Tag: crust
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Discure – Soundtrack For People Who Hate Music LP (Grazil Records)
Let’s be honest, when an album is titled Soundtrack For People Who Hate Music LP, you know exactly what you’re getting into. You’re not getting easy listening. You’re not getting background noise for a chill Sunday brunch. You’re getting a declaration of war against convention, a 1000-watt sonic assault designed to rearrange your way of…
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System Of Slaves – Live Not By Lies At One Time We Dared Not Even Whisper CD (Engineer Records)
System Of Slaves return with their second full-length, and this new material feels less like a sequel and more like a sharpening of knives. Their new record, Live Not by Lies at One Time We Dared Not Even Whisper, documents fury, conviction, and refusal, a blistering extension of hardcore punk’s most uncompromising traditions, pushed through…
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Staticlone ‘Better Living Through Static Vision’ LP Out Now On Relapse
Hardcore and punk aren’t genres that necessarily celebrate change. It’s not like the music is stagnant; it’s more that the tried and true is rewarded while anything new, anything different, is greeted with a quizzical eyebrow and the spoken or unspoken question of: “Is this good? Can you mosh to it?” If there was anyone…
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Staticlone Shared New Single “Red Eye”
On Better Living Through Static Vision you can hear Staticlone— which features vocalist George Hirsch, bassist Dave Walling, and drummer Jeff Ziga— channel everything from crust to metal, and the hardcore punk they’ve all been steeped in for decades. At his core, Hirsch is a storyteller. Go back and listen to anything he’s ever done and you’ll see…
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Inepsy: Tankcrimes To Reissue Entire Catalog From Notorious Quebec Metal-Punk Act
INEPSY notoriously existed from 1999 to 2011, unloading a barrage of EPs and LPs in their twelve years of activity. Now, Tankcrimes honors the band’s ravenous legacy with physical reissues of their See You In Hell debut EP (2002), the Rock ‘N’ Roll Babylon debut LP (2003), the City Weapons LP (2005), the No Speed Limit For Destruction LP (2007), the Madness And Overkill EP (2010),…
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The Snub – Sorry For Your Pride! 7″ (Grazil Records)
The Snub’s latest release, Sorry For Your Pride!, is a 7″ vinyl that delivers an uncompromising barrage of crustcore, hardcore punk, and d-beat fury. Released via Grazil Records, this Graz-based band brings the spirit of raw, unfiltered aggression back to the forefront of the hardcore punk scene. With just a handful of tracks, The Snub…
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Bödel Released New Single “Grisarna Och Snuten”
F-A-S-T-E-R is the best word that comes to mind to describe the Swedish punk hardcore band Bödel career up to this point. When the drummer Masken (from ex Antabus, Sub Alert) in late 2023 heard the punk band Chörnobyl where the singer Leya has done some vocal parts, he immediately contacted Leya and her father…
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“Down The Punk Rock Highway” By Jared Forman (Earth Island Books)
Jared Forman’s “Down the Punk Rock Highway” is one of the latest releases by a very prolific Earth Island Books. Forman’s book is a well-documented journey through the raw, unfiltered landscape of punk rock, capturing its rebellious spirit and energy. The narrative is structured as a collection of interviews, reports, and other writings, taking readers…
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Tired. – The Cost Of Holding On 12″ EP (Grazil Records)
Earlier this year, the prolific Australian label Grazil Records released “The Cost Of Holding On,” a debut 12″ EP by Tired. Originating from Graz, this quintet embraces all the vital qualities of several underground music genres to depict rich and luxurious sonic imagery. Perhaps hardcore punk comes to mind first, but you’ll notice some other…
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Nula – Album LP (PDV)
Nula, the Croatian anarcho-punk band from Šibenik, has made a triumphant return with their new full-length release titled simply “Album.” This record marks a significant milestone for the band, as it is their first studio effort in three decades, yet it feels as though they never left the scene. With their latest work, Nula slams…
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“A Country Fit For Heroes : DIY Punk In Eighties Britain” By Ian Glasper (Earth Island Books)
Ian Glasper’s A Country Fit For Heroes: DIY Punk in Eighties Britain delves deep into the heart of the punk movement that swept across the UK in the 1980s. This book, published this year by Earth Island Books, is an exhaustive chronicle of a vibrant subculture that thrived on its DIY ethos and political activism.…
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Interview: Ian Glasper, the author of A Country Fit For Heroes, The Day The Country Died, Burning Britain, etc.
Today, we are honored to welcome Ian Glasper, a distinguished author, journalist, and musician, for an insightful conversation about his latest book, “A Country Fit For Heroes.” Known for his profound research and passion for the punk and hardcore scenes, Ian has carved a niche for himself as a chronicler of the subcultures that have…
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