Closed Casket Activities

To celebrate the release of Regional Justice Center‘s new album, Crime and Punishment, we caught up with drummer/vocalist Ian Shelton to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Regional Justice Center’s sophomore full-length Crime and Punishment is our grinding face-peeler of the week.

Maryland grinders Jarhead Fertilizer emerge from six years of recording silence with Product of My Environment.

Catching up with Portrayal of Guilt drummer James Beveridge to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Six Feet Under, Xibalba, and King Woman. 

Xibalba issues an angry, mournful goodbye on the third and final song on their new EP, Diablo, Con Amor… Adios. 

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.

I Love the Mid-’90s. If you have a similar soft spot for “metallic hardcore” don’t sleep on Eternal Sleep.  

Not a huge fan of live records? Me either. But Twitching Tongues actually kill it on World War LIVE, a venture into the format that serves the band’s roiling, infectious Integrity-meets-old-school-Life-of-Agony sound shockingly well. Here’s the cutesy official explanation… Recorded live in the Van Nuys stadium called THE PIT in front of twenty screaming fans,…