I’ll admit it. This is pretty late, this. What’s a brother to do? The world is intent on going head first straight to hell, and
Read moreHesitation Wounds – Chicanery (Deathwish Inc., 2019)
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
Read moreDemo 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
Read moreGuest 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,
Read more7in & 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
Read moreSiberian 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
Read moreVans/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
Read moreStraight 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
Read moreTerror ‘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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