Album Review: Fontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber (opens in new tab)
The idea of cultural recurrence is very appealing to me.
Mathcore on LoudQuietLoud: more than 100 artists, including Architects, Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan. It runs alongside noisecore, progressive metalcore and nintendocore.


The idea of cultural recurrence is very appealing to me.
The Irish band’s fifth album balances profound cynicism and genuine beauty as its ice-hearted stadium rock grows to darkly apocalyptic proportions.
Fontaines D.C.’s last album, ‘Romance’, saw the Dublin quintet morph into Guitar Hero-style characters, remixing the unbuttoned shirts of post-punk past into something edgy, bold and cool.
Members of hardcore bruisers Vein.fm and nu-gaze breakouts Fleshwater reassemble beneath the metalcore banner, combining brute strength and progressive instincts into a slab of unrelenting violence.
The anticipation for Protest The Hero’s new album simmered for six years.
Leave it to a band so thematically focused on the future to lean into the past to make their best record yet.