Four diasporic ragers based in London release 6 songs of fast fury at the state of the nation. After a positive response to the demo released early 2011, STAB continue to look back at 80s UK Hardcore whilst dissecting the now, turning their backs on the current wave of whinging punk prophesying...

Suffer On Acid is a 3-piece power violence band from Boston. The split features their new song "Mind For Mind" which is chaotic yet pleasing. It shows how they can be intricate and raw at the same time. Sawchuk is a hardcore band from Michigan. It is your traditional, fast-paced, pissed off...

Atonement Theory is the solo project of Jay Jancetic of Harm's Way. Atonement Theory delivers crushing riffs, painting darkness with melodic ethereal brushstokes. These four songs are unquestionably an emotional journey from beginning to end. Jay transports you with the dark, driving, and forceful core of Isis, the melodic emotional...

Sigh Down One is from Montreal and play a shoegaze/punk hybrid as if My Bloody Valentine hooked up with Wymyn's Prysyn and old Nirvana and they were commissioned to write songs that could have been on the Crow soundtrack. It's really really good - the gloom and haze of shoegaze with the...

Brazil's RAKTA is back with 6 new powerfully feminine trips through the fog. Simultaneously claustrophobic and cavernous. You can feel pulsing bass and thundering battery intertwine, akin to a snake coiling around your leg, pulling you down into the murky vortex. A flourish of atmospheric keyboard and vocal clamor pulls you right back...

Features a song from the God Is War album "Extinction Is Ours". Also contains the unreleased death dirge "Curse of Humanity". Track Listing: 01. Curse Of Humanity 02. Extinction Is Ours

Evan Thomas Weiss (Into It. Over It.) and Andrew Koji Shiraki (Koji) have made something "Ten years overdue". The two prolific singer songwriters, who have been longtime friends for years, entered Drasik Studios in Chicago, IL for seven days this summer and collaborated to record ten new songs (five songs...

Originally released in 1997, Where have all the merrymakers gone? catapulted the young band to stardom with the massive radio and video success of their anthemic hit song "Flagpole Sitta." The album has since sold over half a million copies with the single still receiving regular airplay on radio stations across...

Swedish band that rose from the ashes of CROWPATH, of which you will recognize the signature drumming and harsh vocals. But where CROWPATH was about unrelenting chaos, Tellusian shows more restrain and dynamics with new guitar and basswork. Described in a review as ""technical progressive sludge metal with some death grind...

In 2004 Breathing Fire quietly laid down one of the most impressive demos in our recent collective memories, following this, they promptly disappeared. In 2007 the band reconvened to unearth the remains of some unused songs and attempt some new ones, thus beginning a brief but fruitful reconnection between the members...

The combination of all their previous work and a steady live band has come together to form the great Henge Beat LP. Beautifully housed in a bright European-art-designed gatefold sleeve. These guys have outdone themselves with this one. Musically it rests somewhere between late 70's UK new wave a-la Ha Ha Ha...

Searing crust punk thrashers, NOMADS, melt the wax with head-banging, metal/hardcore crossovers, TREACHEROUSKIN on "Violent Fucking World". With both bands featuring hardcore veterans from Minority Unit, Sleepwalkers, and Spitting Teeth, this split makes for the most abrasive 45rpms of the year. Both bands offer up their own interpretation of aggressive,...