Brighton, UK is producing some of the most exciting bands in Europe right now and Imposter put their stamp firmly on the map with a sound drenched in early 80s Boston Hardcore for some stomping good times on the dance floor. Think hooks for days, and beats that know how to get you moving. This being NWOBHC however, there is also a touch of Voorhees, Oi and UK82 punk in the mix, tied together with a proper snotty vocal and lyrics exploring the psychology of power and violence.
200 black cassettes with colour printed stickers. Comes with colour card sleeve.

Brighton in the UK, spiritual home of the Mods in the 60s, has exploded with hardcore punk energy and talent in the past two years, as a new generation of punks have started a multitude of bands championing a wide diversity of sounds. Part of this new squad is Vile Spirit, an apt name for a band who’s vocalist Ben is known for temporary possession with wild and unpredictable performances and a truly terrifying voice. A hardcore punk scene is only as good as it’s drummers in our humble opinion, and Joe’s precise and powerful thumping forms the solid backbone for Tallulah’s innovative guitar work best seen in the song L.O.S. Meanwhile Luke’s dreamy bass tone adds an element of early UK goth punk whilst as a whole fans of United Mutation can rejoice!
200 black cassettes with colour printed stickers Comes with colour card sleeve and A5 insert.

Sour metallic riffs touching on NWOBHM and Japanese ADK/Dogma back catalogue lineage, rumbling bass lines, thundering drums and gruff vocals sung in English and Polish produce a pastiche of influences from early hardcore punk's flirtatious relationship with what would become an even more extreme music alongside it. The New Wave of British Hardcore is at its zenith, now producing a soundscape in the context of London's strong sense of diversity despite being the seat of Tory power and surrounded by a firmly pro-Brexit countryside. Game is a confluence of ideas of four different cultures forcing themselves through the same prism - noise and velocity. Such is the cut and paste nature punk that we know and love.
300 black flexi with red foil stamp label. Comes with double sided full colour fold over sleeve in a poly bag

France’s Syndrome 81 started gaining momentum in the Punk scene with their 2013 demo tape, drawing comparisons to the plethora of great bands that defined the French Oi sound of the 1980s with a heavy stomp culled from classic USHC. The band has progressed since then, and the sound is more diverse but also more defined, having filed off some of the American influences and moved in a darker, distinctly French direction that is both melancholy and anthemic, with lyrics being influenced by growing up in Brest, France.The band comes from this dark place and write songs about their personal struggles growing up and growing old. These are songs about watching your friends lose sight and move on while you question why you are still here, haunted by your past and having to look your former self in the eye while you apologize for who you’ve become. These are songs about trudging through a desert you built yourself.

Straight out of Antwerp, Belgium and featuring ex-members of Accept The Change, LOTUS brings you a harrowing exercise in self-reflection with its second full-length album ‘The Road To Calvary’. Ushering in their post-‘Israel’ era, TRTC is an unapologetically intense album with relentlessly straightforward riffs and brutally honest lyrics. This record gets deeply under your skin and does it in true LOTUS style: in and out, with little room to catch your breath. Order this record now to receive your daily dose of combativeness. Release is available in two colours and features a deluxe booklet.

Starting in 1981 via MINOR THREAT's revolutionary call to arms, the clean and positive straight edge hardcore punk movement took hold and prospered during the '80s, earning a position as one of the most durable yet chronically misunderstood music subcultures. Straight-edge created its own sound and visual style, went on to embrace vegetarianism and later saw the rise of a militant fringe. As the "don't drink, don't smoke" message spread from Washington, DC to Boston, California, New York City and, eventually, the world, adherents struggled to define the fundamental ideals and limits of what may be the ultimate youth movement.

The long lost NEANDERTHAL discography finally emerges from it’s cave to see the light of day. Eight anthems of destruction (5 tracks from the 1990 "fighting music" 7" on Slap A Ham, 2 tracks from the 1990 split with RORSCHACH on Vermiform, and one track from the 1991 "bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh" compilation 7" on Slap A Ham. Without NEANDERTHAL there would be not power-violence. NEANDERTHAL was Eric Wood (MAN IS THE BASTARD, CROSSED OUT) and Matt Domino (INFEST). One-sided vinyl with NEANDERTHAL-etching on b-side. Let the games begin!

For their third album As You Please, Citizen is looking inward. Pairing up again with longtime producer Will Yip, the band presents twelve songs that fuse aspects of their entire catalog into one neoteric whole. While the cathartic melancholy of their debut Youth and the jarring intensity of 2015’s Everybody is Going to Heaven are both present, the most welcome addition to Citizen’s arsenal on As You Please is the range of auxiliary instrumentation and sonic experimentation on the album. This is most notable on “In the Middle of it All,” where vocalist Mat Kerekes is sampled singing the song title in a modulated, haunting chorus that echoes throughout the song. The addition of organs and unconventional drum effects on songs like “You Are A Star” and “Medicine” create shifting emphases on tension and frailty, while the huge choruses of songs like opener “Jet” and “I Forgive No One” are reminders that while Citizen dove headfirst into uncharted territory with their new album, the band is still as good as ever at writing emotionally-charged anthems. As You Please presents Citizen’s vision at the most focused it has ever been - it is delicately crafted to provoke at every moment. On colored vinyl.

Hard to the core. With a new dialed in sound, "Never Had A Choice" serves as Freedom's most musically adventurous take on the honored and lovingly imitated NYHC sound. Think Henderson and Dijan rhythms keeping the songs fast but grooved out. Any fan of Set It Off or Freedom's "USA Hardcore" will leave this EP satisfied. On colored vinyl.

