Burned Up Bled Dry
Next Stop… Dead Stop…
Prank (2026)
There’s no easing into Next Stop… Dead Stop… No buildup, no warning just impact. Fayetteville, Arkansas’ Burned Up Bled Dry return from decades of dormancy with a debut full-length that feels less like a comeback and more like a long-awaited detonation. Formed in 1996 and tied to that gnarlier mid-south hardcore lineage alongside bands like His Hero Is Gone and From Ashes Rise, the band never fully disappeared just went quiet. Now, with members back in Arkansas and actively playing again, Next Stop… Dead Stop… pulls together that history with a fresh sense of urgency. Most of these tracks were written and recorded recently, with a few unreleased ‘90s-era cuts folded in, and you can feel that collision of past and present throughout. Twenty-six songs in twenty-five minutes tells you exactly how this plays out. This is powerviolence at its most stripped and immediate. Blast beats, abrupt tempo shifts, and down-tuned riffs that hit like heads against concrete slabs. But what separates Burned Up Bled Dry from a lot of modern revival acts is how clearly the ’80s hardcore backbone cuts through the chaos. Beneath the blasting and breakdowns, there’s structure. Hooks, even. Not in a radio sense but in … Read more
Luxury Teeth
DCxPC Live & Dead, Vol. 3
DCxPC Live (2024)
There’s something inherently appealing about a record that doesn’t try to hide what a band actually sounds like. DCxPC Live … Read more
Lethal Limits
Elevate EP
GhettoBlaster Productions (2025)
The archival hunt for the "missing links" of first-wave California punk usually leads through a trail of grainy handbill Xeroxes … Read more
The S.E.T.
Self Evident Truth
Flatspot Records (2026)
Hardcore doesn’t need reinventing; just needs conviction. On Self Evident Truth, Baltimore’s The S.E.T. come out swinging with a debut … Read more
