Bastos

Bastos are a four-piece emo/screamo band from Bucharest, Romania that began in 2014 (presumably). Thus far, they've put out one split and one LP, which are both incredibly solid efforts. Style-wise, they play a blend of emo and screamo influence, taking the clean, noodly and melancholic guitar work of midwestern emo and conjoining with the shrieked vocals and chaotic drums of screamo. Fans of bands like Merchant Ships and You'll Live will see the immediate appeal here. Definitely check this band out ASAP, they are one to watch out for. Enjoy.

Pandrea/Bastos (2014)

1. Bastos - No Handle

2. Bastos - Fingers Crossed

3. Pandrea - Cămătar

Second Favourite Person (2017)

1. Sherilyn Fenn

2. Man Walking Into Theater

3. Henry Parker

4. Monroe

5. Party Guest Carla

6. Mrs. Valentine

7. Principal Howard Green

8. No Doubt

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Best Witches

Best Witches are a four-piece emo/indie band from Chicago, Illinois that were around from 2013 to 2014. In that time, they put one album and one EP. Sonically, they're pretty hard to pin down. They've definitely rooted in Midwestern emo (in the Cap'n Jazz vein), but incorporate minor elements that fall somewhere between garage and math rock. They craft some odd sounds that can really only be described with the cop out "experimental" tag. Basically they created some really interesting music in their time, and proved that the wave of emo bands coming out of the Midwest could expand and tinker with the definitive sound. Enjoy.

Jail (2013)

1. Margot's Song

2. I've Got An Idea, Man

3. Bird Riff

4. Warped

5. Cubby

6. Glowing Green Tomahawk

Wishes (2014)

1. Orange Things

2. Weaver

3. Heat Moves

4. Labor Day

5. Me & Hawkins

6. Muffie

7. Skeleton

8. Wrinkles

9. Muffie's Return

10. Happy Guy

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Anasarca

Anasarca were a six-piece screamo band from Cockeysville, Maryland that formed in 1994 and broke up in 1997. They put out a very limited amount of recorded material, with only 7 songs spanning a demo, a 7", and a split. Thankfully, these were all compiled in 2002 to document this band's legacy. Sonically, they are comparable to early progressive screamo acts such as Portraits Of Past, who pushed the fury and intensity of hardcore into new, instrumentally more chaotic and intricate, while drawing songs out past the two minute mark. Anasarca are highly recommended for fans of the early Ebuillition/Gravity Records roster, despite having never put out a release with either label. Enjoy.

Discography 1994-1997 (2002)

1. East Bunk Hill

2. Eugene Debs

3. Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt

4. Stationary People

5. Enginize

6. You Know

7. So Tell Me

No Comment

No Comment were a four-piece powerviolence band from North Hollywood, California that were around from 1987 to 1993. They are considered one of the earliest and most influential bands in the genre, thanks to a string of incredible 7"'s they put out (the most notable one being 1992's Downsided). They, along with bands like Spazz, Crossed Out, Infest, and Man Is The Bastard (who vocalist Andrew Beattie would later join) are absolute essentials in defining the head-splitting sound of powerviolence, and their discography compilation (available below) is a must-have for people even remotely into this style of hardcore. Enjoy.

87-93 (1999)

