Category: HARDCORE
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Edward In Venice – Empathy (LockJaw Records)
LockJaw began as a small bedroom hardcore punk label and become one of the biggest publishing engines for melodic music in the UK. Their roster counts enormous number of quality bands ranging from plain punk rock to more complex post hardcore. Hey, they even have their coffee blend, which is great considering I’m a coffee…
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Bare Teeth / Down Memory Lane / Nerdlinger / Shames – Bridging Oceans Split CD (Various Labels)
Split releases are such a great way to stay connected with some fellow musicians, make new connections or reach out some quality labels, so this fine split release is all about that. It’s an awesome opportunity to listen to some great bands, get to know everything about the rest of the catalogue of the labels…
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Stranglehold – In Spite Of It All EP
If you ever played in a band and you’ve tried to sound as dark as you ever imagined, then you probably know how hard it can be to deliver that kind of atmosphere to the table. And by darkness, I don’t mean about some obscure riffs and wierd stuff involved on your cover artwork or…
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Stroking Breeze – Appearance Is Deceiving CD
Stroking Breeze are powerful trio from Germany who can’t be placed into one exact genre. Surely, their music can be characterised as metal, but on the other hand Stroking Breeze are dealing with a lot more in their music. There’s plenty of influences involved, from modern metalcore to sludge metal, from goth metal to plain…
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Stheno / Facada – Primitive Split CD (Various Labels)
Scull Crasher Records has been around for quite a while, publishing some good records and by that supporting not only local, but the worldwide hardcore punk scene alongside with a lot of other subgenres such as grindcore, crust, noise and powerviolence scenes. Once again, they’ve teamed up with some cool labels like DIY Kolo, Laja,…
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Hørdür – Húbris LP (Various Labels)
Everyone needs some good old grindcore at some point of life. That’s simply a fact and anyone who denies is simply lying, so Húbris LP by Hørdür is a more than a great start for anyone who’s interested to hear how this genre supposed to sound or should sound today. Hørdür are powerful trio based…
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Mindforce – Excalibur LP (Trible B Records)
Lately, I’ve been in a desparate need for some metal influenced hardcore bands and recently I’ve stumbled upon awesome new album by Mindforce, a band from Poughkeepsie, New York. Mindforce are pretty much active with recordings and publishing, so they already have published a Demo back in 2016, The Future Of… EP in 2017, split…
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Oceans Deep – Reckoning
Oceans Deep are phenomenal hardcore punk band formed on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, but the band itself is comprised of members from all over the US. This is their brilliant debut release published last year after more than a good S/T EP which has been published back in 2017. Reckoning instantly reminded me of…
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Physique – The Evolution Of Combat LP (Distort Reality)
If you ever missed Physique as a band, you’ve probably missed a serious kick in the balls and believe me, you need occasional kick in the balls like this. The Evolution Of Combat is their second LP which delivers even more noise and destruction than their debut LP, but this time the balance between noise…
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Ground Zero – Levitations In Suffering EP
Ground Zero are hailing from Novi Sad, Serbia, and for those who might don’t know, they play perfect blend of all evil metal subgenres, totally wrecked with crust punk, then polished with cool dose of good old hardcore and then beaten multiple times with Ground Zero stamp of approval. Perhaps I forgot to mention some…
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Terror – Total Retaliation (Pure Noise Records)
Almighty Terror are back with their seventh album called Total Retaliation. Band who are wearing their crown of the most touring and hard working bands are back with a bone crushing record, delivering thirteen powerful tracks full of rage. Their style is almost the same as on their previous records, but this time maybe a…
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