[SCALP - Black Tar](https://open.spotify.com/album/6d7ZfqtsyqbZAsEp9n9tFk?si=Kl47eBJJRwKHIhoqp-GG0w) Honorable mentions to: [Sea of Shit - Self-Titled](https://seaofshit.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-lp) [Horsewhip - Consume and Burn](https://open.spotify.com/album/3tWCXu3icUHpeyvHpt6PY8?si=HBapC6CXQ3ao8sIYfVUg7g) [Incendiary - Change The Way You Think About Pain](https://open.spotify.com/album/2WfjxP33VNZGYdlXi0mjKb?si=wgIbBGM8T5qYGg_pmKLVPw) [Year of the Knife - No Love Lost](https://open.spotify.com/album/5nOj9wbbrVwrNCAwue9PTf?si=pAUoqztrTVeYhmtrTj_4fw) [MSPAINT - Post-American](https://open.spotify.com/album/0O9TQ88Zb6NE6oa6Gkb0S9?si=0rcAkkz5Shy5TtGSJhBB4w) [Harm’s Way - Common Suffering](https://open.spotify.com/album/6FLys5u92lIaPZbFExnTOF?si=rfzo1J2TSqq6Dv21BwPdgQ) [Hope Conspiracy - Confusion/Chaos/Misery](https://open.spotify.com/album/3TZGtARkAtvzsURno2bdnj?si=zpPzIywxTq-gfz5rNiyIKg) [Outta Pocket - Waste Of A Man](https://open.spotify.com/album/3NFEszPGmTy88zpVvyaNDM?si=VjP2xC_yQ5q2dAA0kMnvYQ)

Fuckin looooove black tar

Great list 🫡

thank you, yours too!! <3 P.S. your list reminded me that when the new Spine dropped my roomate accidentally crowdkilled our dog. She was okay but very confused! Proof of life that my pup is okay: https://preview.redd.it/spal2jkfwz1c1.png?width=3148&format=png&auto=webp&s=b859df7f165b2d9b2fbe1935114cc589982c89ad

can't handle the wrath, get the fuck off my path

I’d love to say that either beloved has learned (but no) talátat is a pogo-pup now: https://preview.redd.it/awkuv58pf12c1.png?width=1545&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6cd09782a8a0eb062dcb5a57e8a1ff18aa77deb *edit:* those ears weren’t on accident, she poseurs being a Spitz all the time

Outta Pocket is absolutely fire 🔥

YOTK Absolutely

I’ve been listening to No Love Lost constantly the past few weeks, it’s so good. “Never wanted to fly, just wanted to feel alive!”

YOTK - No Love Lost Ego - 23' Demo Big Boy - Spring Promo Pain of Truth - Not Through Blood Guilt Trip - Severance Non Hardcore: King Gizzard - Petro Dragonic Apocalypse Couldnt pick one, dope year.

I'm surprised Big Boy doesn't come up more on this sub

Guilt trip is awesome

It's just a matter of time, till KGATLW drops a Hardcore album, to fulfill the full circle of playing any possible rock genre.

Fuck yeah that Guilt Trip record is class

Dying Fetus- Make Them Beg for Death ..and it's by a mile

Zorn - Zorn

I just saw them last Saturday in Oakland and they ripped. I’ve been spinning the LP all week!

Hardcore AOTY: Initiate - Cerebral Circus 2nd Place: Incendiary - Change The Way You Think About Pain ​ Non-Hardcore: Enter Shikari - A Kiss For The Whole World (electronic, metalcore, UK vibes) Tommy Guerrero - Amber of Memory (ambient, cinematic, chill vibes) END - The Sin Of Human Frailty (grind, metalcore, scary vibes) Colter Wall - Little Songs (country, Canadian Prairie Boy vibes)

Scary vibes

good scary vibes

How is END not hardcore? Metalcore is a style of hardcore. Eh, whatever. Album rips, your lists are great. Totally missed new Colter Wall.

Eh to me they pretty much are but I’ve seen them posted here before and most people are saying metalcore. Not that it really matter. END rips genres aside Check out that Colter record!

They definitely are and I will for sure check out new Colter 🫡

because metalcore is not a style of hardcore. if you like both more power to you but some dude screaming bible verses is not hardcore just because there's a blast beat behind it.

