Review: Redemption Denied - Nothing Remains


Redemption Denied - Nothing Remains
(Control Records/Reality Records) - I'm feelin' this one! These tracks sound just like a modernized version of something off of one of early Merauder or Hatebreed albums, which is dope. Nothing Remains is a short but nasty listen that cuts to the bone with 4 tracks of gritty, 90s influenced metallic hardcore.

Review: Length Of Time - Let the World with the Sun Go Down

Anything Length Of Time touches is full of intensity and focus. At ‘Let The World With The Sun Go Down’, the band is a fucking war machine. It’s amazing to see that after so many years, they haven’t lost it. Over the years, the band has leaned more towards the metal side, and this album is a natural consequence of this path. It’s definitely more metal than their early albums, and much more aggressive than Antiworld.

The Setup signs to BDHW Recs.

The Setup from Belgium signed to BDHW Rec. The band gonna release their new full length called "This Thing Of Ours". Vinyl and CD gonna drop 31st May 2013.

The Setup - Trapped Under The Weight


New official video from this Belgian band. Song from the upcoming This Thing of Ours album.

Hard Resistance Interview

If you were around in the 90’ and knew anything about the hardcore scene, you must have came across the thing called streetcore or eurocore which simply meant raw and harsh hardcore with strong NYHC influences and working class mindset. These were the good old days when shaved head and army camouflage shorts was the most stylish thing hardcore kids could think of. Hard Resistance were one of the major names in this genre and with album titles like Engine of Hate or Psycho Tales you bet it was great stuff. After the band took a break for couple of years, they got their shit together recently, released new album and started playing shows again. Here’s the interview so you know what’s up with the band nowadays!

Length Of Time streams Maleficious World

Belgium's legendary Length Of Time has posted brand new track from the upcoming album, 'Let The World With The Sun Go Down' due out via GSR Music. You can listen to Maleficious World here. Place your pre-order for the upcoming album here. The record comes on cd in a digi pack and features 5 brand new songs and a bonus track, as well as on picture disc 12" with the full demo "We Choose The Violent Way" as a bonus. Out November 16th!

Crawlspace drops new album!

[official info] Crawlspace are back, more technical and skilled than ever with a bomb of an album aptly titled 'Carved Into Flesh'. High quality recording and an excellent mastering job by Nicolas Declève guarantee a album with 7 new tracks plus 2 old tracks off the MCD reworked into brutality! Crawlspace needs no introduction. The gang who introduced Limburg Tough Guy Fury have been around for a long time. After a devastating MCD on the now-defunct RPP Productions and a split with their bros in FULL COURT PRESS the band signed with Good Life's Subsidiary label Final Beatdown Records and released their legendary full length debut 'Enter The Realm of Chaos' CD/LP.

Hard Resistance - Lawless and Disorder

The fact that this album is getting such a good feedback from the hardcore crowds proves that we’re living in a good times for hardcore. I can imagine just couple of years ago when the scene was infected by that metalcore crap it wouldn’t get so much love. But that days are gone and hardcore is getting its shit together again. If you got even slight idea about European hardcore from the 90’ there’s a huge chance you heard about this band.

Countdown - Mass Murder


Live Snippet for Countdowns (BE) Song "Mass Murder" from the Blinded Souls EP (Out on Marked for Death Records)

Hard Resistance - Despised & Destroyed


Official Video Clip Hard Resistance 'Despised & Destroyed', taken from the album Lawless & Disorder, 2012.

FWH to release new album by Whatever It Takes

Official press release: Exactly 6 years after their debut on FWH entitled "D.H.M." the Belgian benchpress heavyweights return with 8 new tracks including the 4Skins cover "Wonderful world". Still the same line-up feat. members from Die... My Demon, The Boss and Outcast, the band ist stronger and heavier than ever. Drawing influences from mid-90´s East Coast bands like Fury Of Five, Next Step Up and Clubber Lang combined with early Limburg-Chapter tuff guy fury a la Crawlsapce, the DHM hooligans deliver one of the hardest and most violent European Hardcore records so far. Including guest-vocals by original Born From Pain singer Che.

Get Wise - Clock's Ticking


Debut 7" called Clock's Ticking is out now! Ffo. Breakdown, Outburst and Warzone!

