#mathcore — Public Fediverse posts

Today was a good cleaning day. I listened to:

Shakira, some live set.
Salena (y los Dinos), some other live set.
Jessica Lisette, singlesography.
Some #latin #jazz playlist

Now, I'm listening to ORPHAN (PA, USA) - Nothing Lives Here Anymore

Next up will likely be: The Ghoulstars. They seem like a trip. lol. Unless I'm still in the mood for something heavier. 🤘🏽

#nowPlaying #mathcore #hardcorePunk #Cuban #latinamusician #metallicHardcore #hairmetal

Today was a good cleaning day. I listened to:

Shakira, some live set.
Salena (y los Dinos), some other live set.
Jessica Lisette, singlesography.
Some #latin #jazz playlist

Now, I'm listening to ORPHAN (PA, USA) - Nothing Lives Here Anymore

Next up will likely be: The Ghoulstars. They seem like a trip. lol. Unless I'm still in the mood for something heavier. 🤘🏽

#nowPlaying #mathcore #hardcorePunk #Cuban #latinamusician #metallicHardcore #hairmetal

Today was a good cleaning day. I listened to:

Shakira, some live set.
Salena (y los Dinos), some other live set.
Jessica Lisette, singlesography.
Some #latin #jazz playlist

Now, I'm listening to ORPHAN (PA, USA) - Nothing Lives Here Anymore

Next up will likely be: The Ghoulstars. They seem like a trip. lol. Unless I'm still in the mood for something heavier. 🤘🏽

#nowPlaying #mathcore #hardcorePunk #Cuban #latinamusician #metallicHardcore #hairmetal

Today was a good cleaning day. I listened to:

Shakira, some live set.
Salena (y los Dinos), some other live set.
Jessica Lisette, singlesography.
Some #latin #jazz playlist

Now, I'm listening to ORPHAN (PA, USA) - Nothing Lives Here Anymore

Next up will likely be: The Ghoulstars. They seem like a trip. lol. Unless I'm still in the mood for something heavier. 🤘🏽

#nowPlaying #mathcore #hardcorePunk #Cuban #latinamusician #metallicHardcore #hairmetal

Today was a good cleaning day. I listened to:

Shakira, some live set.
Salena (y los Dinos), some other live set.
Jessica Lisette, singlesography.
Some #latin #jazz playlist

Now, I'm listening to ORPHAN (PA, USA) - Nothing Lives Here Anymore

Next up will likely be: The Ghoulstars. They seem like a trip. lol. Unless I'm still in the mood for something heavier. 🤘🏽

#nowPlaying #mathcore #hardcorePunk #Cuban #latinamusician #metallicHardcore #hairmetal

Torque (WIP)

Added 16 more bars to the last main section because it sounded kinda incomplete/out-of-place. It's basically another melody that's the intersection of two previously played melodies, and by "intersection" I mean the set theory concept - playing notes that were in both melodies and subduing the other notes. Also added some sine wave tones, and wrote more of the bridge.

#Music #MusicProduction #Electronica #ElectronicMusic #AvantGarde #Experimental #Mathcore #Musodon #MastoMusic

Torque (WIP)

Added 16 more bars to the last main section because it sounded kinda incomplete/out-of-place. It's basically another melody that's the intersection of two previously played melodies, and by "intersection" I mean the set theory concept - playing notes that were in both melodies and subduing the other notes. Also added some sine wave tones, and wrote more of the bridge.

#Music #MusicProduction #Electronica #ElectronicMusic #AvantGarde #Experimental #Mathcore #Musodon #MastoMusic

Torque (WIP)

Added 16 more bars to the last main section because it sounded kinda incomplete/out-of-place. It's basically another melody that's the intersection of two previously played melodies, and by "intersection" I mean the set theory concept - playing notes that were in both melodies and subduing the other notes. Also added some sine wave tones, and wrote more of the bridge.

