Helladdict’s new single, “Sudden Death,” doesn’t feel like a tribute; it feels like an exhumation. Here are six men from Santiago, all seasoned enough to know that pure fury is a young person’s game, offering instead the far more corrosive anger of experience. They resurrect the chassis of 80s thrash, all bone-raw intensity and punishing tempo, but the engine is modern, built with the...

Groove Vultures’ latest single, "Flytrap Love," lands with the subtle grace of a dropped toolbox – which is exactly its charm. This Melbourne quartet kicks up a glorious racket, a potent brew where garage rock's raw edges fray against punk's agitated pulse, all weighed down by grunge's heavy heart and occasionally flashed with a metal glint in its eye. It’s music that sounds like...