Jack the Stripper – Raw Nerve (MGM)
Apparently this album is three years old but I just heard it for the first time two weeks ago. Since then it has been in heavy rotation on my playlist. Realizing the band was probably…
Apparently this album is three years old but I just heard it for the first time two weeks ago. Since then it has been in heavy rotation on my playlist. Realizing the band was probably…
While we wait for the final album from Cancerslug, Alex Story (Cancerslug, Doyle) and Cassie Roya Baher (Cancerslug, Devils Teef) gift us with their sleazy blues rock album A Darker Shade of Love. As is…
I nearly didn’t take this review, Bounce is The Beat’s first album in over 30 years and I feared this would be too big of a job for me. I’m not good with throwing superlatives…
Hardcore walked out of my life some ten years ago and slammed the door shut in my face. Whatever, I didn’t miss the fickle bitch! I didn’t even care who it went and hung around…
Since Ringworm began as a straight up Cleveland hardcore/metal band with their first release, The Promise, in 1993, they’ve continually pushed extreme and heavy music to its limits and this new offering is no different….
The originators of melodic Hardcore? Quite possibly. Californian Coffee Punks return after a lengthy hiatus with an album of sublime catchiness. ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’ bubbles along with Karl Alvarez’s bouncy bass lines and Bill Stevenson’s faultless…
I was not expecting this. Kicking off like a long lost song from ‘Age of Quarrel’, ‘I Come In Peace’ features Harley’s trademark rumbling bass sound with even more pissed off sounding vocals then on…
Follow up to last years ‘Crashing In To The Future’ EP and it’s a serious slice of psychedelic space rock ala Monster Magnet/Lemmy era Hawkwind. With a title like ‘We’re Already Inside Your Mind’ you…
Long awaited debut release from the Bristol/Welsh combo featuring ex members of Ephemeral Foetus, and Bring To Ruin; and boy was it worth the wait. 3 tracks, kicking off with ‘Disturbing The Peace’, and almost…
Ah, me hearties I be a little late to the party as far as these scurvy dogs be concerned, but as me old captain told me, ‘tis better to cut off a man’s leg than…
One of the very few advantages to being a forty something year old HC “kid” is that I can remember the “halcyon” days of the late eighties NYHC scene; and Friend or Foe’s latest record…
Nashville, Tennessee has a long and rich musical heritage, but away from the rhinestone and slide guitars of the country world, another force grew in the underbelly of the city, hellbent on musical destruction. Asschapel…