[engl] First underground Pinoy punk album in 1985 released by Twsited Red Cross under Tommy Tanchanco! Album hails from a time period of Martial Law and an unfolding people’s revolution that would forever change the social dichotomy of the Philippines. Political and social Issues from the 80s still relevant today expressed with raw, hardcore and sarcastic lyricism! It’s a great look at the happenings of the scene 40 years ago!

[engl] The band evolves throughout their musical career and they become harder and faster, and they learn how to mix and layer and produce their music a lot better. Therefore their 3rd album is the most sofisticated and hardest one.

[engl] Second Coming continues the political, social and sarcastic wrath of complaints but this time as the album name says “Second Coming” and you just know this one’s gonna be a blast because the band is playing so hard they’re breaking the floor on the album cover!! Oh and Second Coming contains a bonus revisioned re-recording of Complaint’s song “DREAMER”, only on Second Coming - it’s a firestorm! And Second Coming sequels Complaints with songs like Lap Dogs talking about “Mr Big” being ejected from the Country! It’s a prime must-listen to sequel!

[engl] Their complete discography from 1995 to 1997, contains all their songs from "This World", "Strike Anthem" and "Statue" plus two additional cover versions. 30 Smashers with a communist agenda. After ManLiftingBanner have been put to ashes, Michiel and Burt team up with Pepijn and Thomas from Amsterdams infamous punk-bands NRA and Human Alert. The contents are handled with the same passion and intelligence as with MLB in the early days. Food for thought for all you non-believers. As for the music, it can be caught somewhere between the vibes of Underdog and traditional HC. It's all pretty raw and unleashed, but always catchy and unique. For the first time, released on vinyl after 25 years.

[engl] DEEP began to work on an experimental melange of pop, industrial and electronic music. Always emphasizing the variety, the fun of experimenting and editing most different soundcharacters. The focus is on variety, to try and check out the "calm before the storm" to mark off noisy passages from melancholy and accoustic. Instead of being pigeon-holed with the old trodden paths of the rock/pop genre they want to keep room for improvisation and electronic scapes. Limited to 99 copies, incl. download code.

[engl] This 12" collects the first year of recordings from Philadelphia's DELCO MF's. Initially started a solo recording project of Jim Shomo (Dark Thoughts, Loose Nukes), then turning into a fully formed band with personnel from Phantom and Kinetic Orbital Strike for the 'March Of The MF's' EP. The first word that leaps to mind listening to this is FERAL. Eleven tracks in as many minutes of completely wild and unhinged hardcore punk. I feel for a lot of this stuff, you are either a fiend for it or it doesn't move you at all, but if you get a kick from the likes of The Neos, Deep Wound, the cream of the Non-Commercial Records crop or the soundtrack to avoiding that folding chair that appears to be moving through the air towards you at full pelt, this might well be for you. Limited to 300 copies.

[engl] Not to be put in a box and labeled, aspects of Zouo, GISM, totally inept and maniacal

[engl] The international four piece offers its first sacrifice to vinyl with a barrelling new EP as a follow up to their 2021 demo. Five tracks of demonic speedy metal-punk by the way of crude Sabbat style riffs, featuring nods to Tormentor. All hell breaks fast and loose in tandem, and the howling, cacophonic Spanish vocals make this release uniquely its own.”

[engl] "Queer hardcore punk from Richmond VA that pulls from late 2000's Richmond hardcore as much as it doesn 80's USHC. Sharing members with Nosebleed, Mad Existence, Haircut, Itch etc., Deviant seeks not to reinvent the wheel, yet destroy it; preferring to incite chaos than create an artistic statement. Lyrics dealing with self hatred, self homophobia and disease; deviant isn't interested in presenting their pain, but inflicting it. Released on new label, 11 PM records, Deviant will be touring across America in 2019."-John Scanlon

[engl] Diall have taken a much-loved sound, made popular by bands like S.H.I.T GAG and BIB, and somehow created six songs of the heaviest sounding weirdo hardcore you will possibly hear. I don’t quite know how they’ve done it, but this record stands out well above their contemporary chain-punk freaks. I think it has something to do with TONE - it’s immaculate. Across the board. Every instrument and the vocals - perfect, but not over-produced. Just perfect. It’s really quite impressive. I don’t know how many of ya listened to the bass on Pissed Jeans Why Love Now but it was possibly the greatest bass tone known to human kind. Second only to this. I can’t describe. Just tone-city. The riffs are pure golden chops that swirl, jab and weave behind deep, gnashing, nasty-as-fuck vocals. And the drums - true pounding energy which gives the whole record a lead-pipe with which to smack ya up in the bean. There is a definite “largeness” to the whole 7” which gives Diall's mid-paced stomp and moments of fury a dizzying punch. It's a superior listening experience. Did I mention there is groove?! Well there is. Songs like Siloed and Golden Child are the hardcore hits which fulfil a punk’s two-step pit fantasy. Plus, the artwork is by Wesley Brown - my favourite hardcore/metal artist. It’s of a dog biting someone in the head. Lovely stuff.

[engl] If you thought that DIAMOND DOGS contribution to our recently released Oi! Ain`t Dead 8 - Chaos In Nederland compilation which was a storming cover of The Flyin Spiderz Dutch punk classic City Boy - would be the bands only feat of arms in 2023 you better guess again! Because right before we march into the new year, these Barbarians are set to crank out an all new scorcher andthey crank it out with brute force! Alike last years successor Eye Of The Storm, the WORLD SERPENT 12" includes another eight hard stomping attacks that spit out their venom in the form of earth-trembling tracks like World Serpent, Stormwatch, A Nation In Ruins and Crown Of Fire! Topped off again with the beautiful artwork by Johan Prenger, DIAMOND DOGS latest outburst both sounds and looks heroic, while its vile and ruthless mix of Oi!, hardcore and slight hints of heavy metal keeps on rocking against the modern world! WORLD SERPENT is the soundtrack to the Twilight of the Gods and a must for fans of Burden, Live By The Sword, Fléau, Battle Ruins, Hammer And The Nails, Bloody Minded and Violent Reaction.

[engl] In proper Massachusetts fashion, this demo is a frantic, loud guitar driven chaos machine fully loaded with power chord whips, throbbing distortion, concussive battery and gravel shouts. Over before you know it but leaves a nice scar to remind you just exactly whose dimension you’re in. No filler, no nonsense and no time for lackeys, buffoons or charlatans. Dimension is ripping hardcore punk… the way nature intended. 200 pro-printed red-shelled cassettes housed in a 2-panel J-card inside a clear Norelco box.

[engl] Finally, the incendiary self titled DIRECT THREAT demo from 2021 gets the vinyl treatment. Back then we wrote: "From start to stop this is pure rage in the truest sense. The Denver Wolfpack has been running strong for a while now and if the likes of ASBESTOS, SNARLING HATE, CITY HUNTER, PITBUL, COMBAT FORCE or VEIL II have caught your ear in recent times, then you need this in the arsenal as well. The sound of boots crushing skulls. No frills, no nonsense hardcore punk." It still rings true.

[engl] From start to stop this is pure rage in the truest sense. The Denver Wolfpack has been running strong for a while now and if the likes of ASBESTOS, SNARLING HATE, CITY HUNTER, PITBUL, COMBAT FORCE or VEIL II have caught your ear in recent times, then you need this in the arsenal as well. The sound of boots crushing skulls. No frills, no nonsense hardcore punk.