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Rise Of The Northstar - idioteq.com/rise-of-the-...
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A lot of emo and MySpace stuff coming this Friday
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Tashkent, Uzbekistan just got its first real shoegaze band — elbowsway @elbowsway_ — and their debut single “common sense” is the opening shot.
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ELBOWSWAY introduce themselves with “common sense” as one of the first shoegaze voices to emerge from Tashkent - IDIOTEQ.com
A band announcing itself from a city not usually tied to shoegaze already sets a certain scene, but elbowsway take that reality as their starting point rather
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December 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This week is a wrap! New Releases in Hardcore, Punk Rock, Screamo, Post Rock, Metal & dozens of shades of Rock! idioteq.com/in-shorts-no...
In Shorts: Nov 21-28 - IDIOTEQ.com
With the end of the year creeping closer and releases piling up faster than anyone can reasonably keep track of, here’s another round of underground damage
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November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Vitamin X fire the starting shot of Ride The Apocalypse with “Chop Chop Chop”, now streaming as the album’s first available track. The Amsterdam hardcore veterans keep their trademark speed and bite intact. vitaminx.bandcamp.com/album/ride-t...
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Historic Italian hardcore force WITH LOVE are getting a full archival blast with Yours, Truly, a 20-track double LP — remastered and finally landing on vinyl Jan 14 via Shove and Green Records.
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Legendary punk band NOFX will release "A to H" on December 5th, the first installment in their upcoming triple album project titled "A to Z", a special album series packed with rarities, demos, and never-before-heard tracks from the band’s storied career.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loads of great new releases landed this week! You don’t need to dig, we already did. Slide over to idioteq.com and catch the heaviest, weirdest, and most interesting releases that dropped.

Hardcore, metalcore, screamo, punk rock, pop punk, and like fifty shades of loud in between 🙌🙌🙌
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Frantic, emotional post-hardcore icons THE The Saddest Landscape break a decade of silence with Hexes, a claustrophobic two-and-a-half-minute return that drags their trademark skramz through themes of grief

thesaddestlandscape.bandcamp.com/track/hexes-2
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Post-rock/screamo heart-breaker VI SOM ÄLSKADE VARANDRA SÅ MYCKET just dropped För varje steg, their first new song in years - visomalskadevarandrasamycket.bandcamp.com/track/f-r-va...
För varje steg, by Vi som älskade varandra så mycket
track by Vi som älskade varandra så mycket
visomalskadevarandrasamycket.bandcamp.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Just caught this week’s roundup on “In Shorts: November 7-14” via IDIOTEQ|com and there’s serious heat across all corners of the scene. 🎧 idioteq.com/in-shorts-no...
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Norwich screamo beaast CASSUS is back! As a Person - cassus.bandcamp.com/track/as-a-p...
As a Person, by Cassus
track by Cassus
cassus.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
DAZE presents BIG BOY EP // Love Songs. It's the first release from the San Jose crew with an actual title after years of promo tapes, and it shows up with the kind of confidence you’d expect from a band sharing DNA with Sunami and Hands Of God.

dazestyle.bandcamp.com/album/love-s...
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This week in (heavy) music is a wrap! See our under the radar picks here: idioteq.com/in-shorts-no...
In Shorts: November 1-7 - IDIOTEQ.com
The Halloween haze is fading, but new music is still flooding the timeline from every direction. Below you’ll find another batch of releases and announcements
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November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
PUKE WOLF return with “Hyena Laugh” — an 11-minute descent through cruelty, remorse, and collapse, featuring DEMERSAL and violinist Sophia Larsdotter (WHO KILLED BAMBI). Three movements. One slow-burning rage. “Some swear they’ll change / But you never will.” --> idioteq.com/puke-wolf-di...
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Philadelphia’s NOTHING return February 27, 2026 with A Short History of Decay via Run For Cover, a bruised, industrial-leaning shoegaze record that stops pretending everything’s fine and lets age, tremors, and regret sit loud in the mix.

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NOTHING - 'cannibal world' (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Nothing
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November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
RECOLLECTION share one more preview ahead of Friday’s debut EP Vivid Dreams with “Lover’s Quarrel.”

Featuring members of HAYWIRE, SKINHEAD, HAMMER BROS, and more, the track pushes their self-described “hard indie” approach: hardcore, Oi!, soaring leads, and a chorus built to loop in your head.
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New TETSUO EP drops October 31st and it feels like something crawling out from under the floorboards — “fauna.” twists screamo into noise-washed hardcore, breathing heavy, blinking in fluorescent dark.

Full feature up now on IDIOTEQ|com. Get your ass up there and get inspired.
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
INTEGRITY and SKARHEAD team up for a new split EP out today, October 31, via Static Era Records. The release packs three tracks total: INTEGRITY’s snarling opener “Devil Down,” SKARHEAD’s groove-heavy “Till’ Death We Part,” and a third cut, “Die By The Gun.”
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Middle-Man Records drops GRAVE NEIGHBORS V.9 for Halloween, stacking wild covers like Rid of Me taking on Interpol’s “PDA,” Ariadne's Thread flipping Converge, Guerrilla Ghost on R.E.M., (...)

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Grave Neighbors V.9, by Middle-Man Records
13 track album
middlemanrecords.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
COUP D’ÉTAT drops new EP, an emotional document of the Victoria, BC scene recorded between Nov 2024 and March 2025. Out now via @zegemabeachrecords.bsky.social , the four-track release bridges fifth-wave emo and screamo with a that Pacific North West pulse. therealcoup.bandcamp.com/album/coup-d...
Coup D'état, by Coup D'état
5 track album
therealcoup.bandcamp.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM