BRAZEN HELL

Ugly Canadian sounds that bear more than a subtle resemblance to Tennessee's most noteworthy '90s export. Simply crushing, and for t...

DOGMATIST

Bombastic and devastating, Denmark's DOGMATIST combine the punch to the gut of churning crust with elements of Scandi DBeat and an over-...

HELLOWAR // PEACE OR ANNIHILATION

Jakarta's PEACE OR ANNIHILATION were an early visitor to Terminal Escape -  raw and unforgiving raw DBeat crust insanity. These HELLOW...

ABSURDIST

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

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...

HOG // INSURRECCION

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

BELLOW

This one came to The Escape along with many kind words about past projects and current endeavors, and I confess that I put off listening to ...

SIN APOYO // BIOFILO PANCLASTA

BIOFILO PANCLASTA are a freight train. Ramming speed male/female fronted crust, a dozen songs fly by in less than eight minutes and the inte...

VARIOUS STUFF 87

I've put this one aside several times in the past, not because it is somehow lacking, but it's more a collection of various recordin...

SUB RATS//HABEMUS KAOS

Raw and ugly Spanish hardcore from the mid '00s. Ten tracks from SUB RATS, a disjointed romp through gruff vocals and primitive DBeat. H...

SHIT

Who doesn't want to start their Sunday with 5 minutes of downtuned blackened crust/metal mayhem? Dummies, that's who. Since you are ...

BRAINSTORM

Killer metallic crust punk from Belgrade (now Serbia, then Yugoslavia) most known internationally for their 1993 split with Japan's BATT...

GRUDGES

It has all of the appeal of low end heavy death metal, but the majority of this platter is delivered with a bare ferocity typically reserved...

MASAKARI

Hardcore/crust in the two thousand teens is a tough one...the subgenre has been distilled and watered down through generations of punks tryi...

IMPATIENCE

Seemed appropriate to post something from Wisconsin today, so here's the blast that brought me to my knees the first day I pressed play ...

REGRETS

Released early last year, this downtuned rager slipped under my radar until recently, but I'm glad I picked up the blips and paid attent...

DEFEAT

Fist banging melodic crust never went out of style, it's just that too many bands started doing it poorly and you stopped listening. In ...

LAZARUS TAXA

The midwest seems to breed a certain strain of crust that has been unhindered by the scourge of third rate melodic crust, undaunted by count...

THE OILY MENACE

I got super stoked on this when I heard it last year, and fully intended to share the sounds immediately...if you people could only imagine ...

BLOOD PATROL

'80s Bay Area thrash metal? Meet modern heavy metallic crust. Now, you kids have a seat and watch some horror movies and your mom will b...