Hell Bent

I love a good Spotify recommendation! Firewalker's Hell Bent is one of this year's hardcore albums that deserves praise just for how fun and unique it is. Of course, Hell Bent doesn't do anything necessarily groundbreaking or genre-bending, but you also don't hear too many bands approaching hardcore like this. It definitely feels like metal, too, but you wouldn't really call it metalcore. It's weird how I can't define it, but Hell Bent is just so good. Check ... read more

Firewalker’s sophomore album is pure hardcore. Sophie Hendry’s vocals are super gritty. The riffs go hard & so do the drums. There’s some thrash metal influence on the album as well. Justice Tripp of Trapped Under Ice & Angel Du$t offers some pretty gnarly guest vocals on one song. Hell Bent isn’t exactly reinventing the wheel, but it sure has moshing written all over it.