Madball – For the Cause (Nuclear Blast)
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…
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…
Now this excites me – the first new material in over 30 years by one of Boston’s most cerebral and exciting bands, and thankfully it does not disappoint. Although lumped in with the early 80s…
Since their emergence in 2012, Los Angeles’ Twitching Tongues have carved out a nice little niche for themselves in the hardcore scene. With a new album Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred out now and an…
While life, for the most part, is a series of brief periods of joy interspersed with prolonged bouts of bad luck, misery and misfortune, there are some things that you’ll stumble across during it’s duration…
Almost as soon as this record was announced and before most people had even had a chance to hear it, the dissenting voices of the internet started offering a multitude of different opinions about it….
So, a while back I started to try and put together a definitive list of which bands put the ‘Hard’ into Hardcore and while, for the most part, it was a list of the usual…
I can’t remember the last time that I encountered a band with a more appropriate, and fitting, name than Words of Concrete. Each syllable and every word on Negative Vibes is spewed forth and spat…
\”You Need An Ass Kickin\’ Right Now\” is the first video from D.O.A.\’s new album Fight Back. Canada\’s legendary punks have always delighted in sticking it to pompous and despicable characters, so this new video carries…