1. Skin Rape

2. Scum Human

3. World Of Difference

4. Modern Moses

5. Guinea Piglet Alone

6. Community Slugs

7. Jugular Scars

8. For Tomorrows Sake

9. In The Name Of Stupidity

10. Modern Moses

11. For Tomorrows Sake

12. Saying Uncle

13. A Mother Crime

14. Community Slugs

15. In The Name Of Stupidity

16. Farmer Hitler John

17. World Of Difference

18. Open Face Down

19. A Mother Crime

20. Community Slugs

21. Guinea Piglet Alone

22. World Of Difference

23. Skin Rape

24. Open Face Down

25. Jugular Scars

26. Dead Stare For Life

27. Past Tense

28. Sarcastics

29. Distant

30. Hurt

31. Hacked To Chunks

32. Lament

33. Soiled By hate

34. Downsided

35. Push Down And Turn

36. Curtains

37. Life

38. Dead Stare For Life

39. Past Tense

40. Sarcastics

41. Distant

42. Hurt

43. Hacked To Chunks

44. Lament

45. Soiled By hate

46. Downsided

47. Push Down And Turn

48. Curtain + Downsided/Push Down And Turn/Curtains Live

Euclid C Finder - Euclid C Finder! EP PREMIERE

Here's one that'll dent some skulls. Euclid C Finder is a one-man Baltimore, Maryland-based mathcore/grindcore project created by Mike Mehl (who was also in Egarra, Kiss The Sky Goodbye, and Neck First). It began earlier this year with the release of his debut EP, A Standard Basis For The Set Of All Discontent, which is now being followed up with this new 6-song EP (titled Euclid C Finder!). This thing is a blissfully chaotic blend of extreme music influences, with throat-shredding vocals, dissonant guitars that sound more like alarms, and rhythms so off-kilter they could cause cardiac arrest with their irregular beats. Fans of bands like Graf Orlock, .Gif From God, Daughters, and Fear Before will particularly get into this.

I'm super happy to share with you this latest EP, which you can stream in its entirety now. Its official release date is slated for October 8th, with tapes available through both the band and Zegema Beach Records. The self-titled EP is on the A-Side, while their debut EP takes up the B-Side, making for twice the gut-punch experience. Check all of that out down below.

1. If You Pray You Get Your Way

2. If You Hope The Answer's Nope

3. A Rumination On Empty Years

4. Dr. Cloudshouter's Secret Weapon

5. Aesthetic Distance

6. Dead Soundboy

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The New Amsterdams

The people have spoken, and it's clearly this band is what they want. I didn't have much of theirs, so thanks so much to Tim for supplying all of it. The New Amsterdams are a five-piece indie rock band from Lawrence, Kansas that formed in 2000. Originally, they were conceived as a side project by Matt Pryor (best known as the guitarist/vocalist of the legendary Get Up Kids), who wanted to explore more acoustic-based material. Since then The New Amsterdams have evolved into a full band, with Pryor still at the helm. Their early work features collaborations from other members of the Get Up Kids (notably Rob and Ryan Pope), though in recent years The New Amsterdams have solidified a line-up entirely of their own. The band isn't currently active, since The Get Up Kids are back together and Pryor's involvement in his now truly solo career.

There's not too much I comment on sonically, since admittedly I don't listen to this band a whole lot, but if you can imagine The Get Up Kids songwriting (with Pryor's unmistakably distinct voice) in a slowed down, acoustic-oriented atmosphere, this would be it. There's a ton of material to delve into here, and I'm super happy to finally deliver it. Never again will the requests be flooded with "The New Amsterdams". Enjoy.

Never You Mind (2000)

1. Every Double Life

2. Lonely Hearts

3. Proceed With Caution

4. Slow Down

5. McShame

6. Goodbye

7. Idaho

8. Drama Queen

9. Make Me Change My Mind

10. When We Two Parted

11. Never Treat Others

12. I Won't Run Away

Para Toda Vida (2002)

1. My Old Man Had A Pistol

2. Picture In The Paper

3. Son Of A Prophet

4. Stay On The Phone

5. That Side Of Me

6. Four More Years

7. Forever Leaving

8. Adeline, Out Of Tune

9. All Ears

10. Losing You

Worse For The Wear (2003)

1. Vignette

2. The Spoils Of The Spoiled

3. Hover Near Fame

4. From California

5. Hanging On For Hope

6. The Smoking Gun

7. Are You True?

8. Asleep At The Wheel

9. Poison In The Ink

10. All Our Vice

11. Worse For The Wear

12. Slight Return

Story Like A Scar (2006)

1. The Death Of Us

2. Turn Out The Light

3. Bad Liar

4. Past The Pines

5. Your Ghost

6. Intelligent Design

7. Calendar Days

8. Beautiful Mistake

9. A Small Crusade

10. Turn Out The Light (Reprise)

Killed Or Cured (2007)

Disc 1: Killed

1. Wears So Thin

2. Your Red Hand

3. Watch The World Cave In

4. Drinking In The Afternoon

5. Maybe I'm A Fool

6. Heaven Sent

7. Full Thunder Moon

8. Has Anyone Seen My Wings

9. Just So Over You

10. Strangled By The Thought

Disc 2: Cured

1. Wears So Thin

2. Your Red Hand

3. Watch The World Cave In

4. Drinking In The Afternoon

5. Maybe I'm A Fool

6. Heaven Sent

7. Full Thunder Moon

8. Has Anyone Seen My Wings

9. Just So Over You

10. Strangled By The Thought

At The Foot Of My Rival (2007)

