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| From the Chest |
| Devils and Old Friends |
| [4 OF 5] |
http://www.myspace.com/fromthechest |
Ryan lyrically covers a spectrum of questions and failures, epiphanies and lies, takes on life, and thoughts and feelings from a very lonely perspective and dives into what obviously is still a source of anger for him personally on Honor Thy Father ... full review. |
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| Fucked Up |
| The Chemistry of Common Life |
| [2 OF 5] |
| http://lookingforgold.blogspot.com/ |
So the Son the Father and Magic World, the most solid track on Chemistry, start rocking enough once they get going after the flute, but after that this record gets a little noisy and, while album shots at atmosphere and texture on this journey instead, create large vacancies in its forced attempt to be epic....full review.
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| SWEET COBRA |
| FOREVER |
| [5 OF 5] |
Sweet Cobra's Forever is one of the best and heaviest records of 2008.....full review. |
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| I RISE |
| DOWN |
| [4 OF 5] |
rhythm heavy hardcore played with Conviction and going for it in every note and word...full review. |
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| COLD WORLD |
| NO OMEGA |
| [4 OF 5] |
Don Fury this one may get overlooked as one of your greats, but its definitely good....full review. |
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| SHIT OUTTA LUCK |
| FAMILY TRADITION |
| [5 OF 5] |
| The vocalist Shawn has the best voice ever up there with the greats like Paul Bearer Sheer Terror, Anthony Comunale Killing Time/Raw Deal, a voice that reverberates with life's experience...FULL REVIEW |
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| TRAMPLE |
| STRIKE WHEN PROVOKED |
| [3 OF 5] |
Trample from Florida plays in a moshy, NYHC style that takes influences from The Cro-Mags and Sick of it All...FULL REVIEW |
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| THE BIG HURT #3 |
| [5 OF 5] |
| jeffklepper@gmail.com for ordering information |
| This zine is very impressive both writing and graphic wise. It comes with a 7inch comp called “Mass Confusion” which features Expired Youth, Raining Bricks, Urban Blight and 86 Mentality....FULL REVIEW |
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| FOR THE PROUD |
| ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE |
| [2 OF 5] |
For The Proud play metal influenced hardcore with crunchy guitars, lots of kick-drum, and 2 vocalists...FULL REVIEW |
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| EVASION |
| HORIZONS |
| [3 OF 5] |
| These melodies speak volumes of hope and compassion, do you not feel the power of the room erupting through our own lungs? Something more lies within these words.....FULL REVIEW. |
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| SEASICK |
| AWAKENINGS |
| [4 OF 5] |
| Obviously well read, politically charged, or apolitically in this case, anarchically.....FULL REVIEW. |
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TOUGH GUY TIMES #7
This is one of the better zines out today and if you like Heavy hardcore, is a must read.....FULL REVIEW.
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PELLINORE
Memento Mori+Hell Mouth
Pellinore plays heavy, sludgy hardcore with a ton of blast beats and spastic vocals....FULL REVIEW. |
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MTG
LIFE'S A MESS
[1.5 OF 5]
MTG plays metallic, beatdown hardcore. To me this sounded like one long song. These guys seem to only know two tempos....FULL REVIEW. |
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OFF BALANCE DEMO CD
HATECORE RECORDS
[3 OF 5]
Off Balance comes through with some straightforward, angry hardcore.....FULL REVIEW |
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V/A-United States of Hardcore
[4 OF 5]
This is one of the best comps I've heard in awhile. You get 35 tracks of Hardcore, 95% of which would be considered "tough guy" hardcore for lack of a better term....FULL REVIEW
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DEATHKILLER
NEW ENGLAND IS SINKING
[4 OF 5]
Though I am happy their major label Sire/WB has brought this ridiculous record....FULL REVIEW |
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AGAINST ME!
