Long Goodbye

Long Goodbye are a Durham County metalcore band whose music sits in the harsher edge of current UK hardcore. Emerging with the 2024 release i used to dream of drowning, the group quickly became associated with The Coming Strife Records and a new wave of British bands that combine metallic hardcore, mathcore tension, and chaotic emotional weight. Their songs are short, violent, and tightly wound, with jagged riffs, sudden tempo changes, collapsed grooves, and vocals that sound less like performance than rupture. Long Goodbye fit metal and hardcore scope directly through metalcore and UKHC, especially in the way their music uses breakdowns, dissonance, and panic-stricken rhythm to create pressure. Tracks such as "autolisis," "cauterising incisions," and "endlessly repairing a dying format" show a band interested in discomfort as much as impact. The production keeps the sound raw enough to feel close while still letting each shift land with force. Long Goodbye's appeal is that they do not smooth out their influences. The music feels ugly, anxious, and cathartic, carrying the spirit of heavy hardcore into a more fractured, modern shape built for no-barrier rooms and violent release.