In Clear Sight Interview

In Clear Sight’s debut album, ‘Fuck Fairytales, This Is Reality’, has been recently released by Clenched Fist records and it’s pretty strong effort if you’re into metallic, mosh-ridden hardcore. To be honest, I was expecting some mindless tough-wannabe mentality that that has been so played out in this genre, but it turns out there is a lot of thought to what they’re doing. I think their FB fanpage gives the best description of what they try to represent: ‘In Clear Sight is about getting your thoughts and goals straight. It's about not giving up to reach the goals you've set for yourself. At the same time these words refer to the scope of a gun. This metaphor reflects the power behind this beliefs.’ Here’s interview with Roger, one of the two vocalists of the band.
In Clear Sight’s debut album, ‘Fuck Fairytales, This Is Reality’, has been recently released by Clenched Fist records and it’s pretty strong effort if you’re into metallic, mosh-ridden hardcore. To be honest, I was expecting some mindless tough-wannabe mentality that that has been so played out in this genre, but it turns out there is a lot of thought to what they’re doing. I think their FB fanpage gives the best description of what they try to represent: ‘In Clear Sight is about getting your thoughts and goals straight. It's about not giving up to reach the goals you've set for yourself. At the same time these words refer to the scope of a gun. This metaphor reflects the power behind this beliefs.’ Here’s interview with Roger, one of the two vocalists of the band.
First off can you just introduce yourself and your band? How long you’ve been around?

In Clear Sight was born in 2007. Three of our guys (Yannick, Tijs and Tom) started rehearsing in an old stable of Yannick’s grandpa. After a while they’ve added Fille Cools (singer) and Gael Renier (drummer) to the band. So In Clear Sight has been around officially since 2008. It didn’t work out very well with Fille. He had to work a lot en therefore he didn’t have enough time to play in the band. From then Kenny and me (both vocalists) joined in 2010.

‘Fuck Fairytales, this is Reality’ is quite strong name for an album. What other aspects of life influence your music?

We try to talk about a lot of things in our music. It’s my passion to write about problems which people find so modern or so obvious, that they won’t even think about it anymore. I am talking about the difference between rich and poor, children who are mourning about their parents’ divorce, the poor in Africa, nature disasters, losing friends or family, growing up, … Struggle For Life for example is about a friend of mine who had to struggle against cancer. This was a very difficult time for her but she overcame her illness and this made her stronger as person. This is one of the many things that I want to clarify to society, or at least want them to THINK about this!

What is the general message of the album? If you could have listeners take something from the album, what would it be?

Our general message is pretty easy if you think about it... We just want to say, look, life isn't easy and don't let anyone tell you it's a fairytale. But you can find strength in a lot of things, like music, friends and life experience. Don't be afraid, live your life, it’s worth it!

You guys have kind of a NYHC vibe, but there are also some metallic elements as well. Where does that come from? What kind of influences feed into your sound?

Actually we listen to all different genres of music. Hardcore is the main element for everyone in the band and there still lies our hearts, but aside from this we also listen to punk, metal, hip hop, drum&bass, dubstep, whatever, you name it... This is probably the reason why we have different kinds of influences in our music. In the end, aren’t we ALL musicians?

We feel that in hardcore you have to try to keep things interesting. We try to put something else on the table then other bands. So if you listen carefully you'll find some metal, you'll find some punk and even some hip hop. It's all there…

What are the bands you’re most glad to share a stage with?

We like to get to know people from all over the world. So it's always fun to play with international bands. But there are also some good Belgian bands we love to support. Go check out bands like BEAR, The Setup, ... Great stuff. Apart from these bigger bands, we can’t forget that it hardcore lives because there are a lot of unknown bands playing in little venues. Belgium has so many hardcore bands and the scene has always seemed to be very strong over here. So this is my message to all of your readers: come out, go to shows, represent hardcore, and the most important, get along and support each other!

What’s the scene like in your area nowadays?

I think it used to be bigger than it is today, but we can't complain. The Belgian scene is quite strong and this gives us the opportunity to play a lot of shows and to build up a local fan base.

Do you have any early memories of hardcore that stick out in your memory?

I have lots of good memories in hardcore. I used to live in Kontich, this is where Lintfabriek was. This is a small but fucking legendary venue. The people that worked there, the people who came to shows, everyone was one big family, like hardcore should be. All the great bands have played there. I remember going to shows there. But then a couple of years ago the venue had to shut down due to some fire security issues. We got to play on the last show there with my old band (Expect The Recoil). Good times!

