Code Orange’s Reba Meyers and Jami Morgan talk to Metal Hammer about the challenges facing metal in 2020

From the home of Code Orange come another hardcore band ready to explode

Earlier this year -- just days after the pandemic arrived in America -- Pittsburgh metallic hardcore brutalists Code Orange released a tremendous and crushing album called Underneath. Obviously, that wrecked the band's touring plans. Instead, Code Orange played a physical, impressive record-release show in an empty venue, streaming it live on Tw...

Earlier this year, Australian studio wizards the Avalanches put out two new tracks, "Running Red Lights" (with Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu) and "We Will Always Love You" (with Blood Orange). They had a whole big billboard put up in Melbourne and everything, though chances are that whatever they had planned got derailed because of,…

At the beginning of the year, Cayetana leader Augusta Koch released her first full-length album as Gladie, Safe Sins. Over the weekend, she put up a new EP featuring three songs that were recorded at home. They're filled with isolation itchiness that could be applicable to any old time, songs about feeling trapped in impossible…