Florida born GOUGE AWAY follow up their 2016 blistering debut LP ", dies" with this two song cassette and first release on Secret Voice. Recorded after doing tours with G.L.O.S.S., Touché Amoré, and Ceremony "Swallow b/w Sweat" dive deep into an abrasive and vulnerable place that few bands can explore without getting the bends on their way back to surface. Mixed and Mastered by Jack Shirley (Dangers, Loma Prieta, Deafheaven).

"Don't Stop The Youth" is the debut 12"ep from Southern California's own Fireburn. Featuring Israel Joseph I (formerly of Bad Brains), Nick Townsend (currently/formerly of Deadbeat, Knife Fight), Todd Jones (currently/formerly of Nails, Terror) and Todd Youth (currently/formerly of Bloodclot, Warzone, Danzig, Murphy's Law), this 12"ep displays five songs of punk-influenced hardcore recorded at NGR Studio in North Hollywood. This record features cover art by artist Tim Lehi and additional design by Jon Contino. 12"ep includes digital download. On colored vinyl.

After nearly a decade away, NO WARNING returns with "torture culture," a 3rd album that is as scrappy, self-assured and unrelenting as it was once unthinkably improbable. The new album is grimy, pulverizing and antagonistic street-punk in a mind-meld with menacing metalcore, comprised of towering riffage, blistering solos and raw vocals. NO WARNING don't so much as borrow hooks from the past as they've studied the very essence of what's come before, from Bay-Area thrash-metal to New York hardcore, from melody to melancholy balladry and back again. Vinyl includes a digital download card.

Die In The Light: Two '90s-hardcore dudes, Chris Logan (Chokehold, Seventy-Eight Days, Longest War) and Dave Buschemeyer (New Day Rising, Spread The Disease, The China White, The Abandoned Hearts Club), have come together to release some vicious, blackened hardcore. 10" includes digital download and is limited to 327 copies on colored vinyl.

Rashomon is one of the best, new hardcore punk bands to emerge from Washington, DC. Fulfilling the promise of the NWODHC set by Pure Disgust, Rashomon comes roaring out the gates with this four-song demo that is one of the best hardcore releases of the year, thus far. Fronted by Japanese national Kohei, the band takes elements all over the international, '80s hardcore punk spectrum with touches of metallic guitar leads and insane drumming.

Epitaph and Deathwish are proud to announce “I Can Tell You About Pain b/w Eve” from aggressive music pioneers, Converge. This two song 7”EP/Digital release is the first new music from the band since their highly regarded 2012 album “All We Love We Leave Behind”. Upon first listen it’s apparent that Converge has evolved exponentially in those years. The raw emotion and anger of “I Can Tell You About Pain” is truly unsettling. While the seven and a half minute epic “Eve” shows the band pushing their melodic leanings to an incredible new level. On colored vinyl.

Manchester Hardcore unit Unjust release their debut 7" 'Transparency', ramping up the ferocity factor since their demo, channelling Brotherhood and Confront vibes with plenty of pit friendly mid tempo beats in between blasting verses. Members of Insist rage unapologetically about the straight edge, with the kind of bold call to action lyrics that make you get up in the morning with a positive spring in your step ready to take on this sick sad world. The speed of Unjust's songs is what sets it apart from the genre, with songs such as 'False' containing drum rolls and blasts for days, and song writing that harkens back to some of the initial waves of hardcore punk in '82 and '85.

'I Glorify' is the debut EP from Leeds based hardcore unit Rapture. Taking a big leap from their well received demo from last year, Rapture have further developed their signature sound blending Floorpunch, Turning Point with a hint of early Youth of Today, brimming with powerful rhythm section and catchy guitar hooks. The fast paced lyrics focus on the social pressures of everyday life, the power of words that seem to be so freely dispensed in today's society, online or otherwise, and the costly effect that they can have. Meanwhile 'The New Wave' is a nod to the New Wave of British Hardcore that Rapture identify with, sharing members with a host of bands such as Obstruct, True Vision, Shrapnel and Big Cheese.

This is 4 new tracks by the 90’s vegan straight edge legend Rat himself, this time with guest-vocalist xRULEx (Forward To Eden).Vegan straight edge oldschool death metal FFO: Unborn, Deicide, Slayer and The Vegan Jihad!

The last output from now defunct Italian Vegan Straight Edge Oldschool Hardcore Outfit.
FFO: Purification, Reprisal, Green Rage, Earth Crisis…
On colored vinyl /100

Safe And Sound formed in 2012 in Seattle, WA as a group of young, straight edge kids that wanted to play youth crew/early-2000s influenced hardcore. Fresh off their first European tour, "Ashes Lie And Wait" is the perfect release to kick-off additional touring in the winter months of 2017 into 2018. For fans of Strife, Turning Point and Unbroken. On colored vinyl.

This 24-page mini-zine gives you just a taste of the madness in the upcoming 288-page book, "XXX Fanzine 1983-1988 Hardcore & Punk In The Eighties." More of a companion piece than a preview, this 'zine features additional photographs and interviews that didn't make the book as well as some crucial pieces lifted from the book itself. Also included is a Nomads 7" flexi which features the band covering Crucifix's "How When And Where" which flawlessly transitions into Agnostic Front's crossover classic "The Eliminator."

Cutting Through consists of current and former members of Go It Alone, Get The Most, Fired Up, Blue Monday, Safe And Sound and Unrestrained. The band values the opportunity to speak out on injustice and the shortcomings of our current social climate. Cutting Through seeks to foster a connection between listener and group, with the intention of spreading a message of optimism and the idea that we have the ability to improve ourselves and our surroundings. On colored vinyl.