Maniac are without a doubt my favourite current hardcore band. They are legitimately ill as all hell and my habit of wearing a Maniac T-shirt
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Good Riddance – Thoughts and Prayers (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)
I have a lot of affection for Good Riddance, me. I’m sure in the wider circle of the punk scene this probably makes me even
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Eat Dirt – Death Is Death (Bearded Punk Records, 2019)
London punk crew Eat Dirt will punch the crust out of your ears, and no mistake. Don’t expect any apologies for that, because it’s all
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Browbeat – Remove The Control (Indelirium Records, 2019)
I’ll just get this out there now. What a total mosh of an album! My first reaction to hearing Browbeat was that they weren’t really
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Fucked & Bound – Suffrage (Atomic Action Records, 2018)
Fucked & Bound are a female fronted hardcore combo out of Seattle. This is harder than a kick in the fucking grid, and they certainly
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My War: Anxiety, Depression and Me (part 3)
For this installment, I wanted to talk about my problematic relationship with the punk scene, and how I’ve felt about it / how it’s made
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Propagandhi – Victory Lap (Epitaph, 2017)
Tony: This one (Victory Lap) surely has been a long time coming, and it was clear that more than one of our merry band of
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Cell – Demo 7in (Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)
Fuck me. I was not expecting this. This is some bruising old school hardcore with a gnarled, crusty edge. Realistically I should have been passing
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Standpoint (React!) & Force (Control) demo’s 2017
When it comes to hardcore I must confess to being something of an elitist. Too many years spent watching too many bogus bands grind out
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Terror ‘The Walls Will Fall’ EP (Pure Noise/Triple B Records)
I can remember with absolute clarity Terror’s first demo being shoved into my hands 15 years ago outside another poxy all-dayer in London. ‘It’s Scott
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