#Music #MusicProduction #Electronica #ElectronicMusic #AvantGarde #Experimental #Mathcore #Musodon #MastoMusic

Torque (WIP)

Added 16 more bars to the last main section because it sounded kinda incomplete/out-of-place. It's basically another melody that's the intersection of two previously played melodies, and by "intersection" I mean the set theory concept - playing notes that were in both melodies and subduing the other notes. Also added some sine wave tones, and wrote more of the bridge.

#Music #MusicProduction #Electronica #ElectronicMusic #AvantGarde #Experimental #Mathcore #Musodon #MastoMusic

Torque (WIP)

Added 16 more bars to the last main section because it sounded kinda incomplete/out-of-place. It's basically another melody that's the intersection of two previously played melodies, and by "intersection" I mean the set theory concept - playing notes that were in both melodies and subduing the other notes. Also added some sine wave tones, and wrote more of the bridge.

#Music #MusicProduction #Electronica #ElectronicMusic #AvantGarde #Experimental #Mathcore #Musodon #MastoMusic

Torque (WIP)

Major new developments for this track. I created a mathcore structure where certain pairs of melodies are combined in either a union or intersection fashion, most notably playing two versions of a melody, then their union, and then their intersection. I also started developing the short bridge part into its own thing, with some binaurals added in.

#Music #MusicProduction #Electronica #Electronic #ElectronicMusic #Mathcore #HipHop #WIP #Indie #IndieMusic #Musodon #MastoMusic

PECULATE – Bouazizi
#Metal #avantgardemetal #experimentalmetal #mathcore #progressivemetal #technicaldeathmetal #USA
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://peculate.bandcamp.com/album/bouazizi

PECULATE – Bouazizi
#Metal #avantgardemetal #experimentalmetal #mathcore #progressivemetal #technicaldeathmetal #USA
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://peculate.bandcamp.com/album/bouazizi

PECULATE – Bouazizi
#Metal #avantgardemetal #experimentalmetal #mathcore #progressivemetal #technicaldeathmetal #USA
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://peculate.bandcamp.com/album/bouazizi

PECULATE – Bouazizi
#Metal #avantgardemetal #experimentalmetal #mathcore #progressivemetal #technicaldeathmetal #USA
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://peculate.bandcamp.com/album/bouazizi

PECULATE – Bouazizi
#Metal #avantgardemetal #experimentalmetal #mathcore #progressivemetal #technicaldeathmetal #USA
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://peculate.bandcamp.com/album/bouazizi

Sorry I'm going hard on psychedelic posts.... Here's one. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #mathcore #jazz #mathrock #music

KARTOSOEWIRJO? | Sepertiga Mal...

Sorry I'm going hard on psychedelic posts.... Here's one. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #mathcore #jazz #mathrock #music

KARTOSOEWIRJO? | Sepertiga Mal...

Sorry I'm going hard on psychedelic posts.... Here's one. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #mathcore #jazz #mathrock #music

KARTOSOEWIRJO? | Sepertiga Mal...

Sorry I'm going hard on psychedelic posts.... Here's one. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #mathcore #jazz #mathrock #music

KARTOSOEWIRJO? | Sepertiga Mal...

Sorry I'm going hard on psychedelic posts.... Here's one. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #mathcore #jazz #mathrock #music

KARTOSOEWIRJO? | Sepertiga Mal...

L.M.I. / Unsucked / Mercure @ L'Hemisphere Gauche - June 15th, 2026

Hemisphere Gauche, Monday, June 15 at 07:00 PM EDT

Viridian Cult Productions presents:

Get ready for a quick n' dirty Monday night ripper on June 15th at Hemisphere Gauche with Pennsylvania stoner punks L.M.I., local sludgegrinders Unsucked, and newcomer hardcore punks Mercure!

