Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Lower Species features members of Gag but do a heavy stomp reminiscent of the harder NYHC bands of the late-'80s like Outbust and Breakdown (both demos).
A collection of everything ever recorded from Syracuse hardcore band The Funeral. The group existed between 2001-2004 and recorded two full lengths, and several demos. This material has never been released on vinyl and some of it only existed as short run CDRs or cassettes. All the material has been remastered for this collection and comes on a double LP in a gatefold jacket, complete with hundreds of pictures and flyers, as well as a booklet detailing lyrics, shows, and an oral history of the band. Download card included.
Magic Circle's self-titled debut hit the true doom scene like a revelation in 2013. This latest album reveals Magic Circle delving more deeply into '70s sounds, expanding farther outward from the primordial Iommic matter of their birth. Though all members are busy with other projects and other lives, when these five come together in the Magic Circle, the chemistry and palpable rock 'n' roll exhilaration reminds one that this band ain't never gonna die with the herd.
Osc4r Capps was a 16-year-old kid when he recorded this EP from the bottom up. He rented mics for a weekend, wrote, performed, engineered, mixed, and mastered this EP entirely on his own in his basement practice space. It's done with the sort of energy that only an authentic, teenage, punk-rock kid can pull off. Vinyl version includes digital download. On colored vinyl.
Stick To Your Guns are a five-piece melodic hardcore/metalcore band from Orange County, California that formed in 2003. They play a blend of pumped-up, aggressive verses, with catchy sing-along choruses, with a ton of gang chants of course. On colored vinyl
The UK’s Frame of mind are a band pushing sonic limitations atypically associated with hardcore, with the release of their debut album 'Irieshun' on Quality Control HQ Records. As with their Demo in 2016, and 'Weight of Two' EP the following year on The Essence Records, you are getting raw punk aggression, but also a rare soulful spirit, with lyrics encouraging an inward thinking outlook. The word ‘irieshun’ is Patois for ‘appreciation’, expressing praise towards something or someone, a rare feeling in an increasingly chaotic world. This release however invites you to do just that with souring melodies and complex song-writing lifting you up. Oli McVean’s lyrics harken back to a time when hardcore breathed a new and refreshing positive anger into youth culture, and the possibilities for the movement seemed endless. <span>The foundations of this record give a shout out to late 80s NYHC bands that defied the mould of their time... Underdog, Absolution and Crumbsuckers. However, combining this with inspiration from prog rock, hip hop & reggae - Frame of Mind create something which is truly new.On colored vinyl.</span>
"The chalky white and golden brown of the rows and rows of houses, sodden from an eternity of days on the Brighton seaside. The disconnected punctuation of hobnail boots on wet tarmac. Hardcore punk, handed the UK82 marching orders and sent to the frontlines of the war 86 Mentality started, with Arms Race and Violent Reaction keeping the home fires burning. The same grey walls inside which you can redefine and rebuild. The NOW Wave of British Hardcore. Wide and crooked vocals over riffs that move in and out of the speed and aggression of early HC and the inclination to get drunk and grab someone. Not quite a pogo, yet not quite a slam, with finer clobber and and the necessary swagger. Like a knife, but from the gutter." Jonah Falco, Fucked Up/Career Suicide On colored vinyl.
The Brighton bag-head boys are back to finally follow up their 2016 demo ‘Tory Party Prison’. Not straying far from the NWOBHC blueprint of NY83 and classic UK Oi sounds, Built For Destruction is a brick through your living room window, and it’s screaming Britain’s fucking burning mate! Snotty southern vocals that bring to mind DEAD MANS SHADOW, scrapping with brash guitars and thumping beats that kick and punch like THE ABUSED, while keeping the raw intensity that THE INSANE captured so perfectly when the Tories were picking this country apart piece by piece the last time round. Housed in a sleeve depicting a harsh modern reality with an image that burns into your retina, stating exactly what STATE FUNERAL are shouting about - there’s still no future.
New and last release by one of the foundations of NWOBHC. London based crew that riff like no other will have these tunes in your head for days. Expect elements of Neglect and Cold As Life.
