Word up people. I’m dragging my sorry arse out of the grip of self pity and shame in order to tell you about yet another
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Demo round-up, June 2019
Kicked in the Teeth – Patient State / One Way Street (self-released, 2019) A semi-super group of sorts, this. Not that they are semi-super or
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Guest top ten of 2018: Mark Lind @ State Line Records / get-punk.com
So this is another guest “top ten of 2018” list. This time out we have Mark Lind, a man of many fingers in many pies,
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7in & EP Round-up, June 2018 (part 1)
Dark/Light – s/t (Dirt Cult, 2018) Portland, Oregon’s Drak/Light (which is apparently pronounced as Dark Slash Light) describe themselves as ‘cold weather music for combating
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Siberian Meat Grinder – Metal Bear Stomp (Destiny Records, 2017)
This just sounded too absurd to pass up. With a band name and album title like that, and the hilarious artwork (of a bear dressed
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Vans/Journeys Warped Tour, 01/07/17, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg, FL
It would always have taken something extraordinary for me to even consider letting the Warped Tour into my peripheral vision. Describing it as a money-gathering
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Straight Opposition – The Fury From The Coast (Indelirium Records, 2017)
My knowledge of European hardcore is limited to the time frame 1994-2005, when I actually made efforts to maintain an interest in such things. In
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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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