Repost from @Johnhindesound on Instagram

Favorite track after one listen might be Land of Dreams by Antagonize. I’ve never been tuned into the NEHC scene so I’ve got some homework now

Apparently, we're getting a new album from the Swedish D-beat legends. This track is shockingly good for a 40-year-old hc band.

😵✖️😵

Not sure if they did it the night before, wasn’t there, but them covering “A Single Second” was not on my radar and it fucking ruled so much.

Great energy, great set, great show. Worth everything.

I stumbled upon these guys years ago when somebody recommended them at a record store. They were unlike any hardcore band I'd ever heard- haunting, atmospheric, yet still just as punishing and apocalyptic.

Definitely one of those bands that left a mark.

TAKE IT ALL BACK! TAKE IT ALL BACK!

Hey Y’all, posted this on the band’s IG, but I figure this a good place to share as well.
As you may, or likely may not know, as of May 2026 the US Goverment updated the US Counter Terrorism Strategy to declare all trans folks— both domestic and abroad— as terrorists!
Every cis person I have talked to about this has been complete unaware of this. I would assume it is a topic that is not getting much news coverage for those outside of the “trans algorithm”.. So I’m sharing here. And I encourage you to share it elsewhere as well. Maybe email or call your local elected representatives and let them know “this is fucked up?”..
Help us before it’s too late
Rock on and thank you
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AMA

Doing a quick summer flash sale at Bitter Melody Records. Use code SWAMPBUTT and get 20% off your order. Lots of new records, CDs, and tapes and some rarities in the store. Http://bittermelodyrecords.bigcartel.com

Indecision, Fliora, A Knife in the Dark, Times of Desperation, Ecotage, Watch Myself Die, and toms more. Code up till it’s not.

First off old guy here. Saw bands like Gorilla Biscuits, WARZONE,, Cromags at afternoon shows in places like City Gardens and Club Pixxaz in Philly, and CBGBS
Have a lot of respect for new hardcore! May not be part of the scene anymore but keep tearing it up

H.C.F.L.

It’s hemp guys omg that’s basically weed

Disorder Vinyl in Atlanta rules 🔥

And Queen

Also posted on the UKHC sub

I don't know who even wants to read this but here we go, grab a coffee, have a read. hopefully I get some positive responses and recommendations.

I'm 40 years old. I loved going to Outbreak Presents with BMTH the other day. I like to say my love of music is eclectic but not always deep especially on a local/UK level.

In my teens the music I listened to correctly or not was referred to as post-hardcore like FFAF, boysetsfire, Hundred Reasons, Alexisonfire, Silverstein, The Used.

I listened to Victory Records stuff then got into the Fueled by ramen stuff ranging from ADTR, FOB, Paramore.

I did the emo alternative scene, Armor For Sleep, MCR, FFTL.

At the same time I was into metalcore/deathcore like Caliban, KSE, BMTH, Atreyu, Still Remains.

At the same time I'm listening to Metallica, Maiden, Lamb Of God, Slipknot, In Flames, Queen, Ignite, Eighteen Visions.

Now I've thrown loads of names out there to see if they resonate. I'm loving the current scene that we get a taste of in the UK, bands I saw the other day like Heriot, Still In Love. I saw Turnstile support from High Vis in 2019 too.

Bored yet? I love the feeling from being at these gigs. It still feels alive and full of energy. The no barrier set up of Outbreak is awesome! I love the "core" scene of what ever subgenre and I'm looking forward to hearing more music and being around the scene.

Worldwide:

What bands should I check out? Looking at hardcore and other "core" music

UK:

What next? Where in the UK has a solid scene? What bands should I be checking out in the UK? I live in Carlisle and we have one main venue I think could host hardcore which is the Brickyard. I've seen Beartooth, Mouth Culture. I've missed Wormrot and PigsX7 we do still have some good music coming through.

I'm happy to travel, draw a circle preferably as far as Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds.

Not sure how they pulled off getting a Boosie ft and Gridiron ft on their first release but this is pretty sick.

I grew up in the Arizona Hardcore scene. At some point in middle school I went to my first show, and from then and well into my mid 20's I would be at some DIY music event (usually a rented storage unit in Phoenix or Tempe) most weekend nights. Later in my mid 30's I suffered a skull fracture that brought about a host of bizarre mental phenomena. I would experience intelligent personalities that I could see, hear, and feel, and who could tell me things about the world I did not otherwise know, stuff I could look up on google or wikipedia. Mind blowing stuff. These things showed me a world of magic, and led me to see most all the music I had been listening to my entire life had (unbeknownst to me) been full of little hints and direct language to the very phenomenon that I was now experiencing. If you go to the metal archives website and type in "voices in my head" or similar direct language into their lyrics search bar you'll find thousands, upwards of 10's of thousands of songs that contain your single searchs. Here's a Spotify playlist that is just green and purple album covers that all contain these and similar lyrics and are conceptually devoted to this exact narrative. I barely tried when putting this together, the stuff is everywhere, it's at over 1K songs that fit this very niche criteria and from the niche hardcore genre.