1. Revenge

2. Wait

3. Fountain Of Youth

4. This Day is Done

5. Without A Sound (Eleanor)

6. Silverlake

7. Last Long Shot

8. Hughes

9. Beacon In Beige

10. Story Like a Scar

11. Fortunate Fool

12. Lay On The Rails

13. Drunk Or Dead

14. Blood On The Floor

Outroduction (2013)

1. Guitarkansas

2. Dear Lover

3. Ex's And Oh's

4. Too Many Of A Good Thing

5. Stand Here And Bleed

6. Whatever You Say

7. A Mile In Your Shoes

8. Heaven Sent

9. The Ballad Of Mike And Beth

10. Your Look Gave You Away

11. Old Enough To Know Better

12. A Long Event

13. Suit Sacrifice

14. The Connoisseur

Elle

Elle are a four-piece screamo band from Oakland, California that began in 2015. They share members with other Bay Area legends Beau Navire, Loma Prieta, and Yearbooks. With such an incredible lineup, there's bound to be high standards for this new project, and holy shit do they deliver. It's a little difficult from their other projects; most notably they've pulled back on the chaotic, shrieking nature of it and let a little melancholic light in it. They have a bit more in common with bands like Raein or Suis La Lune than their past work. The guitars incorporate a lot of shimmering tones and melodic chords, while the vocals are shouted with a desperate exuberance and emotional exhaustion. Both their self-titled EP and recently released She are absolutely incredible, and definitely recent screamo highlights. Enjoy.

Elle (2016)

1. The Clear

2. Mockingbirds

3. Pulse

4. Parts & Parcels

5. Cold Hands

She (2018)

1. Frame By Frame

2. X

3. Crossed Out

4. Wonder

5. Lost, Not Found

6. Grey Things

7. Floral

8. Crush

9. Colorless

... (2019)

1. Terrene

2. Wound

3. Dust

4. Binding

5. Throes

6. All Bets Are Off

7. Shimmer

8. Daggers

9. Draw The Curtain

Cube (2022)

1. Hawak - Reliving

2. Hawak - Old Wounds

3. Joliette - Segundero

4. Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow - Deforestation Feeds My Family and Fucks Your Future

5. Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow - Banana Republicans

6. Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow - Haven't You Done Well

7. Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow - Ice Kewb (the uncontrol)

8. Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow - The Anthem We Deserve

9. Eyelet - Couldn't Bury Hurt

10. Eyelet - Jocasta As A Verb

11. Elle - Hekate

12. Elle - Thane's Box

13. Burial Etiquette - Promise

14. Burial Etiquette - Sword In Sanctuary

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Carry On

Carry On were a five-piece straight edge hardcore band from Atascadero, California that formed in 1996 and broke up in 2005. They released three EP's (two of which were later included in a single compilation) and one LP, which was one of Bridge 9's earliest releases. A Life Less Plagued is an undisputed classic, and still holds up today as one of the most notable hardcore releases since the turn of the century. They played an incredibly fast and aggressive style of hardcore similar to bands such as contemporaries American Nightmare, No Warning and In My Eyes, with a ton of Youth Crew influence from bands like Floorpunch and Chain Of Strength. Another notable thing about them is one of their guitarists, Todd Jones, who has since been active in a  ton of other incredible bands, particularly Nails, Terror, Betrayed, and Internal Affairs. Their drummer Nick Jett has also been in Terror since they started. Enjoy.