Monday, June 15th, 2026
@ L'Hemisphere Gauche
221 Rue Beaubien Est
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show @ 8:00 PM
$15
18+

L.M.I.
https://lmiband.bandcamp.com/album/failed-to-feel-it

Unsucked
https://unxxsucked.bandcamp.com/album/vagittarius

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/lmi-unsucked-mercure-lhemisphere-gauche-june-15th-2026

L.M.I. / Unsucked / Mercure @ L'Hemisphere Gauche - June 15th, 2026

Hemisphere Gauche, Monday, June 15 at 07:00 PM EDT

Viridian Cult Productions presents:

Get ready for a quick n' dirty Monday night ripper on June 15th at Hemisphere Gauche with Pennsylvania stoner punks L.M.I., local sludgegrinders Unsucked, and newcomer hardcore punks Mercure!

Monday, June 15th, 2026
@ L'Hemisphere Gauche
221 Rue Beaubien Est
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show @ 8:00 PM
$15
18+

L.M.I.
https://lmiband.bandcamp.com/album/failed-to-feel-it

Unsucked
https://unxxsucked.bandcamp.com/album/vagittarius

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/lmi-unsucked-mercure-lhemisphere-gauche-june-15th-2026

L.M.I. / Unsucked / Mercure @ L'Hemisphere Gauche - June 15th, 2026

Hemisphere Gauche, Monday, June 15 at 07:00 PM EDT

Viridian Cult Productions presents:

Get ready for a quick n' dirty Monday night ripper on June 15th at Hemisphere Gauche with Pennsylvania stoner punks L.M.I., local sludgegrinders Unsucked, and newcomer hardcore punks Mercure!

Monday, June 15th, 2026
@ L'Hemisphere Gauche
221 Rue Beaubien Est
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show @ 8:00 PM
$15
18+

L.M.I.
https://lmiband.bandcamp.com/album/failed-to-feel-it

Unsucked
https://unxxsucked.bandcamp.com/album/vagittarius

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/lmi-unsucked-mercure-lhemisphere-gauche-june-15th-2026

Stop everything you're doing right now, #GenghisTron released new music and it's a mix of their newer #Krautrock and well-known #MathCore influences

https://tidal.com/album/496631854/u

#metal #HeavyMetal

Stop everything you're doing right now, #GenghisTron released new music and it's a mix of their newer #Krautrock and well-known #MathCore influences

https://tidal.com/album/496631854/u

#metal #HeavyMetal

Stop everything you're doing right now, #GenghisTron released new music and it's a mix of their newer #Krautrock and well-known #MathCore influences

https://tidal.com/album/496631854/u

#metal #HeavyMetal

Stop everything you're doing right now, #GenghisTron released new music and it's a mix of their newer #Krautrock and well-known #MathCore influences

https://tidal.com/album/496631854/u

#metal #HeavyMetal

Stop everything you're doing right now, #GenghisTron released new music and it's a mix of their newer #Krautrock and well-known #MathCore influences

https://tidal.com/album/496631854/u

#metal #HeavyMetal

With a name like that and an album cover featuring a vivisected human head, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nequient play a form of knuckle-dragging brutal death. Instead, the Chicago four-piece specializes in a brand of chaotic, grinding metallic hardcore that recalls the frenetic math explosion of the early 2000s. Avarice is the band’s third full-length and promises a “unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore” to “blast listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.” Despite some solid releases from last year, it’s been a while since new mathcore shook me to the bone and reminded me of modern existence’s inherent fragility. Nequient have the requisite political bile coursing through their veins—the same volatile fuel that powers the genre’s most unhinged eruptions—but is Avarice actually worth your time, or just another flailing heap of panic chords destined to suffocate beneath a pile of white-belt-era clichés?

