The Mansters – The Mansters (Ampmandens Records)
Picture the scene. It’s the closing third of the Royal Rumble and the ring is full of heavyweight, old school brawlers pounding the crap out of each other, when all of a sudden, the countdown…
Picture the scene. It’s the closing third of the Royal Rumble and the ring is full of heavyweight, old school brawlers pounding the crap out of each other, when all of a sudden, the countdown…
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…
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…
Led by vocalist Chaka Malik and guitarist Gavin Van Vlack, Burn are responsible for pushing the boundaries of hardcore since their inception in 1990. After over a decade of silence they reactivated in 2015 playing…
2016 marks the 30 year anniversary of the legendary New York Hardcore band SICK OF IT ALL. In order to celebrate this special occasion SICK OF IT ALL are set to release \’When The Smoke…
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…
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…