I really wanna go to this 😍 #BetterLovers #Hardcore #NYHC

Dear Hollow’s Mathcore Madness [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

By Dear Hollow

The equation above is AMG’s freakishly rigid and completely objective algorithm for scoring albums and determining quality. We incorporate statistics and abstract algebra, which I understand are very complicated maths, in order to get you the highest quality extreme music this side of the Hudson or Atlantic or Yangtze or wherever the hell you are. The trouble is, you bastards don’t listen to math (i.e. “hurr durr, Wilderun is so much better than this shit.”).1 So I listen to math because I’m a contributing citizen and patriot – I listen to mathcore for you. I wade through the cesspools of skronk and sass – RYM and Reddit – for the best of the best. I do it for the, like, three of you who dig it and the, like, eight billion of you who tell teens to turn it off before shuffling back inside for a bowl of Great Grains. What I do is super mathematical so you know it’s super serious. Mathcore is about as unlistenable and scathing as it is a total sellout – so you can offend nearly everyone who hears it. Random rhythms, migraine-inducing tempo shifts, painful squeals, no sense of melody or counting, vocals a la cheese grater to the throat – it’s skronk. So enjoy my bounties, you three. The rest of you can fuck right off.

Commence panic chords!!

Better Lovers // Highly Irresponsible – Last year’s barnstormer debut EP God Made Me an Animal set one hell of a precedent for Buffalo’s Better Lovers, and their debut full-length does not disappoint. Yes, it’s a revenge album against Keith Buckley’s lesser rival project Many Eyes, but Highly Irresponsible is soooo much more than petty Every Time I Die drama. Amplifying every facet of their sound, you get more manic barks and charismatic croons from legendary former The Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato, more chunky riffage from Fit for an Autopsy’s Will Putney, and more of a southern fried good time from three-fifths of the defunct-and-dramatic Every Time I Die.2 While unafraid to embrace hooky rock sensibilities (“Deliver Us from Life,” “At), the punky, bluesy, and sleazy all-out assaults of tempo-abusing insanity (“A White Horse Covered in Blood,” “Love As An Act of Rebellion”) collide with fret-squealing riff fests of the highest caliber (“Lie Between the Lines,” “Future Myopia”) in an insanely catchy, dynamic, stupid heavy, and stupid fun album with legendary status awaiting.

Frontierer // The Skull Burned Wearing Hell Like a Life Vest As the Night Wept – Look, I get that it’s a thirteen-minute EP released super late 2024, but, c’mon, it’s fucking Frontierer. Somehow seeming more punishing than usual across its four tracks, thick-ass slogs hit like sledgehammers to the temple – translating well across its more frantic moments and slower menace – while rhythms attack with the ferocity and doomed inevitability of a swarm of locusts and vocalist Chad Kapper spits blood, vitriol, and insanity into the mic. Channeling the glacial suffocation that coursed through Oxidized, it doesn’t matter if the tempo is more upbeat and energetic (“As the Night Wept”) or if it’s content sludging in its own muck (“Wearing Hell”), or indulging in both (“The Skull Burned”), the vibrant dissonance swirls in dizzyingly mechanical intensity and the down-tuned riffs smother with ruthless arrhythmic beatdown chugs. While comparable to Ion Dissonance, Car Bomb, and this year’s Weston Super Maim in emphasis on down-tuned mathcore punishment, Frontierer remains one of the genre frontrunners and trendsetters by a significant margin – in a short thirteen minutes.

The God Awful Truth // All That Dark & All That Cold – Denton, Texas’ The God Awful Truth is likely everything love or hate about mathcore. Dissonance spilling sloppily across its shaky breakdowns, deathcore gut-punches, vocal attacks as insane as the squawking panic chords that paint the background like Jackson Pollock on too much crack, and rhythms jolting about like a toddler on a go-cart. Alongside these traditional The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza-isms (“Hail Paimon,” “Street Rat”), there is a lighthearted banter guided by vocalist Jordan LaFerney’s cowboy vocals and resulting poppy rhythms, punky tempos, and loose grind-esque composition (“Symbology,” “Slicked Back,” “Bad Tooth”), though the menacing still manages to punch through when least expected (“The Rainmaker,” “Omelette du Fromage”). It’s brutal whiplash of an album, not a semblance of traditional melody to be found, with deathcore breakdowns acting more as the punchline of a song-long joke. You’ll get a headache, but you’ll have fun along the way.

