Showing posts with label Old School Hardcore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old School Hardcore. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

Brothers in Arms - "Invictus"

BAND: BROTHERS IN ARMS
ALBUM: INVICTUS (debut, full length)
STATUS: ACTIVE!
LOCATION: HAMBURG, GERMANY
STYLE: OLD SCHOOL/HARDSTYLE HARDCORE


Bad-ass heavy hardcore is what Brothers in Arm deliver, and they do it extremely  well. With a ton of furious energy and a super-aggressive outlook, you can tell these guys don't f*ck about.

I love this band cause it preserves all the classic elements that make hardcore my favortite thing in the world: from the old school sound to the growled vocals, from the 'hood aesthetic to the urban message of brotherhood. I love it all. This IS European hardcore 20-13 , so get into it!


Thursday, September 20, 2012

Hard Resistance - "Lawless and Disorder" Review (full length, Strength Records)

Getting into European hardcore in the mid/late 90s, it was impossible to miss Hard Resistance. Alongside bands like Right Direction, Backfire!, Brighside, early Discipline and a few others, Hard Resistance pioneered (or perhaps brought in Europe!) the original hardcore sound that stood out from the Oi and hip hop oriented hardcore trends of those times. Well, it is 2012 now and these guys are making a big comeback. They're here to cause some serious havoc and crush your fake attitude with a new record of totally in your face political hardcore. The newly form but already notorious Strength Records (Roger Miret/Onno Cro-Mag) is behind this record, so you know it's gotta be good!
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This whole record is one big surprise; I was pretty fucking astonished to find out how damn FAST Lawless and Disorder is all the way through. I definitely did not expect to be battered with such rapid-fire hardcore blasts, heavy vocals and 100% oldschool attitude. It's like, these guys are back and they're really pissed. Forget about slick metal riffs, don't wait for the 'hardcore anthem' which will sound good at a party. This is just real hardcore for the hard times we're living in. It might be a bit antisocial due to its intended lack of commercial value (no solos / catchy melodic choruses etc), but hey, that's the whole point! Just loud, mean and in yer face!

So, like stated above this record is all go/no slow badass hardcore music, but I also want to add that I feel a definite crust/punk touch. I mean if you played this to a bunch of punks they would surely like it and find common elements with Exploited or other UK82 type stuff. This record would also go down nice for fans of crust hardcore, since it brings this ongoing machine gun attack that makes your ears bleed. But most of all, this record will suit hardcore kids' apetite for fast, pissed off and unprocessed hardcore music. The vocals put the definite hardcore stamp, with a thick and raspy tone that will punish you during the 21:50 min that Lawless & Disorder lasts.

The common theme throught these 12 hardcore songs is a total resentment towards today's political system. Yes, by listening to this record we will feel Hard Resitance's burning political message and we will remember that this world aint no paradise. It's always good to witness bands taking the time and effort to attack this stupid, slave-breeding society we live in. Angst and hate against the system has alays been a part of hardcore/punk, and it must continue till the end! Therefore, Hard Resitance go all out and spit their guts about all the shit that has gone wrong through the capitalist values that have been forced upon everyone in the modern world.

I will recap by saying that this is a true hardcore record that shows how some peope never mellow out. This is the kind of music that makes you want to pick up something heavy and go break some stuff. Hard Reistance back their political message with such ferocious music that you won't doubt these guys for playing the part o anything silly like that. If this band's old school and legendary legacy doesn't convince you, then listening to this new album definitely will. This one's for the real oldschool diehards!

www.hardresistance.be

Monday, April 23, 2012

SLAPSHOT Live in Athens (Mon 23 April 2012)

One of the first hardcore albums I ever got into was Slapshot's Old Time Hardcore when it came out in 1996. The honesty and hostility it delivered was like nothing I had ever heard before and totally turned me into a hardcore kid. This piece of vinyl is still one of the most precious items of my record collection some 16 years later! In fact, I consider Slapshot hugely influential and probably somewhere in the pantheon of the 5 most important hardcore bands of all time. Tonight, I will finally have the chance of seeing them live in one of Athens' most legendary clubs. Yes!

