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Tag: Hardcore

0 DAMN BROADS – Loud, Fast And In The Dark CD

November 18, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

This four piece hardcore/punk band from Northwest Connecticut has been around since May 2010 and has previously released their first demo, “The Damn Demo”, in April 2011, the band released their second demo, “Politics and Lady Parts” and now they bring us this new one, “Loud, Fast and in the Dark”. I haven’t heard their older music, but damn, this is pretty fucking good! I was so surprised to hear how good this was with them being together for just over two years and just the two other releases before this. They throw a lot of really good musicianship at you, good, clear vocals with some good shout along parts, nice tight breakdowns, some ska thrown in for effect and even a rip on the Monkees, “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” all on this beast. They give a shout out to the bands that came before them and the scene in “CTCP” with some great oi! on it, the ska slips in, but doesn’t get in the way of the song “Live In Fear” because they go all out hard and fast in it as well, how shitty it is to pay to play on “Pay To Play, and of course, religion on “War On Religion”. The song “Girl Bands Suck” is too funny, but very important to listen to since this is a band consisting of all females, but they are not a girl punk band, they are a fucking punk band! I loved this album and you should grab it and crank it up and see them if they get to your neck of the woods, guaranteed a good time! (Rick E.)

https://www.facebook.com/damnbroads http://damnbroads.bandcamp.com/ http://www.reverbnation.com/damnbroads

1 PISSING CONTEST – Self-titled EP Cassette/Download

November 18, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

Self-Titled EP cover art

PISSING CONTEST from Battle Creek, Michigan are a two piece band that has Matt Dilliner who is the co-owner of Say-10 Records and Skateboards handling vocals/guitars/drums, and Jake Morley on bass. They give us six songs that were recorded very quickly after getting together after only being formed on July 21, 2012 (National ‘Go Skateboarding’ Day) as a knee-jerk reaction to the frustration of our times. You would never think that they did this so fast as with only two guys in the band on this, they play very tight hardcore with nice hoarse, but clear vocals, very good production and a sense of things almost coming apart, but staying together. The lyrics are nice and pissed off views of how fucked things are and how pissed off they are and it sure shows! The lyrics are spit out with disgust at the crap that they see in the world and they really seem to be heart-felt and it’s great to see this kind of anger and energy not only from just two guys, but because they were hardly together for a long time, so I hope they keep up this in future releases. It’s out on a handmade cassette with only 77 made! Each one has spray painted tape case, is stenciled and handwritten, so grab one quick. (Rick E.)

http://www.pissingcontest.net/ https://www.facebook.com/PissingContest http://pissingcontest.bandcamp.com/ http://soundcloud.com/pissingcontestpunk http://www.say-10.com/

0 YOUTH OFFENDER – Conservative Eyes Download

November 17, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

YOUTH OFFENDER is a three-piece from the Dublin/Brownwood area of Texas and have made two songs of theirs available to download for free, and now you can go get them for the effort of a mouse click…what a deal! They do some fairly straight forward hardcore with punk rock leanings and it’s not too bad at all. The two songs are “Conservative Eyes” and “I Wanna Be In Shut Up Sidney”, with the requisite snipe against right wingers and wanting to do anything to be in SHUT UP SIDNEY, a hardcore band from Houston. The production is fairly basic, not clean, but not so sloppy that it affects the enjoyment of this, with the lyrics still able to be heard and enjoyed and the band seems to be having a good time making some fun noise for us. This comes with lyrics so you can see that they aren’t just a bunch of jokers like their Facebook makes them seem, but they actually have pretty good lyrics. I was pleasantly surprised with this one and I’m glad that I got a chance to hear them and I’m looking forward to hearing more from them and hope the production is a bit cleaner next time, but hell, this is punk…right? (Rick E.)

http://smokedcheeserecords.weebly.com/1/post/2012/10/youth-offender-conservative-eyes-single-sc-9003.html https://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-Offender/132008573546932

