Band info

Band: Antacid Trip
Album: ‘The Hellish Cycle‘
Released: December 1, 2025
Genre: Blackened hardcore punk
Location: US

Review

Hello, dear listeners, to this fine day (as fine as we are allowed to feel in a global hellscape), on this fine day. Time to revisit old cherished sounds and bands with an end-of-the-year gift we’ve got from our pals Antacid Trip, from Tampa, granting us a new cut of their still particularly crude take on the mix of hardcore punk with black metal edges. This is not our first time talking about them nor enjoying what they do, but it leaves an even better taste in the tongue to see how they have developed since then to this day.

We’ve got their latest album, ‘The Hellish Cycle‘, released back on December 1. In a longer playtime this time, Antacid Trip offers the same punch with renewed strength for a span of 8 songs and a revisited version of their “Sorrow’s Theme” for intro, alongside songs they’ve been releasing previously as singles, such as “Beneath the Harvest Moon“.

Black metal punk coming to life is always a treat to the ears for us, and more when it comes with reminders to the take on this many of us listened back then by the hands of Darkthrone in their crusty era but still far from the speed centered melodies for most of it, as this work is actually quite paced in many passages; heavier, carrying the suffocating atmosphere of black metal with it without losing the strands of a (hardcore) punk influence, where the vocal work it’s probably what makes you stick the most with black metal in here. Definitely still more punk and less roll than the aforementioned when they burst, letting in the needed degree of distortion you would expect for an (ant)acid trip (without stepping into psych, though). Given the lyrical work they also keep delivering, this is surely an appealing approach we can always vouch for (and break the neck with).

Other links and platforms:

BC: https://antacidtrip.bandcamp.com/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/antacidtripband/