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WIRED is a hard reset for Basement. It marks the British band’s first album in eight years, a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records, and a return to making music with the unbridled passion and creative intuition that's always animated their best material. 

The most dynamic, daring, and inspired Basement have ever sounded, WIRED retains the timeless fundamentals of the band’s singular sound - growling guitars, rousing choruses, striking emotional verbiage - but they're not interested in rehashing old glories. The whole band was adamant that WIRED had to be their most decisive artistic statement yet. The band looked to a smorgasbord of adventurous heroes for inspiration (REM, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins, to name a few) without ever sounding like they’re imitating any one band -- not even themselves.

The textural connotations of WIRED - metallic, sharp, jagged - evoke the album’s steely sonics, and on a more conceptual level, the title speaks to Basement’s unshakeable tenacity. An analog band who’ve thrived in an increasingly digital world without resting on the comforts of nostalgia. Five friends who’ve persisted through several breakups and breakthroughs, but have only grown as people and evolved as a musical unit. At this point, Basement have to accept their fate: they're WIRED for this shit.

Track Listing:

1. Time Waster
2. WIRED
3. Deadweight
4. Broken By Design
5. Pick Up The Pieces
6. Embrace
7. Sever
8. The Way I Feel
9. Satisfy
10. Head Alight
11. Longshot
12. Summer's End

Carve is the second full-length by Bay Area artist Kathryn Mohr. Written over the course of five years and recorded over several weeks in a rural singlewide in the Mojave Desert, the album centers on love experienced as a form of grief, not as an aftermath of loss, but as a condition of intimacy itself.

Mohr describes Carve as an album about how memory exists outside the body, embedded in places and landscapes. It is shaped by her first return to the American Southwest since a childhood road trip at age five, and by the experience of moving through terrain that holds emotional weight long after its origins fade. The record considers how intimacy feels after years of isolation, and what it takes to carve out a life that allows for trust, presence, and feeling rather than mere survival.

The project took form after a difficult tour that ended in Joshua Tree. Mohr pointed her car into the desert and drove alone, crisscrossing the Mojave on dirt roads. Months later, she returned to record the album, working alone with an acoustic guitar, a field recorder, and limited supplies.

Following that period, Mohr began to allow for intimacy and connection. The time she spent recording Carve in the desert did not create isolation so much as mirror it. Working alone out of an old, western-themed jail Airbnb, the physical enclosure reflected the emotional conditions under which much of the record had been written: distance, restraint, and long stretches of stillness. In that context, love was not experienced as escape, but as something inseparable from impermanence and the awareness of loss. This tension between connection and inevitability sits at the center of Carve.

Some of the album’s songs were written earlier, during a prolonged period marked by emotional distance and apathy. Over those four years, Mohr was working through unprocessed childhood memories and their long-term effects on her ability to connect with others. The work was slow and difficult, involving a fundamental reshaping of how she related to herself and to the world.

Carve was mixed by Richard Chowenhill of Flenser labelmates Agriculture. Rather than offering resolution, the album documents the act of remaining present within tension. Carve is not about escaping grief, but about accepting it as inseparable from love itself

Track Listing:

1. Bone Infection

2. Doorway

3. Angle of Repose

4. Commit

5. Property

6. I Do

7. Idiocy

8. Owner

9. Cells

10. Chromium 6

11. Trouble Me

12. Crow Eyes

Before Chat Pile took on sold out tours and widespread critical acclaim, they played Roadburn 2023, their biggest show to date, in front of a packed room of 3,000 on the festival's main stage. Fresh off the release of God’s Country, the Oklahoma quartet brought their suffocating, sludgy noise rock to Tilburg for their first ever European performance, delivering a set that felt like a milestone. The bleakness, the anguish, the raw absurdity. It all scaled up effortlessly, proving that Chat Pile’s chaos could consume any audience, no matter the size.

The set was recorded and later remixed by the band’s longtime engineer Jared Stimpfl, capturing the full weight of the performance. The result is something both massive and unrelenting, a document of Chat Pile at a pivotal moment, pushing their sound to its heaviest and most visceral extremes.