On Avarice, Nequient paints an anarchic arras with a dizzying amount of stylistic touchstones. The band combines the unhinged frivolity of The Sawtooth Grin with the fast-paced stop/start violence of The HIRS Collective, and loads their tracks with riffs that actually stick, echoing early Converge at their most surgical. The twist? These songs feel coherent. Longer runtimes turn what could be scattershot spasms into fully realized compositions, bolstered by a wide palette of metallic textures. Blackened tremolos (“Christofascist Zombie Brigade”), demented odd-meter thrash gallops (“Brain Worms”), and sludged-out funeral dirges (“Splenetic And Moribund”) are all threaded together with mathy convulsions Nequient execute with unnerving precision. Throughout the record, the band moves between ideas at a dizzying pace, consistently impressing with bewildering moments of aural chaos.

More than just a collection of moments, the songs on Avarice are propelled by relentless pacing and tangible chemistry among the band members. Nequient’s secret sauce lies in the interplay between Patrick Conahan’s disorienting guitar cascades and drummer Chris Avgerin’s dextrous, fill-heavy style. Conahan glides between mosh-ready grind parts (“Mad King / Fool”), undulating, deathy descents (“Rintrah Roars”), and unsettling noise-rock lurches (“Siege Mentality”). Avergin follows along expertly, always mirroring the spastic guitarwork with tasty, intuitive drum parts that guide the ear and ground the anarchy. Aaron Roeming provides the low-end thunder and adds a purposeful heft that thickens the chunkier riffcraft while vocalist Jason Kolkey leads the charge, alternating between a sassy, vitriolic spew and full-bodied death growls while delivering caustic epithets about the horrors of modern life. Kolkey’s acerbic lyrics pull the whole disgusting package together, melding poetic death metal abstraction with punk’s immediacy and sharpening the record’s nihilistic aura into a potent weapon aimed at a broken system.

In fact, Nequient is almost too adept at channeling the noxious undercurrent of societal id, leaving precious little room to breathe across Avarice’s full-frontal assault. Longer tracks usually ease up on the throttle and inject variety with less frantic, slower sections, like with a menacing sludge-into-breakdown (“Rintrah Roars”), or a hazy, chordal comedown (“Stochastic Terror”). Still, I find myself wanting just a touch more space to find my bearings during full-album listens. Avarice is well-paced, and there are more than enough ideas to keep the 40-minute runtime interesting, but it’s missing one or two blissed-out melodic ideas1 or jaw-dropping displays of contrast to elevate it to the peak of the mathcore mountain. This doesn’t prevent Avarice from being a stunning display of technical aggression, but it does mean more than a few spins to decipher its labyrinthine heaviness.

Nequient really impressed me with this one. Avarice is a nerve-flayed, teeth-grinding listen that captures the low-grade panic and spiritual exhaustion of modern life with alarming precision. Rather than settling for dime-a-dozen mathcore spasms or rote metallic bludgeoning, the Chicago crew stitches together dissonance, groove, chaos, and razor-wire technicality into something far more purposeful. It’s punishing without being empty, intricate without disappearing up its own ass, and memorable enough to demand repeat spins. If you’re craving chaotic metallic extremity that does more than regurgitate the usual suspects, Nequient have your number.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Nefarious Industries
Websites: nequient.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/nequient.band
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

With a name like that and an album cover featuring a vivisected human head, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nequient play a form of knuckle-dragging brutal death. Instead, the Chicago four-piece specializes in a brand of chaotic, grinding metallic hardcore that recalls the frenetic math explosion of the early 2000s. Avarice is the band’s third full-length and promises a “unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore” to “blast listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.” Despite some solid releases from last year, it’s been a while since new mathcore shook me to the bone and reminded me of modern existence’s inherent fragility. Nequient have the requisite political bile coursing through their veins—the same volatile fuel that powers the genre’s most unhinged eruptions—but is Avarice actually worth your time, or just another flailing heap of panic chords destined to suffocate beneath a pile of white-belt-era clichés?