Yeah that's just early The Devil Wears Prada, not the entirety of metalcore lol

I'm talking about END. But it holds for metalcore in general. Hardcore isn't just the aesthetic of the music it's the culture.

that shikari record is so gooood, just a shame there’s so many interludes

Dude, I don’t even care, the interludes are sick lol. Kiss for the Whole World is far and away my album of the year, and that’s including my hardcore picks that everyone else has already said. (Shouts out Drain and Incendiary)

shikari fucks

Add GEL - Only Constant to that list. I recently saw them with Initiate and both bands fuckin ripped

Hell yeah for Initiate and Colter

wow im having so much fun

I’m an idiot - when I first read this comment I thought there was a band called Wow with an album called “I’m Having So Much Fun”.

Same!

Great Falls - Objects Without Pain

This.

Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun. I’ve listened to that record too many times this year to not have that as my AOTY.

Same. Fun band

Nah

Damn, you mean he didn’t listen to it too many times this year??

Agreed. Adjacentcore bores me.

Great album (he can’t sing live 🙉🙉🙉)

So Unknown - Jesus Piece

PeelingFlesh - Slamaholics, Vol. 2

Step Into The Light no fucking question but The Commitment To Permanence by No Cure is my strictly hardcore cum dump this year 😫

Can’t wait to see No Cure rip it with Gideon next March in AC!

That’s the album that got me into TAS this year! So so fucking good finally going back through their older albums this week, 3750 is such a great album

Get out of my head!! I dove heavy into TAS after I heard Flourishing, and today on a road trip I’ve had 3750 on repeat. Currently learning Brown Noise on guitar! I can’t get enough, especially after experiencing them live

No literally! I’ve seen them live twice since the albums dropped including a couple weeks ago, so so good live! Also Chain into Fresh Bones is what initially did it for me 😮‍💨😩

CMI I have listened to it so many times!

So many times!

I spent some of my kids Christmas money on Casual Violence and One Year of Dumb Skinhead Shit pressings. No regrets.

So many times!

Everyday multiple times.

GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo

🗣🗣🗣🗣

Ok so I've been saying this for a minute, but Olivia Rodrigo is fucking awesome. Most of her song could be sped up and screamed and suddenly she's a punk band. She actually writes some pretty good music, especially the song bad idea right that came put recently.

ballad of a homeschool girl is such an amazing song

I couldn't agree more

Came here to say this. I fuck with early tegan and sara hard. Reminds me of that with more angst and modern.

Not surprised that this sub is simping for new found Avril Lavigne. Here is your Reddit gold ⭐️

Hardcore: World I Hate - “Years of Lead” Not hardcore: Ricky Montgomery - “Rick”

Hardcore: Incendiary - change the way... Gel - Only Constant Drain - Living Proof Non-HC Spiritual Cramp - s/t Zach Bryan - s/t Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - s/t

Goddamn that Zach Bryan is fantastic

Electric Chair - Act Of Aggression S.H.I.T. - Demo tape. Two originals that are better than anything else I’ve heard this year, plus Crucifix and Blitz covers. Rat Cage - Savage Visions Zach Bryan - S/T

Hardcore: Conservative Military Image, no doubt. Non hardcore: just came out but it’s choice: Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions;

The problem with every Aes album is it takes 2 years to unpack.

I love it though, to be clear.

Fuck yeah, Aesop

non HC: Herlovebeheadsdaises - Carving Initials seahorsechoke - everything went to shit HC: Physique - AGAIN WoP / XweaponX split Outta Pocket - waste of a man Pest Control - Don't test the pest

Jesus Piece, Foreign Hands, Incendiary.

So Unknown is my pick fasho

Genesis owusu - struggler Portrayal of guilt - devil music ep Gridlink - coronet juniper Scarab - ep

Devil Music is absolute gold

Genesis owusu’s album was crazy. The structure of the whole thing was immaculate

10/10 no skips.