The Flex are BACK! These UKHC legends bring you their signature blend of early 80s UK punk and late 80s NYHC in time for their East Coast USA tour with Arms Race. Thundering 'Inferno' goes straight for the jugular with a wall-of-noise beating, swiftly followed up with the ever so catchy and funked up 'Soma Holiday'. Meanwhile 'Flex 4' is a moody rumbler, with quieter bass and drum led sections, powerful vocals that seem to have been recorded from the top of a mountain, and turbo charged speed change. The new songs will feature on an upcoming LP, and this recording also includes a cover of Gut Instinct's 'Disturbing the Peace' from their 1990 EP, representing Baltimore HC!
Tuning, armed with a powerful
punk and hardcore sound, present subject matter on what it means to be
human. Though there are callbacks and influences from classic hardcore
punk bands such as Verbal Assault, Endpoint, Split Lip, Majority Of One,
Dag Nasty, Comeback Kid, and The Suppression Swing heard in their
songs, a current/modern element is present as well. Tuning's members
have also previously played in a number of bands such as Dead Hearts,
Halfmast, Modern Problems, Until Your Heart Stops, First To Leave, Dying
For It, and Spirits. LP includes digital download. On colored vinyl.
Nothing to prove, nothing to gain, exorcising our demons, baring our pain. UKHC veterans Tied Down hail from the North East of England and feature ex and current members of Voorhees and Break it Up. This is their debut release of 6 songs of old school hardcore that features aggression, rawness and melody all put into a musical blender and spat out into your face. FFO early NY and Boston hardcore punk with a distinct UKHC feel. Hardcore punks never die they just get angrier with age!!
Urban Styles: Graffiti in New York Hardcore is the first book from author/historian Freddy Alva. Urban Styles is a chronicle of the intersection of graffiti art and the NYHC scene of the 80s and 90s. Over 370 pages with many full-color photos and 40 interviews with legendary writers and artists like Mackie Jayson, REVS, MQ, Lukie Luke, LORD EZEC, STAK TFP, Chaka Malik, SANE SMITH and many more.
Urban Styles: Graffiti is a subterranean adventure back to a time when subcultures and underground movements blended seamlessly and went largely unnoticed by the mainstream world. Urban Styles deftly straddles the seemingly in congruent worlds of graffiti culture and the hardcore punk scene of the 1980s to tell the story of a unique moment in time when crossover between the two outlaw cultures was a common, if not heralded, occurrence. Urban Styles chronicles a gritty New York City and its boroughs while telling the stories of forgotten revolutionaries who were as familiar with stealth runs through train yards as they were slamming on the CBGB dance floor. Through an array of iconic images and first-hand accounts; interviews and essays, Alva compiles a history of youth culture that reinforces the connection between these two subcultures and shows the symbiotic influences shared by both hip-hop and hardcore. This tale is told through the eyes and memories of band members that were adept at wielding spray cans and the writers that represented New York Hardcore on the streets. Urban Styles features the voices of those who shaped both a sound and a movement and the visual iconography of a vibrant outburst of color amidst a greying, urban decay. A number of illuminating stories and examinations of culture are told by NYHC veterans like Chaka Malik, Mackie Jayson, Lord Ezec, Sacha Jenkins, and a host of others who populated the NYHC scene of the 1980s and 90s. Crews and members are represented as well, along with the first writers who played in bands. There is a plethora of exclusive images, most never seen before, and some done specifically for the book. It is a history culled from record and demo tape covers, flyers, t-shirts, and paintings that celebrates the union of these two uniquely New York street cultures and shines a spotlight on two artistic movements that have gone on to have world-wide influence on today s mainstream culture.
Plead Your Case Records & Exact Change Records have teamed up to bring you a record that both labels feel confident in calling a masterpiece: Search For Purpose's first LP... Eternal Emotion.<span>This LP boasts 9 cuts of genuinely heartfelt and honest straight edge hardcore that’s equally fearless foraying into boundary-shattering melody and classic hardcore intensity!On colored vinyl</span>
Known for their powerful and emotive stage presence, Words a Game performed at select venues in the Mid-Atlantic between 1993 and 1995. Drawing from many of the elements emerging from the late 1980s and early 1990s punk and hardcore scenes, Words a Game released its self-titled compact disc on Ides of March Publishing/Turn of the Century Records in 1995. The group disbanded soon after recording its self-titled album. Mastered from the original digital audio tapes, the recordings and cover art have been reproduced as originally intended for its 2018 release. The band’s 1994 demo has also been included, with alternate versions of two album tracks and a song previously released by the band only on cassette. Limited edition of 200 copies.