NEW WAVE
[5 OF 5]
Though I am happy their major label Sire/WB has brought this ridiculous record....FULL REVIEW |
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TED LEO & THE PHARMICISTS
A WEEKEND IN THE CITY
[5 OF 5]
...after his break with Lookout, and his first release on Touch & Go....FULL REVIEW |
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BLOC PARTY
A WEEKEND IN THE CITY
[4 OF 5]
This is about as gay as we get....FULL REVIEW |
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MINDLESS MUTANT ZINE
This zine rules. You can tell the dude who put it together (Matt Rolland) really spent a lot of time and care putting it together. The zine could have easily been called "The Stage Dive Chronicles"...FULL REVIEW |
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COMEBACK KID
BROADCASTING
[5 OF 5]
Broadcasting is a fucking modern hardcore event...FULL REVIEW |
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GET A GRIP/HAMMERHEAD
SPLIT CD
[2.5 OUT OF 5]
Get a Grip’s songs were disappointing while Hammerhead shows a lot of promise..FULL REVIEW |
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FROM THE CHEST
DEMO 06
[4 OUT OF 5]
Take a lesson 'from the chest' and pick this 06 demo up . ..FULL REVIEW |
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FUCKED UP
HIDDEN WORLD
[5 OUT OF 5]
Fucked Up are truly on some next level of hardcore type shit...FULL REVIEW |
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LUPE FIASCO
FOOD & LIQOUR
[5 OUT OF 5]
Food & Liquor is fucking retarded. Another distinctively voiced MC..FULL REVIEW |
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RHYMEFEST
BLUE COLLAR
[5 OUT OF 5]
Is there something in the fucking water in Chicago?...FULL REVIEW |
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CURSIVE
HAPPY HOLLOW
[OMAHA OUT OF 5]
This record speaks and affects the fan of the Ugly Organ with its intensity. There is tension and pain in all the bright instruments and sounds pushed to their ends......FULL REVIEW |
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TERROR
ALWAYS THE HARD WAY
[4 out 5]
The dudes drinking the hatorade of the hardest of the hardcore can put this in the convenient box, with the Madball, and close it so that nothing reminds them they have a pussy and sit when they piss.....FULL REVIEW |
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HOPE CON (THE HOPE CONSPIRACY)
DEATH KNOWS YOUR NAME
[2 OF 5]
I hear all this work in the music and this guitar ringing that hurts my canine. ..FULL REVIEW |
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DEATH CYCLE
SELF TITLED
First off I have to say that the cover art of this release is bad ass, it really stands out amongst the sea of boring ass band pictures..FULL REVIEW |
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WISDOM IN CHAINS
VIGILANTE SAINT
This is the new band of Mad Joe Black from Boxcutter/Krutch fame. For those not familiar with Boxcutter, they were some of New Jersey’s hardest.....FULL REVIEW |
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AMERICAN HARDCORE
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PUNK ROCK 1980-1986
[5 out 5]
The film was definitely more powerful than the book, just as hardcore was always more powerful live than on some crappy (now great) cassette......FULL REVIEW
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PINK SPIDERS
ATEENAGE GRAFFITI
[3 out 5]
Nashvilles trio Pink Spiders exciting live shows break down to a pretty energetic and fun record that may impress a fifteen year old who’s never heard....FULL REVIEW |
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DUSTHEADS
DEMO '06
[4 out 5?]
