Scraps and Heart Attacks “Still Sick” (Triple Crown) Tired of the same old hardcore? Feel the genre’s been so watered down that you’re about ready to head into the Virgin Megastore and buy everything on the Top 20 rack? Well…
Skare Tactic ““Remember When”” (Thorp Records) HxC! Los Angeles hardcore is back, with the mind blowing release, “Remember When”, from Skare Tactic. The Terror, Agnostic Front, Minor Threat, Sick of It All influence is apparent right off the bat, justifying…
Blood In / Blood Out “No One Conquers Who Doesn’t Fight” (Spook City) Aside from having a complicated name, Blood In / Blood Out is a straight up hardcore band. Hardcore lyrics (“I know how it feels to be pushed…
Statistics “Leave Your Name” (Jade Tree) Denver Dalley is doing more by himself than most bands do with multiple people. Dalley is the soul member of Statistics, but no one would ever guess when “Leave Your Name” comes out of…
Sulaco “Self-Titled” (Relapse Records) Upon initial listen of Sulaco (an “all-star band” of sorts if you can call survivors from various forgettable death metal bands “stars”), one is put off faster than imagining naked photos of Roseanne Barr with a…
Sunshine “Necromance” (GSL) This band had me from the first 20 seconds when they came in with this hip 80’s sounding keyboard being jacked into a speedy tempo and guitars dripping in echo. It’s almost like this band is painting…
Stampin’ Ground / North Side Kings “Allied Forces” (Thorp Records) The brutal hardcore oi of Britain’s Stampin’ Ground is lent to songs by Judge, Vio-Lence, Cro-Mags, Knuckledust, Agnostic Front and Inside Out on this split CD where the two bands…
Symphony in Peril “Lost Memories and Faded Pictures” (Facedown) The first thing out of everyone’s mouth about this album will be that Symphony in Peril is headed by ex-Zao frontman Shawn Jonas, so that might as well be the first…
The Deadly Snakes “Ode to Joy” (In the Red Records) Somewhere in a bar in the Deep South, The Deadly Snakes is playing on a jukebox. Tracing the pure roots of rock and roll, The Deadly Snakes focus more on…
The Evaporators “Ripple Rock!” (Alternative Tentacles) I don’t know what “Ripple Rock” is and it’s probably because it doesn’t mean anything. Or maybe it does. Either way, if The Evaporators are ripple rock, I dig it. I really have to…