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The new album "World's End" is finally recorded. It has to be mixed and mastered and its ready to go. Check their myspace soon for some new tracks!
Backfire - In Harm's Way
Backfire - In Harm's WayGSR 2008
I’ve never been their biggest fan but there’s no denial Backfire! is one of the most important names In European hardcore scene. I guess I will have to pay more attention to what they’re doing since In Harm’s Way is one of the hardest albums I’ve heard in a while. It’s pretty unusual for a band with such a long history as theirs, but as far as I’m concerned, this is their best release so far!
Everything about this release is just perfect. They’re still doing their brand of old school hardcore but are not afraid to throw some metal licks now and there. It’s fast, angry, energetic and everything hardcore should be. In some ways, In Harm’s Way seems to be a natural follow up to their past recordings. The euro-core sound and the AF/Madball influences that defined the band’s style on their first albums are still present but not as obvious as before. If you ask me, songs on this album are far tighter than anything the band had done before. Just listen to the How Do You Like Me Now, the already hardcore classic with guest vocals from Stephen of Kickback! fame! This is one of the records that you feel connected to because the band knows not only how to create a powerful songs, but they speak about the things that every hardcore kids can rely to. Just check out the lyrics to This Thing We Have: ‘This is our game and it’s not over yet. There’s so much to come still good times ahead. This is our thing and it’s still worth fighting for’. Brilliant! With topics ranging from the hardcore scene to some personal stuff, they offer something for everybody.
A solid record with hardcore anthems that will stick in your head until the day you die. With top-notch production and tight song writing, In Harm’s Way serves as an excellent introduction to Backfire and real hardcore in general for all the hardcore kids raised on My Chemical Dildo and shit like this.
Backfire! @ Myspace
GSR Records
Until The End Reunion
Until The End have got their shit together and will be performing a show at Transitions in Tampa, FL on June 20th. The line-up will consist of Mean Pete, Chip, Jesse, w/ Sam Kooby from Bishop filling in.Message from the band:
I've always been opposed to bands doing reunion shows but this is for a good cause, and all the members playing are straight edge. that may not seem like something important for most people, but in this day and age of sellouts and band wagon jumpers, its important to the integrity of UTE, straight edge, and hardcore as a whole.
UTE will be doing a show on June 20th 2009 in Tampa @ Transitions.
Lineup is as follows:
Until The End
Losing Vision
Coldside
When Honor Meant Everything
With Increase
Take Charge
Set The Sights
End It
6:00pm
$10.00
Fluff Fest 2009
All vegan kitchen, icecream and fruit ice lollies, free camp, swimingpool (both indoor and openair) next to festival spot,
Tons of distrostuff, fanzine reading room and exhibition, festival cinema tent running all day long, open air night cinema, gallery 'am180' art exhibitions,... entrance for 3 days eur 25 or czk 60
HAVE HEART [us]
Passionate Boston straight edge hardcore in the vein of In My Eyes, Bane or Outspoken.
DEATH IS NOT GLAMOROUS [nor]
One of the best European melodic hardcore bands at the moment. Mixing the energy and catchiness of Kid Dynamite, Lifetime or Gorilla Biscuits. Ex-members of bands like Damage Control, Onward, or Common Cause.
ZANN [ger]
Germany's Zann is already an icon on the DIY screamo hardcore scene. Influenced by bands like Rites of Spring, Born Against and Unbroken, and adding their own passion and intensity, they have made a unique wall of brutal and chaotic screamo hardcore.
IRON AGE [us]
If you dig Leeway and Cro-Mags, then you probably love Iron Age.
ANALENA [cro]
This female fronted emo hardcore punk band has been around forever. Briliant melodies combined with the dirty screamo sound of bands like Yaphet Kotto or Life... But How To Live It?
RISE AND FALL [bel]
Belgium's leading metallic hardcore band. on Deathwish Inc!
RATOS DE PORAO [bra]
Legendary fast raw hardcore punk band from Brazil.
KINGDOM [us]
Today's finest political vegan straight-edge hardcore band.
CELESTE [fr]
Heavy and dark atmospheric mix of doom metal and screamo hardcore for fans of Cult of Luna or Breach.