The design for the poster was made by graphic designer/tattoo artist and total hardcore fan, P. Ntolas (panosntolas [at] hotmail [dot] com).


Saturday, April 21, 2012

Life After Death - "Scum of Society Forever"

50%-50% beatdown & oldschool hardcore is what you get from this Indiana, US mosh machine! These guys certainly know how to bring the ruckus with their negative mental attitude and pissed off hardcore action. If the name Filled With Hate Records sadly doesn't say anything to you, then check out the video below to find out what this band is all about and proceed with some background research on the label.

The band's free download ep (check their link below for download link) delivers 4 songs of streetwise hardcore with an awesome exchange of moshcore and fat oldschool grooves! We expect more of the same goodness from their upcoming 2012 full length.

http://stereokiller.com/lifeafterdeath
www.filledwithhate.com

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

BACKTRACK @ United Blood Fest

Backtrack is one of the better known new bands on Reaper Records' all-star hardcore roster. To me this band is awesome cause it manages to continue the NYHC tradition in a fresh way, and packs tons of pure hardcore attitude to boot. Their album Darker Half is out now and deserves your attention.

Check out the video below to seem them thrashing the stage at this year's United Blood fest! The quality is poor, but the mosh factor high and the sound quality is OK.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Featured Band - Hard Times: Negative Hardcore from the WV Streets

Genre: old school/heavy hardcore
Country: West Virginia, US
Band Website: facebook
Label: Unsigned 

 Hard Times (probably taking their name from the classic Cro-Mags song) is a hard as fuck, old school heavy hardcore band from Huntignton WA, USA. This band brings back the hateful mosh sound that was prominent in the late 90s and early 00s and let me tell you... Hard Times has a lot of spite to spit right in the face of every non-believer.

If you like hardcore guitars accompanied by an punishing use of double bass drumming and hip hop busts, then this is for you. The vocals are 100% hardcore and so full of rage. We are not talking about another weak-ass, wannabe hardcore hipster frontman here, but a guy that will spit his rage no matter what. This is real, hateful hardcore for pissed off people and if you know what's good for you, you will get into Hard Times right now. Fuck.





Saturday, November 19, 2011

Featured Bands: NOOSE - Chicago Straight Edge

Noose is a vegan straight edge band from Chicago US. Their 2010 demo has created quite a lot of noise in the worldwide undergound HC scene, and for a good reason: these guys play no frills, pissed off hardcore that is not easy to come by these days! Their music takes us right back to a proto-HC sound reminiscent of Boston HC like SSD and maybe some faster shit like Infest. Even the production sounds like it was recorded in a crappy studio sometime in the 80s - and that's a good thing!

What is awesome about Noose is the sheer intensity of their sound, which - argue as much as you want - only old school hardcore music can deliver. It's so great to find out bands with this trademark sound in this rotten day and age! The band is now signed on React! Records and their new record will be out soon.

Check their site below because they post all kinds of cool stuff, like photos from their shows, links to other cool HC shit (zines, bands etc), merch, tour updates etc. Also, make sure to listen to their Fuck Art/No Respect demo.


Sunday, November 6, 2011

Harley Flanagan: the Cro Mags Legend Continues

The CRO MAGS have got to be one of the (if not THE) most legendary bands in hardcore. When we say "hardcore", we generally mean stuff that sounds like the CRO MAGS, no matter the diversions and trends that have emerged throughout the years. That's the sound that's always been, and that's the sound that's gonna continue to inspire kids to go hardcore and make their own music and bands, now and forever.

