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  Picture Credit: Never Knew An impressive one-man-band Never Knew, has released a brand new banger “Better Views”. Well, I hope it’s gonna perform better than the previous album " Internal Relapse ", because it's totally worth it - even though it got featured in the All Things Heavy on Spotify and gained some traction in 2020, it clearly wasn’t enough to amass a somewhat decent following. "Internal Relapse" sometimes tended to enter the more mainstream metal niche with tracks like 'Castaways' (which was a few steps away from cloud rap), and contained a lot of clean singing alongside the screaming. “Better Views” however demonstrates a more metalcore-focused approach, with intense guitars, djenty riffing and way less clean vocals, while still remaining in the modern post-hardcore/metalcore division and zeitgeist: imagine if Architects banged Between the Buried and Me, while Currents were taping it. A...

Today, I'm introducing you to "Still Burning", the third longplayer by Marseille-based Modern Hardcore band Wake the Dead. This powerload was released on March 2, 2020 and contains twenty minutes of intense intense, brachial, melodic and emotional sounds. Besides streaming and the digital release "Still Burning" is available on CD and vinyl. Photo Credit: Wake the Dead EPK The French quintet begins their new album with the strong opener 'Giving up' and immediately makes clear what to expect on "Still Burning". Melodic Hardcore with emotional content, dark harmonics, brachial riffing and versatile rhythms create the soundscape of the eight tracks. The transition from Post Hardcore to Modern Hardcore is fluent on this one. The music Wake the Dead present on their newest release is a bit less halting and more straightforward than many Post Hardcore albums though. The content presented in the lyrics is very relatable in contemporary so...