On Avarice, Nequient paints an anarchic arras with a dizzying amount of stylistic touchstones. The band combines the unhinged frivolity of The Sawtooth Grin with the fast-paced stop/start violence of The HIRS Collective, and loads their tracks with riffs that actually stick, echoing early Converge at their most surgical. The twist? These songs feel coherent. Longer runtimes turn what could be scattershot spasms into fully realized compositions, bolstered by a wide palette of metallic textures. Blackened tremolos (“Christofascist Zombie Brigade”), demented odd-meter thrash gallops (“Brain Worms”), and sludged-out funeral dirges (“Splenetic And Moribund”) are all threaded together with mathy convulsions Nequient execute with unnerving precision. Throughout the record, the band moves between ideas at a dizzying pace, consistently impressing with bewildering moments of aural chaos.

More than just a collection of moments, the songs on Avarice are propelled by relentless pacing and tangible chemistry among the band members. Nequient’s secret sauce lies in the interplay between Patrick Conahan’s disorienting guitar cascades and drummer Chris Avgerin’s dextrous, fill-heavy style. Conahan glides between mosh-ready grind parts (“Mad King / Fool”), undulating, deathy descents (“Rintrah Roars”), and unsettling noise-rock lurches (“Siege Mentality”). Avergin follows along expertly, always mirroring the spastic guitarwork with tasty, intuitive drum parts that guide the ear and ground the anarchy. Aaron Roeming provides the low-end thunder and adds a purposeful heft that thickens the chunkier riffcraft while vocalist Jason Kolkey leads the charge, alternating between a sassy, vitriolic spew and full-bodied death growls while delivering caustic epithets about the horrors of modern life. Kolkey’s acerbic lyrics pull the whole disgusting package together, melding poetic death metal abstraction with punk’s immediacy and sharpening the record’s nihilistic aura into a potent weapon aimed at a broken system.

In fact, Nequient is almost too adept at channeling the noxious undercurrent of societal id, leaving precious little room to breathe across Avarice’s full-frontal assault. Longer tracks usually ease up on the throttle and inject variety with less frantic, slower sections, like with a menacing sludge-into-breakdown (“Rintrah Roars”), or a hazy, chordal comedown (“Stochastic Terror”). Still, I find myself wanting just a touch more space to find my bearings during full-album listens. Avarice is well-paced, and there are more than enough ideas to keep the 40-minute runtime interesting, but it’s missing one or two blissed-out melodic ideas1 or jaw-dropping displays of contrast to elevate it to the peak of the mathcore mountain. This doesn’t prevent Avarice from being a stunning display of technical aggression, but it does mean more than a few spins to decipher its labyrinthine heaviness.

Nequient really impressed me with this one. Avarice is a nerve-flayed, teeth-grinding listen that captures the low-grade panic and spiritual exhaustion of modern life with alarming precision. Rather than settling for dime-a-dozen mathcore spasms or rote metallic bludgeoning, the Chicago crew stitches together dissonance, groove, chaos, and razor-wire technicality into something far more purposeful. It’s punishing without being empty, intricate without disappearing up its own ass, and memorable enough to demand repeat spins. If you’re craving chaotic metallic extremity that does more than regurgitate the usual suspects, Nequient have your number.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Nefarious Industries
Websites: nequient.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/nequient.band
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

With a name like that and an album cover featuring a vivisected human head, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nequient play a form of knuckle-dragging brutal death. Instead, the Chicago four-piece specializes in a brand of chaotic, grinding metallic hardcore that recalls the frenetic math explosion of the early 2000s. Avarice is the band’s third full-length and promises a “unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore” to “blast listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.” Despite some solid releases from last year, it’s been a while since new mathcore shook me to the bone and reminded me of modern existence’s inherent fragility. Nequient have the requisite political bile coursing through their veins—the same volatile fuel that powers the genre’s most unhinged eruptions—but is Avarice actually worth your time, or just another flailing heap of panic chords destined to suffocate beneath a pile of white-belt-era clichés?