Throughout the yeats, a lot of energy has been spent on debating who the true leader of the CRO MAGS really is. Is it the legendary Harley Flanagan (bass/vocals) or is it the iconic Jon Joseph (vocals)? The truth is that, during various times in hardcore history the CRO-MAGS have been led by both members collectively, and have also been led by Harley and Jon independently, to the point that there have been two CRO MAGS at the same time. Fans and people in bands seem to part in to two directions with the legacy of this legend of a band still remaining out there for generaitons of kids to discover and enjoy again and again.

As hardcore fan I've never cared too much about this debate, cause to be honest I look up to both of these guys. Jon has the crazy Krishna holy vegan warrior thing going on, while Harley is the embodiment of hard as nails, bad ass hardcore attitude and a killer martial artist. And because we at TYS zine tend to take sides (unlike many other fence sitters), I will go  and say that judging from these guys' general precence in hardcore throughout the years, I have come to personally think Harley really  is the CRO MAGS. When I look at Harley, all I know is that this guy is for real, he's 100% hardcore and he doesn't claim the CRO MAGS' legacy for the money.

I will leave this here and take it to the music which as always, speaks best. Many people don't know that the CRO MAGS released two killer songs in 2010 with Harley on vocals (and on bass, of course). This last output is totally influenced by their early classic stuff, and especially by the thrashy Best Wishes album. Here is a track that, in case you've missed, you should definitely check out.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

News: Sheer Terror new album "Spite"

Sheer Terror is one of the most classic - and most underrated - bands when it comes to NYHC/punk. They are also one of the first bands to incorporate heavy vocals in hardcore and bring a distinct heavy metal element in punk rock and hardcore in general. They've had a somewhat notorious fame in hardcore, mainly due to their anti-positive, hateful approach to, well... everything!

photo by Jammi York, from Sheer Terror's FB page
After many years of laying low, Sheer Terror strikes again in 2011 with a new album on up and rising Reaper Records (home for Madball and Terror amongst others). On this brand new album with the apt title Spite, Sheer Terror deliver a bunch of their trademark, pissed off hardcore blasts; however, there are also some mid-tempo, streetcore/punk rock anthems that will have your working class pride rising up like it ain't no thing. The song "Salome" (which you can check out below) is an example of the above.

Opting for some old school punk rock is not such a strange move for a band like Sheer Terror. These guys have been quiet for quite a while and now that they're back, they take the chance to show their roots instead of just making another strictly 'old school hardcore' record to please the fans.

http://www.facebook.com/sheerterror

Sunday, September 4, 2011

COMMON CAUSE - S / T EP (React! Records)

What we have here is a straight edge hardcore record that makes me wanna wear some athletic gear and go straight for a run, lift something heavy or just room-mosh with this music on full volume!

I know that React! Records puts out some of the best stuff in positive / oldschool hardcore, and I definitely wasn't disappointed with Common Cause's new ep. I first heard this band on the Chain of Strength tribute ep (an awesome comp by the way) with their cover of "Those Days", also included on this ep.

These guys continue the tradition of the few remaining purely old school straight edge bands out there. The sound, the ethics and even the aesthetics all belong in the  old school SXE tradition, and this is something I couldn't be more happy about. No matter how much hardcore music progresses, it is important to save and persevere the sound of crucial hardcore bands like the aforementioned Chain of Strength, Insted, Youth of Today, etc. Being a new band, Common Cause have obviously updated their sound with a good production and a heavier edge to their sound, but the outcome remains totally old school.

The lyrics are about values and ethics like understanding and compassion. This may sound weird to some hardcore kids but believe it or not, hardcore also has its compassionate, thought provoking side. I wish there were more hardcore bands singing about this stuff nowadays, with no hard attitudes, violent and self-destructive messages etc. Hardcore stands outside from metal and punk not so much because of the sound, but because of the message of unity and integrity.


UPs: Good production, awesome self-righteous hardcore message, an evident straight edge identity, fast paces & speedy guitars, Chain of Strength cover. 

DOWNs: Could do with more songs (a full album), and would like a bit of a wider vocal range.

