Upward - Pushed Aside
Face Your Enemy - Teschio Truck
Feat. Fiore (Still In Da Game). The song taken from the new album "Do The Right Thing"
Hard Resistance - Conform.Consume.Obey
Official Video Clip Hard Resistance 'Conform.Consume.Obey', taken from the album Lawless & Disorder 2012.
New Blood: Bad Terms
Game On, the latest output of the West Virginia-based Bad Terms, has been on constant rotation all day for me and I still can’t get enough of this shit. Menacing and dark hardcore that delivers some serious heavy-ass groove. Show hardworking band some love and like their page, go to their gigs or just listen to the demo!
Game On, the latest output of the West Virginia-based Bad Terms, has been on constant rotation all day for me and I still can’t get enough of this shit. Menacing and dark hardcore that delivers some serious heavy-ass groove. Show hardworking band some love and like their page, go to their gigs or just listen to the demo!For those that don’t know you, please introduce yourself and tell us where you’re from? How was the band formed?
The band consist of Trent, Nick, Tj, Eric and Bozeman. We are from Huntington west Virginia. We started in late 2010 and our first show was with OUTBREAK in our home town on feb 1st 2011. The band formed in a garage after most of us had broken ties from our previous bands. A few of us had been in bands together over the years.
Game On sounds fucking powerful, there’s lot of anger and hate in these songs. What were your major influences when writing this stuff?
When you live in a city such as Huntington WV you learn a lot about life and how you don’t have to live in a big city and know people just to play hardcore. And when we see all these little kids with their parents money only going to fest and not coming to local shows it sucks because when we were growing up we only went to local shows.
Do you guys have a certain aim when it comes to your sound?
We just want people to enjoy what we like to listen to. We are a hardcore band and just want people to bang their heads.
Who writes the lyrics and how important is the message to you?
Nick our vocalist writes most of them with some insight of the rest of us. They mean to world to us. Were not trying to send any messages, we want people to know what we go through and the struggle that we battle every day.
You did a tour across East Coast recently with No Zodiac and No Regrets. How did it go?
Both of those bands are solid dudes and have our upmost respect for what they do. It was a successful 6 day tour and everyone that helped us through it, we owe the world to.
How is hardcore doing in Huntington, WV? Any favorite bands from out there right now?
Hardcore around here use to be awesome, our scene has died over the years like most. There is still people that book shows and know what its about. we as a band have played with just about every band we could ever want to in our hometown. Its really just us and a band our guitar player Trent plays in now called Hard Times that just the locals.
What is the hardest thing about being in a band?
Working full time jobs and being able to get on the road to get our music out to the world. Its takes money to get to places and we all work hard as fuck to get to where we need to be.
What’s the most underrated hardcore band in the history?
Under One Flag and Forfeit.
What are the plans for the band in the near future?
To tour as much as possible and write our new lp for the fall of 2012
Last words or shout outs?
Our last words will be, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Fuck the world. Shout outs to: Hard Times, David Dunlap, Jacob Westfall, No Zodiac, No Regrests, Mind Crimes.
Pics by Drew Mistak
Race Riot streams songs from the upcoming split
Mercyless - Mundo Enfermo
Instead, a lot of elements here are straight up distracting and many of the moments when the songs are meant to really take off are not executed as powerful as they should. I am never too much demanding when it comes to hardcore, in my world the more ignorantly in-your-face it is, that better. On the other hand, I like to feel real passion behind the band, and I know Mercyless are folks who are really pissed off with the world today and want to make a change. But it doesn’t come across in their music though. Listening to these songs makes me wanna bitch a little about my boring job at the office and idiots I have to work with, while hardcore should make me want to go on riot, rape and pillage spree.
On the positive side, the band sings in Spanish which is a definite winner in my book. I have always been a fan of bands singing in their native language and Mercyless definitely scores for that. Doing my research I have found out they’ve got some socio-political edge in their lyrics, not too much PC, but just commentary about what’s happening right now in Europe and rest of the world. And with unemployment among young people in Spain at around 50% right now, you bet they’re fucking angry.
Ok, I realized I have been too negative in this review and I don’t want you to get an impression that No Hay Paz is totally wasted effort. It has its moments, and if you are longing for that Hatebreed/Born From Pain sound that was such a hype couple of years ago, it might be worth to check it out. Still not as good as Reclaiming The Crown, but how many times have you listen to that album during all those years after it came out? Give that album a break and try something new.
Review by Dloogi
Cruzade Records, 2012
New Blood: Impulse CV
Impulse reps vibrant Chula Vista scene and if you like hardcore that’s raw and fast, their demo should be on heavy rotation right now. Here’s a short interview which should shed some light about what this about, what are some other bands from CV to follow and some other shit you might find interesting.
Impulse reps vibrant Chula Vista scene and if you like hardcore that’s raw and fast, their demo should be on heavy rotation right now. Here’s a short interview which should shed some light about what this about, what are some other bands from CV to follow and some other shit you might find interesting.There is not much info about the band on your FB page so tell us what Impulse CV is all about? How long the band has been around? What is the line-up?