On Avarice, Nequient paints an anarchic arras with a dizzying amount of stylistic touchstones. The band combines the unhinged frivolity of The Sawtooth Grin with the fast-paced stop/start violence of The HIRS Collective, and loads their tracks with riffs that actually stick, echoing early Converge at their most surgical. The twist? These songs feel coherent. Longer runtimes turn what could be scattershot spasms into fully realized compositions, bolstered by a wide palette of metallic textures. Blackened tremolos (“Christofascist Zombie Brigade”), demented odd-meter thrash gallops (“Brain Worms”), and sludged-out funeral dirges (“Splenetic And Moribund”) are all threaded together with mathy convulsions Nequient execute with unnerving precision. Throughout the record, the band moves between ideas at a dizzying pace, consistently impressing with bewildering moments of aural chaos.

More than just a collection of moments, the songs on Avarice are propelled by relentless pacing and tangible chemistry among the band members. Nequient’s secret sauce lies in the interplay between Patrick Conahan’s disorienting guitar cascades and drummer Chris Avgerin’s dextrous, fill-heavy style. Conahan glides between mosh-ready grind parts (“Mad King / Fool”), undulating, deathy descents (“Rintrah Roars”), and unsettling noise-rock lurches (“Siege Mentality”). Avergin follows along expertly, always mirroring the spastic guitarwork with tasty, intuitive drum parts that guide the ear and ground the anarchy. Aaron Roeming provides the low-end thunder and adds a purposeful heft that thickens the chunkier riffcraft while vocalist Jason Kolkey leads the charge, alternating between a sassy, vitriolic spew and full-bodied death growls while delivering caustic epithets about the horrors of modern life. Kolkey’s acerbic lyrics pull the whole disgusting package together, melding poetic death metal abstraction with punk’s immediacy and sharpening the record’s nihilistic aura into a potent weapon aimed at a broken system.

In fact, Nequient is almost too adept at channeling the noxious undercurrent of societal id, leaving precious little room to breathe across Avarice’s full-frontal assault. Longer tracks usually ease up on the throttle and inject variety with less frantic, slower sections, like with a menacing sludge-into-breakdown (“Rintrah Roars”), or a hazy, chordal comedown (“Stochastic Terror”). Still, I find myself wanting just a touch more space to find my bearings during full-album listens. Avarice is well-paced, and there are more than enough ideas to keep the 40-minute runtime interesting, but it’s missing one or two blissed-out melodic ideas1 or jaw-dropping displays of contrast to elevate it to the peak of the mathcore mountain. This doesn’t prevent Avarice from being a stunning display of technical aggression, but it does mean more than a few spins to decipher its labyrinthine heaviness.

Nequient really impressed me with this one. Avarice is a nerve-flayed, teeth-grinding listen that captures the low-grade panic and spiritual exhaustion of modern life with alarming precision. Rather than settling for dime-a-dozen mathcore spasms or rote metallic bludgeoning, the Chicago crew stitches together dissonance, groove, chaos, and razor-wire technicality into something far more purposeful. It’s punishing without being empty, intricate without disappearing up its own ass, and memorable enough to demand repeat spins. If you’re craving chaotic metallic extremity that does more than regurgitate the usual suspects, Nequient have your number.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Nefarious Industries
Websites: nequient.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/nequient.band
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

With a name like that and an album cover featuring a vivisected human head, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nequient play a form of knuckle-dragging brutal death. Instead, the Chicago four-piece specializes in a brand of chaotic, grinding metallic hardcore that recalls the frenetic math explosion of the early 2000s. Avarice is the band’s third full-length and promises a “unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore” to “blast listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.” Despite some solid releases from last year, it’s been a while since new mathcore shook me to the bone and reminded me of modern existence’s inherent fragility. Nequient have the requisite political bile coursing through their veins—the same volatile fuel that powers the genre’s most unhinged eruptions—but is Avarice actually worth your time, or just another flailing heap of panic chords destined to suffocate beneath a pile of white-belt-era clichés?

