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Perikunta out of Helsinki, Finland play crushing d-beat crust mixed with sludge. Tyhjyyden vanki dropped February 20, 2026 with eleven tracks of darkness - heavy, grinding, and relentless. The album mixes raw crust punk energy with slow, doomy breakdowns that hit you like a sledgehammer. Bleak, aggressive, and uncompromising.
FFO: Tragedy, Wolfbrigade, Rise And Fall
Trelkovsky is a relatively new band from the foggy lands of northern Italy. They started playing together a couple of years ago as a duo but recently became a trio. Their style can be described as a heavily black/post-black metal influenced screamo, inspired by the likes of Deafheaven, Bosse-de-nage, Orchid, La quiete, etc. This album Le stesse cose ritornano (which translates to "The same things come back") from last September channels existential dread and life under capitalism with lyrics about identity loss, paranoia, and pain. This is chaotic, heavy, atmospheric, and unrelenting. Please do check it out.
FFO: Jeromes Dream, Ampere, Loma Prieta, Oathbreaker, Birds in Row
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Boycott The Baptist from the UK deliver four tracks of grindcore/crust punk on Father Egg, released February 13th, 2026. The band has been touring relentlessly since 2013, supporting acts like Wormrot, Discharge, and Trash Talk along the way. This EP leans into their Pig Destroyer and Eyehategod love while keeping the Black Flag punk energy front and center. Tracks range from the three-minute rippers to the sprawling six-minute closer "Jane Doe In Idaho." UK grindcore that's been road-tested to hell and back.
FFO: Wolfbrigade, Infest, Weekend Nachos
SHERM from Warren, Michigan unleash three tracks of grindcore on their demo, released February 13th, 2026. We got some interesting song titles here: "GRINDCORE COWBOY," "KENNY CHESNEY SONG," and "PIPE BOMB IN MY ETHIKAS." The whole thing clocks in under three minutes of crust/grindcore chaos. Michigan basement grind at its finest. Short, nasty, and ready to wreck your day.
FFO: Wormrot, Magrudergrind, Scalp, Insect Warfare
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.DotCursor from Oakland bring the chainsaw hardcore on Eternal, released February 13, 2026. Five tracks of metallic hardcore that pull inspiration from Nails, Converge, and Entombed's buzzsaw worship. The album rips through themes of hopelessness and despair with relentless aggression - no frills, no breakdowns for the sake of it, just pure Oakland heaviness. Think bleak vocals, crushing riffs, and the kind of intensity that makes you want to flip a table.
FFO: Ingrown, Harm's Way, Employed To Serve, Nails
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Life Pilot from Adelaide, Australia released the instrumental version of their self-titled album last month. Twelve tracks of chaotic metalcore without vocals - just heavy riffs and relentless aggression. The band has been around since 2012, building a reputation for writing heavy, angry songs and this instrumental release strips everything down to the core: the dissonant guitars, crushing rhythms, and noise metal textures that define their sound.
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.
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
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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 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