Before Chat Pile took on sold out tours and widespread critical acclaim, they played Roadburn 2023, their biggest show to date, in front of a packed room of 3,000 on the festival's main stage. Fresh off the release of God’s Country, the Oklahoma quartet brought their suffocating, sludgy noise rock to Tilburg for their first ever European performance, delivering a set that felt like a milestone. The bleakness, the anguish, the raw absurdity. It all scaled up effortlessly, proving that Chat Pile’s chaos could consume any audience, no matter the size.

The set was recorded and later remixed by the band’s longtime engineer Jared Stimpfl, capturing the full weight of the performance. The result is something both massive and unrelenting, a document of Chat Pile at a pivotal moment, pushing their sound to its heaviest and most visceral extremes.

There's a tendency in metal to mistake aggression for honesty, volume for depth. To confuse the performance of darkness with its actual weight. Hidden Fires Burn Hottest, the new album from San Francisco-based post-black metal band Bosse-de-Nage, sidesteps this entirely. It’s the group’s most fully realized work yet, precisely because it refuses to be pinned down.

Bosse-de-Nage have been working with The Flenser for over fifteen years. They were one of the first bands the label ever partnered with and have the longest active relationship in the label's history. But unlike most bands who build momentum through constant touring and visibility, Bosse-de-Nage has largely existed apart from the music world's usual machinery. They've evolved on their own terms, in relative isolation, allowing the work to develop without outside pressure or influence. What began rooted in black metal anonymity has mutated into something that actively defies categorization. The aggression is still there, but it's no longer the point.

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest finds the band treating emotions like physical objects, feelings with spatial properties. “No Such Place" describes a space that can't exist but does anyway, somewhere between thought and location. "Immortality Project" examines infinite possibility not as promise but as problem, endless options collapsing under their own weight. These songs don't use metaphor to describe emotion. They make emotion into something you could theoretically touch.

Tracked by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Oathbreaker) at Atomic Garden East and mixed and mastered by Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture, Hidden Fires Burn Hottest was years in development, with some tracks beginning before the pandemic. The long writing process offered time that most records don't get. Time to live with ideas, revise endlessly, to let structures settle. For the first time, lyricist Bryan Manning wrote everything in advance, creating a surplus to pull from rather than working under deadline pressure. The difference shows.

Coming off Further Still, an album built on constraint and economy, Bosse-de-Nage sought the opposite: sprawl, strangeness, fewer rules. Space for ideas to develop without rushing them. Dynamics that move through quiet as much as noise. Presence earned through atmosphere instead of volume. The record even includes "Mementos," which might be considered the first love song the band has ever written.

Nothing here coheres into a theme. These are pieces pulled from low moments and private feelings made public through sound. The band has never been interested in positivity, in music that resolves cleanly or offers comfort. But bleakness doesn't mean humorlessness. There's something darkly funny running through much of it, even when it shouldn't be.

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest doesn't explain itself. It just insists: what you feel is as real as what you can see.

Track Listing:

1. Where to Now?
2. Mementos
3. In the Name of the Moth
4. With a Shrug
5. No Such Place
6. Triangular Dream
7. Underwater
8. Frenzy
9. Immortality Project
10. Leviathan

There's a tendency in metal to mistake aggression for honesty, volume for depth. To confuse the performance of darkness with its actual weight. Hidden Fires Burn Hottest, the new album from San Francisco-based post-black metal band Bosse-de-Nage, sidesteps this entirely. It’s the group’s most fully realized work yet, precisely because it refuses to be pinned down.

Bosse-de-Nage have been working with The Flenser for over fifteen years. They were one of the first bands the label ever partnered with and have the longest active relationship in the label's history. But unlike most bands who build momentum through constant touring and visibility, Bosse-de-Nage has largely existed apart from the music world's usual machinery. They've evolved on their own terms, in relative isolation, allowing the work to develop without outside pressure or influence. What began rooted in black metal anonymity has mutated into something that actively defies categorization. The aggression is still there, but it's no longer the point.

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest finds the band treating emotions like physical objects, feelings with spatial properties. “No Such Place" describes a space that can't exist but does anyway, somewhere between thought and location. "Immortality Project" examines infinite possibility not as promise but as problem, endless options collapsing under their own weight. These songs don't use metaphor to describe emotion. They make emotion into something you could theoretically touch.

