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Hands Like Houses release their first album with their new front man Josh Raven, formerly of The Faim. Marking the beginning of a new era the band explore the layers of the atmosphere in an epic four EP series coming together to finally form ATMOSPHERICS. 

Putting their best foot forward, the record features collaborations with heavyweights from Underoath, Redhook, Normandie, Sleeping With Sirens and SAFIA.

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Touché Amoré has been burrowing through angst, alienation, cancer, and heartbreak throughout four adored studio albums. After over a decade of working through darkness, the band’s gorgeously gruff fifth album, Lament, finds the light at the end of the tunnel. Through 11 songs, Touché Amoré looks back at its past and uses hard-won optimism to point its fans toward light, and love.

Last year, the Los Angeles quintet re-recorded its 2009 debut, ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse, to celebrate the decade gone by. It was a straightforward reflection of a time when the band’s songs rarely surpassed the two-minute mark and hooks were accidental if existent. A striking contrast to the band in 2020, as their evolution with every step in their oeuvre has lead to this moment. Lament is their masterstroke. Its longer, structured songs soar with a ferocious but delicate musicality and powerful, gut-wrenching storytelling that smashes previous heights. Yet as much as the band has grown and matured via everything they’ve endured, it’s perhaps equally impressive how they’ve managed to stay true to their core…

Track Listing:

1. Come Heroine
2. Lament
3. Feign
4. Reminders
5. Limelight
6. Exit Row
7. Savoring
8. A Broadcast
9. I'll Be Your Host
10. Deflector
11. A Forecast

After a 6-year hiatus Short Stack return with their new record Maybe There’s No Heaven, which sees the band distil their sensational and storied career into 10 crunchy and instantly memorable bangers.

Tracklisting:

FEATURING THE 2015 EP "WITH BLOOD LEFT UNCLEANSED" AND MORE
NEVER BEFORE PRESSED ON VINYL

TRACK LIST
1. INTRODUCTION
2. IRIS (LENS OF DEPRESSION)
3. EVERY EMPTY WORD
4. PUSHED ALONG, WEEDED OUT
5. UNCLEANSED
6. TO EMBODY AN EMPTY THOUGHT
7. CRACKS OF A BROKEN PAST
8. INTERLUDE
9. IRIS (LENS OF DEPRESSION) (LIVE IN ARIZONA 2018)
10. TO EMBODY AN EMPTY THOUGHT (LIVE ON LONG ISLAND 2017)

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Straddling the line between the modern slam metal of Torture and classic East Coast death metal of Suffocation, Final Resting Place's sophomore release is this five-track CDep of unrelenting brutality brought to you by members of Simulakra, Sanction, Devil Master, Scarab, Vomit Forth, Living Weapon, and more.

Track Listing:

1. Psychosis
2. Descent To Dementia
3. Forbidden Knowledge
4. Burning Revelation
5. Bound By Affliction

Rising from the Sydney underground, Reliqa has become one of Australia's most exciting new prospects, supporting bands like Make Them Suffer, Spiritbox, Void Of Vision, and BABYMETAL.

Their debut full-length album, Secrets Of The Future, embodies lessons learned and experiences lived, capturing the band's relentless pursuit of musical expression. Combining the savage and passionate elements of modern metalcore with electronica, pop, prog, and post-hardcore, the album is ferocious, forward-thinking, and undeniably fun.

Track Listing:

1. Dying Light
2. Cave
3. Killstar (The Cold World)
4. The Flower
5. Sariah
6. Terminal
7. Keep Yourself Awake
8. Crossfire
9. Physical
10. Two Steps Apart
11. A Spark
12. Upside Down

Nu-hardcore quintet, Bodyweb, are the sound of someone’s nervous system on the verge of breakdown—hyperactive, tormented and unflinchingly vulnerable. Born out of the Leeds hardcore scene, they’re a shape-shifting alloy of jagged emotion and precision chaos. 

What began as late-night jams between Louis Hardy (Higher Power, Big Cheese, Fate) and Ben Jones (Pest Control) eventually mutated into train_wreck_simulation, a debut EP filled with frantic breakdowns and nu-metal swag that felt like the soundtrack to a digital exorcism. The final piece of the puzzle came from Hardy’s estranged childhood friend, pq. His twisted samples and synthetic textures are haunted and disturbed, injecting cyberpunk soul into hardcore flesh. Contorting through several iterations in the following years, the band absorbed Luke Thompson (Stiff Meds) on drums, filmmaker Tom Hobson on guitar and Naomi Macleod (Empire State Bastard) on bass, and laid down their first collective offering.

deadwired is due out on Flatspot Records later this year. Bodyweb's second EP is a violent thesis on connection and pain that sends Hardy’s unfiltered vocals through heaven and hell. Four overstimulating tracks run a gamut of styles and influences from Slipknot to Björk, constantly lane-switching between dizzying heaviness, ambient soundscapes and brain-burrowing hooks. Entirely self-produced, deadwired upgrades the sonic formula laid down on the last record and raises the question: what else could exist in Bodyweb’s twisted roadmap? Nothing seems impossible. What seems important, however, is retaining the rawness in a style that can often turn sterile.

