Nik Young

San Diego crossover crew Poison Headache find a few edges to their fury

Post-hardcore outfit tear the roof off – and then put it back again

Post-hardcore/metal all-stars lay down a caustic challenge

Jamey Jasta ups the anger and the ante

Upbeat angst from South East melodic punk newbies

Gallic post-hardcore troupe blend brains and brawn

Post-Kvelertak Nordic ragers mix the fun with the fury

Reading hardcore hopefuls offer a feast for the senses

Movie-loving grindcore crew start to lose the plot

Putting the heart and the heaviness back into post-hardcore

Dark deliverance from former Bleeding Through frontman

Teutonic hardcore ruffians gets the fists flying

Orange County punk rockers return to accentuate the positive

Denmark’s death/thrash kings nudge their laurels

German hardcore bruisers develop some new moves

Hardcore sludge dredged up from the mudbanks of Brooklyn

Minnesota hardcore crew start to glimpse the light

Watford’s masked avengers go completely ’knots

Ontario’s melodic hardcore crew speak to the heart

Bristol’s post-hardcore posse find opposites attract

Melodic hardcore with a serious cutting edge

Caustic hardcore from the broken streets of Illinois

Well-read metalcore youngsters set out their busy stall

NY’s groove metallers spread themselves too wide

US hardcore veterans dial up the rage on album number six