Tracked by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Oathbreaker) at Atomic Garden East and mixed and mastered by Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture, Hidden Fires Burn Hottest was years in development, with some tracks beginning before the pandemic. The long writing process offered time that most records don't get. Time to live with ideas, revise endlessly, to let structures settle. For the first time, lyricist Bryan Manning wrote everything in advance, creating a surplus to pull from rather than working under deadline pressure. The difference shows.

Coming off Further Still, an album built on constraint and economy, Bosse-de-Nage sought the opposite: sprawl, strangeness, fewer rules. Space for ideas to develop without rushing them. Dynamics that move through quiet as much as noise. Presence earned through atmosphere instead of volume. The record even includes "Mementos," which might be considered the first love song the band has ever written.

Nothing here coheres into a theme. These are pieces pulled from low moments and private feelings made public through sound. The band has never been interested in positivity, in music that resolves cleanly or offers comfort. But bleakness doesn't mean humorlessness. There's something darkly funny running through much of it, even when it shouldn't be.

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest doesn't explain itself. It just insists: what you feel is as real as what you can see.

Track Listing:

1. Where to Now?
2. Mementos
3. In the Name of the Moth
4. With a Shrug
5. No Such Place
6. Triangular Dream
7. Underwater
8. Frenzy
9. Immortality Project
10. Leviathan

WEAPON X... BACK WITH DEMO NUMBER 2...

.. DAVE STYLE... LOUISVILLE STRAIGHT EDGE..

FOR FANS OF THROWDOWN.. FIRST BLOOD.. SUFFOCATE FASTER...

EACH RECORD COMES WITH...

• SILK SCREENED B SIDE (WHITE OR BLACK, VARIES BY VARIANT)
• BLACK DUST SLEEVE, SHIPPED BEHIND THE JACKET
• 24X24 INSERT FEATURING LYRICS/CREDITS AND A FULL POSTER FOR YOU TO FRAME ON THE OTHER SIDE..

LAYOUT BY RIDGE..

TRACKLISTING:

1. HATES YOU
2. ON MY OWN
3. EVERYBODY BREAKS
4. B.N.E.
5. WEAPON X OUTRO

PRESSING INFO:

ULTRA CLEAR GLITTER /100

CLEAR/BLACK CORNETTO W/ NEON ORANGE & HOT PINK SPLATTER /250

BABY BLUE INSIDE CLEAR W/ BLACK & SILVER SPLATTER /500

CLEAR ORANGE W/ WHITE & DARK BLUE SPLATTER /1500

DISTRO EXCLUSIVES:

HALF CLEAR / HALF SILVER W/ BABY BLUE SPLATTER /100 (MERCH PIT EUROPE)

CLEAR W/ ORANGE AND WHITE SPLATTER /100 (B.I.G. AUSTRALIA)

BLACK INSIDE CLEAR ORANGE W/ SILVER SPLATTER /150 (TRIPLE B RECORDS)

HALF CLEAR ORANGE / HALF BLACK W/ DARK BLUE SPLATTER /150 (REVOLVER/BROOKLYN VEGAN/ALT PRESS)

ORANGE INSIDE CLEAR W/ SILVER SPLATTER /200 (DEVIL DOG UNITED KINGDOM)

BABY BLUE W/ ORANGE SPLATTER /250 (INDIE RECORD STORE)

SILVER W/ HOT PINK SPLATTER /500 (GENERAL RETAIL)

Pleasure, shame, and survival often arrive tangled together, indistinguishable in the moment. Camgirl, from Crippling Alcoholism, takes that entanglement as its starting point. Rather than separating desire from damage, the record allows them to coexist, tracing a path through obsession, performance, and persistence without offering clean resolution.

Camgirl is the 2025 breakthrough album from Boston’s Crippling Alcoholism, a record that frames pop immediacy against obsession, endurance, and collapse. Built from ear-wormy hooks and abrasive noise rock textures, the album smuggles grotesque and confrontational subject matter into songs that remain deliberately melodic. Pleasure and revulsion blend throughout, with choruses that linger even as the lyrics refuse comfort.