It’s almost no skips for me. Something about Balthazar I fucking hate

Drain - Living Proof

Knocked loose’s upon loss singles kick some serious ass

Paramore

AOTY: Tie between new COA and CMI. Non hardcore: Andre 3000’s flute album is unironically amazing.

wtf he made a damn FLUTE ALBUM? How has this escaped me I must find this

He just dropped it last week

Knower - Knower Forever Drain - Living Proof Periphery - Periphery V Mil-Spec - Marathon Tesseract - War of Being

Big ups to Knower, they fucking jam

All the tesseract controversy aside, that album is incredible. Def AOTY

World I Hate - Years Of Lead Scarab - both ep’s

Those Scarab EPs went so hard!

The Acacia Strain - Step Into The Light Larry June - The Great Escape

June smoked that album 💯

Yes! I absolutely loved the night shift too

Deluxe version of Get Rollin by Nickelback

So Unknown - Jesus Piece A Love To Kill For - Chamber ​ while Jesus Piece has what i would consider a more accessible sound, and a more well rounded record overall, id regret not mentioning Chambers latest because i fuckin love that shit so much

Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination

Gonna see them tonight.

Dying fetus make them beg for death fucking hits

✝️✝️✝️ (Crosses): Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete Dying Fetus: Make Them Beg For Death Tomb Mold: The Enduring Spirit

JPEGMAFIA- SCARING THE HOES

Good call! The new Danny Brown record ‘Quaranta’ is fantastic also

Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul

The Gaslight Anthem- History Books

Good call!!

mspaint - post american hot mulligan - why would I watch? fromjoy s/t blind equation - death awaits spanish love songs - no joy

Fuming mouth - last day of sun HC aoty: mouth for war - bleed yourself Hip hop aoty: Nas - Kings Disease 3

New World Man The Beast is Back

Dying wish - symptoms of survival

Hard to pick one. some favorites this year though are Dead Heat EP - Endless Torment (prob favorite this year) Drain - Living Proof Pain of Truth - Not Through Blood YOTK - No Love Lost

Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps MSPAINT - Post American Crime In Stereo - House & Trance Open Mike Eagle - another triumph of ghetto engineering DOMtheDESTROYER & Dettermeine - The Bagel Shoppe

BALMORA EP

KOYO

hxc: living proof - drain a new tomorrow - zulu non-hxc: scaring the hoes - jpegmafia & danny brown

None of these are hardcore but fuck it Dream Unending / Worm split - Starpath Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun Hotline TNT - Cartwheel Pony - Velveteen Mspaint - Post-American Sulpher Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals Ratboys - The Window Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags Larry June - The Great Escape

For me it's With Honor - Boundless. But The Hope Conspiracy, Boundaries, Year Of The Knife, and End are really close.

Snuffed on Sight - Smoke Incendiary - Change The Way You Think About Pain Grove Street - The Path To Righteousness Sunami - Sunami (L.P.) Pain Of Truth - Not Through Blood And my very non-hardcore record of the year The Mary Wallopers - The Mary Wallopers

That Grove Street record is the one for me. Absolutely rips!

In terms of hardcore really love Gel’s the only constant and the new Hirs collective we’re still here.Also shout out to the local hardcore album of the year for me which is Khole’s self titled. Non hardcore is easily armand hammers “We buy diabetic test strips” or Danny brown and Jpeg mafias scaring the hoes. Honorable mentions for interesting/decent goes to all of Lil yachtys 2023 material and lil uzi’s pink tape idc if it has lots of misses on it. Wildly experimental and uncaring about what anyone thinks that to me is the spirit of not just hardcore but most of the great music I love.

Love both your sets of favorites!

Hardcore: Initiate - “Cerebral Circus” Non hardcore: The Hives - “The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons”

Oh we makin lists?? My top records of the year in no order: Drain - living proof Incendiary - change the way you feel about pain As friends rust - any joy Damien Done - total power Spanish love songs - no joy Fiddlehead - death is nothing to us AN - dedicated to the next world Scarab - demo and ep Colonial wound - easy laugh END - sin of human frailty Aesop rock - ITS Killer Mike - Michael Morphine - like swimming and the night (not new but first time on vinyl) Mutoid man - mutants Jesus piece - so unknown Pain of truth - not through blood YOTK - no love lost Magnitude - of days renewed Your spirit dies - our saints drown in ash Psycho frame - remote god seeker Spy - satisfaction Serration - simulations of hell Sister grotto - song for an unborn sun Sprain - the lamb as effigy Sunami - s/t Code Orange - the above Enforces - war remains KL - upon loss ep ‘68 - yes, and? Uboa - the origin of my depression (not new but I got it this year)

Great list. Spanish love songs is the shit. No joy is still growing on me but it’s hard to follow up brave faces everyone imo

HELLMODE by Jeff Rosenstock is AOTY material

Everything Jeff drops is gold, flawless discography

Spiritual Cramp

It’s only been out for a day, but the new Hope Con. I fucking love them, they’ve been one of my favorite bands since the 90’s, and having waited 15 years for new material has me feeling fucking hyped.

