Skywalker – Sugar House EP (Self)
Words have power and names carry a lot of weight, so if you’re going to name your band after the guy who destroyed a Death Star and helped bring a galactic Empire to its knees,…
Hardcore
Comeback Kid – Outsider (Nuclear Blast)
Comeback Kid have always been one of those bands who existed on my musical periphery. Sure, I’ve seen them a couple of times and they always brought their A-game to the sweaty, finger pointing, pit…
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Malevolence
It’s been quite a year so far for Sheffield’s finest Malevolence. An extensive European tour under their belt, culminating in a triumphant appearance at Belgium’s Ieper Fest, along with the release of their latest album…
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Like Music, Like Magic, Like Words, Like War – Dan O’Mahony (Workshed Records)
The third installment in California hardcore journeyman Dan O’Mahony’s chronicle of life and experiences, this time reflecting on the demise of his marriage, the death of his mother, middle age, lost love and life on…
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All Out War – Give Us Extinction (Organized Crime Records)
If you mention All Out War, to any metalcore kid these days, they probably won’t have a clue what are you are on about. The whole genre has been diluted so badly that it’s barely…
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Trapped Under Ice – Heatwave (Pop Wig)
Okay, confession time. Until I spent a glorious afternoon with Heatwave locked on repeat and occasionally trying to bust into some jerky weird old man with bad knees two step while imagining all the deliciously…
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Straight Opposition – The Fury from the Coast (Indelirium Records)
You know that feeling when you roll up to the show late and you’ve missed the band that everyone who turned up on time is talking about in hushed, reverential tones? Yeah, that’s what I’m…
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Lay It on the Line – The Black Museum (Disconnect Disconnect)
Remember the good old days when the fury, energy and anger of bands like Civilised Society, Symbol of Freedom and Nausea and their abrasive dual female and male vocal attacks tore the flesh from your…
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Tausend Löwen Unter Feinden (TLUF)/ Last Light – Compilation Of Unity 7\” (Unity Worldwide)
Out of an international friendship spanning decades, a new label was born. Unity Worldwide is a collaboration across countries and continents, celebrating hardcore for what it is. Here we have their first release, featuring one…
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Dayshifter – Hopeful // Regretful (Dayshifter)
Powered by the same sort of metallic Hardcore chaos as Misery Signals and Converge, and existing somewhere in the space between both, Dayshifter are a relentless juggernaut locked in overdrive that rolls onward ever onward…
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Captain Caveman – Failed Species (Wooaaargh)
Yeah, I’ll bet that the first thing that went through your head when you clocked the band’s name was the same thing that went through mine. The seventies cartoon in which “Cavey Wavey” rode around…
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EAT DIRT – S/T EP (Self)
And this boys and girls is exactly how punk rock should be done. Short, sharp, savage and directly to the point, EAT DIRT serve up four blisteringly quick doses of Old Cold meets the Ramones…