THE LOWDOWN: 6 songs of old school straight edge hardcore with a newer edge, filled with positive hardcore messages.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

ON THE OFFENSE NYC - The TxYxS Interview


ON THE OFFENSE is a hardcore band I have a lot of respect for. They revive the true hardcore feeling I had when I first got into this music and that means a lot to me some 15 years down the line. This is an interview with Sean (vocals) discussing over music, the band, handling hardcore alongside personal life as well as life in general from the view of a true hardcore lifer. Enjoy the interview, check out these guys at http://www.facebook.com/OnTheOffenseNYHC and read the TxYxS demo review here.
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- Can you tell us your story about how you got into hardcore?
I took the route that I think most of us took.....I started off with listening to Hard Rock, then Heavy Metal, then HEAVIER metal lol. Then one day I was listening to a college radio station over here that plays Heavy Metal, and for some reason they played "We Gotta Know" by the Cro-Mags, and that was it for me. I went right to the record store and bought "Age Of Quarrel" and any record that had a bald guy screaming into a microphone on the cover lol.

What does hardcore mean to you?
 I think what drew me to Hardcore, is the same things that it means to me. The realness, the harshness, the camaraderie. The fact that you could play music and express yourself through it without any image or fluff, no commercialism, that the same friends you hung out with, were the same people you could jump on a stage with and play. You didn't wait or rely on some corporate record company to "discover" you and get your music out there...you did it yourself. You record your own stuff, say what you needed to say....... you make your own covers and flyers, you hand them out yourself, you book your own shows....... and by doing all of that you meet the people you connect with, there are no "fans", only friends.

- How did you decide to form this band?
It was pretty much together when I joined. The guys had a bunch of songs down already and all they needed was a vocalist. We all meshed musically and personality wise, and we took it from there.

- Can you tell us a few things about the previous bands you were in if any?
I first started playing Hardcore back in like '86 or '87, and I was in a bunch of bands, some got more developed then others, and some never made it out of the practice rooms lol. But it was all fun , made a ton of great friends that I still talk with today. Same with the other guys in O.T.O. , they all have been in a bunch of bands through the years. Funny thing is, there weren't a lot of people in my neighborhood growing up that were into Hardcore, but Six Pack Jon lives like 2 minutes from me and we never played in a band together until now,,,,all those wasted years lol.

- What are the values that you feel NYHC and ON THE OFFENSE in specific represents?
Pretty much the same values that drew me to Hardcore from the begining. Truth, honor, respect, friendship, being who you are, unity.

- What are the top-3 essential records every HC kid should own?
I know that everyone in OTO is gonna disagree to varying degrees with me , so let me stress this is MY OPINION lol
3. Breakdown - 7inch
2. Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain
........... and without a doubt, the record that changed my life
1. CRO-MAGS - AGE OF QUARREL!!!!!!! lol

- What do you do for a living? Do you find it easy to balance everyday life with your hardcore activities?
- I work for the city, and as is too often the case work tends to interfere w/ all the fun things in life. Sometimes the balance is a pain in the ass, Six Pack usually has to put up with me screaming over the phone about how much I hate my job when I get stuck at work. But this band and this music is important to me, so I give it all I got.

- How often do you play live and rehearse? Is it easy to get shows around the NYC area? What about tours?
We usually practice once a week, more if we got a show coming up. I gotta say that musically these guys are pretty damn amazing. So it don't take a lot for them to get the music down. We just started writing new stuff which is pretty cool, love hearing the stuff they come up with. As far as shows go, they're coming slowly but surely. The great thing about the scene is that once you start making friends and hooking up with other bands MOST of the time they all start looking out for each other, and hooking one another up on shows. One thing I noticed that has changed though is every once in a while a band or a promoter comes at you with a "Rock Star" type mentality, talking about "draws" and "following"........This is the underground, it aint about popularity or fanbases. Whether there is 3000 people or 3 people at a show it shouldn't matter. Those three people had the heart to come out and represent.......you better rock it. And as far as tours go, we'll see what happens in the future. Hopefully if any tours develop during the winter here, it'll be somewhere warm and sunny , I hate the winter in NYC lol.


