Mold Bunny blast through 15 tracks of deathgrind/powerviolence chaos on (H)are you afraid of the dark?. The entire album clocks in under 20 minutes with rabbit and horror movie-themed track titles like "Hopmare on Elm Street" and "The Texas Rabbit Massacre." Mixing slamming death metal with grindcore intensity and powerviolence unpredictability, the band delivers brutal, relentless aggression with a tongue-in-cheek horror aesthetic.
Mold Bunny - (H)are you afraid of the dark?
MIND / KNOT - Mortale
MIND/KNOT out of Rome deliver chaotic hardcore fury on Mortale. Six tracks explore mortality through distortion and sonic darkness, blending mathcore complexity with noisecore aggression. The EP rips through frantic rhythms and violent shifts, closing with the suffocating "Few Shadows Left Alone In This Void." Pure Converge/Dillinger Escape Plan worship filtered through Rome's hardcore underground.
FFO: Botch, The Chariot, Plebeian Grandstand
NUR - Shock Mentality
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NŪR out of Haifa, Israel deliver their 1st full-length Shock Mentality via Sludgelord Records. After years playing sprawling post-metal, the band shifted hard into aggressive sludge/hardcore with blackened edges—angrier, faster, and denser than anything they've done before. Eight tracks rip through media desensitization, political decay, and societal collapse, closing with "The Line Age," the track that originally sparked this heavier direction.
FFO: Portrayal of Guilt, Gaza, KEN Mode
Plunge - Tour Demo
Plunge out of Albuquerque, NM deliver five tracks of pure grindviolence chaos on Tour Demo. Released February 6, 2026, the demo alternates between sub-minute bursts of powerviolence and longer, grinding assaults that stretch past the three-minute mark. Tracks like "Unclaimed" and "Petroleum Party" explode with frustrated rage about societal collapse and manufactured narratives, while the extended cuts "Fluid" and "Violent Change" let the sludgy, noisy aggression breathe and mutate. The New Mexico hardcore scene keeps churning out brutal acts, and Plunge is raw, uncompromising, and ready to wreck eardrums.
FFO: Big Gulp, Sex Prisoner, Full Of Hell, Wasp Mother
Desgarro - Impasibles
Desgarro out of Córdoba, Spain bring Andalusian rage to the Spanish crust scene with Impasibles. The album locks into that classic D-beat attack with apocalyptic hardcore energy, channeling the same raw disgust that fueled early Discharge and Amebix. Southern Spain doesn't get as much crust attention as A Coruña's storied scene, but Desgarro prove there's plenty of venom brewing down south—metallic riffs stripped down to their ugliest, vocals torn to shreds, and rhythms pounding like riot gear on pavement. Pure stenchcore fury.
FFO: Wolfbrigade, Doom, Discharge, Tragedy
VerminKing - Inhumane Disruption
VerminKing out of Bielsko-Biała play Swedish death metal with that classic buzzsaw guitar tone. Formed in 2023 from musicians in the local metal-punk scene, they recorded their full-length LP in early 2025. The album pulls straight from the Stockholm playbook—raw, grinding, and built for heads banging and mosh pits exploding rather than technical showboating. Pure worship of the Entombed/Dismember sound, complete with D-beat hardcore energy underneath all that distortion.
FFO: Entombed, Entrails, Horrid
SWAERMMM - Γ
SWÆRMMM out of Stockholm play experimental mathcore with grindcore and death metal thrown in. Their EP Γ (Gamma) just dropped February 6, 2026 as part 2 of a planned trilogy, ¥ (Yen) came first in 2020. Gamma is five tracks of complex, chaotic rhythms that shift constantly, blending hardcore intensity with jazz-influenced experimental detours. Saxophone and charango show up to make things weirder. Short, brutal, and unpredictable.
FFO: Pupil Slicer, Daughters, SeeYouSpaceCowboy
Sealer - Self Titled
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Sealer is a new band from Cincinnati, OH that play hardcore-adjacent noise punk with an experimental edge. Their self-titled debut dropped January 30, 2026 via The Ghost Is Clear Records, and has six songs pairing the queasy unease of noise rock with blasting hardcore. The members met as teenagers playing in different bands, then spent 20 years in projects like White Walls, RIVE, Fourth Wife, and Hissing Tiles before finally working together on this.
FFO: Chat Pile, KEN Mode, Couch Slut
Unyth - Fatal Exception Error
Unyth out of Charlotte play grindnoise and powerviolence with a harsh noise edge that doesn't mess around. Their new 4-track album Fatal Exception Error came out early on Bandcamp and clocks in at just under 4 minutes total—three tracks under 32 seconds and one 3-minute closer called "Faceless Hivemind." It's the same brutal noisegrind they've been doing since Scolding Visions in 2023. Short, aggressive, unpolished in the best way.
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FFO: Full Of Hell, ACxDC, Mellow Harsher
Lord Elephant - Ultra Soul
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Lord Elephant are an instrumental psych/stoner/doom trio out of Florence, Italy, and they've been around 2016. No vocals, no gimmicks, just three guys making heavy, sprawling rock on Heavy Psych Sounds. Ultra Soul is their second album, came out January 30th, and it has seven tracks with over 48 minutes of blues, doom, and sludge all smashed together.
FFO: Earthless, Karma to Burn, Elephant Tree
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