Assorted News

Forbearance records will drop a debut ep by Paid In Full. The ep can be streamed in its full glory here - this stuff is pretty ill so I recommend you check it out!

Dead End Recs will release new No Excuse titled Testament. The recird will be limited to 300, 200 Black and 100 Red vinyl. FFO:Youth Crew, Youth Of Today, United Youth, Mindset. Order your copy here.

Times Are Changing: A European Hardcore Compilation LP out soon via Destroy Your World Inc. The comp includes acts from various countries of Europe: No Turning Back, Coldburn, World Eater, Born From Pain, Risk It!, Knuckledust and much more.

Old School Cartel out of Australia is set to drop a split 7" between Worst Possible Outcome and Deadly Visions. Both bands hail from Australia and both rip.

Hoods' new album will be titled Gato Negro: OK so we tracked 6 songs. They came out amazing. For the first time ever in the studio I have zero worries. This album is well worth the abuse, rage, sadness, happiness, and depression that went I had to go through to achieve. GATO NEGRO is in the alleyways and coming to a street near y’all. Keep that blood pumpin’ MH.

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Feels like I'm stuck in quicksand...

Quicksand is such a dope track that I'm really happy Concrete decided to drop a video for it. The song is of course taken from the band's latest record Deadlock - go check it out if you haven't already. Fans of heavy, but old styled hardcore should be most interested in catching up on it. Especially if Madball or early Hatebreed is your type of shit. By the way, Concrete's split 12'' with Hammerfist coming Summer 2014!

Interview with Joey Knuckles (The Alliance, Suicide Kings) pt II

As promised, here's the second part of the interview with Joey Knuckles (check the first one if you haven't already). This time we focus on Suicide Kings, his rap project with producer Cole Young “DJ King Cole”, also of Gravemaker fame. Kings recently dropped their debut album 'Crown Of Thorns', which is the main reason for this conversation. The style of the record is straight up raw and aggressive hip-hop with guest features from heavyweights like M.O.P, Saigon and The Demigodz. Dope stuff!

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New Madball track: DNA

So, Madball just dropped new song from the upcoming album, 'Hardcore Lives'. Of course you know how it's gonna sound even before you push play, but honestly, it is probably one of their best tracks in years. The New York posse drops some dope groove as always and Freddy sounds really dedicated and pissed off on this one. I feel like this song really once again got me hyped for anything new from the band.

Ryker's - Hard To The Core video

Just over the last couple of days there's been more updates about new Ryker's album, and all of a sudden the band drops the clip for title track from the upcoming record. The track itself does not dissapoint if you're a fan of their earlir work. What can I say, this is Euro-core in all its glory.

Stream new Look My Way

Recently there has been a steady stream of very ill music coming from different scenes, be it Europe, US, South America or Asia. I don't have enought time to write about every dope new band or track I hear, but I gonna try to at least write about the most interesting ones.

Most of you probably know that Look My Way will be calling it quits this year, but before this happens the band promised to release a farewell record. Well, here it is and you can stream Last Will And Testament in its entirely here. Can't say the band has been among my favorite bands doing it right now, but I gotta admit these new songs are their best work so far. It sounds hard and dynamic, and the ruff vocals only add to overall positive outcome. Press play below and be sure to cop this material when it's finally out on a physical format. Expect it to drop in May on tape via Save My Soul Records.

Interview with Joey Knuckles (The Alliance, Suicide Kings) pt I

This is the first part of the interview I did with Joey Knuckles, who did vocals for one of my all time fav bands - The Alliance. If you need introduction, check out the post I did couple days ago which gives a short overview of the band and most of all, shares some deep science on why Hit Em' Up is one of the tightest hardcore albums of all times. Seriously, you need to go there, download this stuff and go ape shit listening to it. As for this interview, I am stoked that we were able to pull it off. There's a cloud of mystery surrounding the band as I didn't come across any other interview or bio, so I took this opportunity to ask Joey about how various stuff, like the band got started, their time being part of Detroit scene, and what eventually led to its demise. Next part of the interview will be about Joey's new project, Suicide Kings.

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Last Dayz set from Northcote Festival

I always felt bands from east side of Europe have been underrated despite churning out one great record after another. Especially in the recent times, the amount of awesome hardcore coming from Poland, Russia, Ukraine and so on is amazing. Don't even get me started on listing bands to check out, too many to mention - go through old post on this blog and find out for yourself. But don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound like I am complaining. It's not really something I loose my sleep over. You have to work for yours and take care of things in your own backyard, which means good old fashioned 'support your scene' attitude. More important to me is Polish bands getting support from local kids and keeping the local scene alive. If the rest of the world is sleeping on bands from here, they are simply missing out on great hardcore.

Anyway, every Last Dayz show I've seen was beyond incredible so peep the video above and see how hardcore should be played live. I wasn't at this years Northcote fest, but the video looks really dope. I gotta give it to the dudes running Remain Sustain youtube channel, the sound and video quality is superb.

Forgotten Classics: The Alliance - Detroit hardcore

So little is known about this band that I cannot give you any detailed bio. All I know it featured members of Earthmover, Cold as Life, Hyde, Dogz of War and Tank. Even though there are plenty of kids who don't give a single fuck about that band nowadays, The Alliance was everything that was right (and everything that was wrong, to some) with hardcore in the 00’s. The band called it quits in 2007 after their third album Hit Em Up came out. That's pretty much all I know about them, now let’s get down to the music.

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