Dad Brains – S/T EP (Dad Brains)
So despite their name, these guys don’t actually sound much like the Bad Brains, although they do share the flat out, full speed attack approach that HR and company utilised so effectively on the ROIR…
So despite their name, these guys don’t actually sound much like the Bad Brains, although they do share the flat out, full speed attack approach that HR and company utilised so effectively on the ROIR…
Like Scream and Uniform Choice, Verbal Assault were one of those bands who were way ahead of their time and Trial is a testament to just how progressive, forward thinking and inventive they were. Fusing…
Faith. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as being the complete trust in someone or something and the strong belief in religious doctrine based on spiritual conviction. And faith is, and can be, many things to…
While I’d heard nothing but good things about Spine from the scene folks who know about that sort of thing, Faith was the first time that our (and by our, I obviously mean Spine and…
I was fortunate enough to see these chaps play with Negative Approach in Birmingham not so long ago and while it’s impossible to blow the Detroit destruction machine off stage, King of Pigs HC came…
Attempting to explain why an album that you’ve listened to at maximum volume at fairly regular intervals for the best part of thirty years should be on everyone’s “must hear before you die” list is…
When most folks think about Neurosis, they think of the dark, crushing metal behemoth that the band evolved into, but when I think about them, Pain of Mind is the record that immediately springs to…
Few people in the Hardcore scene are as divisive as Harley Flanagan. Everyone knows his story and most folks are aware, in some way or other, of the long-running and ongoing dispute between the members…
The next time some self-righteous croc wearing, six months served scene “veteran” with a plaited beard and a sleeve full of nautical tattoo’s starts lecturing you on the separatist nature of Hardcore and the virtues…
Although this is the debut from North East three piece Force Fed Lies, it couldn’t sound further away from a first release. The songs are all killer, tightly played, well arranged and hard hitting slabs…
Released to tie in, and in conjunction, with xXx Fanzine (1983 – 1988), Still Having Their Say let’s the cream of the new school Hardcore crop pay homage to their musical heroes, influences and old…
For some reason, I thought it would be smaller. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know, I just thought this book wouldn’t be…Well, as big as it is. Truth be told, it’s massive. Absolutely huge….