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
Defeater from Boston, Massachusetts have announced their new full length record called Letters Home. The album embodies a new chapter in Defeater’s story, following up on previous releases. Vocalist Derek Archambault commented, “Inspiration for this record came from a few places. Much like with Lost Ground, these stories are based around my two grandfathers’ service in WWII .” … 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
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
One of Chicago’s most brutal Hardcore forces, Harm’s Way, will release their Blinded EP very soon on Deathwish Inc. The new material is promised to be “their heaviest and most adventurous so far“. That’s the amazing artwork (by Florian Bertmer) above. Check out the tracklist for Blinded, as well as Harm’s Way oldie ‘Scrambled’ below. … Continue reading
Pantah is a new band based in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. They just released their 5-track demo for free. There is little information available about this band, except that they are signed at War Inside Records. We gave their new demo a spin and want to share our thoughts. Starting the record with an intro and … Continue reading
Legends Arising 