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Old School Hardcore Thursdays with AC4. This Week: Visual Aggression

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, lists, uncategorized, videos On: Thursday, May 16th, 2013

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Today marks the final installment of Old School hardcore Thrusdays with the members Umea throwback punks, AC4. Check out parts one and two, if you should so desire. This week, I asked bassist Christoffer Jonsson and guitarist Karl Backman to list off the albums they spent as much time longingly staring at back in the day as much as they did listened to. Top Five Old School HC Album ...

Old-School Hardcore Thursdays with AC4. This week: Guilty of Killer Riffs

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, listen, uncategorized On: Thursday, May 9th, 2013

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As I continue on with part two of the three-part old-school hardcore Thursday feature with the dudes from Sweden's AC 4 (check out part one here), this week I make the not-so-daring proclamation that hardcore is synonymous with Minor Threat. That's about all I have to say, or should have to say. With that, we asked AC 4 bassist Christoffer Jonsson to list off his five favourite Minor Threat ...

Old-School Hardcore Thursdays with AC4. This Week: Rocking with Raw Power

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, listen, uncategorized On: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

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First thing you need to know is that what you're reading is being written in mid-April. Don't ask why, unless you come out to the Fear Factory/Hate Eternal tour, MDF or Chaos in Tejas; then you can ask me why. Anyhoo, if all goes the way I've planned, I will still be coming off the high of finally seeing one of my favourite bands in the history of forever live and in the flesh after almost 30 ...

No One Wins, Everybody Hurts. Multiple Truths Interviewed.

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, interviews, uncategorized On: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

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The latest entry into the world of scathing, screamy, melodic hardcore is Chicago-centric Multiple Truths. For the most part, the quintet, formed by guitarist Justin Wettstein, did and do things the old-school way: rehearsing regularly together, hanging out like a small gang of record collecting nerds and taking the time to find and refine their musical voice before foisting their songs onto the ...

Still Havin’ a Good Time. An Interview with Soothsayer.

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, interviews, uncategorized On: Thursday, April 18th, 2013

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The news that rabid, unhinged, original wave thrashers, Soothsayer have returned may not mean much to anyone under the age of 35 who lived outside of southern Ontario or the band's home province of Quebec, but they're back and I for one am rather pleased at the news. Initially reconvening to play an old-school Quebec metal fest a few years back, the fire was re-lit under their old-school asses, ...

A389 Contest Winners and Free Digital Mixtape

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, free, uncategorized, winner On: Thursday, April 4th, 2013

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Remember this a couple weeks ago? Well, the horror lovin', Satan strokin' dudes in Seven Sisters of Sleep have studiously studied your entries and picked the winning winners. Grand prize goes to: Sam Pickering Three runner-up prizes go to: Mark Thistlewood, Nolan Reed and Xsimon stX Drop A389 head dude, Dom a line at dom@a389records.com with your mailing addresses so he can send you your ...

The Great Sabatini is Doing Shit While You and I Sit at Home

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, tours, uncategorized On: Thursday, March 28th, 2013

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A few months ago, we (and know that when I say "we," I mean "I") favourably reviewed Matterhorn, the latest by Montreal's the Great Sabatini. For those of you who didn't bother to heed my word and at least check 'em out, here's a sample of how they rock: In that review, in addition to saying stuff like "...these dudes have a 90s alt-rock edge grinding against their love affair with riffs ...

Not Enough Horror Business, with Seven Sisters of Sleep. And You. And Prizes. And an Advance Stream of their New Album

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: contest, featured, gnarly one-offs, listen, lists, stupid crap, uncategorized On: Thursday, March 21st, 2013

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There's a lot of business and entertaining reading for y'all to get down to this week. You don't need me gumming up the gears with my special brand of bullshit. Los Angeles-based servants of evil/slaves of Satan, Seven Sisters of Sleep have a new album at the ready. It's called Opium Morals and it sounds like Ol' Nick himself is under the floorboards, pounding back shots of kerosene and killing ...

Yes, We Love Verbosity: An Interview with Nolentia

By: kevin.stewart-panko Posted in: featured, interviews, uncategorized On: Thursday, February 7th, 2013

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photo credit: Lou Strummer France's grindcore miscreats, Nolentia has recently made their newest and second album available to the world's general populace and specifically those of you who enjoy your Nasum and Pig Destroyer weirded up a notch. The album's called May the Hand That Holds the Match That Will Set This World on Fire be Blessed Above All and it's a title that's cheesed off a couple ...

Second Annual Decibel Magazine Tour Lineup + Dates Announced

By: mr ed Posted in: featured, the decibel magazine tour, uncategorized On: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

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After a bloody successful maiden voyage in 2012, Decibel Magazine is doubling down on veteran star power for our second annual national tour. This spring, the plague spreads as we bring you three living legends of death metal and grindcore: preeminent gore institution Cannibal Corpse; rabble-rousing U.K. grind icons Napalm Death, and NYDM stalwarts Immolation. While occultism permeated ...