We got together in summer 2007 while were still in high school and took a long hiatus after 2 years of playing shows off and on. Back then the lineup was Alberto Aguilar on guitar, Alex Alvaro on drums, Guam on bass, and Nick Gonzalez on vocals. We just got back together this summer with a different bass player, MASON HATTTAM.
Is this your first band or have you been in other bands?
Yeah, this is our first band. We also share most of our members with SLEEP WALK which was started shortly after Impulse’s break.
Tell us something about your first demo. I dig your style which is all about playing it fast and fucking angry. What influenced you most when writing this stuff?
Old school hardcore, Infest and Straight Ahead.
Chicano Violence – is the any deeper meaning behind the title?
It’s the title of one of our songs and the vocalist felt like it was necessary to pay homage to the fact that our scene is mostly composed of first generation immigrant families from Mexico and the Philippines.
The pissed off and somehow pessimistic lyrics make the package complete. Where does it come from?
Our vocalist Nick committed suicide before the bands third show back in 07. But he’s ok now. BADASS. Some of his songs were written before and some after the fact.
Is there anything you’d like listeners to get from your music?
Nothing. Just making free music for the dawgs, take it or leave it.
Take Offense is the band that put Chula Vista on the map for the folks like me who didn’t even know the place exists before Tables Will Turn came out. Do they get much support from the local scene and how do you think it helps other bands out there to get attention?
Yeah the local scene in Chula Vista and most of San Diego have always supported Take Offense. Our scene is tight as fuck and better than everyone else’s.
So, what are some of the bands, zines and labels from your local scene kids should check out?
Mind disease records, 1039 records, SLEEP WALK, DEADWEIGHT/BACKSTABBER, STOPPING POWER, DOWN AGAIN, DEADLINED, TANTIVE IV, THE ROSICRUCIANS, COLD STARE, P$O, Linkletter and a bunch more we forgot.
And how is living in Chula Vista like? What are some places to go, things to see?
Boobs, Burritos, and Mexicans. Go to Tijuana and check out Zona Norte. Sexta y Revolucion, and of course Lolitas on Telegraph.
As a band, what do you want to achieve over the next 2 or 3 years?
We don’t think that far ahead. We just want to get one more release in before this summer is over and our guitarist joins the air force and our vocalist goes to school up north.
Anything you’d like to add?
Pregnant bitches shouldn’t drink Monster energy drinks.
Uprising distro website launched
New album by No Turning Back in October
Brutality Will Prevail - The Path
First track to be taken from rhw upcoming new album 'Scatter The Ashes', out November 2012 via Purgatory.
Very Cool & Very Core 7″ compilaton
In the works: Book on Agnostic Front '85 -' 86 era
Gordon Ancis (former NYC Mayhem guitarist and AF guitarist for ‘86 tour), Peter Steele, Sean Taggert (artist, creator of the cover of Cause For Alarm), Paul Bearer,
Scott Ian, Dan Lilker,Evan Seinfeld, Eddie Sutton, Tommy Rat, Wendy Eager (Guillotine Zine) and many more!
Kidnapped streams Planet Earth album
No Zodiac merch by Holy Mountain Printing
Will To Live posted new song
Steel Nation merch on sale. New music in the works
Tramwreck Interview
Tramwreck brings that sweet combination of thrash and hardcore. It’s fast and groovy, aggressive but laid back, apocalyptic but party-ready. Plus, you get all the nuclear and satanic war shit in the lyrics. Basically, it’s like Toxic Avenger starting a band with Mad Max while all the punks from Return of the Living Dead do the back vocals. The band’s latest artistic output is called Power Vomit, but as far as I know they should be working on some new music already. Check out the interview.
Tramwreck brings that sweet combination of thrash and hardcore. It’s fast and groovy, aggressive but laid back, apocalyptic but party-ready. Plus, you get all the nuclear and satanic war shit in the lyrics. Basically, it’s like Toxic Avenger starting a band with Mad Max while all the punks from Return of the Living Dead do the back vocals. The band’s latest artistic output is called Power Vomit, but as far as I know they should be working on some new music already. Check out the interview.The one thing that bums me out every time I think about Swedish hardcore scene is why the hell nobody stopped Refused before they recorder plenty of bad music? And worse, why did nobody do nothing to prevent them from doing reunion show? Are they still influential band in Sweden?
It’s hard to say why nobody stopped Refused from reuniting or if someone even should have. Our guess is they reunited because they like money and wanted more of it. We like money too so that’s okay with us. None of us are huge Refused fans, half of us had never heard of them until a couple of months ago when their reunion started getting hyped so they’re not an influential band for us. They’re probably influential to some bands but most new hardcore acts that appear in Sweden are either very old school oriented or total hipsters and you can’t hear much of Refused in their music. Also, some of Refuseds music is very experimental and that doesn’t reflect in other Swedish hardcore bands.
