We may be into a new year but there is still plenty of goodness to thrust your way from 2021 in these pages with the Bigger Society EP from UK ferocity A.W.A.P to the fore. It is a five track… Read More ›
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Bleed Again – Resurgence
Already riding a wave of increasing acclaim and attention these past years, UK metalcore outfit Bleed Again have just unleashed new album, Resurgence. It is a snarling, raucous and voraciously sonic affair with a fertile hand on melodic and ear… Read More ›
Tunic – Quitter
Ensuring there is no hiding place from its hellacious breath and discontent, the new album from Canadian noise merchants Tunic is a merciless beast of sonic corrosion and just as greedy invention. Quitter savages the senses from its first breath,… Read More ›
James Domestic – Push On Through
This November gives another intriguing glimpse of the forthcoming debut solo album from James Domestic as he releases the second single to be taken from it. Renowned for persistently nagging and challenging hardcore boundaries in a host of varied bands… Read More ›
Turn Cold – Break Your Faith
Merciless in its assault and toxically irritable in its breath, Break Your Faith is the debut EP from US crossover thrashers Turn Cold. It is another proposition borne out of the isolation of the Covid pandemic and fired by the… Read More ›
James Domestic – Faze Out
James Domestic – Faze Out The hardcore scene has never settled in voice and invention over the years and that is especially so of UK hardcore over the past decade. In fact that particular hunger and appetite to push creative… Read More ›
Grippers – Black Tears
We have long ago lost count of the number of bands and striking releases introduced to us by Stu either from being released on his own STP Records or by his promotion with the same undoubted prowess of other punk… Read More ›
The Death Set – How To Tune A Parrot
If you wondered whether a decade since their last release and the pandemic had defused or drawn the volcanic energy from Australian-bred and NYC-based punks The Death Set fear not. The band returns from a ten year absence with new… Read More ›
Las Ratapunks – Fracaso, Año De La Rata 2020
We are not sure how many records from Peruvian bands we have covered before but few can be as striking and memorable as the new EP from Las Ratapunks. Courtesy of James at Kibou Records, we found Fracaso, Año De… Read More ›
Tokyo Lungs – Soul Music
It is not far short of a year ago that hardcore fans flocked to the debut 7” EP from the UK’S Tokyo Lungs, a nine track scourge of around eight minutes which scarred the senses and ignited the imagination with… Read More ›
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