Joseph Fox is the guitarist behind the thunderous nu-metalcore duo hitbox. We talked with him about his musical background and his new grindcore project, EXFIL. Who are you? Tell me two random things about yourself. Fox plays guitar for hitbox and both sings and plays guitar in his new powerviolence

This week on The Breakdown, we dive into the record store discount bin and take a look at two forgotten “full-length” albums from legendary artists of the early 90s British hardcore scene. Hardcore is not an albums genre. This is not to say that there are not beloved hardcore albums

Sonic gasps for air as he sinks deeper underwater, his timer running out. Mario miscalculates a wall jump and plummets into a sea of lava. Mega Man shatters into bits of stardust on deceiving spikes. In your ears, you’re whisked away into pixelated adventure, uplifting, almost cheerful until you

We sat down with lead singer Luc of Michigan screamo outfit Abuse Repression to talk about being a musician and a lifelong music fan. Tell me two random things about yourself you'd like to share?  Luc once did a proxy interview of Jack White of The White Stripes

Dan Macy shows you how to make synth wavetables using whatever audio file you want and make music with it.

This week on The Breakdown we take a deeper look at Lolita Storm, one of the stranger and more fondly remembered acts of the first era of digital hardcore, and attempt to disentangle their strange existence as as a group thrust into the vanguard of feminist punk despite having no