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Philippines-Based Hardcore Metal Legends, BADBURN, Return To Show Y’all How It’s Done

By on November 2, 2025

Brother…musically, Filipino hardcore metal band BADBURN have always delivered a 1-2 punch with how hard-hitting the music is – both heavy in delivery, but also, equally technical with those mammoth riffs. So even after being knocked out COLD with the music, it’s when you crack open those lyrics that you begin digging your own grave and putting up a white flag. You be done.

Look at this:

“Like a storm won’t pause for prayers or screams,
It wipes the slate, and it burns, fragile dreams.
The law of the scales knows no appeal
No favor given, but blood over steel.

Each weight returned where the truth was sown,
Every seed returns what the hand has thrown.
And from ruin’s measure, the judgment is cast,
Order restored when the sentence is passed.”

Brother.

On this new single, the first taste of their upcoming full-length to be released in 2026, the band “delivers a crushing anthem of reckoning where truth cuts through deception and balance comes for all who test its edge. It’s a song of judgment and consequence, a fierce reminder that every action echoes back with equal weight. While the new material nods to the raw aggression of Bound by Blood and the refined intensity of Crack the Weakened Surface, “Law of the Scale” feels like something reborn—an evolved incarnation of the band’s legacy. This isn’t just a continuation; it’s a reassertion.

With the current lineup, Badburn doesn’t simply revisit their signature sound—they’ve reforged it, heavier and sharper than ever. “We don’t claim to have mapped the contours of today’s hardcore,” the band shares, “but these new songs feel like they’ve earned their place in it. It’s not about keeping up. It’s about showing up with something honest that still hits hard. They carry the weight of where we’ve been and somehow still speak the language of where it’s all going.”

For longtime listeners, “Law of the Scale” is both a callback and a challenge. And for anyone discovering Badburn for the first time, the message is simple: dig deeper. Learn the roots, not just the riffs. That’s where the real weight lives.”

Let’s go.

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