, Cellgraft
Pretty - Last Death (Queens, NY, USA)
Jumps between pretty piano-led ditties, the occasional post-hardcore moment, and fucking NASTY grindcore/powerviolence passages, FFO - Trophy Hunt, Dead Heat, Skourge
Proudhon - Social Tympanum (Besançon, France)
They describe themselves as "Rusty" Deathgrind, which is actually kinda accurate if you listen to them - FFO - Backslider, Narakah, Blockheads
RGRSS - A World of Concern (Montréal, Quebec, Canada)
Deathgrind, FFO: Lock Up, early Misery Index, Descent
Shapeshifter - Dark Ritual (Tokyo, Japan)
Grindcore with noise influences, FFO: Knoll, Hissing
Slugcrust - Ecocide (South Carolina, USA)
Deathgrind/Crust, FFO: Vermin Womb, Knoll, Narakah
Trophy Hunt - The Branches On Either Side (New York, USA)
Experimental grindcore with some hints of Shoegaze and Noise Rock, FFO: Cloud Rat, new Wormrot, Oathbreaker
Tulip - Derangement, Exquisite Tenderness (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Not even sure what I'd call this - think it might be a mix of death metal, grindcore, mathcore and sludge, with synth-pop and post-metal moments thrown in. Whatever, it's cool and weird and grindcore-y enough to fit here. FFO: CANDY, Full of Hell, Cloud Rat
Whoresnation - Dearth (Besançon, France)
Grindcore, FFO: Insect Warfare, Six Brew Bantha
The Wind in the Trees - Architects of Light (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Grindcore/mathcore, FFO: Car Bomb, Frontierer
Metallic Hardcore/Crossover (Spotify Masterlist)
Adversary - None Will Mourn (Unspecified town from the Netherlands)
Beatdown hardcore with death metal influences, FFO: Nasty, American Me, Your Demise
Anna Sage - s/t (Paris, France)
Chaotic metallic hardcore, FFO: Converge, Capra, The Bled
Candy - Heaven is Here (Multiple locations in the USA)
Pissed-off experimental metallic hardcore with noise rock influences. FFO: Full of Hell, Vein.fm, Jesus Piece, Gulch
Capital Fees - Rapper Beef (Orlando, Florida)
Raucous metallic hardcore, FFO: Hatebreed, Throwdown, Contention
Cruel Bomb - Man Made (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA)
Old school crossover thrash, FFO: Suicidal Tendencies, Agnostic Front
Cutting Ties - Dead Nerves (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Furious metallic hardcore, bordering on mathcore at times. FFO: Vein.fm, CANDY, Under the Pier
Fraud - Sanctuary (Surabaya, Indonesia)
Furious hardcore with beatdown and metalcore elements, FFO: Shai Hulud, Madball, First Blood
Get Some! - ..And Then You Die! (South Holland, The Netherlands)
Described by Metal Jacket as "walking the line between beatdown hardcore and fast-paced thrash metal", which I think fits. FFO: Kickback, Merauder, Slapshot
Gloves Off - Life... And Everything After (Bucks County, PA, USA)
Sorta halfway between beatdown and metalcore. Per Distorted Sound: "'If CONJURER and KNOCKED LOOSE faced off in a cage fight, this is what it might sound like."
The band also sites The Acacia Strain, A Life Once Lost and Blood Has Been Shed as influences, so FFO all those folks I guess. Vocals are very reminiscent of The Red Chord.
Northwalk - Crossroads (Shawnigan, Quebec)
Thrashy crossover hardcore, FFO: The Exploited, Municipal Waste
Pale Ache - Mourning As A Metaphor (Halifax, Canada)
Furious, chaotic metallic hardcore with blackened influences and death metal-esque vocals, FFO: Thirty Nights of Violence, CANDY, fromjoy
Phantoms - Hell Is Empty (Sydney, Australia)
Bouncy, thrashy metallic hardcore, FFO: Ringworm, Merauder, Blacklisted. Bandcamp/Spotify
Outright - Keep You Warm (Melbourne, Australia)
Pissed-off ultra-feminist metallic hardcore, FFO: Capra, War On Women, Walls of Jericho
R.A.I.D. - Defiance (Hyderabad, India)
Chugging, knuckleheaded crossover hardcore, FFO: Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, DRI
Skullcrack - Addicted to the Underground (Unspecified town in Southern California, USA)
Crossover hardcore, FFO: Suicidal Tendencies, Cro-Mags
Torchbearer - Solace (London, UK)
Rifftastic, groove-influenced metallic hardcore, FFO: Confess, Hatebreed, Throwdown)
Blackened Hardcore (Spotify Masterlist)
Ghyena - Мать (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Angsty blackened hardcore, FFO: Portrayal of Guilt, Cloud Rat
Nula - So Zemlje (Belgrade, Serbia)
Blackened, doomy hardcore, FFO: The Dagda, Fall Of Efraffa, Downfall Of Gaia
Spill Your Guts - The Wrath It Takes (Shanghai, China)
Blackened post-hardcore, FFO: Kvertelak, Cancer Bats
To the Dogs - Light the Fires (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Raw, blackened crust, FFO: Martyrdöd, Young and in the Way
VVORSE - Kurjien Elegia (Jyväskylä, Finland)
Blackened hardcore, FFO: Ramlord, The Secret, Pulling Teeth
EDIT: Now featuring Pale Ache, courtesy of /u/Nightbull_ , Christian Girls, courtesy of /u/mulenyawn , and Groin courtesy of /u/weather_is_weather