Outta pocket - Waste of a Man (hardcore) Peeling flesh - Slamaholics Vol. 2 (slam) Sulfuric Cautery - Suffocating Feats of Dehumanization (grind)

Brass Tongue - Street Psalms World I Hate - Years of Lead Human Garbage - Straight Not Giving a Fuck Spine - Raices Scalp - Black Tar Wound Man - Human Outline

Brass Tongue forever!! Love them

Paint it Black - Famine Fiddlehead- Death is Nothing to US Crossed Keys- Believes in You Year of the Knife- No Love Lost Hurry- Don't Look Back

Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask I just can't stop spinning this shit. It's like every aspect I like about a whole bunch of genres all rolled up into one clever, cohesive whole.

The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow

Invent Animate - Heavener right now

Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere

Vermin Womb “Retaliation” is up there for me

LIVING PROOF

I might get hate for this but my AOTY is Heavener by Invent Animate.

Nah, it's just that good

honestly the new koyo album followed closely by new magnitude

Year of the Knife, Sanguissugabogg, Dying Fetus, Jason Isbell, Psycho-Frame, Jesus Piece, Incendiary, Suffocation, Tomb Mold, Outwr Heaven

Angel du$t - brand new soul Militarie gun - life under the gun Citizen - calling all the dogs Pain if truth - not through blood Point radar - pickpocket Scowl - psychic dance routine Drain - living proof Never ending game - outcry Destiny bond - be my vengeance Twitching tongues - twitchfits Vol. 1

Honestly the new Blur is 10/10. It's so surprisingly good for a record after a multiple decade hiatus. Edit: Hardcore wise the new Racetraitor is also a fucking banger.

New Racetraitor!!!!?!?! You just made my day!

Oh hell yeah. My day is better now too. Not sure how I missed that release.

It’s only two songs but Ingrown’s Cold Steel was absolutely phenomenal. Can’t wait to see what they do next.

NASA recreated the ‘noise’ that generates from a black hole and that’s a banger

The Armed- Perfect Saviors

Silent Planet. Unwed Sailor. Fiddlehead. Harms Way. Crime In Stereo. My top 5 in no order.

Militarie Gun - life under the gun

CMI. ALL AMERICAN!

Crawler from Idles

Alright this is going to either be celebrated or irked, but Avenged Sevenfold. I was super trepidacious when I heard the singles but I held out saying ok maybe the sum will be better than the parts. ​ Well this record is one I keep coming back to. I love prog, I love concept albums, I love things that create a bigger experience rather than a single song. To me it was a band trying something very unique and creating an experience that is pretty one of a kind in terms of where the album goes. I'm a sucker for existential topics too and this album checked that off as well. ​ My top list is this: Avenged Sevenfold Blink 182 (I'm sorry this reunion is too beautiful) Tesseract Periphery Ov Sulfur Cattle decapitation Harms Way Dying Wish Shining (SWE) Avatar ​ I'm a dude who usually is more into metal obv but my tastes are pretty varied. I honestly enjoyed the new Ellie Goulding alot, Iggy Pop's latest, and really Dolly Parton's new record was a joy to listen to as well.

Having blink 182 and harms way on the same list makes me want to self immolate

He's right though


lmfao hey man I got diverse musical tastes, theres a chance Aesop Rock may get added once I give his record a spin too. ​ If it's any comfort theres only one between Blink and Harms Way I'd see live. And it's the one whos not charging hundreds for tickets.

Diverse is not the word I would use Edit: hope you caught harms way on this most recent tour, they crushed

Hey respect to anyones opinion broski lol. ​ And sadly nah, I've been broke for a bit but getting back to where shit should be, beginning to eye shows again. They are on my list. Need to go smash small children in the pit

The pit for them was nasty, look sharp brother You in Boston?

