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This is our weekly roundup of new screamo, skramz, powerviolence and hardcore. It covers June 22 to June 28, 2026, picking up where last week's roundup left off. We worked the usual sources for the column: the r/Hardcore weekly thread, r/screamo and r/powerviolence, IDIOTEQ, Good Guys Go Grind, No Echo and a stack of dated Bandcamp searches. Ten records made the cut, all out this week, every one with an embedded player so you can hear it in full.
- ostraca's Thread is our pick of the week: six sprawling tracks from the Richmond screamo and emoviolence flagship, out on Persistent Vision.
- The old guard came back swinging. There Were Wires dropped Vessel, their first full-length since 2003, on Iodine with Kurt Ballou and Brad Boatright behind the boards.
- The heavy end stretched across the globe: powerviolence from Mississippi, Poland and Russia, hardcore from Texas, Germany and Denver, and skramz all the way from Malaysia.
1. ostraca: Thread
ostraca are from Richmond, Virginia, and Thread is six tracks out June 26, 2026 on Persistent Vision Records, recorded, mixed and mastered last November by Danny Gibney. The band is John, Brian and Gus, and the tags say it plain: screamo, emoviolence, crust, post-metal.
This is the one to start with. The songs run long for the genre, from the four-minute "Enmiserate" to the eight-and-a-half-minute closer "Greater Darkness (Something Worse)," and they use that room to build and detonate over and over. One fan on the page calls ostraca a flagship band of the screamo and emo-violence scene, and that is about right. Our favorite release of the week.
2. There Were Wires: Vessel
There Were Wires are from Boston, and Vessel is ten tracks out June 26, 2026 on Iodine Recordings, their first full-length since 2003. Kurt Ballou mixed it at God City, Brad Boatright mastered it at Audiosiege, and the tags reach from 90s screamo through hardcore to post-metal.
That is a serious return. The band describes itself as older, wiser and heavier than the chaotic hardcore outfit it was two decades ago, and Vessel backs it up, moving between caustic attack and long contemplative stretches across ten tracks. If you grew up on the early-2000s Boston heavy scene, this is the comeback record you did not expect to get.
3. Loaded Dice: Roulette
Loaded Dice are from Mississippi and they keep it blunt: their own bio reads "Fuck you eat shit. Power Violence." Roulette is six tracks out June 24, 2026, the longest of them barely past a minute and a half, tagged powerviolence and grindcore.
Song titles like "Efforts of Traitors," "Restore Violence" and "Feeble Coward" tell you exactly what you are in for. This is fast, mean Southern powerviolence with no patience for an intro, six bursts gone before you can catch your breath. Name-your-price, so there is no excuse not to grab it.
4. Morir En Past: (DEMO) Kiss Me Before Airstrike
Morir En Past are from Malacca, Malaysia, and (DEMO) Kiss Me Before Airstrike is five tracks out June 25, 2026 with support from Quiet Collapse Records. The band tags it skramz, emoviolence and screamoviolence, and the Malay-language lyrics deal with war and displacement head on.
Tracks like "You Should Never Launch That Missile" and "Tanah Timur Dalam Darah Dan Doa" make the politics impossible to miss, and the music matches: ragged, fast, genuinely furious skramz. Proof again that this genre lives everywhere, not just in the usual US and European pockets. A demo well worth your two bucks.
5. To The Wire: Stand For Something
To The Wire are old-school hardcore out of the Ruhrpott in western Germany, and Stand For Something is eleven tracks in under twenty-five minutes, out June 25, 2026. It was recorded by Olman Wiebe in Hamburg and mixed by Brian McTernan at Salad Days, a name that carries real weight in this style.
This is positive, plain-spoken hardcore in the classic mold, all short sharp songs and shouted-back choruses about attention, community and not waiting around for the sky to fall. "Out Of Touch" and the title track hit hardest. No frills, just a tight European hardcore record that knows exactly what it is.
6. Sevy Verna: My Lai, Massachusetts
Sevy Verna are from London, and "My Lai, Massachusetts" is a single track out June 25, 2026, produced by James Grant and tagged screamo, emo, noise and post-rock. It is the band's first thing on Bandcamp, a four-piece testing the waters with one song.
For a debut single it swings hard, leaning into the noisy, post-rock-tinged end of screamo rather than straight chaos. The recommendations on the page point at Envy and United Nations, which is good company to keep. One to file under bands to watch, and a sign there is more coming.
7. Samadhi: Ego Prison
Samadhi are hardcore from west Texas, and Ego Prison is six tracks out June 24, 2026, name-your-price, tagged hardcore punk, d-beat and crust. The songs are short and pointed, splitting their aim between the rot outside ("Disconnect," "Chaos USA") and the prison in your own head ("Lower nature," the title track).
This is Lubbock d-beat done right: distorted, driving and angry without tipping into noise for its own sake. "Endless duality" closes it out with a bit more heave than the rest. A lean, no-nonsense EP from a corner of Texas that does not get enough hardcore coverage.
8. Cenzura: Dziwidlo DEMO 2026
Cenzura are a sludge and hardcore band from Wroclaw, Poland, and Dziwidlo DEMO 2026 is a free demo track out June 27, 2026, recorded, in their own words, spontaneously during a rehearsal. The tags pile up fast: powerviolence, hardcore, crust punk, grindcore, raw punk, antifascist.
It sounds exactly like what it is, a band hitting record in the practice room and letting fly. Raw, ugly and over quick, the kind of thing that captures a moment better than a polished studio take ever could. Free download, no reason to skip it.
9. Clusterfux: Conflict Resolution Split
Clusterfux are Denver hardcore veterans going back to 1995, and this Conflict Resolution Split is four tracks out June 27, 2026, dealing in old-school hardcore with a heavy crossover and skatepunk streak. Their side runs "Infected," "MAGAts," "Just Like That" and "American Gestapo."
Three decades in and the band still sounds pissed off, which is the whole point. The titles tell you where their heads are at, and the songs back the venom up with fast, thrashy hardcore that never bloats past two minutes. Proof that the old crossover formula still works when you mean it.
10. Noise Infection: It's Always Funny Until Someone Gets Hurt
Noise Infection are from Arkhangelsk in northern Russia, and It's Always Funny Until Someone Gets Hurt is a five-track live-performed demo out June 22, 2026, recorded a week earlier by Anton Fomin. Their motto, "tune low, play fast," is the whole review in three words.
This is blown-out powerviolence and grind played straight to tape, "Chainsaw daily routine" and "PxVx" smeared in feedback and gone in under a minute each. It is the rawest thing on the list, and it closes the roundup the way these things should end: fast, loud and over too soon. Free download.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between powerviolence and grindcore?
Powerviolence comes out of hardcore punk and lives on extreme tempo shifts: blink-fast blasts slammed up against sudden sludge crawls. Grindcore leans harder on metal, with buzzsaw riffs and relentless blast beats. They overlap all the time, which is why bands like Loaded Dice and Cenzura carry both tags this week.
When did these records come out?
All ten releases came out between June 22 and June 28, 2026. This column only covers records dated inside that single week, so nothing older carries over from the weeks before.
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 several of these are free or name-your-price.
That is the week: ten releases, from ostraca's new Richmond emoviolence LP and the long-awaited return of There Were Wires to a blown-out Arkhangelsk powerviolence demo, with Texas d-beat, German hardcore and Malaysian skramz 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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