Here’s a very interesting proposition – a comeback album from legendary California hardcore band Freewill. I say interesting because their original recordings never saw the light of day officially until a couple of years back,…
Stubborn Will are a powerful new melodic hardcore band smashing their way out of the deep forests around Spokane, Washington, USA. Formed in 2019 and drawing influences from melodic hardcore and new wave punk, they\’ve…
I love how the hardcore world has always had mythical bands bouncing around. Bands that maybe split up before their time or whose recordings were never properly released. California’s Freewill fit the bill exactly. In…
\’Edge metal\’; now that\’s a tag which I haven’t heard in a while. I do remember it popping up more than once at the tail end of the last century when Belgian bands, like Congress…
The world was dealt a collective and very real bombshell in early 2020 when the pandemic known as Covid 19 reared it’s ugly head. Life as we knew it was very promptly turned on it’s…
This time Tim takes a look at ‘Bedford Falls’, the latest Doctor Doom trade from Christopher Cantwell and Salvador Larroca, ‘From KO to Chaos’ the complete Iggy and The Stooges Skydog Collection, Gerard Ways\’ Return…
What I always find very interesting is that most people within the hardcore and punk rock scene are wired dfferently from what I would call everyone else. There\’s a certain connection we have regardless of…
I was lucky enough to see this short lived Bristol band live and they were impressive enough for me to follow up on – I never heard back from them, so it was nice to…
Lyon, France may not yet be on your radar when it comes to brutal oi! but with this debut release from Fléau things are about to change. Often bands need a good album or two…
For twenty five years Reflections records helped to put the Hard in Hardcore. With amazing releases from Kill Your Idols to Modern Life Is War and from Reaching Forward to Herder it felt like they’d…
I tell you what, if you need a real rousing in the morning and a strong coffee isn’t doing the trick, then just try a couple of rounds with Houston, Texas band Liberty & Justice….
In the nineties, when the CD, as a carrier for music, really took off, a lot of albums never had a proper vinyl release. It was too expensive or simply not worth it at the…
