Hardcore veterans Converge play to their strengths on The Dusk In Us, while Shamir’s Revelations is earnest and…

As 2017 winds to a close, after a year that’s seen the release of thousands of albums—an unusually large number of…

Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…

While Jacob Bannon is known predominantly as the singer of Converge, the Massachusetts hardcore band that’s set the…

Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.

Though we’re only halfway through the ’10s, the ’00s can occasionally seem like a long time ago. (Remember when…

United Nations—a post-hardcore supergroup formed by Thursday singer Geoff Rickly, Converge drummer Ben Koller, and…

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In Fear Of A Punk Decade, the punk/hardcore/emo explosion of the ’90s is revisited, remembered, and reassessed, year…

It’s been three years since North Carolina’s Young And In The Way released its hardcore-meets-black-metal debut, I…

Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.