If curiousity supposedly killed the cat, does that mean that high expectations will kill BOYSETSFIRE? Hopefully not. “Tomorrow Come Today” is the long, long, really long, awaited follow-up to the hardcore epic, “After The Eulogy,” a genre-defining opus that sounds as fresh today as it did three years ago. Now, with their first full-length for [...]

For me, BENTON FALLS is one of those bands that I hardly ever think of in terms of selecting music to play, however, whenever they do make it on to the stereo, I always kick myself for not playing it more often. “Guilt Beats Hate,” inches this band closer to being a part of common [...]

The Poisoning gave me a headache. Quickly. Like before the first song was even done. BLESSING THE HOGS sound like the musical equivalent of having an anvil dropped on your head. This brand of dark, sludgely, strained metalcore requires a lot of patience from the listener, and I just seemed to have none to give. [...]

It’s definitely a shame this band broke up shortly before “You Had Me At Hello” hit stores because this is a pretty crushing hardcore disc. Although BURY YOUR DEAD clearly took notes from HATEBREED University, the similarities are welcome and appreciated. With degrees in Breakdownology, Moshcore Behavior, and Sing-Along Management, BURY YOUR DEAD are equipped [...]

What’s up with these Swedish bands that seem to change their sound from album to album? Although not as shocking as the transformation of the late 59 TIMES THE PAIN from old-school hardcore to CLASH inspired punk rock, BOMBSHELL ROCKS step a few paces off the street-punk line and embrace some hearty influences from the [...]

I don’t want to harp on this too much, because no band wants to rest on the laurels of their previous endeavors, but this band is a descendant of FRODUS, a band I hugely admired, saw live numerous times, and seemed to break up at the height of their best work, the largely underappreciated “And [...]

BREAKER BREAKER broke up a short while ago, so this release is posthumous, which is a shame because the six songs on shred with potential. Taking the ol’ “if ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to old-school hardcore, these tunes come and go in 11 minutes, and don’t let up at all. Huge, raw production [...]

I’m not really sure what this band’s album title means…is it synomous with “Procreate the Ordinary Paradigm?” or the more mundane “Make more copies of the usual thing?” Regardless, BEAUTY TO ASHES is the proud owner of a wholly inconsistent musical soundtrack that at one point can be completely raging and at the other, entirely [...]