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17 min read 2022-03-03 22:00:00

Rotten to the Core // March 2022

Let’s start fresh, shall we? As the first official drop of the 2022 musical calendar, we have a lot to cover and only so much of your attention

18 min read 2022-01-17 23:00:00

Sorry if I sound a little exasperated these days — I am. I live right up the road from our latest local superspreader event slash biggest fest of

1 min read 2021-11-10 22:00:00

I open with an apology. Despite a rotating roster of talented characters willing to write about the forbidden step-siblings of their trver metal kin,

11 min read 2021-04-05 21:00:00

Welcome back to Rotten to the Core, where much like the inexorable pressure of our late-stage capitalist hellworld clamoring to squeeze everything

14 min read 2021-03-01 22:00:00

It’s been a year since we last spoke. January and February felt like a full year, right? The last thing I remember was spending a week holed up

14 min read 2021-01-25 22:00:00

It’s been a hell of a year, and we’ve needed every ounce of good music to get us through. 2020 saw a huge resurgence of insane mathcore,

4 min read 2021-01-04 22:00:57

This month, we’re just highlighting a few records that really stood out in December. Check back soon for our aggregate end of year list featuring

9 min read 2020-12-07 22:02:00

Nothing pithy or pissy this month. The world continues to burn, but we’re getting through it one riff at a time. Happy holidays from ours to yours!

13 min read 2020-11-09 22:01:49

As I write this, the US Senate has just confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, a mere week before he is expected to lose

5 min read 2020-11-07 00:59:24

RPG news all summarised into handy bullet-point lists. That’s the name of the game in this Friday’s Routinely Itemised. Mr Root Let’s start

8 min read 2020-10-05 21:00:23

Welcome back to Rotten to the Core, where we like to think of life as one big stage dive through a parting crowd. Sure, you may permanently disfigure

13 min read 2020-09-02 21:00:00

Welcome back to Rotten to the Core, fellow pit enthusiasts! This column was kicked around on a more informal basis by our good friend Matt in years

3 min read 2020-06-18 23:00:03

Rotten To The Core has always been a home for math and metalcore that doesn’t reek of HM-2 and blast beats, that’s what Grind My Gears is for.

3 min read 2020-04-09 21:15:18

We’re all shacked up and stuck between staring at a screen, wall, or out of a window so there’s more time than ever to check out some fresh, hot,

3 min read 2020-02-22 02:51:44

Food and kitchen analogies are pretty rife in metal journalism and I’m definitely guilty of slopping cheap comparisons onto thinly sliced