BACKSTABBERS INC. - Poisoned Minds

 

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Backstabbers Inc., the hardcore punk and grindcore band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, have returned with their latest release Poisoned Minds. Known for their chaotic blend of hardcore, crust, and grind, the band has been a staple of the New England heavy music scene since the late 1990s. Poisoned Minds delivers politically charged tracks like I’m Afraid of Americans and Savior Complex, showcasing their relentless energy. 

FFO: Trap Them, Pig Destroyer, The Red Chord, Converge 

SKYTT - BRUTALISMUS

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SKYTT is a powerviolence & Sludgecore trio from Giessen, Germany, delivering raw intensity and uncompromising energy that formed in 2018. Their 2025 EP Brutalismus captures their ferocious style in short, abrasive, blistering tracks. 

FFO: Nails, Regional Justice Center, Gulch, Trap Them

Victims of Ergotism - Saint Anthony's Fire

Victims of Ergotism is a new blackened death metal & noise band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 2025. They released their debut demo Saint Anthony’s Fire in November 2025, featuring tracks inspired by historical events like The Fall of Constantinople and The Battle of Hastings. The band’s name and themes reference ergot poisoning, blending medical horror with epic history to create a dark, aggressive sound.

FFO: Undeath, 200 Stab Wounds, Vitriol, Behemoth

war - VENIVIDIWAR

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Hailing from Leipzig, Germany, the power trio War creates a crushing wall of sound that sits somewhere between stoner doom and chaotic math-rock, AKA Doomgaze. Featuring members of local heavyweights Lingua Nada, their music is a volatile mix of melancholic textures and aggressive, screamo-inflected explosions.

FFO: bongripper, Whores, Torche, Cave In, Botch

Pale Throne follow up

I posted about this band a few days ago, and I just realized that they actually had a ton of releases in November. And I'm not talking about singles, I mean full blown EP-length releases. Like I mentioned previously, I can't find any social media, or any info really on this band, so I'm just going to drop all these here. I have no idea if these are all new and actually done this month, or old shit. But either way, it's good. Enjoy?

baan - neumann

 

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Baan is a genre-bending band from Busan, South Korea, fusing post-rock, shoegaze, sludge, and hardcore into a raw, emotional sound. Their 2025 album Neumann showcases this mix with walls of noise and atmosphere, they the gap between beautiful and terrifying.

FFO: Svalbard, Amenra, Kowloon Walled City, KEN Mode

ratstallion - Sisyphus Happy

Denver’s ratstallion, known for their powerful, unpolished, and hook-heavy sound, blends shoegaze, grunge, and noise rock into a heavy, dreamy GrungeGaze. They recently dropped their latest offering, the Sisyphus Happy EP. Tracks like "Eye" and "Pit" showcase their knack for crafting energetic narratives and immediate, memorable rock anthems.

FFO: Nothing, Hum, Gleemer, Cloakroom

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Territory // Withdrawal - Hope is Disease / Paranoia is Salvation

Here's a killer split from Territory and Withdrawal. From Bandcamp: "Arizona's TERRITORY awaken from the scorched wastes of the sonoran with 2 new songs of pummeling, bleak, crushing metallic hardcore. Sonically similar to the psychosis of later-era KICKBACK, the darkness of HIS HERO IS GONE and BLUT AUS NORD's twisting, grim riffing." and "WITHDRAWAL lurch forth from the furthest reaches of frozen Hell with 3 songs of fast, Apocalyptic Metallic Hardcore. Labyrinthian hymns for the end-times that bring to mind ALL OUT WAR's violence, the darkness of CATHARSIS and 100 DEMONS taking acid."

Pale Throne - Forgotten

Pale Throne is a crushing sludge metal band based in New York City. Their music blends elements of blackened doom, noise, and death-sludge. Their sound is slow, suffocating, and seething. And get this, ZERO social media. Impressive.

FFO: Primitive Man, Thou, Graves At Sea, Dragged Into Sunlight

Sylvia Haynes - Healer

 

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New Jersey-based experimental musician Sylvia Haynes has released her latest project, “Healer”, a deeply personal and sonically adventurous album that continues her prolific streak of genre-defying work. Known for her raw lyricism and unconventional song structures, Haynes blends lo-fi textures, ambient noise, and spoken word into a soundscape that’s as haunting as it is healing.

FFO:  Mount Eerie, Deli Girls, White Suns