1 BARREN WOMB – On the Origin of Fæces 10″ep

November 11, 2012
by backwoodsvegan
· Reviews

Until I got their split with FORRÆDERI, I had never heard of these guys. Their sound is noisy while being direct and organized and massive at the same time. This 10′(on orange vinyl) is more of the same. This time around they offer 8 songs of manic time signature changes strung together by chaotic riffing that I imagine FUGAZI might sound like if they tried their hands at writing noisy crust along side dirty screamo-ish vocals. I don’t mean screamo in a whiney-please-shut-the-fuck-up-already way. Just strained passionate screaming broken up by even more angry yelling with occasional clean vocals. This is one of those albums that you might suspect Steve Albini had a hand it except that the production is a little dirtier, which adds even more sonic intensity. I can only imagine how much energy is created during a live set. Amazingly enough, I had completely forgotten that BARREN WOMB are a two piece. Holy shit! It’s just so heavy. Inside the album the lyrics are printed all crazy like on the insert, which fits the music, though the artwork is dark and simple. Grey images on black. The album is available for free at barrenwomb.bandcamp.com, but I highly recommend buying one of these hand numbered 10″ limited to 500. They don’t release a lot of material, so get what you can. (Jake)

http://www.theperfecthoax.com/

2 RADICAL FUN TIME – E.P.

November 11, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

This band from Bemidji, MN has a new E.P. out and it’s pretty damn good! Four songs that fly by in under five minutes and really make you want more music from them. It’s some really well produced hardcore/grind with more hardcore than grind and some growling vocals mixed with strangled vocals and shouted vocals. Everything is well laid out in the songs, really tight and clean sounding with lyrics that are mostly easily shouted along with and a feel of the band really loving what they do. This band is one to look out for and try to see if they come to your area because the rock pretty damn hard! I’m not sure where this is available from, but give them an email and hopefully they can hook you up with some tunes, I listened to this about fifteen times so far and really want more……hint, hint to the band. (Rick E)

littlesammyboypunkrock@hotmail.com

2 BORN WRONG / KLEINS96 Split 10″ / Download

September 28, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

What we have here are two hardcore bands from Canada, BORN WRONG on Rebel Time Records from my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario with their debut on vinyl and KLEINS96 from Regina, Saskatchewan on Harvest King Records. Both bands are politically motivated and really pissed off at a lot of thing like religion, war and people’s apathy about things going on in the world today, all cool things to be pissed off about. They both have a tight sound with very little in the way of metal type sounds and some good breakdowns, perfect for having a slam or three. Great screamed vocals that you are able to understand, which is not always possible with modern hardcore, but they do have a bit of an old school feel at times. The production is pretty good, tight enough to fit all the rage in without losing control of the proceedings and clear enough to hear all the different sounds coming at you, but never to pretty to take away the toughness of the bands. I enjoyed both bands quite a bit and would love to hear more from both of them, they seem like they would both put on good shows with a lot of intensity and excitement. The lyrics are on the bandcamp site and it would be a good thing to take a look at them because they are quite good and heartfelt. (Rick E)

Rebel Time Records 2-558 Upper Gage Avenue / Suite 162 / Hamilton, Ontario / L8V 4J6 / Canada//

http://www.rebeltimerecords.com

http://www.harvestkingrecords.com

http://bornwrong-kleins96.bandcamp.com /

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Born-Wrong/185168258211906 /

http://www.bornw.blogspot.com /

http://bornwrong.bandcamp.com /

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kleins96/111021995575 /

http://www.myspace.com/kleins96 /

http://kleins96.bandcamp.com/

0 DEATH BY SNOO SNOO – Tasta Saat CD

September 14, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

This is DEATH BY SNOO SNOO’s first album, they were originally known as “Moominvalley Hardcore Crew” and had some tapes/cd-rs out before this and they got their name from an episode of Futurama. They are from Oulu, Northern Finland and the album is all sung in Finnish, but don’t let that stop you from looking for this release as it’s a very cool punk rock album with a bit of experimentation added to the mix, but nothing to get in the way of the fun of this band. This comes with lyrics and is a very well produced album, with the female vocals right up in front. There are eighteen songs on here with the shortest being just under one minute and the longest at just over three minutes, so it goes by at a pretty good pace and is a pretty bouncy album to make you play it more than once. This is available on cd, vinyl, or download, try it out, you may just be surprised. (Rick E)