Any last thoughts or shout outs? What’s next for In Clear Sight?

My biggest dream is to play on a real festival or going on a world tour. Playing with ‘the big ones’! I hope that I can make this dream come true with In Clear Sight. What’s next for ICS? I don’t know, we’ll just keep on rehearsing, playing shows, representing hardcore… just doing our very fucking best to grow and reaching more people.

And for the people out there? Don’t give up on hardcore, be yourself and live your dreams!

FUCK FAIRYTALES, THIS IS REALITY!

Blade signed to Seventh Dagger. New album in the works!

Blade, Belgian Straight Edge hardcore band, is now part of the Seventh Dagger family. The collaboration will result in the release of band's new album, "Armed with Abstinence". Blade describes its sound as "bleak, dark and aggressive hybrid of hardcore and metal, but still staying far away from the current metalcore style. In fact everything about Blade is influenced by the earlier, angrier days of new school hardcore." The band has so far released a split with the German band Golddust on Break Out records, and a 7” named “Lambs To The Slaughter” on Ugly And Proud records.

Pre-orders launched for debut Ep by Redemption Denied

Save My Soul Records has put up the preorders for the Redemption Denied EP, hardcore from Belgium and the Netherlands, featuring (ex-)members of Blade/World Gone Mad/Blindside. There will be 3 colors: 50 on gold vinyl only available in the preorder package with a 2-sided RD shirt, 100 on white for a upcoming release show and 150 on black vinyl for regular orders. These should be ready to ship late April / early May. Check out band's new song "life sentence" here.

Congress are getting back together to headline Good Life Fest!

After an absence of many years, the legendary Good Life Fest will be back on Saturday, October 27th, in Kortrijk, Belgium! But the real news is that the almighty Congress is getting back together and will perform during the fest. The band will be playing songs from Euridium to Angry with the Sun. Line up will be 3/4 original with Pierre, Josh, Ilja, Vez and F Double! Good Life Fest is booked completely and one by one Goodlife will announce all of the bands playing there. Tickets are only 10 Euro and are for sale from their webstore. Also playing that day will be the Six Feet Ditch, a couple legendary H8000 bands doing special sets (TBA), Elea Jacta Est from France, No Second Chance(UK), Balboa (B), Too Gross (UK/GER) and more to be announced! Show starts at 2 in the afternoon and will be finished by 10 in the evening.

'H8000 HC - a decade and more' book details

H8000-Central got some news about the 'H8000 HC - a decade and more' book! As they wrote: 'Yes folks...things are getting organised, while 2011 had to be the release of the book, there's a change that 2012 will be more realistic. A ton of work and organisation is part of the deal here. Interviews are been taken this weekend with some h8000 veterans by Willem, as he will be the main man to do this job...which is awesome of course. The working title for the book will be ' H8000 Hardcore 'a decade and more'....things will be starting probably from 1990 on, which is the pre-h8000 period, but the base for everything afterwards..' Read more here.

Defiance, new album from Tear It Down out now

Tear It Down has come a long way since their first rehearsal somewhere in 2003, yet the line-up changes and different influences made them what they are today: a metal-core band that’s not afraid of trying out new stuff and blending different styles of music. With a lot of shows and 2 tours of Spain done, you know they’re skilled enough to make every show a fucking great one. You like trash, you like hardcore, you’re into beatdown, you like metal in every way…you found the band! 2010 will be an important year for TID: a demo, an MCD and a PromoCD were their first little steps towards the ‘bigger picture’ but this year they proudly present their first full length album Defiance! Recordings were done at the brand new Red Left Hand Studio by Sven Janssens (Aborted, The End Of All Reason, etc…) and mastering by Kris Belaen at CCR studios. The album is a mix of slow, fast and mid tempo. So you can expect a lot of alternation in and between songs. The album also features two guest-vocals being Wim (Crimson Falls) and Gebo (Strike With Vengeance). This also gives a whole new dimension to the band.The album is released on Clenched Fist records.

New merch from Nasty

Couple of new Nasty designs have been added to the Goodlife webstore. One of them is called 'Massakermusik', and it was created by Alexander Kluge. The Design was inspired after the 3rd track (of the same name) of the new CD! Btw. while you at Goodlife website, check out new package deals for the band's new album!