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Unbridled marks the eighth studio album from Pride Of Lions. Led by Jim Peterik and Toby Hitchcock, the band made its debut in 2003 with its self-titled album and has since become one of the most consistent names in the AOR scene. The album opens with the thunderous guitar-driven title track. “Unbridled” is an energetic and… Continue Reading →

Their fifth full-length, ‘The Darkest Side of Humanity,’ releases on September 4 via Unique Leader Records

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There’s a fire and it’s ripping through the building
The kids are burning, you can see it on their faces

Johnstonsons, the Detroit new-wave duo of John River and Stonny Moon, introduce Hard II Impersonate with Burning For You, a first single built around the point where a song catches fire and starts spreading before anyone can name the damage. Friends from way back, River and Moon spent three years, a few wrong turns, and one sharp-eared ally in Trey Frye finding the shape of their band; now Burning For You, out ahead of the album’s October 16 release on à La Carte Records, moves like a dare whispered from the passenger seat while the streetlights blur.

The reference points are obvious enough to be useful and slippery enough to avoid museum rot: Talk Talk’s theatrical ache, Tears For Fears’ broad-shouldered drama, XTC’s twitch, a touch of Don Henley driving through glassy suburban dread with his collar up. Burning For You rides on guitar lines that cut clean without posing, synth parts that glow around the corners, and drums that hit with the impatient thud of somebody pounding a dashboard. The vocals take the big swing.

The lyrics describe a destructive blaze overtaking a social scene, turning youthful abandon into panic and fatal urgency. Images of children trapped, a cigarette, an open window, and summer’s end suggest pleasure tipping into disaster. The repeated question about recognizing the right moment reveals dread, uncertainty, and helplessness, while the final devotion frames desire itself as consuming, dangerous, and irreversible.

Trey Frye of Korine mixes and masters with polish, yet the polish never smothers the weird little human angle of the duo, the sense that two lifers finally found the frequency they had been circling since adolescence.

“We tried our best to invoke what we love about new wave – big moments that swing between power and dancing, the dramatic vocals of masters like Mark Hollis (Talk Talk) and Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears), soaring guitars, and emotional pay off,” says the band. “Working with Trey helped us craft the finer details on the production. From the shimmering synths to the pounding drums, he knew how to elevate our songs into ballads. When it came to the video, our good friend, Carrie Pitzer, wanted to instill that night time cruising feeling that compounds off nostalgia and longing.”

Pitzer’s video leans into the song’s cheap-jacket sleek glamour: the band moving through dark streets, stickers slapped onto lightposts, cigarettes turning the air into a small crime scene, performance shots jammed in like proof that this machine still needs bodies to run.

Watch the video for Burning For You below:

At twenty-eight minutes, Hard II Impersonate should leave no room for fat, and Burning For You suggests Johnstonsons know the old pop secret: make the hook hurt, keep the beat moving, and leave before anyone starts checking their pockets for its number.

Listen to Burning For You below and order the single here.

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Yo sorry I’m late. Went to Outbreak Fest, twisted an aankle stage diving to Turn of Phrase, cartwheeled on stage for Hatebreed, dropped a round-up of my favourite punk and hardcore releases of the year so far, but now I’m back with ten killer hardcore demos from the second quarter of 2026. I’m really proud of the spread on this one: metalcore, powerviolence, beatdown, metallic, melodic and straight up hardcore all covered for your listening pleasure. Let’s rock.

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7 Swords – DEMO

7 Swords from Germany’s Rhineline region play the kinda music that opens up not so much a fuck you horseshoe as full on maw of violence, with those who don’t fancy throwing their limbs about pinned to the walls in giddy fear for their lives. Their demo opens with a sample from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai before delivering a beatdown of the most bludgeoning order a la Shattered Realm or Sin Against Sin.

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Big Iron – The Demo

Going two for two on the Rhineline. Big Iron land pretty much on the complete opposite end of the spectrum to their aforementioned compatriots, with a demo that clocks in at a tight four and half minutes and brings the 00s Lockin’ Out style bangers in the vein of bands like Mental and Rampage. “Leeches” is the longest track on this by some distance and definitely the stand-out for me but it’s all good stuff here.

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Censer – Demo

I like the way Bandcamp user Izzy puts this one: “Evil music played quick”. Looks like Censer are from Columbus, Ohio and their demo is the powerviolence pick of the year so far for me. Five tracks and six minutes of pissed off and scuzzed out gritted teeth type business on the ever-dependable Delayed Gratification Records.

 

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Die Trying – Demo

Streets of Hate don’t miss and they certainly haven’t with this one from Nashville, Tennessee’s Die Trying: mosh-forward metallic hardcore featuring Orthodox guitarist Austin Evans on vocals and a couple of sick guest spots from Long Island melodic(ish) hardcore outfit Love Sick and Bangkok world beaters Whispers. 

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Engine – Demo

Coming at us on the fantastic Rebirth Records (who had a couple of picks on my mid-year round-up), Engine from Los Angeles, California have quite a unique sound for the current era, albeit one with clear heritage in the catchy late 80s/early 90s swagger of bands like Supertouch and Outspoken.

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Full Strength – Demo

Keeping up the great label streak with an obligatory Total Supply pick and you should already know it’s gonna be some proper hardcore. Full Strength are from Houghton County, Michigan and they’ve got you covered for all your hardcore cardio needs: fast, stomp, two-step, side-to-side—they don’t even ask for more than five and a half minutes of your time.

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Maximum Force – Demo

I know I probably shouldn’t have favourites here but I do and it’s this. If you (correctly) believe that music was perfected in New York from around 1987-89 by the likes of Breakdown, Killing Time and the Cro-Mags then Maximum Force from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada have got the demo for you. OG mosh music, beatdown kids could never.

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xNecessaryDemisex – DEMO

Manchester’s xNecessaryDemisex are the only real metalcore pick on this list so they seem to have taken it upon themselves to cover a bit of everything: panicky chaotic bits, ugly mosh bits, a splash of Gothencore, and straight edge bonus points for good measure. One of those perfect cases of a band sounding exactly like their artwork promises. 

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Powermove – Demo: Infernal Hatred… Eternal Strife

Fair play to Powermove for naming this one something a little more creative than “demo”. Guess you could say that’s a powerm… I’m sorry, I can’t do this. Expect gnarly vocals, bits of 90s Eurocore and NYHC, and a sick guest spot from Louis from Telltale. Shout out Counterculture Records, Unholy Dominion Records, and—can’t believe I’m about to say this—Coventry.

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Spiderweb – Demo

Finishing where we started in the Rhineline, this time with some working class hardcore punk courtesy of Spiderweb and the wonderful STTW Records. Even by the standards of straightforward hardcore it doesn’t get much more classic than this. Sounds like it could’ve come out in 1981 in the best way possible. Peace.

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They’ll kick off their co-headlining tour on July 8 in Detroit, with support from Wormhole through August 11

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Brisbane hardcore five-piece ZUKO have today unleashed their ferocious new single Primal Rage. The single arrives ahead of the forthcoming EP Built For Pain, due August 7, and will be followed by a headline tour of Australia, making stops in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth. Built For Pain is five tracks of savage, groove-driven […]

As far as anniversary editions of classic albums go, MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND haven’t really treat their fans to a lot of substantial surprises, which is why the upcoming reissue of the British ensemble’s 1976 gem “The Roaring Silence” should … Continue reading →

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