2022
Please Sir, I Want Some Core 2022 – Vol.1
Written by Ellis Heasley and Anna Pest Here we are with the first edition of Please Sir, I Want Some Core for 2022. As bands like Vein.fm, Foreign Hands, Wounded Touch, Helpless and Soul Glo […]
Mathcore
2021
Please Sir, I Want Some Core – Vol. 5
Written by Ellis Heasley Yo – I wanted to squeeze out one last edition of Please Sir, I Want Some Core before the end of 2021 to catch up on some more quality releases from […]
2021
Album Review: Frontierer – “Oxidized” 8.7 (Mathcore)
You haven’t known true auditory destruction until you’ve listened to Frontierer. Frontierer is one of the heaviest bands of all time. Yeah, it doesn’t get much more crushing than this folks. I’ve been listening to these guys for a while now, but if you’re reading this and this is your first go round with the beast that is Frontierer, prepare yourself for something absolutely nuts. […]
2021
Album Review: Fawn Limbs – “Darwin Falls” 8.4 (Mathcore)
Interesting genre mashups are kind of my thing, so like, imagine my excitement jumping into a blackened mathcore album with dark ambient soundscapes, spoken word, and dark jazz??? Knowing that much, I was already invested in whatever this album had to throw at me, but nothing could’ve prepared me for the well of infinite darkness confined within the walls of this LP. If, after reading this review, if you decide to give this album a shot, you are in for a wild ride my friends. […]
2021
Album Review: MouthBreather – “I’m Sorry Mr. Salesman” 9/10 (Hardcore)
Written by Carcassbomb MouthBreather – I’m Sorry Mr. SalesmanExperimental hardcore from Boston, USAReleased August 13th, 2021Via Good Fight Music9/10 CHAOS AROUND ME, CHAOS AROUND ME. Hardcore in recent times has become heavily centred around being […]
2021
Album Review: Lower Automation – “Lower Automation” 8/10 (mathcore/noise)
Written by John Angel Lower Automation – Lower Automation Mathcore/noise from Chicago Releasing via Zegema Beach Records Releases July 12, 2021 8/10 I cover a lot of death metal and prog leaning music here at Noob […]
2021
Album Review: Death Goals – “The Horrible And The Miserable” 9/10 (Hardcore)
There’s really no beating around the bush here: personally, The Horrible And The Miserable by Death Goals has gone right up there with the likes of For Your Health and Pupil Slicer as one of the best hardcore releases of the year so far. […]
2021
Album Review: Pupil Slicer – “Mirrors” 9/10 (Hardcore)
It’s been a quiet start to the year as far as hardcore goes and Pupil Slicer are one of the first big albums to drop on my radar. Everyone’s talking about this one, so who the fuck am I to not check it out? I knew I’d be hooked as soon as the music slowed down with blackened shrieking on the opening track “Matyrs”. […]
2020 Albums
Album Review: Sleepscultper – Sleepscultper 9 (Math/Hardcore)
I took a second listen today just to make sure what I heard is what I heard, and fair enough the very opening seconds shot right down the back of my neck and down the spine. This appears to be a vinyl re-release combining their EP and debut LP, put out by Silent Pendulum Records on Bandcamp as Name Your Own Price. I seriously recommend the labels discography for the 10 bucks just to have them in collection and support the label. It’s run by the current drummer of The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Michael Kadnar, and they put out vinyl reissues of The Number Twelve and many amazing new releases from upcoming bands. You can hear all about it in my interview with him and DJ Scully here. […]
2020 Albums
Album Review: The Motion Mosaic – Avant-Garbage 9.2 (Mathcore)
I’m a huge fan of post hardcore and mathcore, sometimes it even threatens to overcome even my love of metal. This is the second major release from The Motion Mosaic following up their 2016 album Samsara which is well worth a listen but is a very different release, a different part of the bands development. The ideas and experimentation are there but are looser. Now with Avant-Garbage they’ve tightened it up and turned it on it’s head. There’s nothing loose about it, this is a hard hitting yet elegant core album with all the makings of an end of year list candidate. […]