This band is doing the whole pre-85 hardcore thing where it’s still just really snotty punk, but a bit more intense.....FULL REVIEW |
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FEW AND THE PROUD
STAMPEDE
[5 out 5]
This is the best Uppercut record they could never make. The Vocals are so up front and top of head and throat they take me back to some Uppercut, Our Gang, Bold, Outburst, Where the Wild Things Are Comp....FULL REVIEW |
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FUCKED UP
TRIUMPH OF LIFE b/w NEAT PARTS
Seems all anybody wants to talk about with Fucked Up these days is how they’re selling out or how they’re just a joke band out to fuck with people or...FULL REVIEW |
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TRAGEDY
NERVE DAMAGE
I've gone from being confused and kinda disappointed to thinking it absolutely rages...FULL REVIEW |
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TOWERS OF LONDON
BLOOD SWEAT AND TOWERS
[0 out 5]
Shit, I don’t know what else to say but these guys except they fucking suck....FULL REVIEW |
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FURIOUS STYLES
'TIL THE WHEELS FALL OFF DEMO '05
[5 out 5]
Furious attack in the style. Unbelievable ....FULL REVIEW |
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IRON AGE
CONSTANT STRUGGLE
[5 out 5]
You all know I hate to compare, do "sounds like" and or "fans of" but when I say it, it's for real as I have respect for the NYHC greats ...... ....FULL REVIEW |
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WAKE UP CALL
ONE EYE OPEN
[4 out 5]
Wake Up Call. The catchiest most original songs and lyrics saying some of the same old hardcore cliches about the scene, being stabbed in the back, knowing your self...... ..FULL REVIEW |
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SHE WANTS REVENGE
SELF TITLED
[GAY out 5]
If you love and worship Bowie set up a dick sucking and leave us out of iT....FULL REVIEW |
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THE SOUNDS
DYING TO SAY SOMETHING TO YOU
[3 out 5]
The Sounds' “Dying To Say This To You” is definitely dying to tell you something. It’s a shame ...FULL REVIEW |
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THE ACADEMY IS
ALMOST HERE
[1 out 5]
The Academy… Wear Jackets? ...FULL REVIEW
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SICK OF IT ALL
DEATH TO TYRANTS
[3 out 5]
9 albums in 20 years, authors of one of the greatest hardcore (not just NYHC) albums of all time, Blood Sweat and No Tears...FULL REVIEW |
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ARCTIC MONKEYS
WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM , THAT'S WHAT I AM NOT
[3 out 5]
As the story goes, four young lads from Sheffield get some instruments for Christmas, learn how to play them, write some songs and play the shit out of them live. A year or so later with the help of Myspace...FULL REVIEW |
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THE KILLER
BETTER BE JUDGED BY TWELVE THAN CARRIED BY 6
[5 out 5]
The Killer, from Chicago, have re-released last years record, that not near enough people have, with some bonus material. And not Bonus too much...FULL REVIEW |
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HELLACOPTERS
ROCK & ROLL IS DEAD
[2 out 5]
Don’t think, profoundly or ironically naming your new record Rock and Roll is Dead...FULL REVIEW |
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GREENHAVEN
THE LAST POWERFUL SECOND
[4 out 5]
Foghat, desert culture and some other wierdness in the metal riffin' rock...FULL REVIEW
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GHOSTFACE KILLAH
FISHSCALE
[5 out 5]
Just when you thought hip-hop had hit the ultimate low, here comes Ghostface to save the day................FULL REVIEW |
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SLUMLORDS
ON THE STREMPH
[5 out 5]
This record does not come out til July 18th, 2006, that said we were lucky enough to come up with an advance. The Bronx, who definitely speak there own language, did not allow major, Island Records, to fuck.................FULL REVIEW |
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THE BRONX
[5 out 5]
This record does not come out til July 18th, 2006, that said we were lucky enough to come up with an advance. The Bronx, who definitely speak there own language, did not allow major, Island Records, to fuck.................FULL REVIEW |
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Crime In Stereo – The Troubled Stateside, Nitro records.
What we have here is the 2nd full length by Long Island’s Crime In Stereo. If you liked “Explosives & The Will To Use Them”, you will not be disappointed. The album’s opener “Everything Changes/Nothing Is Ever Truly Lost,” grabs your attention & keeps it through the rest of the release. Aggressive, fast, (yet tight as hell) with plenty of melody & tempo changes to keep this interesting, and a ton
of sing-a-long parts & easy to understand vocals. Even though it’s a little more melodic than the first one (both in the vocals & instrumentally) , it still maintains their trademark sound. I think the guitar work on this record’s great. “Bicycles For Afghanistan,” is one of my favorite tracks on this record as well as the closer “I, Stateside” that had the chorus stuck in my head for hours after, hell there isn’t a song on here that’s not good. I can definitely see these guys going places with this solid release, glad to see that there's no sophmore jinx here.
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