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Full Split Stream: Endorphins Lost / OSK
January 30, 2018 Vince Bellino
Stream the new split from Endorphins Lost and OSK.
Magic Bullet Reissues Apartment 213’s “Cleveland Power Violence”
November 10, 2017 J. Andrew Zalucky
Sure, you probably know about Infest, Charles Bronson, Spazz and Despise You, but not everyone is well versed enough to know about Apartment 213 (or wasn’t old enough to be into them when they were putting out material).
Track Premieres: Get Split into Quarters by Toxicology, Skuz, Triple Cripple, and Ground
October 11, 2017 Sean Frasier
Horror Pain Gore Death strike again during Halloween season with a four-band split from Toxicology , Skuz , Triple Cripple , and Ground.
Metal & Beer: Trappist’s Chris Dodge Goes Full Barbarian
October 4, 2017 Adem Tepedelen
Chris Dodge and his Trappist bandmates get primal in their new metal-and-beer podcast series, “Hour of the Barbarian.”
For Those About To Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks Of The Year
December 23, 2016 Blake Harrison
Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016.
Full Album Stream: Spazz – ‘Sweatin’ 2: Deported Live Gorilla
December 5, 2016 Vince Bellino
Spazz is rereleasing a collection of live and studio recordings from 1995-96.
Full Stream: Nails/Full of Hell Split 7″
November 8, 2016 Vince Bellino
This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.
Top 5 Most Anticipated Sets: Southwest Terror Fest
October 12, 2016 Vince Bellino
Be sure to check these sets out when Southwest Terror Fest goes down next weekend.
Track Premiere: Deny the Cross- “Teens in the Graveyard”
July 1, 2016 J. Andrew Zalucky
A loud, powerful blast of driving aggression that deals with themes of death and alienation.
Bass/Drum Gore-Punks Mouth Demand You Open up and “Suck the Worm”
June 1, 2016 Shane Mehling
The Oakland duo gets up in your guts with a slithering track off their new album Deathroll.
Vincibility is for Suckers: Exclusive Fucking Invincible Premiere!
May 20, 2014 Shawn Macomber
Providence, Rhode Island-based FUCKING INVINCIBLE — featuring faces that will be familiar to fans of Daughters, Dropdead, Soul Control, Sweet Jesus, etcetera — gave themselves a lot to live up to with their chosen moniker, but, as the exclusive stream of “Ape As Man/Man As Ape” below ably demonstrates, these dudes have good reason to…
Garage Days Eternal: Zac Ohler’s Life In Hardcore
July 18, 2012 Justin Norton
If this sounds like the rambling of an old fart, so be it: kids have it too easy these days when it comes to underground music. If you have a laptop and spare time you have unfettered access to pretty much every rare treasure recorded during the past four decades of metal and punk. That…
VOICES FROM THE UK UNDERGROUND pt 2: HUMAN CULL on picking the crust off 30 second grind
June 25, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
Human Cull are a gnarly grindcore trio from the United Kingdom who deal largely in 30-second riff-salvos. Guitarist and vocalist Edd Robinson admits as much that the band’s entire canon will be fast and crusty, but dammit he’s a humanitarian, it’ll be memorable too. Brevity in grindcore song structures was hardwired at the genre’s birth…
UK extremists The Atrocity Exhibit on fierce riffs and one-take grind
January 9, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
You’ve got to love and admire the optimism of people in the UK. While limited releases are a staple practice in underground music, adding both that exclusivity/collector appeal and some fiscal security, British grind champs The Atrocity Exhibit took it to, uh, extremes and limited the supply of 2011 faceripper Grind Over Matter to a…