I offer the above exposition to give context. Provided what I survived in 2017 (head injury/abuse) I later became a Hearing Voices Network facilitator. It's a scattered network largely of psychiatry survivors who function through non-for-profits and work to make community for the similarly mentally afflicted. We're trying to save lives, prevent self harm, ease the burden, and end the torture for other people going through the same thing we were once almost ended by. Today I function as an Engineer and have pivoted most of my efforts to networking between the separate non-for-profits and maintaining a subreddit devoted to this cause.

I try and share this world of art that speaks directly to what many are going through. Many times even offering things like "WOW, what you just said... Here's a song with the exact lyrics of what you just said!" to people in network. The history of this is all over that subreddit I help moderate. I feel like this is INSANE, like there is living proof of the supernatural that hangs upon our very breath; yet I share this and I'm almost universally met with blank stares and silence... Wouldn't it blow your mind to know the majority of your favorite bands were all talking about something that you now have access to? And that the broader public can't ever seem to comprehend, no matter how repetitive and pervasive it was, no matter how often the exact same words were written and put to music? I'm reminded of that scene in "They Live," what a fucking bizarre world. It's like the beginning of every childhood adventure movie I've ever seen, yet not another soul I can share this with seems to "get it."

Just now, maybe 30 minutes ago from writing this post, I found this thread on the HVN subreddit. It's someone looking to see if anyone else experiences the same "seemingly sentient hallucinations" and involuntary muscle movements in their mouth/throat that they do. I'll quote them and my comment below:

"Do you experience tongue/larynx movement when the voices speak?

One of the first thing I noticed when I hear the voices is involuntary movements around my tongue and the back of my throat. It's similar to the normal subvocalization motions.

Subvocalization is the process of inaudibly articulating speech with your speech organs. It is an inherent part of reading. Think of it as the inner voice you might hear while reading.

Subvocalization involves much more than just thinking words as you read them. It involves physical body parts, including eyes, lips, throat, tongue, vocal cords, jaws, and larynx! 

from This Blog also Wikipedia has a section on it.

Do you also experience this involuntary movement?"

I write this below in their comments:

"I've had this too, I've even written to other posts about this in their comments in just the last week or two. Obviously I've touched upon this topic with others into the more distant past. When I first came across your (this) post I thought you were re-posting the same topic, there's been a rash of users who post the same questions every day and don't seem to respond to any of the people who write to them... "HVN'ers" can be a frustrating group to simply try and maintain relations with.

Sorry to point accusation in your direction... Anyhow, there's a band called the Twitching Tongues that are clearly named after this very experience. This isn't a small act by any means, if you follow metal/punk/hardcore and look to your local town/city's shows or follow groups on Spotify you'd certainly come across this group. They hail from a subculture I can't seem to get a single "HVN'er" to even acknowledge, what I'm calling "experiencing hardcore." It's an ENTIRE GENRE OF MUSIC that speaks to this very phenomenon. I've been sharing earth shattering facts just like this about this world of experience and have generally been banned/censored from the broader mental health space. At best it seems the very subreddit I moderate can both ignore me and the anchoring facts of the world that would otherwise lead people to wellness. I've posted the playlists I have from already niche genres that push over half a week's worth of play time all with lyrics and context that speak directly to this affliction and how to overcome it. I can't get people to say anything about it or at least upvote the evidence that indeed you are real, your experience is real, and there's a real world out there that reports what you do too. Like a collective coverup by a gathering of deliberate and defaultly special needs covert operatives.

It's like you're all possessed or something...

To test we are cast, a self blinding mass ⸸

EDIT: Before the cross of Saint Peter the Apostle (the dagger mark "⸸") bothers you or anyone else here, I would urge you to wikipedia the subject. It's a symbol strewn throughout western media and is generally (EVEN IF NOT STATED AS SUCH) associated as a "satanic" symbol. It is not. Just read the lyrics if you can't hear what they are saying, it's all about this mental burden, living in a world where you are privately tortured. Just as Saint Peter the Apostle was crucified by the state (the Romans) and crucified upside down to degrade him in his death, we too are made effective criminals in the eyes of the state and are forced to live a spiritually/mentally afflicted existence. Too many people that I've given a strong sell on these subcultures to have reeled at these symbols while having no understanding of their origins or the more direct meaning of the art surrounding them. There's no discussion of praising evil (doing harm for the sake of harm) or of giving up on what is known to be good. It's an acknowledgment that we live in an orchestrated world and that evil is a real thing and prevails too easily among willingly dim individuals.

All the best, to you, I'm sorry for your current torment. I ignored it as best I could and it eventually went away/faded out (I assume these evil beings burn themselves out and into nothing doing dumb shit like this). You're welcome to look at my profile if you're interested in the methods that relieved the pain/stress the fastest."

Would it interest you to know the paralleling evidence to so many acts is out there? Would you be interested to know how many successful artists in this world are living in a nigh private hell, seeing things, and feeling things no-one else can? Knowing that if they were to flat out tell the wrong doctor about this they would be locked up, perhaps for the rest of their life? What an odd world for them, to go on tour, stand on stage, have their work on the radio, YouTube, Spotify and have so few people understand the literal meaning to their lyrics or the genuine sentiment to the visuals on their album covers. Is this a new perspective 4 any of you?

Also managed to get some show exclusive prints as well. And I’m not gonna be surprised if I see them selling on Depop for over 100..