Extended Reading

Features

Sep 4 Feature

The Problem of Pain

North Carolina hardcore act Advent returns with ‘Pain and Suffering,’ the band’s first release in over seven years. Vocalist Joe Musten talks to HM about the comeback EP amid the wonder of life, the awe of death, and the inevitable anguish that shapes the interval

Philip Trapp on Advent
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Jul 29 Feature

Exorcising Demons

"I didn't write that song about wanting to kill myself, but more so I was just feeling like no one. I wrote that in a moment of getting lost in my head and being like, this is what it might look like; would anyone care? Would it even be worth an obituary if I die?"

Danielle Martin on Vagabonds
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Jul 23 Feature

Warped Tour 2017

"The feeling I left with was assurance. I was assured that we are never alone in our passion, our pain, our curiosity, and our excitement for music." HM writer Nao Lewandowski makes her way to Warped Tour for the first time in her life to find the camaraderie and love that has kept the festival alive for decades.

Nao Lewandowski on Warped Tour
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Jul 22 Feature

Out in the Cold

Gideon has returned to the hardcore scene with their fourth full-length release, 'Cold,' and, this time, with more ice in their veins. HM speaks with guitarist Tyler Riley about their process, the response, and what makes this album different from their last.

Nao Lewandowski on Gideon
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Jun 14 Feature

Blues Brothers

Ripped right from the sound of rock's greatest albums, Greta Van Fleet -- three brothers and a friend -- finds their inspiration in the true roots of rock and blues

Danielle Martin on Greta Van Fleet
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May 18 Feature

The Wolves and the Sheep

We're saying, "This is how we feel, too. We are with you in these feelings, and this injustice is not OK."

Danielle Martin on Least of These
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May 7 Feature

The Continuous Collapse

The evolving creativity of Fit for an Autopsy gives the band an unending hope for their latest release, 'The Great Collapse,' the "next step toward wherever we’re going to end up as a band"

Nao Lewandowski on Fit for an Autopsy
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Mar 19 Feature

Here Until it Changes

Singer-songwriter TW Walsh is charting his path through an increasingly insular world, documenting the hazy reveries that come with a culture detached. Feeling out the folkways between fear and liberation, he lays these proofs bare on ‘Terrible Freedom’

Philip Trapp on TW Walsh
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Mar 5 Feature

The Complexity of Death

On Lorna Shore's sophomore album 'Flesh Coffin,' the band digs deep into the "process of death."

Nao Lewandowski on Lorna Shore
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Feb 26 Feature

Uncovering Forgiveness

Nahko never met his father and never had the chance: When he was barely double digits in age, his father was murdered. To uncover some of the mysteries in his life, he traveled to San Quentin to meet -- and extend an olive branch -- to the man who took his father away from him

Danielle Martin on Nahko and Medicine for the People
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Feb 22 Feature

Meeting of the Minds

Project 86 is celebrating their 20th anniversary; Death Therapy is celebrating their first album. We get the two vocalists together -- Andrew Schwab, who joined Death Therapy on one of their recent singles as a featured vocalist, and Jason Wisdom -- to talk about the career arch of their bands, sustaining a band in the evolving heavy music landscape, and why Garth Brooks is still important

David Stagg on Death Therapy
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Feb 9 Feature

The Last Goodbyes

As For Today wraps up their farewell tour, vocalist and author Mattie Montgomery has to figure out his next move. HM's Nathan Myrick meets with Montgomery on a cold night to talk about his new book, his final farewells as a frontman, and his new future.

Nathan Myrick on For Today
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Jan 14 Feature

Healing the Killing Fields

Sleeping Giant vocalist Tommy Green and guitarist Nelson Flores recently visited Cambodia, traveling to the Southeast Asian nation to witness, first hand, the widespread sex slavery the country is bearing. However, when they got there, it was almost too much to handle. Right there, Green decided to do something about it.

David Stagg on Sleeping Giant
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Jan 2 Feature

Maiden Voyage

Taking to the stage, youth pastor Joel Bennett sheds his Australian homeland to come Stateside with the inaugural Kingdom Youth Conference

Danielle Martin on Joel Bennett
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Dec 4 Feature

Chaos into Peace

Signal the apocalypse: Metalcore conduit Zao returns with ‘The Well-Intentioned Virus,’ their first album in seven years -- and their most expansive work to date, where eye-opening depths of life and death unfold

Philip Trapp on Zao
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Dec 3 Feature

Stories in the Shadows

Wolves at the Gate's third studio album, 'Types and Shadows,' is born of experience and shaped by story

Nao Lewandowski on Wolves at the Gate
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Nov 13 Feature

I am Pariah

Glasslands, featuring former members of Icon for Hire and Beartooth, forge a new path with their inventive blend of heavy and ambiant on their debut release, 'Pariah'

Philip Trapp on Glasslands
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Nov 13 Feature

Yellowcard: A Retrospective Farewell

As one of pop-punks greatest bids adieu, HM writer Jameson Ketchum reflects on Yellowcard's lengthy, successful and inspirational career

Jameson Ketchum on Yellowcard
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Nov 7 Feature

Ghosts in the Machine

"Sometimes the ones most people don’t see or choose to look straight through -- the ghosts of society, as it were, dead to the world -- end up having the biggest impact." Theocracy's Matt Smith expounds on the world behind the band's latest album, 'Ghost Ship.'

Doug Van Pelt on Theocracy
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Nov 2 Feature

The Gray Area

"It represents the tone of the record, in general, and the idea that the world is not as clear cut and as right-and-wrong as it was when you were a kid."

Nao Lewandowski on Wovenwar
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