Iceberg

Name: Iceberg

Location: Northern Indiana

Active since: April 08

How do you define your overall style?
Fast paced heavy hardcore

What’s your goal with this band?
Have fun, travel, play music, and release aggression


What do you have recorded so far?
We just finished a 6 song EP and we have an old demo that was recorded when we first started

Please give a brief history of the band, how did it get started.
We all were just sick of the shitty music that was being played around here and we wanted to start a band that we were in to

What are some key elements and influences, both musical and non musical, that have shaped Iceberg to what it is today?
We all grew up listening to punk and hardcore and its been a good outlet for shitty days and frustrations

Who write the lyrics and what do you sing about?
Steve writes most of the lyrics and takes inspiration from built up stress.

What's your label situation? Who you signed to and do they have distribution?
We have been talking to a couple of labels and are kind of waiting to see which one works out

What’s the scene like out there in Indiana at the moment?
I'ts growing a lot more people are getting in to throwing shows and starting bands...for the most part its good...everyone is getting involved and thats what our scene needs right now.

What are your views on the file downloading? Is it destroying the scene or is it a tool to help upcoming bands blow?
It helps people get their music out and to us thats what hardcore is about just getting your message out and not trying to profit


How are you finding the Myspace hype? Love it or hate it?
It helps with shows and its easier for people to discover us outside of our local scene

With bands like Hatebreed getting the major recognition, are media in USA interested in hardcore?
Are there any radio stations in your area that are supporting this type of music? No we feel its still more underground and that the majority of the people dont want to hear the truth about life. No radio stations support our music in this area.

What’s the worst fashion you have ever witnessed at a show?
We are not really worried about how people are dressed as long as they are there for the right reasons and to help build our scene.

Of all the places you played, which do you think has got the best moshers?
Its all about the hoosier hardstyle haha.

So what's next for Iceberg?
Shows, hang outs, and tyring to get our music out

Any shout-outs or anything you wanna add?
Any given second, nowhere bound, choking on reality, karloff, blood in blood out, after the quarrel, body check, trontor, black teeth, joshy for driving us to all our shows, New Republic Tattoo and anyone else who is supporting us and this music.

Iceberg at Myspace

Death Before Dishonor new 7"EP coming real soon

Death Before Dishonor and Bridge Nine Records are proud to announce the release of a limited edition 7" EP and digital download titled "Our Glory Days" on June 16th. Featuring two tracks, "Coffin Nail" and "Our Glory Days" (featuring guest vocals from Mark Unseen), from the group's upcoming album, "Better Ways To Die," and an exclusive song only available on this EP, this is the first taste people will get of what Death Before Dishonor is set to unleash July 28th.

"Better Ways To Die" is Death Before Dishonor solidifying their name as one of the front-runners of the Boston hardcore scene worldwide. Somehwere between the harder punk edge of Rancid, the working class anthems of Dropkick Murphys, the hardcore attack of Hatebreed and the precision and fury of Slayer, Better Ways To Die truly is the sound of an American hardcore band that knows their roots and history-and they're not afraid to step beyond that.

The band is gearing up for a worldwide onslaught of touring. Starting in the USA with the 10 for $10 tour-along side Poison the Well, Madball, Terror, Bane, VOD and more. Then off to Europe August 6th and then it will just keep going as always.

http://www.bridge9.com/

Denied post 2 new songs from the upcoming "Prayers for the Enemy" album

Check out two new Denied tracks from the upcoming release "Prayers for the Enemy" for summer of 2009: Profit from your pain and God of War

La Vida Loca by Christian Poveda

http://www.lafemme-endormie.com/vidaloca/

In Central America they are referred to as the maras: modelling themselves on Los Angeles youth gangs, these groups are now spreading terror in El Salvador and further afield. A childhood at once terrifying and hateful but strangely captivating which typifies the disintegration of family life within Salvadorian society and the despair in which they have grown up. "La Vida Loca" is what life is really about over there : youths who suffer; who defy us; who look down on us; who resent and dislike us. "La Vida Loca" is a documentary about absolute human solitude.Though this vision of evil stirs up our fears and provokes nightmares, I also hope it shall invoke compassionand cause us to question our notion of the world. And so, like cornered dogs, this lost generation responds with pessimism, revolt and death. A total lack of communication !

"The intense world of El Salvador gangs is lensed with in-your-face style in docu helmer Christian Poveda's problematically nonjudgmental La Vida Loca. Poveda spent one year with the ultra-violent, heavily tattooed members of the M-18s, and, though he shows the brutality, the helmer adopts a sympathetic tone that, if not quite glamorizing the life, conveys the sense of an enthralled anthropologist unsuccessfully struggling for objectivity.

Docu employs a cyclical rhythm, following various members as they boast and briefly describe their lives."