Released on September 12, 2025, Camgirl follows a loose narrative centered on a sex worker moving through cycles of exploitation and survival, treating intimacy as spectacle and visibility as threat. Songs flicker between desire and despair, confession and performance, flooded with artificial light. Despite its subject matter, the record resists nihilism. Its closing moments arrive quietly triumphant, not through escape or redemption, but through persistence itself.

Originally released on vinyl by Portrayal of Guilt Records, the first pressing of Camgirl sold out quickly. The Flenser reissue makes the album widely available for the first time, reaffirming it as a defining statement from a band operating at the intersection of pop form, noise, and lived experience.

Track List:

1. Mr. Sentimental
2. Saran Wrapped Cash
3.LADIES' NIGHT (feat. Luxury Skin)
4. Pay Pigs
5. bedrot
6. MONET
7. Pretty in Pink (feat. Luxury Skin)
8. Pliers (feat. Luxury Skin)
9. screentime
10. I Have a Key to Your House
11. CAMGIRL
12. Sweet Talk (feat. Ameokama)
13. TARAVISTA (feat. Luxury Skin)
14. Mary Kate & Ashley
15. despair (feat. Latter)

This is a pre-order item with a release date of March 13th 2026. Anything else purchased in the same order will not be shipping until this is in stock.

Still There's a Glow

Sunblind
Shameless
No Control
Glow
Slowburn
Smoke Screen
What The Devil Is Selling
Makes Me Sick
Rotten
Jinx
Tough Love
Holding On
Letting Go

Since their inception in 2019, hardcore five-piece SPEED has evolved from a DIY Australian band to an undeniable global powerhouse. Their debut album ONLY ONE MODE was released in 2024; topping the charts, taking out awards, and catapulting the group into a non-stop touring schedule across the world. But in the midst of SPEED’s unprecedented success, tragedies struck.

SPEED’s latest project, ALL MY ANGELS, is a three-track EP that reflects on the passing of three close friends in recent years. Those events brought intense heartbreak to their community, but over time, they’ve magnified what SPEED have always held as their central ethos: To love unconditionally, without fear or regret.

In the years prior to ALL MY ANGELS, the band wrestled with their collective grief and life on the road. Moments of mourning took place on tour, in cramped vans driving through foreign countries; sandwiched between SPEED performances, on grandiose festival stages in front of 15,000 fans. While the band ticked off accolades and achievements - each more extraordinary than the last - the hurt lingered stubbornly.

On ALL MY ANGELS, that same collective grief has brought the five friends closer together; emboldening them to live life with greater clarity, and providing a more informed perspective on what’s really worth holding onto. Lyrics on the EP address the sobering realities of loss, and include musings on mortality - more vulnerable and raw than ever before. The title track ends with a direct statement of intent; “All my angels, I can’t give up.”

Musically, ALL MY ANGELS further explores what SPEED can contribute to modern hardcore beyond breakdowns and sing-a-longs. Influenced by forward-thinking New York hardcore legends like District 9, Crown of Thornz and Fahrenheit 451; the EP sees the band hitting deeper pockets of groove, experimenting with synths and samples, and delivering cathartic hooks that make it their most soul-baring effort.

More than ever, SPEED is a band that’s being guided by their lived experiences, from eye-opening triumphs to the most harrowing losses. In any case, they’ll continue to move forward with love and conviction.

Track Listing:

1. AIN'T MY GAME
2. PEACE
3. ALL MY ANGELS

Regional Justice Center is back. The most compelling band in hardcore has returned with the announcement of their third album, Freedom, Sweet Freedom, due out September 20th via Closed Casket Activities. 

Regional Justice Center has always been about two brothers. Ian Shelton started the project in 2016 shortly after the incarceration of his younger sibling Max, and each release has not only sought to explore the choices, cycles, experiences, and institutions surrounding that event, but also to keep the two tethered during Max’s time in prison. In 2022 Max was released and now Freedom, Sweet Freedom, brings him directly into the fold, writing and performing on the album. And Max isn't the only impactful lineup addition--the album was recorded by acclaimed engineer Taylor Young who has now also joined RJC as a member. The result is not only a record that's packed with years-in-the-making emotional catharsis, it's also the most sonically hard-hitting 13 minutes of aggressive music you'll hear this year.