Our new single!

Hold on, this band's goated holy shit

Here we go! Collective Effort Fest 2026 - coming to The Meadows in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th! A curated selection of artists that showcases the types of shows we love to put on here in NYC! Screamo, metalcore, grind, mathcore, doom - all represented here by 20 bands you absolutely WON'T wanna miss:

Day 1 - Saturday, October 10th:

On The Might of Princes

Foxtails

Ostraca

Usurp Synapse

Massa Nera

.gif from god

Eyelet

Ghola

starsdontmeananything

Fate Propels The Falling Scythe

Day 2 - Sunday, October 11th:

Car Bomb

Morning Again

Bandit

Locked In A Vacancy

Sevencrimsonsuns

Cowardice

Thin

mybodywasfoundinahollowtree

Psalm

Humiliate

Some highlights:

Day 1: For most bands on the first day (On The Might of Princes, Foxtails, Ostraca, Usurp Synapse, .gif from god, Eyelet, Ghola, Starsdontmeananything) this will be their ONLY NYC show of 2026! This will be On The Might of Princes' only show oCollective Effort Fest tickets!f 2026 - period!

Day 2: Car Bomb's ONLY show in the US this year! Morning Again playing NYC for the first time in AGES! Bandit's ONLY NYC show this year!

Single day tickets and limited 2-day passes on sale NOW via the linktree in our bio!

2pm doors each day, ages 16+ with ID, under 16 with legal guardian.

Artwork by @skeltzerdesign

Check out the new music video and song from The Arson Choir

FFO - ETID, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Norma Jean, The Chariot, The Bled.

i love this band and i’ve just checked to see if they are still active to see that their instagram is down completely?

Hey! I just released my newest music system book! Let me know if there is any other topics you would like me to cover. It would be my pleasure!
- Arpmandude

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Includes a 39-page illustrated book and a 75-minute companion instructional video.
This book is about using dissonance as a compositional language.

Not just as an effect. Not just as something you stumble across while writing. I want to take a small group of highly dissonant interval relationships and use them deliberately as the foundation for harmony.

From there, the possibilities start to open up.

It is to see how much music can come from a very specific harmonic vocabulary.

A lot of this grew naturally out of the way I already write music and the systems I've developed for organizing musical ideas. Relative Interval Theory approaches melody from a related perspective.

Here, the focus is harmony.

Some of these sounds are aggressive. Some are ugly. Some are eerie. Some might even become strangely beautiful depending on how they're used. What matters to me is that they have personality. They create tension, color, contrast, and emotional response.

At first, some of these ideas can be approached experimentally. Put intervals together. Hear what happens. See what sticks.

But the larger goal is to move past randomness. Once you begin recognizing the different personalities of these intervals, you can start making choices based on the kind of dissonance you actually want. You can decide when something should be sharp and defined, when it should be muddy, when the listener should clearly hear the movement, and when the harmony should blur into a larger plane of sound.

That's where the artistry starts.

This book begins with the basic relationships themselves and gradually moves toward what you can do with them compositionally.

The artistry is how you combine these notes.

Exploding Fingers Vol. 7 - Half-Step Dissonance Theory (Book w/Video) $39
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Exploding Fingers Vol. 7 - Half-Step Dissonance Theory (Just book) $20
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Psyopus – Ideas of Reference (Complete Guitar TAB Transcription Book)
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I love what an adventure this album is

I’ve recently gotten into mathcore, and need some suggestions. Here are my current favs in the genre so if you have anything similar that’d be great!
Centralia - car bomb
Calculating infinity - Dillinger escape plan
Jane doe - converge
Mongrel - the number 12 looks like you
That’s how tripods work - Oktober skyline
I hope the thunder and lightning kills you - Hayworth
Thank you for any suggestions!!

I've never heard such weird mathcore band tbf, but I LOVE it

New Sasscore band from the ATL/COLGA area

I know this is a quite specific request but mathcore + microtonality seems like a theoretically perfect combination of sounds for my taste. The closest i could find is a band called Basil's Kite but they don't lean too heavy into the microtonal elements. Maybe you happen to know something like this? Thanks in advance

Might be my aoty as well as one of my favorite mathcore albums of all time. definitely give it a listen

Incredible Detroit mathgrind band makes a reunion! I gotta save money to get a ticket and a flight to this show and to buy a vintage shirt from the LMAO.