Stoner Rockers Portland's BELONGING Announce The Vinyl Re-Release Of Their Debut Album HOLLOW CELLS

Following up the release of their debut LP, Portland-based post-hardcore trio from the Upper Midwest channels grunge, doom, and psychedelic rock into a haunting re-release via Dipterid Records.

What began in isolation has returned with force. Belonging, a genre-defiant trio with roots in North Dakota and Minnesota, is reissuing their debut album ‘Hollow Cells’ through Portland-based imprint Dipterid Records. Originally self-released, the album is now being offered a proper platform to a hidden gem waiting to be unearthed by a broader audience attuned to its raw emotional depth.

The band—Bryce August (guitar/vocals), Jeremy Hansen (bass), and Shane Heilman (drums)—formed out of the tight-knit DIY scenes of the Upper Midwest, later converging with the heavier and more experimental currents of the Pacific Northwest. The result is a massive, emotionally complex sound, blending the raw urgency of punk and screamo with the heavy, hypnotic energy of sludge, psych, and grunge.

“Hollow Cells was the culmination of a lot of different influences,” says guitarist and vocalist Bryce August. “We wrote and recorded a lot of these songs during the Covid quarantine — so there's a sense of alienation, isolation, creeping dread… and a desire to cut silence with noise.”

The record’s thick atmosphere of disquiet is met with a visceral, melodic pushback. Fuzzed-out guitars groan and bloom. Basslines writhe under crashing drums. Each track captures the tension of breaking free — of finding belonging in dissonance.

The band draws on the Midwest’s punk/hardcore pedigree as much as the doom-laden legacy of Pacific Northwest icons. “Initially we fused my punk and screamo roots with Jeremy's experience in Portland noise rock bands and Shane’s post-metal drumming,” Bryce continues. “As we refined the songs, we took a lot of influence from PNW bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Melvins, alongside the more psychedelic elements of bands like Lungfish and Black Angels.” That background of evolving influences carries weight, not just in tone, but in atmosphere—textured, heavy, and deeply rooted in emotional contrast. As Bryce concludes, “All of that together surfaces as the heavy, hypnotic energy of stoner/doom that flavors our particular take on post-hardcore.”

The reissue comes courtesy of Dipterid Records, a label devoted to underground sonic oddities. Founder Kevin Curty recalls: “I discovered Belonging through a mutual friend of Jeremy's. When I heard ‘Hollow Cells’ I was honestly shocked it hadn’t already been picked up. It was love at first listen.”‘Hollow Cells’ from Belonging is coming out on via Dipterid Records. 

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Wise Words From Well-Fed Mouths' Debut Full-Length From Mathcore/Sludge Metallers PARK+RIOT Out Now via This Charming Man Records

Wise Words From Well-Fed Mouths' Debut Full-Length From Leipzig Based MATHCORE/SLUDGE Outfit NOW STREAMING in its Entirety Ahead of its Release This Friday, March 15th, on THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS. Watch the album below:

Buy the album AT THIS LOCATION. New TOURDATES POSTED!

The band had this to say about the album: “We recorded `Wise Words from Well-Fed Mouths´ in our self build studio Kuntergrund together with a friend. Drums and Guitar were recorded live in the same room, with lots of bleeding on each microphone. In the album there are no extra layers of guitar, except for `Cure´ which wes recorded differently. We recorded all the songs in one week and some of them were even written in that time like `The Long Run´or `Seeds´.

Afterwards we didn’t touch the songs for some months and then started recording the vocals. The true beauty of the tracks came out when Magnus Lindberg did the Mixing and Mastering. He did an amazing job, with these tricky signals!

Finding a label who wanted to release something like this was tricky. Chris from `This Charming Man-Records´ listened to it, said it’s bulky and far from popular, and we started working together. We are really happy about that. Last but not least we got a funding for our album, so it was the first time we could do some promotion, bring a cameraman to our tour in Israel before the release and shoot some fancy music videos.”