Before we started playing together as Tramwreck Skrevet who plays base used to play with a punk band called Sista Skriket, Björn who plays drums played with a metal band and Jocke who screams and Robert who plays guitar both played in the same horror-punk band. While celebrating midsummer (which is a very important hedonistic ritual in Sweden) in 2010 Skrevet and Björn started talking about jamming together since they both longed for playing faster and harder music. Jocke and Robert immediately wanted in and Tramwreck was formed. Sista Skriket had recently broken up so Skrevet had lots of time and enthusiasm that got us going. With time the rest of us either got kicked out of or quit our other bands so we’re now all about Tramwreck. Robert was even forced to quit his job at NASA where he experimented with shredding riffs in zero gravity in order to devote all his time to the band. As for our goals we haven’t given it much thought. We just want to play kickass music.
You released Power Vomit on tape. Why releasing music on a format that nobody uses anymore?
Tapes are awesome, that’s the first and foremost reason. Of course we’d have loved to release Power Vomit on vinyl but it’s expensive as hell and the release was a DIY effort. So when the option was a CD-r demo releasing a tape was by far the cooler option. And that is of utter importance.
Any plans for vinyl version?
Power Vomit won’t be released on any other format than tape. However, later this spring or this summer we’re going to record new material. If we can find a record label that would back us in releasing a 7 inch that’d be great. If not we’ll just release another tape.
Why people should give Power Vomit a try?
It’s tricky promoting yourself without sounding like a pompous asshole but we really do think people should give Power Vomit a try simply because it’s awesome thrashing hardcore. If you don’t like good music you can still enjoy it for it’s packaging. It’s on a cool green cassette with a cover by Blasting Dead Artwork. Truly beautiful!
Favorite type of Beer?
We are all big fans of Risingsbo and Tingsryd, which is a Swedish phenomenon, called “folköl” which for some reason roughly translates to peoples beer.
This question led to some heavy debate within the band but we finally managed to settle on five albums, as following, in no specific order:
Municipal Waste – Waste ‘Em All
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Nuclear Assault – Game Over
Toxic Holocaust – An Overdose of Death…
Sodom – In the Sign of Evil
What are some bands from Sweden that people should be listening to instead of Refused?
There are a lot of great Swedish acts that people should be listening to. Some that we are fans of are Håll Käften Vad, Vad Vill Du!?, Fredag den 13:e, Passiv Dödsjälp and Näääk. People should definitely check out The Dahmers, an awesome garage-punk-rock band that opened for us at the Power Vomit release party.
Hardcore scene is quite diversified nowadays, with styles of music running from beatdown to thrash, from punk rock to NYHC worship. How it is in Sweden? Is there any tension between people into different styles of hardcore?
The straight edgers are pretty much running the scene when it comes to booking bands and arranging shows but there’s not much tension within the scene. The hardcore scene is pretty unified in the sense that it doesn’t have much connection to its subgenres or to similar genres. For instance, it’s not common to see a thrash band play together with hardcore bands. The Swedish hardcore scene however is too small to support tension within itself. Most of the people active in the scene seem to be pulling in the same direction.
When and how did you get into hardcore?
That’s a hard question. We all got into hardcore through other music genres, such as punk and thrash metal. However we all yearn for faster, angrier and harder music. And our very short attention span only allows us to listen to, and play, very short songs so hardcore is perfect.
From Viking warriors to gender neutrality, Sweden seems to be interesting country to live in. What are your thoughts about the life in Sweden 2012?
Life in Sweden includes listening to everybody whining about how terrible life in Sweden is. But it’s all right, we don’t have much to complain about. Of course, there’s political bullshit in all countries but as far as everyday life goes Sweden is pretty good, and probably will be all through 2012. It’s awful cold though. And these days it’s a little too much emphasis on gender neutrality and too little on Viking warriors.
Line Of Scrimmage posted new track
World Vs Cometh to release new BottomFeeder 7" for Europe
World War 4 - Demo 2012
Swamps releases dobule 7", 'Seven Sides'
Organized Crime to reissue System Overload on vinyl
Olde York to release new album, Shallow World
Take It Back Records update
TAke It Back has updated BigCartel store with records that were sold out to raise money for our next release: an EP by Stuttgart's Reality Returns.
Drowning and World In Decline join BadAss Recs
Optimist - MMXII
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
Old Punks Should Die
Backtrack streams new track ‘Boiled In My Blood’
Look My Way working on first full length
New Blood: Ante Up
Things seem to be going good for Ante Up in 2012. After couple of years of hiatus, the band got their shit together, started playing shows and released 3 song demo called ‘Prelude To Hell’ which sets the bar high when it comes to that heavy, streetwise Detroit hardcore. The new full length ‘See You In Hell’ is planned to drop this year, and judging by the three songs already available, it’s gonna be hell of a record. Here’s an interview with Matt C who handles guitar duties for the band.
Ready To Die - Demo 2012
The Last Charge to release new full length, Straight Outta Nowhere
Hometown Hate posted new track
Strength For A Reason & HHF t-shirt collaboration
Stout to drop new album, 'Tales from the Marked Side'
Sworn Vengeance to play Berkeley, Ca in August
