Pop Punk
Dan Keyes
Dan Keyes fronted Austin post-hardcore band Recover before moving to New York and turning the dance-rock project Young Love into an Island Records signing. Two decades on...
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Post Hardcore
The best post-hardcore artists featured on Release Wave
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Artists
Emo
Sowing
Massachusetts rock band Sowing pair melodic emo and post-hardcore intensity with the heavy, emotionally frayed pull of Title Fight, Superheaven, Fiddlehead and label mate...
Shoegaze
heaving.
heaving. is a four-piece heavy band from Peoria, IL blending nu-metal, grunge, post-hardcore, and shoegaze into a dense, riff-driven wall of sound. Singer/guitarist Morga...
Metalcore
Ocean Sleeper
Hailing from Gippsland in regional Victoria, Ocean Sleeper have built their name on a forceful mix of modern metalcore, emotionally direct songwriting and arena-sized mel...
Emo
I Promised The World
I Promised The World are a Denton, Texas five-piece who make scream-sung, early-2000s post-hardcore that sounds beamed in from a MySpace-era basement — screamo, Midwest e...
Emo
A Static Lullaby
A Static Lullaby are a post-hardcore band from Chino Hills, California, formed in 2001 — one of the acts that hard-wired the scream-and-sing dynamic into early-2000s post...
Hardcore
Feldspar
Feldspar are a Rome-based band caught between scenes and continents, pairing the urgency of hardcore with the melodic pull of power-pop, modern punk, and ’90s alternative...
Dream Pop
Cold Gawd
Cold Gawd is a California shoegaze and post-hardcore band built around dense guitars, gauzy melody and a hard rhythmic push. The group returns August 28, 2026 with the si...
Hardcore
Recollection
Recollection began as a collaboration between vocalist Josh Hynes of Rude Awakening and Hammer Bros and guitarist Joshua Long, whose credits include Skinhead, Criminal In...
Hardcore
Initiate
Initiate are a Southern California hardcore band fronted by vocalist Crystal Pak, welding down-the-middle hardcore aggression to soaring melodies and post-hardcore textur...
Emo
Khamsin
Khamsin is a rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, centered around the songwriting of vocalist Jacob Curry. With bassist Cole Harrison, drummer Caleb Pierce, and guitarist...
Noise Rock
Porcelain
Austin post-hardcore / noise-rock four-piece in the lineage of Unwound and Drive Like Jehu.
Hardcore
The Barbarians of California
The Barbarians of California are a Los Angeles hardcore/alternative metal band featuring Aaron Bruno of AWOLNATION and Eric Stenman of Tinfed, joined by Zach Irons, David...
Noise Rock
Wrong Man
Wrong Man are a Belgium post-hardcore band featuring members of Oathbreaker, Partisan and Rise And Fall. Their sound pulls from noisy, melodic ’90s post-hardcore and indi...
Shoegaze
Slow Degrade
Slow Degrade are a heavy-shoegaze four-piece from Mobile, Alabama, welding grunge and post-hardcore weight onto walls of reverbed guitar. Formed in 2022 around vocalist S...
Melodic Hardcore
Fiddlehead
Fiddlehead is an American post-hardcore supergroup from Boston. Their music blends hardcore energy with '90s alternative melodies and emo passion. Their upcoming album "D...
Shoegaze
Daisyhead
Nashville-rooted emo/post-hardcore band Daisyhead write big, emotionally direct guitar songs that sit between alternative rock, hopeful shoegaze, and the melodic weight o...
Post Hardcore
Unstable Shapes
Unstable Shapes is a Minneapolis-based noise rock and post-hardcore band known for angular guitars, muscular bass riffs, and kinetic drumming. Formed in late 2019, the qu...
Hardcore
Saosin
Saosin is an American rock band originally formed in 2003 in California, known for their debut EP "Translating the Name" and self-titled debut album in 2006. The band's s...
Shoegaze
Senior Living
Senior Living is a punk-leaning shoegaze band from Albany, NY, drawing comparisons to artists like Title Fight and Nothing. Their introspective and raw music blends melod...