On Avarice, Nequient paints an anarchic arras with a dizzying amount of stylistic touchstones. The band combines the unhinged frivolity of The Sawtooth Grin with the fast-paced stop/start violence of The HIRS Collective, and loads their tracks with riffs that actually stick, echoing early Converge at their most surgical. The twist? These songs feel coherent. Longer runtimes turn what could be scattershot spasms into fully realized compositions, bolstered by a wide palette of metallic textures. Blackened tremolos (“Christofascist Zombie Brigade”), demented odd-meter thrash gallops (“Brain Worms”), and sludged-out funeral dirges (“Splenetic And Moribund”) are all threaded together with mathy convulsions Nequient execute with unnerving precision. Throughout the record, the band moves between ideas at a dizzying pace, consistently impressing with bewildering moments of aural chaos.

More than just a collection of moments, the songs on Avarice are propelled by relentless pacing and tangible chemistry among the band members. Nequient’s secret sauce lies in the interplay between Patrick Conahan’s disorienting guitar cascades and drummer Chris Avgerin’s dextrous, fill-heavy style. Conahan glides between mosh-ready grind parts (“Mad King / Fool”), undulating, deathy descents (“Rintrah Roars”), and unsettling noise-rock lurches (“Siege Mentality”). Avergin follows along expertly, always mirroring the spastic guitarwork with tasty, intuitive drum parts that guide the ear and ground the anarchy. Aaron Roeming provides the low-end thunder and adds a purposeful heft that thickens the chunkier riffcraft while vocalist Jason Kolkey leads the charge, alternating between a sassy, vitriolic spew and full-bodied death growls while delivering caustic epithets about the horrors of modern life. Kolkey’s acerbic lyrics pull the whole disgusting package together, melding poetic death metal abstraction with punk’s immediacy and sharpening the record’s nihilistic aura into a potent weapon aimed at a broken system.

In fact, Nequient is almost too adept at channeling the noxious undercurrent of societal id, leaving precious little room to breathe across Avarice’s full-frontal assault. Longer tracks usually ease up on the throttle and inject variety with less frantic, slower sections, like with a menacing sludge-into-breakdown (“Rintrah Roars”), or a hazy, chordal comedown (“Stochastic Terror”). Still, I find myself wanting just a touch more space to find my bearings during full-album listens. Avarice is well-paced, and there are more than enough ideas to keep the 40-minute runtime interesting, but it’s missing one or two blissed-out melodic ideas1 or jaw-dropping displays of contrast to elevate it to the peak of the mathcore mountain. This doesn’t prevent Avarice from being a stunning display of technical aggression, but it does mean more than a few spins to decipher its labyrinthine heaviness.

Nequient really impressed me with this one. Avarice is a nerve-flayed, teeth-grinding listen that captures the low-grade panic and spiritual exhaustion of modern life with alarming precision. Rather than settling for dime-a-dozen mathcore spasms or rote metallic bludgeoning, the Chicago crew stitches together dissonance, groove, chaos, and razor-wire technicality into something far more purposeful. It’s punishing without being empty, intricate without disappearing up its own ass, and memorable enough to demand repeat spins. If you’re craving chaotic metallic extremity that does more than regurgitate the usual suspects, Nequient have your number.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Nefarious Industries
Websites: nequient.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/nequient.band
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

With a name like that and an album cover featuring a vivisected human head, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nequient play a form of knuckle-dragging brutal death. Instead, the Chicago four-piece specializes in a brand of chaotic, grinding metallic hardcore that recalls the frenetic math explosion of the early 2000s. Avarice is the band’s third full-length and promises a “unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore” to “blast listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.” Despite some solid releases from last year, it’s been a while since new mathcore shook me to the bone and reminded me of modern existence’s inherent fragility. Nequient have the requisite political bile coursing through their veins—the same volatile fuel that powers the genre’s most unhinged eruptions—but is Avarice actually worth your time, or just another flailing heap of panic chords destined to suffocate beneath a pile of white-belt-era clichés?