“We still wanted it to sound very human. It had to be well produced but not cold and lifeless.” shares Hardy. “We didn’t use a click track. All guitars were real amps with microphones. We tried to make everything as real and raw as possible, we recorded using all the same gear we use when playing live too to really capture the energy of how it feels when we jam together."

On stage, Bodyweb don’t just perform, they purge. Raucous live electronics meld with digitally contorted guitars. Breakbeats meet breakdowns—no backing track in sight. Bodyweb enable a collective catharsis. Mosh, dance, dive, scream, heal. A physical therapy session screamed into the void.

Green Bioluminescence vinyl (/200) - (Evil Greed / Devil Dog / Imprint Merch Exclusive)

Track Listing:

1. no faith 
2. shadow boxing 
3. Sugarcoated 
4. deadwire 

With their fourth studio album, modern metal’s finest step into a new league since their critically and commercially lauded Malicious Intent (2022).

Where Only The Truth Is Spoken delivers on everything Malevolence have built so far—harder riffs, bigger hooks, and an undeniable presence that has taken them from Sheffield to the world stage.

Track Listing

1.Blood To The Leech
2.Trenches
3.If It's All The Same To You
4.Counterfeit
5.Salt The Wound
6.So Help Me God
7.Imperfect Picture
8.Heavens Shake
9.In Spite (Randy Blythe)
10.Demonstration Of Pain
11.With Dirt From My Grave

Self-designated as “Bangkok Evilcore” Whispers, based out of Thailand, are bringing an immense sound to modern metallic hardcore. Originally formed in 2014, the band picked up steam in 2021 with the release of their Narok Bon Din EP grabbing international attention. Now Whispers join the growing roster of pivotal heavy music label Flatspot Records for the release of Yom-Ma-Lok.

Hitting the studio in Spring 2024, Whispers set out to make a heavy, intense record that connects on an emotional level. The band worked with Suchai at Sixthirty Recording Studio in Bangkok to hone in on their sound, before sending the EP to Andy Nelson at BrickTop Recording for mixing and Brad Boatright at Audiosiege mastered it. Influence from bands like All Out War and Merauder comes through across the seven songs, giving a tough as nails delivery packed with menacing riffs. Thematically,  Yom-Ma-Lok addresses realism and human nature through a global perspective.

Yom-Ma-Lok opens with the aptly titled, instrumental “Bangkok Evilcore” before diving into the crushing “A Choice To Survive.” A hostile delivery is juxtaposed by lyrics of self-reliance based on proverbs from Buddhism. Speed’s Jem Siow, who also assisted with lyric translations on the album, guest features at the 2:50 mark of the song amidst a crushing breakdown. Lead single “Retribution” exemplifies the band’s ability to deliver a grappling hardcore song made for the mosh-pit while showcasing a knack for serious guitar writing. The guest features on the EP continue as Shaun Alexander of Demonstration Of Power and Stephen Bessac of Kickback lend their vocals to “Wisenheimer” and “Yom-Ma-Lok” respectively. Closing out with the title track, which translates to  “world of death people” or “underworld” in Thai, Whispers conjures the feeling of descending into hell and leaves the listener with a stark impression.

Over the years, Whispers has brought their menacing live show across Southeast Asia, Japan, and Europe, and will return to the latter this fall on the Flatspot World tour. With the release of  Yom-Ma-Lok, Whispers are setting out to spread the message and sound of Asian hardcore far and wide.

Track Listing:

1. Bangkok Evilcore
2. A Choice To Survive (Feat. Jem Siow)
3. Retribution
4. Close Your Eyes
5. This Is Not The End
6. Wisenheimer (You Were Never One Of Us) (Feat. Shaun Alexander)
7. Yom-Ma-Lok (Feat. Stephen Bessac)

Track List:

A1 Such Small Hands
A2 Said The King To The River
A3 New Storms For Older Lovers
A4 Damaged Goods
B1 Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
B2 Bury Your Flame
B3 Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
C1 The Castle Builders
C2 Andria
C3 Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
D1 Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
D2 The Last Lost Continent
D3 Nobody, Not Even The Rain