Earlier this Month the Band Unleashed the 'Boltcutters' Single and Video where you can watch below:

Leipzig's mathcore/sludge duo Park+Riot release third single 'Boltcutters' from their upcoming album 'Wise Words From Well-Fed Mouths'. Boltcutters is a dynamic and propulsive track, inspired by the experience of working in a refugee-camp in Lesvos (Greece). Witnessing violence in various forms against migrants at the EU border inevitably leads to an awareness of one's own privileges. Boltcutters is the resulting outcry for radical change and equal rights for all! The new album, Wise Words from Well-Fed Mouths, is set to be released on March 15th via This Charming Man Records and can be pre-ordered here:

Tour Dates:

Germany

08.03 Tangermünde, Kaminstube (DE)
09.03 Greiz Siebenhitze (DE)
15.03 Leipzig, Plaque (DE)
20.03 Leisnig AJZ (DE)
22.03 Hamburg, MS Stubnitz (DE)
30.03 Dresden, HD Die Rock und Metalbar (DE)
05.04 Halle, Galle (DE)
06.04 Delitzsch, YOZ (DE)
20.04 Warschau, Hydrozagadka (PL)

Ukraine:

21.4 – 24.4 Ukraine TBC

Isarel:

09.05 Ha’arubah Pup at Kibbutz Hama’apil (w/ antigona rex and Rafster Blaster)
10.05 beit alpha TLV (w/ Social Virus and Stress Temple)
14.05 tba
16.05 Pergamon JLM (w/ Alien Fucker, Infuzia)
18.05 Haifa (w/ Nur and Atameo)
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Kollapse - Danish Post-Metal/Noise Trio Announce New Album "AR" Share Music Video For Leading Single "Autofagia"

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Nearly three years following the release of their critically acclaimed second album "SULT", Danish post-metal/noise-rock trio Kollapse are back with a new full-length titled "AR" ("Scars" for non-Scandinavians), which is set to be released on March 8 via Fysisk Format (Norway), Vinyltroll Records (Denmark) and Head Records (France).

Recorded and co-produced by Jacob Bredahl at The Dead Rat Studio, mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, "AR" is meant to be a bruising and challenging encounter with the ugly, shameful, and disappointing parts of the human experience. It confronts the listener head-on with all the noise, desperate and threatening screams, and brutality this three-piece can deliver.

"We purposefully recorded these songs to be abrasive and angular to force the listener to feel the sweaty anxiety and sonic grime. Using the album as a way of dealing with personal issues, both past and present, it is an amalgamation of experiences lived and experiences common on the road." Says the band.

A music video for leading single "Autofagia" has premiered at Decibel Magazine, who commented "The intensity of the track—a crushing, lurching behemoth that invokes late ’80s NYC scum/noise rock, a la Unsane and Helmet—certainly matches the ugly lyrical subject matter..."

Watch "Autofagia" music video here: 

Here’s what the band had to say about its latest track:

“Autofagia refers to the uncommon disorder of consuming one’s own body. The lyrics take the artist’s point of view. When writing the track, we wanted to do something that had a basic but bludgeoning main riff and a couple of fairly old-school noise rock sections.

This was the first song we actually finished for this album. It set the tone, in some senses, for the album, by being more aggressive than some of our previous work. It also features our first ‘real’ breakdown. The main riff is entirely built around a single dissonant chord, where only the rhythm around it, and the aggressiveness with which it is played, changes; the drums, as they often do, control this song. This creates a certain insistence in the song—it just keeps hitting you with this disgusting chord. We also really started working with double vocals on this track, with constantly shifting vocals and parts where we are working in accordance with each other. This song came together so fast, and we knew we were finally, after having written and discarded a ton of material, heading in the direction we wanted.”

Line-up:

Peter Drastrup - Drums
Thomas Martin Hansen - Bass/Vocals
Peter Clement Lund - Guitar/Vocals

Kollapse:

Bandcamp: https://kollapse.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kollapseband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kollapseband

Fysisk Format:

Web: http://www.fysiskformat.no
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fysiskformat

Thanks to Viral Propaganda PR for all of the info.