ULTIMO RAUSEA

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

BATTLESCARD

Ripping metallic traditional Japanese hardcore with screaming leads and that undeniable Japanese snarl/yowl from the vocals, presented with ...

DROPEND

Powerful and relentless chaotic Japanese hardcore - quality of the highest order with searing vocals struggling under an assault of guitar n...

STILL HAVE A FAITH // MAKE A CHANGE

STILL HAVE A FAITH cranked out their demo in 1992 - ultra high energy US influenced hardcore, the kind of attack that countrymen TOTAL FURY ...

RABIA

Noisy, raw and hopelessly brutal rehearsal recording from Japanese maniacs RABIA . This is the shortest post on Terminal Escape, with the po...

OUT OF TOUCH

Posted their 1991 demo a while back, but two years later Nagoya's OUT OF TOUCH got even better. I know it's hard to believe, but it...

MASSGRAVE

Bombastic. Chaotic. Thunderous. Cavernous. The always excellent Hardcore Survives label dropped this bomb a while ago, and it makes my head ...

SK8NIKS

This demo will likely take longer to download than it will to listen to - SK8NIKS blast through two tunes and finish the program before you ...

GEESE

Solid and rocking hardcore with just enough rock and roll. The base here is traditional Japanese HC, but GEESE add slick bluesy solos and th...

ICONOCLAST

To those familiar with the three best known bands named ICONOCLAST, it should be obvious that this is the Japanese one. In 1993, when m...

GROANING GROOVE // RINTO

After a three minute buildup filled with tense anticipation, GROANING GROOVE explode into manic and distinctly Japanese fast garage har...

DISCLAIM

Yokohama metallic thrashers DISCLAIM produced some of the roughest and most violent sounding Japanese hardcore of the late '80s. While t...

UNWISE

Another two song banger today, this time from Kobe's UNWISE. Gruff and unintelligible vocals and a ramshackle delivery that all but omit...

MAN FRIDAY

On the first ARTIMUS PYLE tour to Japan in 2001, we had two drivers for the two legs of the trip. The first was a somewhat legendary guitari...

GIGANT

Early '90s Japanese metallic hardcore at its finest. GIGANT unleash 25 minutes of quality ripping madness featuring a guitarist who soun...

CONTRAST ATTITUDE

You would think that after the last five days of shows in Austin that The Escape might be tempted to mellow out a bit. You would think that,...

NASIKUZUSI

Lightning speed Japanese fastcore from 2009. NASIKUZUSI blast through seven songs in eight minutes, just insanely tight and fast US influenc...

FURAN

Japanese hardcore had really hit its stride in the late '80s - when punk and hardcore around the world was trying desperately to get a p...

DESPERDICIO

Sendai-City raw punks represent! It was weeks after the recent disaster(s) in Japan before I got word that DESPERDICIO members were all aliv...

VIVISECTION

Raw churning early '90s Japanese crust, primitive and unforgiving.   VIVISECTION