On Avarice, Nequient paints an anarchic arras with a dizzying amount of stylistic touchstones. The band combines the unhinged frivolity of The Sawtooth Grin with the fast-paced stop/start violence of The HIRS Collective, and loads their tracks with riffs that actually stick, echoing early Converge at their most surgical. The twist? These songs feel coherent. Longer runtimes turn what could be scattershot spasms into fully realized compositions, bolstered by a wide palette of metallic textures. Blackened tremolos (“Christofascist Zombie Brigade”), demented odd-meter thrash gallops (“Brain Worms”), and sludged-out funeral dirges (“Splenetic And Moribund”) are all threaded together with mathy convulsions Nequient execute with unnerving precision. Throughout the record, the band moves between ideas at a dizzying pace, consistently impressing with bewildering moments of aural chaos.

More than just a collection of moments, the songs on Avarice are propelled by relentless pacing and tangible chemistry among the band members. Nequient’s secret sauce lies in the interplay between Patrick Conahan’s disorienting guitar cascades and drummer Chris Avgerin’s dextrous, fill-heavy style. Conahan glides between mosh-ready grind parts (“Mad King / Fool”), undulating, deathy descents (“Rintrah Roars”), and unsettling noise-rock lurches (“Siege Mentality”). Avergin follows along expertly, always mirroring the spastic guitarwork with tasty, intuitive drum parts that guide the ear and ground the anarchy. Aaron Roeming provides the low-end thunder and adds a purposeful heft that thickens the chunkier riffcraft while vocalist Jason Kolkey leads the charge, alternating between a sassy, vitriolic spew and full-bodied death growls while delivering caustic epithets about the horrors of modern life. Kolkey’s acerbic lyrics pull the whole disgusting package together, melding poetic death metal abstraction with punk’s immediacy and sharpening the record’s nihilistic aura into a potent weapon aimed at a broken system.

In fact, Nequient is almost too adept at channeling the noxious undercurrent of societal id, leaving precious little room to breathe across Avarice’s full-frontal assault. Longer tracks usually ease up on the throttle and inject variety with less frantic, slower sections, like with a menacing sludge-into-breakdown (“Rintrah Roars”), or a hazy, chordal comedown (“Stochastic Terror”). Still, I find myself wanting just a touch more space to find my bearings during full-album listens. Avarice is well-paced, and there are more than enough ideas to keep the 40-minute runtime interesting, but it’s missing one or two blissed-out melodic ideas1 or jaw-dropping displays of contrast to elevate it to the peak of the mathcore mountain. This doesn’t prevent Avarice from being a stunning display of technical aggression, but it does mean more than a few spins to decipher its labyrinthine heaviness.

Nequient really impressed me with this one. Avarice is a nerve-flayed, teeth-grinding listen that captures the low-grade panic and spiritual exhaustion of modern life with alarming precision. Rather than settling for dime-a-dozen mathcore spasms or rote metallic bludgeoning, the Chicago crew stitches together dissonance, groove, chaos, and razor-wire technicality into something far more purposeful. It’s punishing without being empty, intricate without disappearing up its own ass, and memorable enough to demand repeat spins. If you’re craving chaotic metallic extremity that does more than regurgitate the usual suspects, Nequient have your number.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Nefarious Industries
Websites: nequient.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/nequient.band
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

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Hi, Fediverse (& BSky)! My name is Aiden and I run a small recording studio that I call Scrape the Skyline. The first full project I've worked on is Gohma's Sonic Putrefaction by Means of Temporal Erosion (more below).

Hi, Fediverse (& BSky)! My name is Aiden and I run a small recording studio that I call Scrape the Skyline. The first full project I've worked on is Gohma's Sonic Putrefaction by Means of Temporal Erosion (more below).