Sound & Fury Festival 2012

Sound & Fury Festival 2012 will take place at Earl Warren Fairgrounds, Santa Barbara, CA on July 20-22. Check out the official website for the event for more info. The presenting sponsor this year is No Sleep Records.

Some of the bands announced include:
Bent Life
Donnybrook
Downpresser
Earth Crisis
Fire & Ice
Friend or Foe
Hardside
Harms Way
Hour of the Wolf
Ivy League
New Brigade
No Tolerance
Nomads
Rival Mob
Sabertooth Zombie
Seahaven
Souvenirs
Tough Luck
The Wrongside
Xerxes
Xibalba
Alpha & Omega
Bane
Basement
Black Breath
Blacklisted
Born Low
Comeback Kid
Creatures
Dead End Path
Everything Went Black
Focused Minds
H20
Harness
Holy Fever
Ill Intent
Night Birds
Piece By Piece
Retaliate
Rotting Out
Single Mothers
Suburban Scum
Terror
The Mongoloids
Touche Amore

Ante Up - See You In Hell

Official video for See You In Hell.

HardBoiled Scene Report vol. 1

We’re proud to present you the first Hardboiled mixtape which we have compiled with the help of few friends from various labels and bands that were so cool to let us use their music. It might has taken us a while to get this volume one published, but here it is! The overall idea is that you can download it for free and enjoy music from bands that have more or less recently put out good hardcore albums. These are bands that we totally support and believe they represent what hardcore should be about. From the kids, to the kids.

DOWNLOAD

Download the compilation HERE (Mediafire).

FRONT COVER

BACK COVER

The plan is that it will be followed by next digital releases so the kids know what’s going on in the scene. This issue has bands from Europe and USA mainly, but we would be happy to feature acts from Asia, Africa or South America. If you want to take part in the next release, get in touch now!

The track list is as follows:

01. Step Aside - Intro - Mind In A Maze
02. Provider – Wasteland
03. Animal Instinct - What´s Your Name Again
04. King Of Clubz - Society's Prey
05. Represent - Intervention
06. Providence - Vengeance Over Victory
07. Show Of Force - Left Behind
08. Truth In Needles - Against The Grain
09. Brawl - Stand Up Fight Back
10. Bloodstained - Unfilled
11. In Clear Sight - Struggle For Life
12. Represent - Sad State of Affairs
13. Bitter Taste Of Life - Ill Intent
14. Losin' It - Fuck Off
15. Sawchuk - Torn Apart/img/blank.gif
16. State of Mind - Modern Eyes
17. Bloodshed Remains - Countdown
18. Truth In Needles - Pure Hate
19. Cast Iron Jaw - How I See The Worldh
20. Wolf City - Cross Roads
21. Blame It On The Ocean - Fall Depression

Thanks to the following labels: Ratel Records, BadAss Records, Clenched Fist Records, Take It Back, Seventh Dagger, Life To Live, Irish Voodoo.

Rude Awakening and Defam Nation collaboration

Defam Nation's long awaited collaboration efforts with Rude Awakening will be releasing on May 15th. Limited to 50pcs and available online and at the Rude Awakening record release on May 15th at Anchors Up.

M.O.R.A - Self Titled

Where did this one come from? I had totally no idea about this band’s existence until I found this CD in my mailbox. The band hails from Helsinki, Finland and its members had previously learnt their licks in bands like Black Betsy, Spoiled Betty, Confusa and Aurinkokerho. I am not even going to pretend I am familiar with those bands so it doesn’t say much to me and I am not gonna try to draw any comparisons. The artwork makes you expect some more crusty type of sound, but surprisingly there’s a lot of groove in here. After the short medium-paced intro which blasts with double bass and heavy ass guitar work, the first song, Feikki, kicks in and it turns out MORA is as hardcore as it can be.

