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Two more videos for everyone this week! Dyl & Stew from Naarm/Melbourne moshers BLOOD ON MY HANDS drop in to TPD HQ to chat about their excellent new EP, Death Through Devotion, out now through Kingpin Records (Aus) & Third Impact Records (US). We chop it up about finding hardcore in their youth, ongoing metalcore revivals, the undeniable influence of Killing With A Smile, the chaos and catharsis of really hard pit parts, and prepping for their debut headline tour. Check it out below:
And for my ongoing Dispatch Bay series, Shane Told from post-hardcore mainstays SILVERSTEIN goes long on the band’s “mf’in’ emo time machine” setlist for their ‘25 Years of Noise’ Australian tour this month, the group’s natural sonic evolution, their enduring friendship and parallel career trajectory with The Amity Affliction, plus what’s been on shuffle in his headphones for 2025. You can check it out in full below:
SIDE A:
A curated selection of cool shit for you to listen to.
AFI – “Behind The Clock”
Say what you will about AFI (or frontman Davey Havok’s knack for headline-worthy aesthetic presentation), the Californian quartet steadfastly refuse to make the same record twice.
Billed as a “bold new era for the iconic band,” their forthcoming twelfth studio album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (arriving October 3rd via Run For Cover Records/Civilians), promises yet another branch in the group’s curious sonic evolution following 2021’s Bodies. The record’s lead single is a resolutely mid-tempo affair, with a plodding bassline wandering around Havok’s Ian Curtis-aping baritone.
Watch the video for “Behind The Clock” below:
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Secret World – Tomorrow Is a Mystery To Me
With members serving time in active Sydney and Newcastle-based acts like SPEED, Trophy Eyes and Downside, melodic rockers SECRET WORLD already know their way around a great tune.
Having successfully bridged the sounds of hardcore and alt-rock on 2024’s Guilt Is Good EP, the group’s follow-up, Tomorrow Is A Mystery To Me (out September 19th via Last Ride Records, Sunday Drive Records, and Ice Grills), aims to level-up their songwriting through “emotive storytelling and extended anecdotes.” Latest single “Good Faith” has a ripping guest feature from Shogun (of Royal Headache/Antenna fame), and also sports one of the catchiest hooks I’ve heard all year, so they’re making good on that promise at least.
Stream the EP’s pre-release singles here (DSPs).
Death Goals – “Even A Worm Can Turn”
It’s not a great time to be a trans person living in the UK right now. Or anywhere else, really, for that matter. For heavy merchants DEATH GOALS, this sense of vulnerability and basic freedoms under threat fuels their forthcoming EP, Survival Is An Act of Defiance, set for indepedent release on August 29th.
“The phrase ‘even a worm can turn’ appeared in numerous books I’d been reading, and it really resonated with me,” says guitarist/vocalist Harry Bailey on the EP’s latest single. “The queer community is not violent nor malicious, however due to the rise in animosity against us we are being riled up and made to protect ourselves with greater force. This idea inspired the message and ideals that became the Survival… EP.”
The EP finds Death Goals joined by a roster of queer guest vocalists (including members of HIRS Collective, Burner, Cainhurst, and Victim Unit) to give voice to the duo’s most politically-charged and aggressive material to date. Watch the video for “Even A Worm Can Turn” below:
Algernon Cadwallader – Trying Not To Have a Thought
Twinkly guitar shouting enthusiasts ALGERNON CADWALLADER previously broke up in 2012, right before that decade saw a series of “emo revival” waves that featured them as a deeply respected fixture. However, like all good reunions, the quartet’s own revival in the present brings things comfortably full circle.
The band’s new LP, Trying Not To Have a Thought, is thier first since 2011’s Parrot Flies but also their first with the original lineup—vocalist-bassist Peter Helmis, guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony, and drummer Nick Tazza—since their seminal debut record, 2008’s heralded Some Kind of Cadwallader.
As Helmis puts it: “I almost see it as fate that it boiled us down to this core, our original form. There’s a certain magic to that that couldn’t really be replicated.” Stream the LP’s pre-release singles here (DSPs).
Dust – “Drawbacks”
Well, it’s finally here, folks. After years of non-stop touring, Aussie post-punk sensation DUST have finally announced their highly anticipated debut full-length, Sky Is Falling, out on October 10th through Kanine Records.
“Drawbacks,” the record’s lead single, kicks off with rolling hi-hats and bright instrumentation before locking into a mid-tempo groove as bandleader Justin Teale meditates on thoughts of confusion and self-doubt:
“Feelings of shame and regret in social surroundings where you should feel comfortable, and you can’t shake off the head noise. I guess this song is a way of talking to myself in the same way I do with my thoughts without sounding pretentious.”
Watch the video for “Drawbacks” below:
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