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This is our weekly roundup of new screamo, skramz, powerviolence and hardcore. It covers the days from May 31 to June 5, 2026, picking up where last week's roundup left off. We checked the usual sources for the column: the r/Hardcore weekly thread, r/Screamo, IDIOTEQ, Bandcamp Daily, Zegema Beach and a set of dated Bandcamp searches. Ten records made the list, all out this week. Each one has an embedded player so you can hear it in full.
- algae bloom's farewell …it lasts forever, and then it's over is our pick of the week: a decade of Norwich screamo signing off in three tracks.
- Screamo and skramz led the week, with Rojava in New York, it could be worse in Austin and Granizo in Brazil.
- The back half goes heavy: D-beat and crust from Automated Execution and Rejecter, powerviolence and fastcore from Fastbender, Ritual Famine and Entrails Massacre.
1. algae bloom: …it lasts forever, and then it's over
algae bloom are a screamo band from Norwich, UK, and the band's own tags are punk, emo, screamo and skramz. …it lasts forever, and then it's over is three tracks, released May 31, 2026. The lineup is leigh on a standing drumkit and lyrics, jacques on bass and matt on guitar and vocals, recorded, mixed and mastered by bob cooper.
This is their final record. The band describes it as a reflection on a decade of growth and turmoil as individuals and as a band, in dialogue with everything they have ever made. Three tracks, the longest past six minutes, and it earns the length. It is our favorite release of the week.
2. Rojava: Demo
Rojava are from New York, and they call what they do "347/845 emotional friendship hardcore." This six-track demo came out June 5, 2026, with maggie maloy and jane hayden on vocals, yorgo malafis on drums, azhy robertson on bass and zac glassman on guitar. The band's own tags run chaotic-emocore, chaotic-hardcore, emo, emotional hardcore and sass.
It is fast and frantic, six songs that never sit still, dedicated to Kubrick, moms, women and Abdullah Ocalan. The chaotic, sassy end of screamo, recorded by the Goob Records crew. A strong demo.
3. it could be worse: a door you close yourself
it could be worse are a three-piece DIY emo band from Austin, Texas: reece herrera on drums, brittany leaning on vocals and bass and erin malone on guitar. a door you close yourself is their debut EP, six songs released June 3, 2026, recorded live over eleven hours at Trade Craft Studio and produced by hunter d'amour. They tag it emo, math rock, midwest emo, screamo and skramz.
The lyrics are sharp and self-aware, with song titles like "are you mad at me? lol" and "cousin, you're scaring the normals." Underneath the jokes it is a record about endings and new beginnings, and the math-rock guitar work keeps it from ever going twee.
4. Granizo: Ciclo de Ódio
Granizo are from Curitiba, Brazil, formed in mid-2025, mixing hardcore and screamo with punk, post-hardcore, beatdown and metalcore. "Ciclo de Ódio" is a single released June 5, 2026, sung in Portuguese, political and furious, with a Free Palestine note on the page.
It is one song, but it lands hard, swinging from screamo bite into a beatdown low end. Worth a few minutes if you like your hardcore with a screamo edge and something to say.
5. Automated Execution: six song demonstration
Automated Execution are from Austin, Texas, with current members of Vaaska, Guerra Final, Zyclone, Peace Decay, Ninth Circle and Barren Soil. six song demonstration came out June 2, 2026 through Monterrey label Exabrupto Records, originally a cassette and now a limited 7" of 300 on black vinyl. The tags are punk, crust and hardcore.
Six songs of raw D-beat hardcore punk with growling vocals, most of them over inside a minute and a half. It is a fully formed band playing as a tight unit, the kind of real, unpolished punk that beats anything overproduced.
6. Rejecter: What Remains?
Rejecter are from Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan, dealing in what they call raw noise D-beat hardcore. What Remains? is six tracks, released June 1, 2026, and the band tags it noisecore, punk, crust, hardcore punk and raw punk.
Six songs blow by in around four minutes, with most barely cracking forty seconds. It is blown-out, fast and ugly in the best way, and a good window into the current Japanese raw hardcore scene that does not get much English coverage.
7. Ritual Famine: Demo
Ritual Famine are from Missouri, a two-person project of Kaleb Russell on vocals and noise and Brodey Thompson on guitars, bass and drums. Their Demo dropped June 3, 2026, tagged across crust punk, d-beat, grindcore, powerviolence and neo-crust. The four tracks include a cover of Carcass's "Heartwork."
The first three songs are short, fast crust-violence; the Carcass cover stretches past four minutes and shows off the melodic-death-metal side of their record collection. A loaded demo for two people.
8. Fastbender: Demo
Fastbender are SoCal fastcore, and their Demo came out May 31, 2026. The band's tags are punk, fast hardcore, fastcore, powerviolence and pv. Twelve songs are stacked into a single four-and-a-half-minute blast, names like "Doomrippa," "Harsh Toke" and "Bone Money" flying past.
If you want maximum songs per minute this week, this is it. Twelve tracks, four minutes, no fat. Powerviolence done the right way.
9. Entrails Massacre / Oxidised Razor: Split CD
Entrails Massacre are a long-running grind, fastcore and powerviolence band from Rostock, Germany: Karsten on vocals, Sascha on guitar and bass, Daniel on drums. Their split CD with Oxidised Razor came out June 1, 2026, tagged grindcore, grindviolence and powerviolence.
It is a split, so each band takes a side, with the Entrails Massacre tracks running in the usual sub-minute blasts. The band heads to Japan in July, which fits: this is the sort of grind that travels well on the international DIY circuit.
10. MoKo: All fire roads (demo)
MoKo are from Athens, Greece, playing fast, loud and sloppy garage DIY punk. "All fire roads (demo)" came out June 4, 2026, tagged punk, garage hardcore punk and garage punk.
It is a single-track demo, scrappy and short, the kind of first recording a new band throws up to plant a flag. A good, rough close to the week.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as skramz, and how is it different from screamo?
Skramz is just an affectionate nickname for old-school, chaotic late-90s screamo, the raw and dissonant end of the genre. Functionally it means the same thing as screamo. This week algae bloom, Rojava and it could be worse all sit squarely in that lineage.
When did these records come out?
All ten releases came out between May 31 and June 5, 2026. We pulled every date straight from the band's own Bandcamp credits line, not from aggregator feeds that lag a week or two on these micro-genres.
Where can I hear the full releases?
All of it is streaming in full on Bandcamp, and every record above has an embedded player. Buy the ones you like. Bandcamp pays bands far better than the streamers do, and most of these releases are name-your-price.
That is the week: ten releases, from algae bloom's farewell Norwich screamo to a scrappy Athens garage punk demo, with chaotic emo, D-beat and powerviolence in between. Catch up on last week's picks, or browse the full weekly roundup archive. Back next week.
About Shorter Faster Louder. We cover screamo, skramz, powerviolence and hardcore punk, with a weekly roundup of new releases. Real dates, real genres, no recycled press releases.
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