Ripping metallic traditional Japanese hardcore with screaming leads and that undeniable Japanese snarl/yowl from the vocals, presented with ...
CORRUPTED MORALS
So many forgotten bands from this era of hardcore punk...listen to this 10 song banger from Pinole, California and tell me the late '80s...
SIAMESE TWINS
This is for all of the people who do not have their finger on the pulse. I heard this when I was in Boston in January (our show ruled, by t...
BREATHLESS: THE HARDCORE COMPILATION
Six band Indonesian hardcore comp from 1999. Two songs from each band, covering all the bases: DEADLY GROUND steal the show with their UNIFO...
BLIND AMONGST THE FLOWERS
While 1987's Dementia Americana single is a deliberate goth punk stomper somewhere between early P.I.L. and KILLING JOKE, this unmarked...
UNBROKEN BONES
Received a killer package from Drunk With Power last week, and I've been blasting the UNBROKEN BONES demo ever since. Sick late '8...
FRACASO
Mind = Blown. Tortured DBeat hardcore insanity from Venezuela. Perfect execution, and recently repressed in the states by IFB . I know this ...
BLATHERSKITE
This might be one of those "time and place" bands, but I dare say that if you lived anywhere near Indianapolis, Indiana in the ...
HAGAR THE WOMB
Self explanatory. A four song Peel Session from HAGAR THE WOMB, female fronted anarcho punks from London. Excellent, but unfortunately missi...
TOON DISASTERS
I've often praised the power of a well crafted mix tape, and Toon Disasters is exactly that. Excellent combination of deep cuts (10,000...
DESTRUYE, HUYE, KREA
The folks at Alta Intensidaz Tapes can seemingly do no wrong. The MIERDA tape rules, SENTENCIA still gets regular spins at TEHQ, and this ...
YEAR OF THE RAT
I write often of an affinity for bands that remind me of hardcore in the lost decade of the '90s, and bands like Prince Edward Island ...
VAARALLINEN
I know what you're here for, you greedy fukks. You want more noise, more fists in the air, more breakneck speed Scandinavia in your face...
REPLICA
REPLICA are the best. This doesn't mean that your favorite band is somehow bad, it just means that any time I see REPLICA live or liste...
XTILL I DIEX
Tough, churning metallic hardline bands were not unusual in the '90s, but in Japan they were certainly an oddity. Forged in the EARTH CR...
PVC H.EX (002)
A collection of bands and misfits (or bands of misfits, if you will) from Grand Rapids, Michigan laying waste to all assortments of genre de...
SFREGIO PERMANENTE
Mandatory '80s Italian hardcore, this is tape version of the split LP from I REFUSE IT! and CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS. CCM crank out...
PINK NIGHTMARE
I confess that I snoozed on this one after I picked it up at their SF show last year. Maybe it was an off night, maybe I was still reveling ...
FACTION
FACTION's You've Got The Fire EP from 1983 was an excellent uptempo anarcho punk record, with shadows of early Siouxsie lurking in ...
DROPEND
Powerful and relentless chaotic Japanese hardcore - quality of the highest order with searing vocals struggling under an assault of guitar n...
STIKKY
As if the 39 songs on STIKKY's 1987 3D & A Half demo weren't quite enough, this one comes with the first two demos slapped onto...
American Dream "Identity Crisis"
Nice, sweet, pretty, clammy, snotty, hardcore, punk with some beefed up guitars. Nice overlooked item of the time. Here's what MRR had...
Special report ;; File PNP
As the notable Bob Suren pointed out on The Jaded Bovines post, the statement about their manager Buddy Bass AKA Florida King of Punk, was n...
Black Flag "No Deposit- No Return"
No time to talk, plain and simple. Black Flag 1982 demos and 1984 Radio Tokyo studio songs, plus interview. Essential, the missing link of...
COPS
Musically confrontational, San Francisco's COPS blow through 6 songs in the time it would take most hipsters to carve out the perfect li...
POVERTY RECORDS SAMPLER
It was the 1990s, and the idea of starting a label with two bands a roster made up of drug addled savants from the neighborhood, your aspiri...
ELEGY
From the moment four hi-hat crashes usher in the start of this three song screamer, you know exactly what you are in for: Motörcharged madne...
PLUTOCRACY
Fuck. PLUTOCRACY was in a league (and often a world) all their own. Death metal weaned on powerviolence and genuine disenfranchisement, perh...
DISPLEASURE
DISPLEASURE could just as easily have been born in Midwestern basements circa 199?, but I'm happy that they rose up here over the last y...
YADOKAI
Between a guitarist relocated to Southern California and other projects (HUNTING PARTY, EFFLUXUS, FACE THE RAIL, SYNTHETIC ID and more, stra...
IRON LUNG
IRON LUNG should need no introduction, they have been honing their craft for nearly 15 years and have influenced hoards of followers in the ...