punk this week: slut intent, national photo committee + 6 more

Hey Happy New Year, it’s the first Punk This Week of 2026, highlighting a stellar hardcore debut full-length out of Minneapolis, Kai Slater’s final missive of an unbelievable 2025, a new record on Siltbreeze, and a revelatory new album from Max Bottner’s National Photo Committee. A pile of great ones is covered in the paragraphs at the end of this piece.

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Slut Intent: Slutworld [self-released]

In late 2024, BUIO OMEGA threw themselves a hardcore birthday party in Minneapolis. Bootcamp and Stress Positions played, and several locals came through including Step Sister. Did you read those four band names and think to yourself “holy shit, now that’s a power bill”? Now imagine thinking “holy fucking shit” about a completely separate band on the lineup. For me, the ultimate pummeling came from the self-described “mpls hardcore girl band” Slut Intent. 

Their long-awaited full-length debut Slutworld rings in the new year with killer previously released singles (“Peppa Pig” and “Glitch”) and several more rippers that bring me back to their absolutely relentless live show. This is a self-recorded record where multiple songwriters within the band’s ranks pen violent revenge fantasies about rapists and the fuckers in power who busy themselves subjugating the powerless. You wanna talk about resolutions and setting intentions? Slutworld starts 2026 unflinchingly resolute.