meth. / See You Next Tuesday // Asymmetrics – Mathcore and noisecore have a lot in common, namely unlistenable blasting. Your favorite Michigan deathcore/mathcore darlings See You Next Tuesday teams up with Chicago noisemongers meth. for Asymmetrics, more a collaborative experiment than a split. Each band records three songs, then shares only the drum tracks with the other, who records another song over that drum track. Toss in guest spots from The Red Chord’s Guy Kozowyk and Memphis-based sludgecore act Nights Like These, and all elements practically topple under Asymmetrics’ blazing intensity and immense weight. CUNT’s influence in relentless blasters (“The First Steps of Suffering,” “Syntax Error”) and blasting deathcore chug-and-squeal-fests (“Breaking Under the Weight of the Heaviest Burden,” “Tomb of Woe”) collide with meth.’s more ominous slow burns (“Succumb,” “Guest,” “Willing Participant”) in a surprisingly well-rounded package, all wrapped up in a tidy – and fuckin’ noisy – twenty-seven minutes. It’s the best of both worlds!

Utopia // Shame – A breed of technical metal recalling the fretboard-frying abilities of The Human Abstract or Scale the Summit, this UK-based group (including prolific bassist Arran McSporran of Virvum) balances a jazzy warmth and lush atmosphere to balance out the Dillinger rhythmic attack and Psyopus-inspired shredding, made further vicious by vocalist Chris Reese’s attack of frantic fries, manic shrieks, and ghastly roars. From intense attacks of intensity and brutality (“Shame,” “Social Contracts”), wonkier exposes of dissonant motifs and jagged rhythms (“Never Argue With an Idiot,” “The Gift of Failure”), and lush vistas of warm fretless bass and jazzy chords (“Sun Damage,” “Zither,” “Moving Gently Towards the Grave”), the dark themes of shame and morbidity are offset by a truly transcendent atmosphere that ties Shame together into something beyond mathcore.

Missouri Executive Order 44 // Salt Sermon – Absolutely unhinged mathgrind with a religious theme both belying and echoing their LDS missionary aesthetic (short-sleeved white button-ups, ties, shorts, and bicycle helmets) and ominous black masks, anonymous Independence collective Missouri Executive Order 44 approaches a morbid history of religious intolerance with the goal of utter annihilation. Cramming eleven songs into a mere sixteen minutes like blasters Sectioned or Fawn Limbs, you can expect it to hit hard and fast, complete with unhinged mathy meltdowns that spill across the face of concrete rhythm, meatheaded powerviolence chugs (“Christian Pornography,” “They Built a Bass Pro Shop in Our Zion”), surprisingly groovy riffs (“The Unbuckling,” “Seven is a Holy Number”), tied together with vocalist Jarom’s cult leader shrieks and sinner wails, alongside wickedly distorted Mormon spoken word and gospel samples. Posing no stance of their own aside from the dethroning of tyranny, Salt Sermon stands with all its tragedy and iconoclasm, both utterly devastating and utterly enticing.

Shiverboard // Hacksaw Morissette – Aside from the silly genius of the album name, New York’s Shiverboard eludes easy definition. Most consistently planted in grind, art-punk, screamo, and mathcore sensibilities, Hacksaw Morissette deals with fifteen tracks that feel like a shotgun blast. Punk is a common thread coursed through this tapestry of asininity, ranging from Sex Pistols-with-animalistic-snarls (“All Black Snoopy,” “Stain Remover”), complete collapses into noisecore (“Cryptic Bismuth,” “Chastity Jeans”), over-the-top deathcore blares (“Chainsaw Fruit Punch,” “Angelina Shit Ton”), math rock and Midwest emo musings straight outta Delta Sleep or American Football (title track, “Drug Test,” “The Garbage Stork,” “Vitamins of Darkness”), and complete grind and mathcore meltdowns (“If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power,” “Torrential Drencher”) – there’s something for everyone aboard Hacksaw Morissette. With just enough dynamic to keep things interesting but not too much experimentation to throw listeners (thanks to the tasteful brevity), Shiverboard could stand to throw some more my way.

Traveller // Broken Home – Sometimes bumping mathcore is just an excuse to include djent, and Germany’s Traveller falls into this category. Utilizing Erra’s Impulse-era formula, Architects’ melodic sensibilities, a touch of Northlane’s ethereal moments, and a DIY grit whose “loud and ouchy” weight is sure to be divisive. Guided by ferocious roars, sporadic cleans, and “thicc thiccly” breakdowns galore it often emulates that mid-2000s metalcore that recalls a djentier Feed Her to the Sharks (“Never Cared (2002),” “Mismatch,” “Limbo”). Other times, it incorporates a groove and technicality that recalls the shenanigans of last year’s MouthBreather, making it a curb-stomping affair with an edge of the menacing melodies and ethereal keys (“Acheron,” “Orpheus”). Traveller is more djent and less mathcore, sure, but (1) you’re getting a lot more with Broken Home and (2) that’s why it’s at the end of this list.