VARIETY
Jay Weissberg

Eden Demise - The Takeover

Eden Demise - The Takeover
On The Attack 2009

I can’t really say I know many hardcore bands coming out of Greece. To be honest, I can think only about a few, and when it comes to the heavier side of hardcore, only Senseless pops in my mind at the moment. But with the debut release by Eden Demise, things are about to change and their debut album ‘The Takeover’ is bound to put Greece back on the map.

Knowing other bands On The Attack has been putting out, I expected some raw, in your face hardcore with a metallic edge and I can’t say I’m disappointed. Eden Demise have been captivating audiences with their special blend of hardcore and metal and they’re really good at what they do. The album is filled with crushing riffing, reckless breakdowns and sheer hostility in the vocals department. Low points will be hard to find on The Takeover as the album offers some really tight songs for those craving the metallic, a bit thuggish side of hardcore. Although it’s over 30 minutes long, the album maintains its high-energy vibe from start to finish. And the band prove themselves to handle their instruments with skills and fresh ideas. With a sound raging from NYHC to straight up metal, this record is hitting the spot for me. Lyrically, expect the tales of pride, vengeance, brotherhood and fighting for your rights. Some of the lyrics may seem a little played out, but they’re all well written and can get deep and mature at some moments. I have no doubt the band placed themselves among the best metallic type of hardcore bands in Europe right now. The Takeover fucking rocks, there’s no half-stepping that.

Eden Demise @ Myspace
On The Attack Records

Hit List

Name: Hitlist

Location: St.Louis Missouri the durrrty

How do you define your overal style?
Like a tank running outta gas.

Whats the goal of this band?
To play music about the hardships of bein poor and to paint girls with deco markers.

What do you have recorded so far?
Winter demo and street violence out on on the attack records due out soon

Brief history?
Everybody is pretty much douin there own thing.

New album dropping?
soon

Main influncenes?
punishment, shatterd realm,wu tang, bobby digital,drama, davy jones locka, mf doom, sir c and danegerous, hatebreed,alias,sole,gza,i-20,greyskul,


Hardcore in st.louis?
The only good bands in st.louis is Drama.

Nex thing to give hardcore a bad name?
Nappy headed hoes.

Do you have any lyrics you live by?
"I wake up in the morning and i ask myself if life worth livin or should i blast myself?"

Plans for 2009?
To get the baddest bitches i can

Final comments?
Givin shot outs to my graffiti crews OFB and TKO ..big shot outs to CRISTO BOKE ED BOXX KENR WAR42 NIPTUK CRACKULA LOVE YNOT FOZL GUTS MHAP BDC and all my homeies that take me to their spots to get up when im outta town...get the fuck at me if i come through.!
big thanks to old school hate for the interviev.

Hit List @ www.myspace.com/hitliststl

Planet Asia on hip hop... and emo

Do you think hip-hop has gotten too nice?

Planet Asia: I think hip hop has turned gay. These dudes are walking around feminine. When I come home, my woman is soft, I am the hard one. You shouldn't be a petite ass dude. That goes to all of them tight jean niggas. Back in the day when you looked unique that meant your music was unique. Now motherfuckers look unique but their music sucks. We were about gear too, but we were about skills first. If you see someone rocking some tight jeans, they are rocking that emo shit. Fuck that emo shit. There is an unspoken manual to this shit and everyone out right now is totally disrespecting it.

A lot of what you are describing seems to reflect the whole hipster-hop movement.

Planet Asia: That shit isn't even hip-hop. If you are signing and your shit sounds like a house record or alternative record that could be played on a station other than Tony Touch's radio program or DJ Mugg's Soul Assassins, then your shit is gay. If I walk by a fag club and they are dancing to your music happily, you are a fag rapper. I just call it how I see it. Also, thank god for the Internet because it is just a big screen for cats to just play themselves. That's why you don't get many blogs from Planet Asia or my girl all in the video. I don't want you to know who my real girl is. My chick is sacred. These rappers are killing themselves as artists because they have no mystic. Shut the fuck up. Make people wonder. A lot of these rappers are taking themselves out. That's why you have to give respect to Pete Rock because he doesn't have to work with Planet Asia. That's why you have to give respect to Muggs because he doesn't have to work with Planet Asia. They are doing this shit for the silent code.

Source: Urb Magazine



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Death Before Dishonor "Our Glory Days" 7" release party

DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR "OUR GLORY DAYS" 7INCH RELEASE PARTY
JULY 3RD @ TIGERS DEN IN BROCKTON MA
ALL AGES - DOORS @ 5
LINE UP WILL BE UP IN A DAY OR SO

xThe Warx merch pre-order

xThe Warx got some new merch for all the good looking dudes out there so drop by their myspace page and check out what they got to offer. The orders will ship out the 18th of June.

Sacred Pladge limited shirts

New very limited design by those SxE militants! Click here for order instructions!