Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry (Relapse)
Lace up your high tops and grab your bandanas, Iron Reagan are back and they’re here to thrash. Launching straight into a full on slam assault with opening track Dying World, it’s all mosh systems…
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Excel – The Joke\’s On You LP/ CD (Southern Lord)
Venice Beach maestros Excel\’s second album gets the deluxe reissue treatment from Southern Lord. In fact this is the second time around I\’ve received a promo copy of the album, having originally got the LP…
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Martyrdod – List (Southern Lord)
You know those days when everything around you slowly begins to break down into an ocean of seething, writhing crap; and in an effort to fight off the world’s unrelenting grip, you feel yourself exploding…
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Listen to \’Firing Squad\’ from Power Trip\’s upcoming album \’Nightmare Logic\’…
Power Trip slay us with the first new single \”Firing Squad\” from their anxiously awaited release Nightmare Logic, which finally sees light February 22 on Southern Lord. Power Trip are a real band – like no other. Their raw energy, musical…
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Iron Reagan announce \’Crossover Ministry\’…
Just in time for election day, crossover punks IRON REAGAN call upon thee to join the holy order of thrash on their latest full-length, Crossover Ministry. Across 18 tracks and thirty minutes of frantic, punk-metal fury, IRON REAGAN mix a blitzkrieg of…
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EXCEL: SoCal Thrash/Hardcore Crossover Group To Reissue The Joke\’s On You Via Southern Lord This November
SoCal punk-hardcore-metal hybrid outfit EXCEL has remastered their seminal 1989 release, The Joke\’s On You, which is now set to be released via Southern Lord in November. Originally released via Caroline Records, and produced by…
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Rash Decision – Seaside Resort to Violence / Headstrung (Self)
Remember when Hardcore wasn’t afraid to embrace Crossover and Thrash? And do you remember when Hardcore wasn’t afraid to thrash out like it was getting ready for its last day on Earth? When it wasn’t…
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Suicidal Tendencies – World Gone Mad (Suicidal Records)
The last time I bought a Suicidal Tendencies album (1994’s Suicidal for Life) that wasn’t one of their 80s classics, I regretted it. I bought it at the show and even got it autographed by…
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Ghoul – Dungeon Bastards (Tankcrimes)
A long time ago, in a land far, far away, a die-hard metal head, frustrated by the preponderance of weak, syrupy ballads, hair spray and tasselled leather jackets that were engulfing the airwaves and MTV,…
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IRON REAGAN Announce European Campaign
Richmond crossover/thrash heavyweights IRON REAGAN have just announced a new European summer tour! The band will be performing at festivals and venues for one month throughout Western and Eastern Europe, kicking off at the beginning of this August. IRON…
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D.R.I. – But Wait…There’s More! EP (Beer City Records)
Back in 1987, when they recorded the Live at The Ritz video, their then drummer Felix Griffin described D.R.I. as playing ‘tooth chipping thrash’; and it’s as true today as it was three decades ago….
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Attitude Adjustment – Terrorize (Beer City Records)
That’s right kids, Attitude Adjustment are back; and damn I wish ninety-nine percent of “new” bands sounded half as sharp, focused, tight and full of, well, attitude, as the AA guys do. Terrorize is a…