Stabbed In The Face (1998)

1. Stabbed In The Face

2. Girl Song

3. Battlefield

4. Pride

The Line Is Drawn (1999)

1. Reason For Change

2. The Line Is Drawn

3. Problem Solved

4. Pushing Forward

5. Move Along

6. What Once Was

Roll With The Punches (2000)

1. Roll With The Punches

2. Fuck Your Politics

3. It's Over

4. Off My Chest

5. We're Not One

6. Check Yourself

It's All Our Blood (2001)

1. Roll With The Punches

2. Fuck Your Politics

3. It's Over

4. Off My Chest

5. We're Not One

6. Check Yourself

7. Pushing Forward

8. Reason For Change

9. The Line Is Drawn

10. Problem Solved

11. Pushing Forward (Version 1)

12. Move Along

13. What Once Was

14. Set The Pace

A Life Less Plagued (2001)

1. The View

2. Waiting On Forever

3. Killing A Sound

4. Roll With The Punches

5. Mirrors And Needles

6. Is This All There Is?

7. A Life Less Plagued

8. X's Always Win

9. So Much of You

10. Off My Chest

11. Broken Strings

12. Rethinking

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Judiciary

Judiciary are a five-piece hardcore band from Lubbock, Texas that formed in 2014. After making a significant mark in the hardcore scene with a demo, EP, and split, they're finally gearing up for the release of their debut full-length, which is slated for release this year on Closed Casket Activities. Before that dropkicks everyone, check out their material to date if ya haven't yet. They play a two-step friendly style of hardcore, with heavy riffs and a thrash influence comparable to the work of fellow Texans Power Trip. Enjoy.

Demo '14 (2014)

1. Intro

2. Eyes Wide

3. Shackled

4. Since Birth

5. Bite The Bullet

6. No Justice, No Peace

The Axis Of Equality (2016)

1. The Axis Of Equality

2. March Of The Abuser

3. Justice Decays

4. Silent Vice

Mortality Rate/Judiciary (2017)

1. Mortality Rate - Forms Of Fear

2. Mortality Rate - Veins

3. Mortality Rate - Lucid

4. Judiciary - Reign Of Turmoil

5. Judiciary - Pure Fury

6. Judiciary - Overthrone

Surface Noise (2019)

1. Social Crusade

2. Karma's Knife

3. Temple (feat. God's Hate)

4. Stronger Than Thou (feat. Knocked Loose)

5.  Burden Of Truth

6. Pure Fury (feat. Mortality Rate)

7. 7.65mm

8. Zero Hour

9. War (Time Is Nigh)

Flesh + Blood (2023)

1. Flesh

2. Blood

3. Engulfed

4. Paradigm Piercer

5. Knife In The Dirt

6. Stare Into The Sun

7. Cobalt

8. Steel Hand God

9. Obsidian

10. Eschatos Hemera

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Young Mountain

Young Mountain are a five-piece screamo/post-rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden that have been around since 2013. Since then they've been fairly prolific with consistent solid releases. The band takes the base of their sound from the atmospheric, rise and fall post-rock influence of bands like This Will Destroy You (whose debut album Young Mountain presumably get their name from). On top of that they throw in hard-hitting screamed vocals, haunting sung vocals, reverb-washed melodic guitars, and the ability to produce dynamic-shifting tracks of dark, emotional catharsis. Fans of the post-rock/shoegaze and screamo/post-hardcore blend will dig this, since it brings to mind other titans of the genre such as Envy,  Deafheaven, or early Pianos Become The Teeth. Their most recent release, Lost Tree is an absolutely immense record, and probably their best to date. If you're new to this band, I'd suggest starting there, though We're Drowning in Slowmotion is also incredible. Enjoy.

För Alltid Var Bara Något Vi Sa (2013)

1. För Alltid Var Bara Något Vi Sa

Fragile (2014)

1. Jag Begravde Solen

2. Dessa Väggar Viskar

3. Seasons Apart

4. Growing Hands

5. Your Name Means Loved

We're Drowning In Slowmotion (2014)

1. Hildedal

2. Arctic Smile

3. Månen Stal Min Själ

4. .

The Garden Of Biological Machines (2016)

1. The Garden Of Biological Machines

2. HMS Slowmotion

Young Mountain/La Petite Mort/Vivre Sa Vie (2017)

1. Young Mountain - Pilträdsvillan

2. Young Mountain - Bloom

3. Vivre Sa Vie - Ehler-Danlos

4. Vivre Sa Vie - Shield

5. La Petite Mort / A Little Death - Intro

6. La Petite Mort / A Little Death - Windchime

7. La Petite Mort / A Little Death - This Name Rings A Bell

Lost Tree (2018)

1. Asunder, To Eye Each Other

2. The Sun Is Away

3. ///////////////

4. Misery

5. Juni

6. Vacant Eyes

7. Lost Tree

8. I Flew Above Your House Last Night

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