Jock Powerviolence

This year, cherry-picked acts of interest from across the Damnation 2026 lineup.

We are gonna be chatting about Cult of Luna's post-metal landmark Somewhere Along the Highway, a road dog of noughties metallic hardcore, Walls of Jericho and The American Dream, the returning jock power violence of Weekend Nachos' Worthless, and getting our fucking brains turned to jelly by The Berserker and Dissimulate.

We are all gonna be at Damnation again in about a month's time.

Are we excited to see this bunch?

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Like, you could exist tomorrow raging against, like, internet scene police, but who never actually go to shows in real life, which is still a relevant complaint 30, uh, you know, 15 years later.

Um, and that's particularly when we get to what is, is possibly their signature song, if they were to have one on this album, which is a song called Jock Power Violence, which is a song basically clapping back about, again, like, local scene politics, um, that I don't really care about.

But like you were saying earlier, that people, you know, looking about at Weekend Nachos going like, "You're not real power violence.