Tag hardcore
The intro to this album is good, setting the scene for the opening title track which bursts into life with a good scathing riff. This Greek act has put out two albums previously and this one has a huge groove… Continue Reading →
What in the name of the patron saint of meth tweekers do we have here? Well I was expecting insanity when I cast my eyes over the band name and the Eastern religious iconography and font used on the garish… Continue Reading →
Whoa in your face cover-art on this one that’s guaranteed to make your eyes bleed and listening to the music on this will do the same to your ears too. If this were a stuntman in real life it would… Continue Reading →
Part of the process of this review was to refresh myself on where Earth Crisis came from to get to where they are. I duly bludgeoned myself my listening to their 2011 oeuvre “Neutralize the Threat”. Puffing my cheeks out… Continue Reading →
Stone me I’m a luckier than a cat with a strawberry flavoured arse! I’ve had a run of really good albums to review recently and that has continues with the first full length record from North London caaaaaaants Dripback. I’ve… Continue Reading →
Have you ever been hit by a brick? They call this DIY Hardcore Punk. There’s certainly a natural quality about this album by Serpent Eater from Germany. Anger and an almost unending sense of struggle are the medium for getting… Continue Reading →
Oh yes it’s a flashback alright, first song here ‘Deathwish’ states that clearly and what we get on these 12 tracks are Pro-Pain at their best harking right back to the sound that defined them all those years ago on… Continue Reading →
New proposition here with their third album is Swedish hardcore meatheads Dobermann Cult, whose chest pounding macho hardcore sits very firmly in the USHC scene from many years ago and up to the present day. The sample that starts is… Continue Reading →
A five-piece band came on stage and hypnotised me for 40 or so minutes with their hybrid but fluid fusion of hardcore, death and post metal, then disappeared as anonymously as they’d arrived. Research led me to the conclusion that… Continue Reading →
Slightly emo name, a metalcore tag, I should be worried about this one really but nope, one listen to these Danes told me all I needed to know that this was as full of pain as a faceplant in the… Continue Reading →
I’d never heard of grind hardcore n roll before. This is the genre attributed to Anorak, who have been around since 2005. I suppose what they’re saying is that there’s a fusion of styles. What I detected to start with… Continue Reading →
Although normally ignoring them completely I could do with the PR blurb for this one but realise that it was a double sided one which was sent out with another release from the label. Work is cut out a bit… Continue Reading →