SENATA FOX [cro]
Croatian fathers of hardcore punk. Sociopolitical lyrics, fast straightforward thrash beats, grinding vocals and songs barely over one minute.
IRON LUNG [us]
The finest power violence with a bit of sludge / dark side. Ex-members of Artimus Pyle and Gehenna with a number of releases on 625, Prank, ...
XREPRESENTX [us]
Pennsylvania mid-tempo brutal straight-edge new-school hardcore on Seventh Dagger Records.
PRESS GANG [ger]
Brilliant hardcore punk. Fast, melodic, nasty and angry. Think something like Adolescents, early 7 Seconds or Dean Dirg.
REIGN SUPREME [us]
Reign Supreme's label Deathwish says: Reign Supreme are one of the heaviest/hardest metallic hardcore bands to surface from Philadelphia in over a decade. Led by former Blacklisted member Jay Pepito on vocals, they wield the same devastating musical hammer as bands like Crowbar, Terror, and Integrity. Yet come out swinging with a conviction and rage unlike anyone before them.
WAIT IN VAIN [us]
Passionate straight-edge hardcore from Seattle with ex-members of Trial and Champion!!!
FALL OF EFRAFA [uk]
Heavy atmospheric post-hardcore from Brighton, UK.
THIS IS HELL [us]
Well-known modern-sounding in your face hardcore on Trustkill Records. In the vein of Modern Life Is War and Betrayed.
DAYMARES [pol]
Polish hardcore-punk veterans teamed up to play metallic d-beat with that distorted sound and catchy choruses. Think of Entombed and Tragedy.
SHIPWRECK AD [us]
Deathwish Inc. band combining traditional hardcore with a brutal sound. No need for introductions I guess!
JUNE PAIK [ger]
Chaotic intense screamo-hardcore band on React With Protest. Think Shikari, Orchid or One Eyed God Prophecy.
Live in the party tent:
AYS [ger]
Traditional hardcore in the vein of Carry On or Champion.
DAKHMA [cz]
DIY screamo hardcore band from Prague with members of Lakme.
RZL DZL [us]
This band's music is hard to describe. it's just hardcore kids enjoying playing music. It's the sountrack to your house party. Often compared to early Beastie Boys and I can see why.
OUTRAGE [us]
Another really good Panic Records hardcore band with a 90s feeling.
DEAD VOWS [swe]
Raw and fast hardcore punk with that Swedish touch of Refused and the like.
Hardway
'Hold out to the last' means resist till the end. Never surrender, never give in, 'cause your life it's a challenge, and every day you gotta overcome it. It's even report on every shitty moment you have, every time you've a gip, every time you got a letdown...
First of all, congratulations on your new album.. What people can expect from this stuff?
"Hold out to the last" is our debut album, our fist work and we're really proud of it...it's an album with strong hardcore sound, heavy riffs touching upon metal and ny style breakdown...8 tracks that definitely represent ourselves, both in lyrics and music.
Are you pleased with the way it turned out when you listen to these songs now?
Yes we're... we guess it's a good album, even thanks to Mago Studio where we've recorded the cd, that immediately understood what we wanted.
Although it's effortless in hindsight look on determinated riffs, not much incisive, or not precise stop&go, but we think it's just this will to improve that bring you to carry on.
What's the general response been like to this release so far?
'Till now the response it's pretty good, we had many appreciations about the album, and it's going quite fine, especially abroad.
Explain the title of the album, Hold Out To The Last?"Hold out to the last" means resist till the end. Never surrender, never give in, 'cause your life it's a challenge, and every day you gotta overcome it. It's even report on every shitty moment you have, every time you've a gip, every time you got a letdown...well, it's bear up to not fall down in chasm and remain there forever. So many people give up, so many people take refuge 'cause have fear about what they're face with all there's outside, but doing like that you'll never resolve nothing...if we hold out to the last the deserve it's our, but even of our family and our friends stand always beside you every fuckin day.
We think it's an coherence invite as well, everybody that dont take a stand or decisions, that decrease to simple spectators they're desitated to fail, crushed by their indifferences. Who choose and persist maybe is going to lose but ideally is triumpher.
Where would you like to be placed in the hardcore world? Since there's a million subgenres of hardcore, how would you like people to look at what you do in Hardway?