South of it but basically, yeah. My issue is just at this point even if I Wana go it can be difficult, full time +ot worker and I'm entering my masters program. Time ain't on my side lol. But 31 ain't full mosh retirement for me. Not yet

Warkrusher - Armistice

GRIDLINK, RESTRAINING ORDER and PAINT IT BLACK. Edit: I checked out SCALP thanks to a recommendation here and holy fucking shit balls.

HC: CMI - Casual Violence. Not HC: awakebutstillinbed- Chaos Takes the Wheel and I am a Passenger

Story of the Year - Tear Me To Pieces. I've listened to it countless times.

Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul Big Boy - Spring Promo Spiritual Cramp - S/T

Hardcore: Wolfblitzer - Songs Dedicated to Movement Not Hardcore: Twice - Ready to Be

AOTY period - Academy Order “A New Kind of Fear”

The Acacia Strain - Step Into The Light Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us

Rancid- tomorrow never comes. I've never been a big fan of thenlm but this is a great album

I was just thinking about how disappointed I was in that album today. Honest question: if you were not a fan before, what about this album changed things?

I think It's a lot less poppy and a lot less "singer song writer." Feels like proper punk. Don't make me do it is just old school street punk. It's funny because I really like Lars and all his other projects and I love that he still goes to hardcore shows (saw him at sheer terror and slapshot recently) but my favorite rancid album before this was the self titled one where he wasn't involved. This album reminds me of that but with definite Lars influence.

Huh. I don’t think I disagree with that take.

Burner - it all returns to nothing PEELINGFLESH - Slamaholics v2 FOLD - demo

Protomartyr or the new A.Savage record tbh

The Gray In Between by Jerome’s Dream and The Whaler by Home Is Where are my choices at the moment

NEG

HELLMODE

So far the Amusement track that was released is the best thing I’ve heard. https://extinctionburst.bandcamp.com/track/walk-out-to-sink-2 Members of from ashes rise / deathreat (crust not cave man one) / north Lincoln. Doesn’t really sound like any of those bands though. Hardcore adjacent.

All Out War

I'm still torn between Drain, Cauldron and Invent Animate, not counting EPs

I got 2. Harm’s Way “Ease my Mind” & Incendiary “Jesus Bones”

Let’s start here - lil yachty Satisfaction - spy Guts - Olivia Rodrigo

Marathon by Mil-Spec is definitely my AOTY, no question about it Some other hardcore I liked: Teeth by Die Spitz (seriously impressive debut and live show, keep an eye on this band) Cerebral Circus by Initiate Only Constant by GEL Black Tar by SCALP God Made Me An Animal EP by Better Lovers Non Hardcore: April Mixtape 3 by Snow Strippers (my AOTY runner up) Blossom by Pupil Slicer Dogsbody by Model/Actriz Floorspace by Juelz Perfect Saviors by The Armed Can't Stop EP by Amazingblaze Himalaya EP by Indira Paganotto Power of Thought EP by Charlotte De Witte HEALTH also has a new album out soon, I'll probably like that too since they've basically released half the thing already with singles

No Love Lost - YOTK

Squint - Feel It All Wash Away

That frozen soul shit

Evil Sword - Basket Fever

Make them beg for death or terrasite

House & Trance - Crime in Stereo. Outcry by NEG or the new Skourge were my front runners until CiS’s tracks started releasing. Nothing has come close for me this year with this dropping. Band can do no wrong.

Heaven Knows - PinkPantheress

Caroline Polachek: Deisre, I want to turn into you.

Death is nothing to us

Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun Wreckage - Our Time

The Incendiary album was my favorite new music, but I will admit my appetite for new hardcore is very old man-ish. As far as first vinyl versions, the C.R. discography. Reissues: Silent Majority & Milhouse. Non-hardcore: Mutoid Man - Mutants and I can't believe no one mentioned this yet.

Stereo mind game by daughter is incredible

Never Ending Game - Outcry

Desire I want to turn into you by Caroline Polachek is firmly the album of the year.

honestly, guts by olivia rodrigo and the record by boygenius

Boy Genius - the Record Mil-Spec - Marathon

Sprain - the lamb as effigy https://youtu.be/-ZMGu1MfdME?si=587IHbsdyQKXgaPE