DEATH BY SNOO SNOO c/o Laura Rekila Valtatie / 31B4 90500 / Oulu, Finland //

http://deathbysnoosnoo.bandcamp.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Death-by-Snoo-Snoo/115799415130499

creativeclasswar@gmail.com

deathbysnoosnooawaits@gmail.com

0 BLOWBACK – Greed Runs the Clock 7″

September 7, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

BLOWBACK………holy hell!!!!!!! What a release! This has to be one of the best releases of the year, one that will get played to death and makes me want more than just the four songs on here. Great clear production on here, but that goes to figure when the post-production was handled by Don Fury mixing (Agnostic Front, Quicksand) and Don Zientara working the boards (Bad Brains, Fugazi). You can’t go wrong with this one with songs that deal with trying to have a smoke break at work and getting treated like crap (Smoke Break), and the rant against mindless consumerism on “Cassandra’s Lament” with great spoken word over some great punk rock. This combines the best parts of good old punk rock and old school hardcore before it became too metallic. The vocals remind me at times of Lee Ving from Fear, but also have their one feel to them. This is on green/gold splatter vinyl and comes with a download card, so you don’t have to wear out your vinyl. I couldn’t recommend this more. (Rick E)

String Break Records 3054 36th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98126 /

http://www.stringbreak.com /www.blowback.org / http://www.facebook.com/blowback

0 I FAIL – Highways CD EP

September 7, 2012
by harleytexas
· Reviews

I FAIL is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and has put out a five song e.p. that has a lot of raw power in the songs, but the songs tend to be a little long in the tooth at times. From a short minute and a half, to almost six minutes long, they could have condensed some of the slower parts and just raged. The production is pretty clear, giving everything space to be heard, with the vocals being a bit screamo at times, but still retaing enough hardcore anger to make you take a listen more than once. This came in a foldout sleeve with a lyric sheetI did think that this was a more screamo version of late period Black Flag in parts, and some of the lyrics seem to be a bit Republican/Christian to me, but still a pretty good e.p. from a band that if they tightened up the songs a bit, could be interesting to hear where they go from here. This is out on compact disc, 10″ vinyl, and cassette. (Rick E)

Sacred Plague Records 7746 Whitehall Cir E, West Chester, OH 45069 /

http://www.sacredplague.com /

myspace.com/ifail513 /

ifail513@gmail.com

0 BRING DOWN THE HAMMER – S/T CD review

August 17, 2012
by harleytexas
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

BRING DOWN THE HAMMER gives us twenty tracks of blazingly fast, in your face and pissed off hardcore thrash with the last song being a fantastic slower, but still great punk, cover of LEON ROSSELSON’s “The World Turned Upside Down”. The production for this cd is surprisingly clear and the band is super tight and comes with the lyrics that are lots of fun to shout along with and pretty damn good as well. Super short songs with the cover song being the longest at just over two minutes, so you won’t get bored with guitar wanking, just to the point songs with great political and personal lyrics dealing with worker’s rights like on the title track, “Bring Down The Hammer”, anti religion on “What The Fuck” and others and against the far right wing thinker “Ann Coulter”, also it’s nice to see that the over thirty punks get some love on “Never Give In, Never Give Up”. Great first album for this three piece band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, worth tracking it down and plying it loud to piss off the right wingers in your town. (Rick E)

Know Records/P.O. Box 90579/LONG BEACH, CA 90809 //

www.knowrecords.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Down-The-Hammer/133957326641832

www.myspace.com/thehammerhitshard

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The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

We are happy to announce our next new release

WILT – “Self Titled”

Here is a track from the upcoming LP

“Sermon for the Bootlickers”

STORM OF SEDITION – “Decivilize” LP

Are you prepared to brave the storm?…

Comes with a 12 page booklet containing lyrics, notes, and song explanations.

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STORM OF SEDITION WILL TOURING THE WEST COAST THIS SUMMER!!!

Keep you eye’s peeled for a list of tour dates soon!

Listen to the song “Disconnect” here…

Living a domesticated existence
Starves people of meaning in their lives
Everyone feels the void beneath the surface
Of everyday activities and routines