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I love the Suburban Noize label. I am as far from the label politically as you can get, but I love their finger-in-your-eye attitude. Nobody does what they do quite as well, though that’s probably a good thing. That’s why (hed) p.e. is on its roster. (hed) p.e. has been ...

1) "All Out War pretty much invented the metalcore subgenre back in the mid-90s, and with, Assassins in the House of God, they reclaim the crown from the legions of imitators peddling whiny watered down, emo-laden versions, many of whom can be found among the band’s labelmates.”2) “All Out War ...

As the first few seconds of the album begin to decimate your stereo, it is clearly evident that Droid are not robots.  They play with the force and power that only come with the human emotions of anger and hatred, and the brutal honesty to let it all show.  Their ...

There was this CD I used to have.  I lost it, but later it came up in my friend's truck. Shockingly enough he had apparently stole it from me.  The disc was "Dischord 1981: Year in7 Inch".  It featured Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, Government Issue, Teen Idles, and State of ...

A dramatic opening for the Tallahassee, Florida band with their hit song Black Cat leading the way for upcoming tracks: "Close up camera one, the hero sings in this scene/The boy that gets the girl gets to go home where they get married/But stop the tape, the sunset still looks ...

I usually give a CD a significant number of spins before I start writing a review, but in the case of, La Lechuza, the new disc from Mustangs and Madras a couple of turns through was sufficient for my purposes. On the good side, the band manages to throw together ...

This is my salute to the band No Use For a Name.  The reason?  Well, when I was 16 years old (I am now 28) this was the very first punk rock show  I attended and one I will remember forever. That night they played with The Offspring, Quicksand, and ...

RESIST. REVOLT. RECLAIM choke slams the listener into a puddle of mucky dissonance over the current, American political regime.  This ain’t nearly as pretentious as one would imagine.  It’s not nearly as dumbed down as one would think it either.  Sadaharu, if I may quote the “stranger” from ...

“No misleading phrases are the bricks that we pave with. And oh we just want to burn at a brighter Orange than all the fires built before us. You know we’ll set this off” -- Taken from the first track, Just Ask Us, off of Scenes From a Movie's debut album ...

If these guys lived in the 12th Century instead of the 21st, they might have been at the head of the line signing up for the Crusades. “Sleeping Giants’” Christianity comes from the, “better shape up or the Lord will smite you,” school of the religion. It’s a vision that ...

This August the metalcore band Still Remains released its second album with Roadrunner Records, The Serpent.  Though it has recently undergone a change of members (the new members are Ben Schauland, keyboards and Steve Hetland, bass) the band hasn’t lost any of its vision or collaborative strength.Serving as an introduction ...

The Gallows is a band that came about due to its members being sick and tired of all the mass produced junk you see on MTV- a stand against trendy music for the popular culture. Boldly opinionated and extremely aggressive- Frank Carter’s fighting energy is a remedy to anything resembling ...

We are the smokescreen/We are the in-between/Outside of space and time/Outside of frequency/There is a purpose/There is an urgency/We are the Hex Dispensers! That’s right…the Hex Dispensers- this fun little poppy punk group brings you back to the days of the Misfits/Ramones. Direct from Austin, Texas the ...