"From Me To You" is the debut 12" from Wilkes-Barre, PA's One Step Closer. The A-side of the record contains six tracks of melodic hardcore that are influenced by bands that embodied the transition of hardcore from fast and moshy to melodic and introspective, most notable the latest era of Turning Point but with some of the modern twists of "Songs To Scream At The Sun"-era Have Heart. 12"ep includes digital download and an etched B-side. Limited edition of 495 copies.
A band built out of the legacy of their varied past bands (Oscar Paz - Statement, Impel, Sunshine, Kill Holiday, Status Audio, Adult Crash/Steven Andrew Miller - Julia, Gehenna, The Locust, Unbroken, Kill Holiday, Mean Season, Landslide, Statue/Matt Anderson - Heroin, End Of The Line, Spacehorse, founder of Gravity Records/Sam Stothers - Narrows, SS Warhead, Godcollider, Rod Of Correction) and loved influences. All out there together to make up their first effort as Tap And Die, "Bombs Overhead." This is a culmination of sounds, textures, rhythms, anger, architects; the four working through each other to bring out a conscious sound. On colored vinyl
Southern California has a long history of producing it's own hardcore sound that has often been the source of continued inspiration and imitation. Culled from this history, Lancaster, CA's Coolside put seven tracks to wax on their Indecision debut that dares challenge the notion that there's nothing new under the sun. Direct to the point, it's good, old-fashioned hardcore with a modern approach. Limited edition of 500 copies on colored vinyl
Originally released in March of 1999, Throwdown's debut album, "Beyond Repair," helped usher in a wave of Orange County hardcore that was unlike any before it. Big sing-alongs backed by even bigger breakdowns that helped catapult the band from small-room local bills to national and international tours and festivals. This special pressing commemorates the 20 years that have passed since this album's initial release and the starting place for a legacy that still survives today. On colored vinyl
Often described as saviors of the scene, Warfare is back after their smash debut demo in 2016. The 12"ep clocks in at around 8:30 and is relentless all the way through, combining elements of traditional USHC like DYS with the mosh breaks of the late-'80s NYHC scene. Band contains members of Trapped Under Ice, Angel Dust, Death Injection, Pressvre, Nick Fury, Glory, and BBB Records CEO Sam. 12"ep includes a silkscreened B-side.
To give faithful listeners a quick taste of what's to come on their forthcoming LP, Ecostrike presents this two-song flexi. The first track is an original: a dose of the band's signature, '90s hardcore-inspired sound that's big on "One Truth"-era Strife, while the second song is a cover of the oh-so familiar "Flame Still Burns" by Youth Of Today. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Pain Strikes is a five-piece hardcore band from Douglassville, PA. Fans of Carry On, Count Me Out, and Chain Of Strength will find something they like here. The band also features Paul Chrismer of Outer Heaven (Relapse Records). On colored vinyl.
Torso is armed with a powerful punk and hardcore sound with influences as geographically diverse as its members. Lyrically, Torso does not rely on any of the hardcore cliches or spew overly simplistic lyrics that carry no real meaning. Instead, the band tackles issues of veganism, politics, mental health, displacement, and feminism at a time when the world needs it the most. 7" includes digital download. On colored vinyl.
With a rich history of influential bands including Ink & Dagger, Blacklisted, and Horror Show, Philadelphia, PA's hardcore scene has had an indelible impression on the hardcore community going back to the '80s. Comprised of current and former members of such groups as Jesus Piece, Agitator, Uzi Kids, and Pain Strikes, Struck Nerve is a new hardcore combo poised to add to their city's hallowed punk legacy. Recorded by Wyatt Oberholzer (Year Of The Knife, Fixation), Struck Nerve rips and tears with both speed-driven and more breakdown-centered sections, conjuring the spirit and energy of classic hardcore throughout its four tracks. Limited edition of 400 copies on colored vinyl
