STRAIGHT ARROWS

Basement garage punk sounds ripped out of the jangly psych-rock '60s and thrown headfirst into a modern world of nostalgia. STRAIGHT AR...

NAW DUDE // OVARY ACTION

Raw, affected hardcore from NAW DUDE - uncomfortable and ugly sounds drenched in reverb, fast and unforgiving. And disjointed female fronted...

PARVEROTTI

Anarcho punk, hardcore, crust and chaotic art punk are all represented on this 1994 compilation from Israel. The quality level is exceptiona...

SARJAN HASSAN // DAIG HILA

Terminal Escape veterans SARJAN HASSAN bring modern crossover thrashing back to your earholes with 12 blasts of face melting 'core. At ...

NERV

Iowa ain't a hotbed for hardcore killers. I came from Oklahoma, not exactly punk's ground zero, but Iowa? Shit is rough. Perhaps NER...

POSITIVE OUTLOOK

After the evening I just had, perhaps I could use a little bit more of this. A few more breakdowns, a few more sing alongs and a few fewer b...

ABSURDIST

From the same arid concrete abyss that brought us ROTOZAZA  comes ABSURDIST. Heavier on the Scandinavian and death metal influences and simp...

DOUBLE-O

Don't get me wrong, MINOR THREAT is pretty bad ass, the S.O.A. EP is unfuckwithable and you'll never catch me bagging on VOID. But ...

33AT45

Early '00s Portuguese thrashcore. I can't lie - I'm a little disappointed when the weird ass Euro techno intro is cut off by tho...

OUTRAGE

South Africa is one of the most powerful places I've ever been, and I cannot even imagine living there during my adolescence. And to be ...

SELF INTEREST

Ever been to Bakersfield? SELF INTEREST sounds like Bakersfield. Hopeless, furious, ugly, mean, damaged, frustrated.  FOUR SONGS

THE CORPSE

A seriously under appreciated Polish hardcore assault. Refuse released a CD that I hyped a while back, but those of you who didn't list...

A BLACK PEOPLE

Dark and brooding sounds for the modern age. Not far from the goth punk explosion, but rooted in punk, and with mature guitar work that woul...

Black Flag - everything went black

Dando continuidadeao blog, posto hoje um disco que msotra evolução do Black Flag como Banda. Esse Disco traz músicas gravadas enre 1978 e 19...

Black Flag - everything went black

Dando continuidadeao blog, posto hoje um disco que msotra evolução do Black Flag como Banda. Esse Disco traz músicas gravadas enre 1978 e 19...

KRÜEL

KRÜEL are getting noisier in their old age...and faster. Blinding white noise distortion is brutally penetrated by galloping DBeat madness d...

COP SHADES

From the bordertown of Moncton (that's the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in case you were confused) come COP SHADES. Bas...

ALTERCADO ESPIRITUAL

From the same crew of fukks responsible for the brilliant MUERTE A LA MUERTE demo comes ALTERCADO ESPIRITUAL. Blatant Boston '83 aping ...

LAST CALL FOR LOST SCENES

Released in '98 by our friends at Tian An Men '89 , this is the second volume in a series of comps featuring bands the far corners o...

UNUR

As anyone who stops by here with any frequency is well aware, I love hardcore. But I am also shamelessly nostalgic, and bands of youngsters ...

TUKAARIA

Seriously, those Southern California dudes are really good at this black metal stuff. Minor keys and howling vocals imprisoned by a blinding...

DIRT - Black & White

Depois de muitos meses sem postar, depois de perder contato com todos os colaboradores, venho aqui ressucitar este querido BLOG. Deu saudade...

DIRT - Black & White

Depois de muitos meses sem postar, depois de perder contato com todos os colaboradores, venho aqui ressucitar este querido BLOG. Deu saudade...

MAKHLOK PEROSAK

Johor Bahru is the closest Malaysian city to the SE Asia's economic hub of Singapore. While it's a relatively short bus ride from on...

STILLSUIT

Chaotic sound born out of art and expression that bows to no rule (and seems to write no riff). The Bay Area's STILLSUIT are a veritable...

GRG

My pal John sent me this a few weeks back - fast, dirty, mean hardcore from Oklahoma City. From the crushing low end opening notes to "...

MERCYNARY

It's easy to throw around awe inspiring descriptors all willy nilly, but this demo fukkn rips .  This 1989 banger is the second of four ...

REACCION ENERGICA: FM ACUARELA y BANDAS DEL SUR

No mystery here, no inebriated ramblings about some deep personal connection I have with the bands presented, just five killer Argentinian p...

BRUTAL TRUTH

I was a new wave kid with punk leanings. Sure, I had a METALLICA tape ( Garage Days...Rerevisited was where I started) and I bought Reign In...

ULTIMO RAUSEA

Four glorious minutes of churning Japanese hardcore with crazed vocals and guitars pushed to their absolute limit. It's a pretty simple ...

CRUCIAL YOUTH

No explanation necessary, right? Irreverent, wacky, sloppy, hilarious. Eight track 1986 demo from New Jersey's most tongue in cheek hard...

LASTLY

Total rage in five short movements. Throat searing vox, drums distorted to complete oblivion, a bass blown to complete shit, guitar doing co...

PIG HEART TRANSPLANT

A four track opus from 2007, Land Of Marred Normalcy shows this collective of outcasts trudging through dark soundscapes. The nucleus Kortl...

HOG // INSURRECCION

13 minutes of devastating Mexican crust. Five tunes from Mexico City's HOG and four from INSURRECCION. HOG throw brief melodic respites ...