#2024 #AllThatDarkAllThatCold #AmericanFootball #Architects #BetterLovers #BrokenHome #DeltaSleep #Djent #Erra #EveryTimeIDie #FawnLimbs #FeedHerToTheSharks #FitForAnAutopsy #Frontierer #Grindcore #HacksawMorissette #HardcorePunk #HighlyIrresponsible #ManyEyes #Mathcore #Meth_ #MissouriExecutiveOrder44 #Mouthbreather #NightsLikeThese #Noisecore #Northlane #Psyopus #Punk #SaltSermon #ScaleTheSummit #Screamo #Sectioned #SeeYouNextTuesday #SexPistols #Shame #Shiverboard #TheDillingerEscapePlan #TheGodAwfulTruth #TheHumanAbstract #TheRedChord #TheSkullBurnedWearingHellLikeALifeVestAsTheSkyWept #TheTonyDanzaTapdanceExtravaganza #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #Traveller #TYMHM #Utopia #Virvum #Wilderun

https://youtu.be/buhX7go8eQ8

#BetterLovers #FutureMyopia #FaveSongsOf2024 #2024BestSongs

Metal Insider’s Chris Annunziata’s Top 5 Albums of 2024:

#TopAlbumsof2024 #Bestof2024 #KnockedLoose #BetterLovers

https://metalinsider.net/lists/metal-insiders-chris-annunziatas-top-5-albums-of-2024

Mých top 8 alb letošního roku. Kdo má rád tvrdší muziku a příjemné krvácení z uši, tak směle do toho.

-- Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
-- Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
-- Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
-- Vended - Vended

Část druhá
🤘

#music #metalmusic #metal #betterlovers #kerryking #knockedloose #vended #metalhead

GoFundMe launched to support Better Lovers drummer Clayton “Goose” Holyoak’s daughter in cancer battle:

#BetterLovers #ClaytonGooseHolyoak #News

https://metalinsider.net/news/gofundme-launched-to-support-better-lovers-drummer-clayton-goose-holyoaks-daughter-in-cancer-battle

Poison the Well announce tour with Glassjaw, Better Lovers & Teenage Wrist:

#PoisonTheWell #Glassjaw #BetterLovers #TeenageWrist #Tour #NorthAmericanTour #2025Tour

https://metalinsider.net/touring/poison-the-well-announce-tour-with-glassjaw-better-lovers-teenage-wrist

Someone Needs To Get Punched

Maybe that person is me. Maybe that person is my old boss. Maybe that person was the dude smoking out of an apple on the way to the venue.

Or maybe it’s Cloakroom, who opened the show with their Colorado friendly jams. And by that, I mean you could easily get high and have a good trip to their vibes. But they need a good punch, because that type of music needs a sick ass light show. And their lights were blue. And only blue. And then more blue. Because they had no light tech. Even for a metal show, I was not unhappy with their slow, epic jams. But man, the lack of a light show made it monotonous. I need to punch whomever decided they didn’t need a trippy guide.

Or maybe I need a punch, courtesy of Spy. This was the one time I ever thought a singer would punch me. Not because Spy are assholes, but because they’re just that intense and also they don’t shy away from getting low on stage. Or maybe the drummer needs to get punched because what fucking drummer stage dives? Theirs does. It doesn’t make sense, but it happened, and it confuses me.

Or maybe Dylan Walker of Full Of Hell needs to get punched. And not for any other reason other then he looks like my old boss who stole tens of thousands of dollars from his employees and is now under multiple state investigations. Like, there’s no reason to hate Full Of Hell. The dudes seem nice and the pit was open the entire time. But no one punched Dylan Walker. If someone punched Dylan Walker, by all intents and purposes a fantastic front man, it would have looked like someone punched my old boss. And there’s a chance I would have had a mini orgasm. It’s not Dylan’s fault he looks like my asshole boss plus a bunch of tattoos, but the reality is, he does, and I hold grudges when it comes to egregious theft.

Or maybe I need a good punch, which nearly happened again during Better Lovers. Not because I can’t look past people’s looks, but because the crowd surfers didn’t wanna stop moshing in the photo pit. That was weird. But what wasn’t weird was how Better Lovers are much better live than on record, and they’re fucking good on record. Honestly, listening to their album, I knew they would put on a great show, but what I didn’t realise was they would jump off Summit’s balcony. When I say they’re better live, what I mean is, listen to the album, and then imagine it happening while the singer balloons towards you from the heavens above, literally.

Someone needs to get punched. And as a grown as adult with the ability of introspection, apparently I do according to, well, me above. That sucks. Maybe you do too if you miss this show.

