Body Farm – Ohio, USA I’ve been meaning to cover Body Farm and Living Hell for quite some time but it has escaped me to the very tempo in which this band play. A part of an Ohio-based scene and simultaneously an even more powerful and greater US Hardcore revival, the…
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No Honor Among Thieves – Bristol, Connecticut, USA Akin to many huge swathes of noise, No Honor Among Thieves and Death Is Only The Beginning has been a long time coming. I shan’t bother stating the obvious unto why but compile what needn’t be mentioned alongside and in tandem with…
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Adptd – Long Beach, California, USA Adptd and The Bedroom Walls EP enter into a time where the legacy of both Post-Hardcore and many of its nuances and offshoots are coming full-circle. Yet again. Much like particular veins of politics (unfortunately), fashion (in the eyes of the beholder), music, art…
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Sky Tigers – Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Ah yes, the inextricable tendrils binding Punk, Hardcore and Thrash and the invariable tendency they have to coalesce. Introducing SkyTigers is relevant to that sentence and the meaning drawn from it. The Massachusetts band started in 2010 and until recently were unknown to me,…
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Nc17 – Richmond, Virginia, USA Introducing Nc17, where do I start? Well, the reason why such an introduction is necessary now is that the above image is the cover of their forthcoming debut EP, Nasty Habits, set for release on the 21st of this month. Secondly, now is opportune, relevant…
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Celebration Summer – Suburbs, Washington DC, USA And today, enter Celebration Summer and Against The Gun. The ever-seminal influence of the Washington DC Punk and Hardcore scene and those who champion, propagate and proliferate the fruits of its progression elsewhere can be grouped together under the uncontestable term “ubiquitous”. It…
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Long Birds – Chicago, Illinois, USA Earlier in November, Long Birds and I Had A Dream I Was Skateboarding made their play into the Skate Punk-a-verse. A “verse” that now varied in its penchant for Post-Hardcore, Pop-Punk and various veins of Metal, continues to venerate its genealogical ties to the…
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Debt Neglector – Orlando, Florida, USA Debt Neglector and Dirty Water are set to appear this coming November. The Florida-born political Punk-Rock band are known for cutting the shit and for deposing the bullshit and smiling in the face of continual verbal diarrhoea. In a succinct nutty nutshell that has been NOWHERE…
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United Defiance – East Bay, California, USA Ah yes, United Defiance and Change The Frequency. A band from the East Bay Area of California that in more ways than one, epitomise the existence of a DIY Punk band. United Defiance, a band that through multiple formats, personnel changes, loss, uncertainty…
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UGLYBONES – Chicago, Illinois, USA UGLYBONES and Erasure. These are words together in unison that I have been meaning to address. UGLYBONES, in a nutshell, were one of the first US Hardcore bands alongside those such as This Is Hell, that outside of the “greats”, were early indulgences as I began…
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