I yearn for the days back when metalcore wasn’t a dirty word with which to label a band. What once was a reference to the
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Hummer – Budweiser & Butter EP (Horn & Hoof, 2018)
Hummer are a fantastic melodic punk trio from Warrington. Yes, Warrington, the celebrated North Western hotbed of concrete and roundabouts. Location of Gulliver’s World and
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The Fritz – s/t (Drunken Sailor Records, 2018)
Not that it’ll be news to anyone, but… I really love that typical US hardcore sound from ’79 – ’86. In particular I have a
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Great Collapse – Neither Washington Nor Moscow… Again! (End Hits, 2018)
It will probably come as a surprise to anyone I’ve rumbled with online lately, but my lifelong instinct to closely follow and engage with all
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Impotentie – Demonstratieve Opnamens (Drunken Sailor Records / Swollen City Records 2018)
Impotentie are (as far as I can tell) a post-punk 2 piece from Montreal that sing in… wait for it… Dutch. Fucking Dutch, mate. I
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The Last Gang – Keep Them Counting (Fat Wreck Chords, 2018)
There was a time when I followed Fat Wreck Chords something approaching religious fervour, I guess around the mid-late 90s and very early 2000s. They
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Iron Reagan / Gatecreeper split 12in (Relapse, 2018)
So this here split 12in record is billed as being between two of the most talked about acts in the wider extreme metal scene, Iron
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Turnstile – Time & Space (Roadrunner, 2018)
Mentally, I associate Roadrunner with (back in the day) the early Sepultura back catalogue, dodgy Krishna hardcore like Shelter, and some dodgy tough guy hardcore
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Desert Storm – Sentinels ( APF Records, 2018)
There’s nothing everyone loves more than a good fucking riff. Essentially that’s what a lot of good and bad guitar-based music boils down to: how
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Mammoth Grinder – Cosmic Crypt (Relapse, 2018)
After a five year absence since their last full length (Underworlds), Mammoth Grinder return to the frontline with their fourth full length record, Cosmic Crypt.
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