This year's Black N Blue Bowl (formerly known as the Superbowl of Hardcore) will take place on Saturday, May 15th at Webster Hall in New York City. Doors open at 2pm and tickets are $25 in advance ($30 at the door).
Here's the line-up:
Cro-Mags
Madball
Yuppicide
H20
Skarhead
Trapped Under Ice
Wisdom In Chains
Sand
Cruel Hand
H8 Inc.
Incendiary
Eye For All debut 7" is out now! 4 brand new songs on black vinyl. Get yours through us or The Hood Took Us Under Records. Eye For All are based in Helsinki and draw influences from NYHC sound.
You can check new tracks from the band here. If you like it, put your pre-order here. Every pre order placed before the release date will get a copy of the CD, t shirt and this limited edition back patch!
Ruckus have uploaded Gallows, new track from the upcomming Earthquake split with World Of Pain and Xibalba. The other bands have also posted up new songs. Give it a listen!
Hold A Grudge are Canadian hardcore/punk band on Insurgence Records. They will have new album out in the upcoming months. It's called Doing Time and will have 12 songs, mostly new ones but also 2 from previous album and a cover.
For those who don’t know, Setback play fast-paced and crunchy hardcore with all the respect to the traditional NYHC sound. The bans have been around since 1991 and this is just their second full length.
Mixing streetwise oriented attitude with an even more aggressive sonic impact makes this album a great come back. The music is pretty much straight forward with nice built ups and breakdowns. They’ve got knack for catchy tunes and bring energy to any track. The production is raw yet clear. This reminds me a little bit of new Killing Time in a way they mix the solid hardcore base with a touch of punk rock, lyrically delivering the real hard working life attitude that had been missing for far too long in hardcore. Whether they speak out about experiences of living in the city or get political with songs like Client 9 dealing with corrupted politicians and big corporations. It’s the type of shit every hard working man can relate to.
Bottom line is, this is a type of band that don't care about anybody and anything and if you don't like it, you can fuck yourself. Unfinished Business is nothing revolutionary, but still a type of album that makes you forget all the bullshit and realize why you loved hardcore.
Here's the summary for this upcoming masterpiece:
"Rena Jodo, a stripper who just got back from Mexico and she has been offered a gig at a hot spring resort. When she arrives, she finds a deserted country town. There's hardly anyone in the audience at the strip club and all the other strippers, including Ginko (Risa Kasumi), Maria (Mari Sakurai), Nene (Tamayo) and Dana (Io Aikawa) are all bored stiff. They don't know what to do with their time and they are on the verge of fighting each other.
When they decide to go down to the basement of the club to kill time, Maria finds a "Book of the Dead" near "the Well of the Spirit." But who could have imagined the horror and panic that find would bring? Maria's reading of the book out loud has somehow revived the dead and zombies start appearing all over the world attacking mankind. It's Hell in the real world!
Dana and Nene are bitten by the zombies and they turn into living dead who attack Rena and Ginko. The poor big‐bosomed babes have no choice but to fight against Maria who now rules the zombies and tries to establish a kingdom of zombies. Rena and Ginko have to challenge Maria and the hordes of zombies! And how does the Blue Demon Devil (Minoru Torihada) fit in?"
Terror just entered the studio to start recording "Keepers Of The Faith" out soon on Century Media/Reaper Records. You can read all about the recording sessions on their blog www.keepersofthefaithhc.com.
