Genre Directory
Hardcore Punk
Browse Dork's album & ep review coverage for Hardcore Punk, plus artists and albums connected to the genre.
Recent Reviews
Ricochet
Rise Against
Rise Against still sound urgent, defiant and fully engaged: a band with purpose, not just volume.
Never Enough
Turnstile
Nothing short of a masterpiece.
Are We All Angels
Scowl
'Are We All Angels' stands as both a thrilling evolution and a provocative statement.
PRUDE
Drug Church
They've found new ways to squeeze the heartfelt out of wildly eyebrow-raising scenarios.
All You Embrace
One Step Closer
Urgent, driven and passionate.
A New Tomorrow
Zulu
Short, sharp, brilliant bursts, punctuated by moments of joyous clarity.
Human Capital
Bad Breeding
Stevenage-based Bad Breeding’s fourth full-length ‘Human Capital’ comes at a perfect point.
Psychic Jailbreak
Cancer Bats
A sensational album that sounds like a band in mid-metamorphosis.
Hygiene
Drug Church
The sound of a band more engaged than ever before.
The Romance Of Affliction
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
In your face, tense and essential, it’s an album of juxtapositions that makes perfect sense.
Radical
Every Time I Die
One hell of a ride.
This Place You Know
One Step Closer
Everything hardcore should be in 2021.
GLOW ON
Turnstile
Turnstile are making their own rules now. Long may it continue.
Nowhere Generation
Rise Against
The band lament on themes of loss, isolation, and hopelessness.
Underneath
Code Orange
Exhilarating doesn't even begin to cover it.
27 Miles Underwater
Higher Power
There are no boundaries for Higher Power.
War Music
Refused
‘War Music’ is forged in the fire of live performance, and it shows.
V
The Bronx
It's big, it's aggressive, and at any moment it could smack you in the face.
Wolves
Rise Against
★★★★
Soul Structure
Higher Power
★★★★
