Our Darkest Days – A Common Agony (Bird Attack Records)
Named, I suspect in tribute to Ignite, Our Darkest Days follow a similar path to the one ploughed by Zoli Teglas and company; and anyone who travels that road is more than okay in my…
Named, I suspect in tribute to Ignite, Our Darkest Days follow a similar path to the one ploughed by Zoli Teglas and company; and anyone who travels that road is more than okay in my…
According to the label, this debut album from Perikato is being released for the first time this year. On listening to it, you have to doubt that, as it sounds like the head honchos of…
I think there are two defining moments for me. The first one was when I heard Nirvana\’s Nevermind for the first time and it blew me away. I was 8 years old and I was…
Interview originally appeared in Mass Movement #29 Battling through some of the worst snow to hit London\’s streets in years, Mass Movement caught up with Municipal Waste\’s Tony Foresta to discuss his new band No…
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…
Not sure how, but the latest offering from Stockholm’s Victims, managed to slip past me. Released back in April via Tankcrimes Sirens is the band’s sixth album and it’s a beauty. The fact that it’s…
Is it a crime to be pummelled to a state of near unconsciousness by vicious, uncompromising D-Beat style Hardcore? If it is, then someone had better slap the cuffs on Lies, throw them in the…
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…
Hand on heart, I don’t know an awful lot about The Varukers. I know that their frontman Rat sang for Discharge for years (and also sings for Warwound) and that Marvin from Chaos UK who…
While my perception of what Hardcore is, and the ideologies that fuel the scene and the bands that are a part of it, differ widely from a kid making his or her first foray into…
I blame Marvin and Autonomy Records. It’s his bloody fault, all of it. See, I’d probably have been happy just being a thrasher and crossover obsessed idiot who occasionally dipped his toes into the maelstrom…
Hidden away in a secret laboratory beneath CERN, a group of rabid, punk rock scientists toiled for years to refine and recreate the essence of Black Flag and the spark that gave life to Babes…