Did you see my sticker at the urinal? Get your own today!

#betterLovers #cloakroom #fullOfHell #metal #spy #thrash

Better Lovers dominate Brooklyn’s Warsaw on 11/17/2024:

#BetterLovers #GregPuciato #FullOfHell #WarsawBrooklyn #LiveReview #LivePhotos #Concertphotography

https://metalinsider.net/photos/better-lovers-dominate-brooklyns-warsaw-on-11-17-2024

Better Lovers are Very Responsible

If you’re new here, welcome. If not, you know I’ve been posting a lot about Better Lovers. Dudes are making moves, what can I say?

A lot. Because I have their debut album in my… computer. And I’m going to tear it to fucking shreds.

If possible. Screamed, primitive, aggressive style lyrics are usually mood dependent for me. But with Better Lovers, those style of lyrics don’t over stay their welcome. Before I can say, “well, I’m not angry enough for this,” Better Lovers brings out the grungy singing. And maybe that’s why, to me, Better Lovers “Highly Irresponsible” album is a really easy listen, regardless of if I’m rightly pissed the fuck off or petting a puppy.

It has the aggression you want from someone exorcising the microphone, grungy vocal melodies to latch onto, and hardcore guitar riffs that use dissonance that, for some reason, artists avoid so much nowadays. They’re like if 80’s skater punk was made by someone born this century.

HIGHLIGHTS: Lie Between The Lines. It’s track 1 and is a perfect example of the above – pissed off screaming, grunge singing, dissonant guitar riffs to latch onto. A White Horse Covered In Blood has a pleasant, old school punk vibe reminiscent of Suicidal Tendencies, which is obviously a plus for me since that makes it a fucking highlight. Future Myopia, with its harmonized vocals and guitar, has a chorus straight from Ear Candy Central.

LOWLIGHTS: Drowning In A Burning World, when juxtaposed (that means compared to you fucking idiots out there) to the other tracks on the album, lacks the ear candy or contrast that’s making me really dig Better Lovers. Everything Was Put Here For Me is full force 100% of the time, but it’s in the middle of the album where some relief is need. Same with Superman Died Paralyzed – it’s one of the last tracks but sounds like it should be at the beginning of the album – at this point in the album, my ears are tired and need a break, which this song very much is not.

#betterLovers #metal #punk

Album Review: Better Lovers – ‘Highly Irresponsible’

#BetterLovers #HighlyIrresponsible #Review #AlbumReview #OctoberReleases

https://metalinsider.net/reviews/album-review-better-lovers-highly-irresponsible

Am I the only person preferring Greg Puciato in his solo work & previous projects to Better Lovers? The band don't seem as good as they were when they were ETID & Greg seems like he's playing a part & not being himself. My opinion might change but not optimistic. #BetterLovers #hardcore #metalcore #mathcore #newmusic

Today's #WillPutney day I guess

#TheNothingThatIs by #FitForAnAutopsy: https://tidal.com/album/372556250?u

#HighlyIrresponsible by #BetterLovers: https://tidal.com/album/375240164?u

#music #NewReleaseFriday #metal #HeavyMetal #MetalCore #NewMusic

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Better Lovers Embrace the Power Ballad with “At All Times”
https://fysm.world/better-lovers-embrace-the-power-ballad-with-at-all-times/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxMVXxRloQ

#ballad #betterLovers #metal #video

https://fysm.world/?p=5386

#TheMetalDogArticleList #MetalInjection BETTER LOVERS Streams Chaotic New Single "Future Myopia" metalinjection.net/video/better... #BetterLovers #FutureMyopia

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BETTER LOVERS Streams Chaotic New Single "Future Myopia"

https://metalinjection.net/video/better-lovers-streams-chaotic-new-single-future-myopia

#BetterLovers #FutureMyopia

Better Lovers share “A White Horse Covered in Blood” video; announce debut album:

#BetterLovers #AWhiteHorseCoveredInBlood #NewVideo #NewAlbum #UpcomingReleases

https://metalinsider.net/video/better-lovers-share-a-white-horse-covered-in-blood-video-announce-debut-album

#TheMetalDogArticleList #MetalSucks Better Lovers’ Debut Album Highly Irresponsible Announced, “A White Horse Covered In Blood” Streaming Now Gonna need to keep your eyes out for this one. www.metalsucks.net/2024/07/31/b... #BetterLovers

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Better Lovers’ Debut Album Highly Irresponsible Announced, “A White Horse Covered In Blood” Streaming Now
Gonna need to keep your eyes out for this one.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/07/31/better-lovers-debut-album-highly-irresponsible-announced-a-white-horse-covered-in-blood-streaming-now/

#BetterLovers