35 Best Emo & Post-Hardcore Albums of 2002
The emo floodgates opened in 2002. In honor of their 20th anniversaries, this edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at the best emo and post-hardcore albums from that year.
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Trustkill Records’ complete catalog is now on Bandcamp
Including classics by Poison The Well, Hopesfall, Terror, Nora, This Is Hell, Turmoil, Eighteen Visions, It Dies Today, Despair, and more...
30 essential songs from the shoegaze / heavy crossover
Inspired by the release of Hum's first album in 22 years, we put together a list of 30 essential songs that occupy the middle ground between shoegaze and heavier music - a sound which has existed for decades but is now more prominent than ever.
15 Seminal Albums from Metalcore’s Second Wave (2000-2010)
Following our lists on '90s metalcore and 2000s post-hardcore, this edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at 15 classic albums from metalcore's most popular era.
Furnace Fest announces extremely stacked emo/post-hardcore/metalcore lineup (for 2021)
It features Taking Back Sunday, Underoath, Killswitch Engage, mewithoutYou, Thursday, Converge, Cave In, Every Time I Die, Zao, The Bled, Hopesfall, Touche Amore, Turnstile, Darkest Hour, Be Well, The Casket Lottery, Piebald, Knocked Loose, Further Seems Forever, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, and much more...
Hopesfall members discuss their favorite albums of 2020
Hopesfall's list includes Hum, Deftones, Shiner, Run The Jewels, IDLES, and more...
In Parallel (mem Hopesfall) prep EP made with Failure’s Ken Andrews (stream a track)
“When it came time to mix the EP, Mark asked who would be at the top of the list and we jokingly threw Ken's name out there thinking there's zero possibility it would ever happen,“ Ryan Parrish says.
15 albums that defined the 2000s post-hardcore boom
This edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at 15 albums that defined the melodic style of post-hardcore that took off in the early 2000s thanks to bands like At the Drive-In, Thursday, and Glassjaw, many of whom are still breaking ground and/or influencing new bands today
‘In Defense of the Genre’ Feb roundup (5 best songs of the month included)
A roundup of all the February installments of punk/pop punk/emo/etc column In Defense of the Genre, along with a list of the five best songs of the month.
Hopesfall return with new nine-minute single “Hall of the Sky” (watch the video)
Atmospheric post-hardcore vets Hopesfall were doing the post-hardcore-goes-Hum thing way before it became a trend in the 2010s, and their new nine-minute single finds them pushing their sound even further in that direction...