Reactions is a band from Australia that I only found out about recently. When I was asked to write a review about their new 7”, I listened to one track of them shortly and said yes. It’s always cool to get to know new bands and this one sounded very promising. The new 7” called … Continue reading »
Downpresser is a band I followed from Perverted Justice through Age of Ignorance and now into the new record. The first two releases were good records but not very outstanding. It was good to listen to and had some solid jams but it never felt like records that you’ll remember forever. However, when the new … Continue reading »
Meet The Storm hails from the dark streets of Rotterdam, and prove that Europe’s large port city can provide loud bands. The band mixes Hardcore with Southern riffs and Metal influences supply you with your daily amount of noise. After years of touring all across Europe, they finally released their first full lenght album called … Continue reading »
Polar is another addition to the amount of talented and passionate Hardcore bands coming from the UK. Their successful first EP This Polar Noise and its brilliant 2012 follow-up Iron Lungs made the band tour intensively in Europe, gaining a larger audience and a pretty good live reputation. Inspire Create Destroy is Polar’s new EP. … Continue reading »
War Charge is a Hardcore band from Scotland. They released a self-titled 7” in 2012 filled with hardcore jams and hard hitters. A year later they are releasing the New World Justice EP on Purgatory Records. So what do you get when a great hardcore band had a year to grow and comes with a … Continue reading »
Who would’ve thought that Dynamo in Eindhoven (NL) would sell out on a rainy Thursday evening. It was a pleasant surprise, and by 8 o’clock the venue was packed. However, the majority of the people were clearly there to see The Story So Far play, and opening act Life’s Too Short For Us couldn’t get … Continue reading »
Cold Hearted is a Hardcore band from Florida playing tunes like they’re from New York. I first found out about them looking through Bandcamp pages endlessly. The first release they did was Illusions, often written as ILLUZNS. The sound of that record appealed to me, but I got even more into them because of the … Continue reading »
While in Paradiso’s big room a sold out show by Dutch Hiphop group The Opposites was going on, visitors of the small, intimate upper hall experienced something truly amazing. A friday evening full of diverse sounds, including dreamy soundscapes, heavy breakdowns and fast-paced drum rolls. Title Fight was back in Amsterdam, and bought Whirr and Dead … Continue reading »
Our album of the month is no less than Rotting Out’s The Wrong Way. Their 2013 full length and follow up of Street Prowl. This record is a true follow up, in sound and feel. It screams Los Angeles hardcore and takes Street Prowl and kicks it up a notch. The songs are rawer, old … Continue reading »
Palm Reader is a band from England that first got my attention because of the custom spray painted editions of their self titled EP. I wasn’t too siked about what I heard; it felt like a Bastions 2.0, the dark emotional kind of hardcore that is very popular in the UK. However, they really grabbed … Continue reading »