The music is tight technically, but at the same time quite fast and in your face all the time. You can hear a lot of old school hardcore influences, but there’s a slight modern touch to it as well. The drumming is awesome, the guy is on point all the time and controls the pace of the songs flawlessly. MORA has two female vocalists, one straight up screaming and the second one with more harsh vocals. Although it’s not my favorite style of vocals, it fits pretty well with the music and after some time I got used to it.

The girls sing in Finnish which is one of the coolest things about the album. I love bands singing in their native langue and it totally works for MORA. I got the translations along with the CD and lyrical-wise, it carries social and political observations and tackles problems like mindless violence, consumerism, fake people who talk too much shit etc. Usual shit, but the sharp and aggressive delivery leaves no doubt that they're serious about the message they want to put across.

I don’t really feel like breaking it down track by track, it’s totally useless with albums that blast 9 tracks in about 15 minutes. The bottom line is that this is a solid release.

Review by Dloogi

Self released, 2012.
Band's website here.

Elapse - The Mockracy

Music video from the band Elapse with the song The Mockracy.

True Hearted - Californians

True Hearted hails from San Jose, Cali and delivers straight down the line NYHC sound with tight mosh parts and slick delivery. The drums sound kinda odd, I think they're programmed but I can't be sure. But it's nothing that would bother me that much and they got a real drummer now anyway. Overall, it's pretty solid demo and True Hearted has a lot of potential if they continue to write better songs. Just like the Vice Grip, a song the band has just recently released. This one is taken from the upcoming EP, it can be heard here and it's pretty sick. But until this new EP is out, check out their older material as well. Download it!

Upright posted songs from the upcoming Losing Touch 7"

Upright has posted new songs from the upcoming Losing Touch single. The 7" is due out soon on Collision, Green Menace and Street Survival Records. Check out new songs here.

New releases from Marked For Death: Beg For Life, For My Enemy and Anguish

Marked For Death has added new Anguish album to their webstore. The New Jersey-based band "delivers some heavy and pissed off metallic hardcore in the vein of bands like Lifeless, old Hatebreed, Shattered realm and Harms way. After their debut Ep called 'Badlands' the band took the next step to release one of the hardest mosh records in 2012." There's also For My Enemy vs. Beg For Life split. After their debut record on MFD called 'Dark days', For My Enemy are back with some new 90ies metalcore influenced tunes. Similar to bands like Arkangel, All out war or Congress. And last but not least Beg For Life from Yuma, Arizona are finally back with some new songs! After their release on Westcoast Worldwide this powerhouse is back with a vengeance. Beg For Life combines the best parts of metal and hardcore. For fans of All out war, CDC and Line of scrimmage.

Beg For Life Announces New LP, Releases First Single

Westcoast Worldwide Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of the “Mare Miseria” EP from Arizona based metallic hardcore masters Beg for Life. Mare Miseria is the much anticipated follow up release to 2009’s critically acclaimed “Doomed”, and is the band’s first recording with new vocalist Steven Jimenez. The recording duties were handled by producer/engineer Chris Hopkins at Earthbound Recordings in Chula Vista California.

“We’re extremely excited about this release” remarks Beg for Life Guitarist Jeff Schuster. “We didn’t want to rush anything on this, and it was well worth it. We pushed ourselves to write the best stuff we possibly could, and we wanted to make a record that is unique sounding yet extremely heavy. We never want to be one of those bands that only strives to sound just like everybody else. We think that really shows on Mare Miseria. We wanted to write a record that is aggressive and hard as fuck but yet something that was distinctive.”

This statement is echoed by Westcoast Worldwide founder Mike Hood:

“Beg for Life is flat out one of the best heavy hardcore bands there is. The record is tough, and raw, and it’s got a big dose of super legit metal riffs that just knock you over. This record is a must have if you like anything heavy. Fans of many genres will be all over this thing, and it will leave them all wanting more.”

Mare Miseria by Beg for Life hits the streets by way of Westcoast Worldwide Records May 29th 2012 (May 27th in Europe via Marked for Death Records). In the meantime check out the first single off of Mare Misera entitled “Goner” below…….