It's true, into hardcore scene there're a lot of subgeners, almost too many...many times it's like confusional...we think Hardway plays hardcore that's all. Even if sometimes we go nearer to metal it doesn't mean we're a metalcore band or whatever...and definitely we're not more in 80's...
The lyrics on the album are mainly personal topics. Is there a main theme that runs throughout your lyrics or music?
The lyrics reflect and voice what we're and what we do. We're not base on clichè, who know us are aware of our lyrics tell about what we think of...the themes that rise from our lyrics are many, from social criticism to brotherhood, but we always try to spread out a power message, to reaction, to take out your balls and fight for what you love..
Where do you draw your inspiration from when it comes to the lyrics?
From what it's going on around us and from what our minds think...
You guys sing about the hardcore unity and fighting for your brothers and sisters in the scene. How much of it are real life stories?
All of what we sing is true! Of course see an united scene it's a real desire, and it's a positive message that we care about...In a world full of shit, where just you turn got a stab in the back, even the smaller hope glimmer is enough to belive in.
How did you team up with Sliptrick Records? Do you think that having your album released on an American label helps to promote the band outside Italy?
With Sliptrick Records we've signed in July of last year, to release our album Hold out to the Last. Thanks to Sliptrick we had a great worldwide distribution, and therefore a bigger visibility. The matter the label is american can help us in some factors, but for everything else we rely on ourselves.
Who are some of the hardcore bands that inspire you and why?
Definitely Madball, Terror, Hatebreed and Refused 'cause it's thanks to that bands if we're here now.
How do you feel about the music coming from the Italy right now? What Italian bands everybody needs to check out?Currently in Italy something it's going to move even if many bands quit in the last years... you know are phases repeated by now. We suggest to listen Concrete Block, To Kill, Strength Approach, Payback, KernelZero, Crop Circles, Bull Brigade, Face you Enemy and Still in da Game.
How did Hardway come to be the band that it is today? At what point did you realize that you wanted to start a hardcore band?
We know each other since 8 years by now and we come from previous experiences in other bands (grindcore, oi! streepunk, hardcore), so while speaking in 2006 the idea to join a new band came out...
What do you admire in the hardcore music that drives you to write new songs?
We listen every kind of music, but into hardcore we find themes and tunes that give us strength and inspiration...the passion!
Do you remember the first hardcore song you ever heard? If so what was it?
Carlo: i guess it was a song by Agnostic Front.
Michael: Victim in Pain by Agnostic Front thanks to his brother.
Luca: Your Leasing Check by Cripple Bastards.
Fausto: Call on my brother by Ignite thanks to Michael.
Is there anything in the scene that you would like to change?
Less useless bullshit that can be avoid about who has the more stylish nike and who pose as gangster! We need more unity, right now many guys think "i'm better than of that", both between scenes or band from different cities...another big problem is that there're just few places to play...
Few years back it was a popular trend to mix up hardcore with streetpunk/oi! Influences, nowadays the scene is getting more and more metal influenced. Where do you think the next major movement in hardcore music will come from?
We think that mix hardcore with hip hop, like it's already happening, will be the next step...and something that we've already listen is fuckin awesome!
Finally, what should we expect from Hardway in the future?
We're planning new shows befor summer and a new album, that we hope to record at the end of 2009, more mature and round off!
We'd like to thanks Old School Hate for the interview and for the great job you're doing with your blog!
Read the review:Hardway - Hold Out To The Last
See also:
Hardway @ Myspace
Sliptrick Records
The Killer to release new record in June
Organized Crime Records (Harms Way, Black SS, A18) is a label behind the new CD by Chicago based The Killer. As stated on their myspace profile, everything is recorded and mastered. The record should be available in June.
"Fear profits man nothing" is the title of the new CD by Pay No Respect (UK) which will be released on April 11th. Here's the tracklist:1 - Intro
2 - Side By Side (Ft Lewis OSD)
3 - How It Ends
4 - Is This The Answer?
5 - Suffer Deny
6 - This Is My Life
7 - The Fight
8 - Nothing But The Truth
9 - Remain In Our Hearts
Click here to listen to the new songs and for more info!
Click here to download their demo, "Promise Me This"
