breakcore

This week, The Breakdown finally returns with a giant-size deep dive into the complicated history of breakcore and try to make sense of it in an era where the term means less than ever. Content Warning: This article discusses a style of music primarily known for its association with themes

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

This week on The Breakdown, we wax nostalgic about simpler times and the janky DIY brilliance of early breakcore. There’s a style I like to call “bassy breakcore” that I’ve been infatuated with for a while; if you’ve ever listened to Alec Empire or early Sonic Subjunkies

The projects that cybergrind veteran Aaron Spectre has brought to the table as Drumcorps have embodied chaos and dissonance. From the beginning, their music has exhibited the high octane intensity of breakcore while incorporating elements from the worlds of industrial metal and mathcore. Thus, the release of Creatures feels like