- Do you have any other hobbies/activities around or beyond the HC scene?
-Working and sleeping. Both Rob and me are dads, so that alone is enough of an activity.

- What is your top-5 hate-list? In life in general, or hardcore trends, whatever!
- I try not to hate to much, I've learned it's kind of a waste of energy, but if you were to twist my arm I'd say:
5. NYC Winters
4. The idea of working so hard at not having an image, that it in and of itself becomes an image.
3. Mosquitoes (as hard as I try , I just can't figure out what purpose they serve on this planet other than to just ANNOY people and animals lol)
2. People who use the "Irish Exit" when texting (Just dropping out of conversation when texting or emailing)
1. Bands that show up 15mins before there set, sell tee shirts for 30 mins, then just pack up and leave when they're done. Again the "Rock Star" mentality..........No one expects everyone to be there from the beginning to the end of every single show, but you really should show some support for the other bands playing. Every band was in the opening slot at some point, and we're all part of the same scene, support one another.

- You seem to have some very personal lyrics in your songs. What are they about? Isn't it hard to go "all out" like that?
- I found that as I got older I became a lot less angry at the outside world, and began taking a much harder look at the world inside. So most of what I write is the result of me examining myself. And in the end it actually helps me grow and understand who I am better. I put it out there because it's actually good to get stuff off my chest, and hopefully a few people might identify with the lyrics and relate to them enough that they serve the same purpose to them.

-  Overall, would you say you have a positive or a negative outlook on life? Please explain your position.
- Overall I'd say that my outlook is a positive one. Some negativity isn't always so bad, I think that at times it helps keep reality in check. But for the most part I'm a happy man.

I wanna thank you for representing the way you do. If it wasn't for people like you, Hardcore wouldn't be what it is today. And any of the Brothers and Sisters in your scene want to reach out and say "What's Up" feel free to, we're all part of the same family. Peace out my Brother, see you when we see you !!!!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

ON THE OFFENSE - Demo 2011 Review

Growing up as a hardcore kid in the 90s, I didn't listen to metalcore; I didn't listen to no 'thug'-core and I certainly didn't listen to boring, watered down ex-hardcore post stuff. No! I listened to stuff like ON THE OFFENSE: honest, driving, hard-hitting hardcore music with an intense message I could relate to.

Back then all the kids were kind of trying to get as many records from the Victory Records catalogue as possible. Cause even though it was hard to find HC records, at least there was a good hardcore label that we could depend on and spent our money on stuff we knew we would 99% like. ON THE OFFENSE is reminiscent of those golden days. They play hardcore the way it used to be, and do an awesome job at it by staying close to the roots of this music and by showing lots of respect for it. I can trust a band like this to take me through the hard times, or after a long day's work. It's the HC friend I need because it's so honest.

Each one of the fours songs on this demo is a NYHC blast that takes you straight to NYC (or any other big, dirty-ass city for that matter). Yeah... this demo takes you down to dark places where creeps live, where life's no fairy tale and where you gotta be strong and hardened to pull through. It is just a wrecking ball which represents what I'd call... the honest,  working man's hardcore! Fans of Warzone, Akward Thought, AF, early SOIA, or later NYHC revival stuff will love this, I swear.

Take my word for it if you're a true fan of NYHC or heavy, old school hardcore in general. You won't be disappointed!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

STEP X ASIDE - Awesome Old School sXe HC!


I guess that when it comes to personal favorites, for me nothing can beat a new dose of furious straight edge hardcore! STEP ASIDE from Tucson, AZ deliver some seriously energetic & upbeat hardcore that you should check right now! They have a harder edge to their sound which could be compared to old school stuff like BROTHERHOOD and JUDGE, and of course YOT. Their music hits hard but they still have that positive approach in their lyrics. A band I didn't know until today but I will def be playing on top volume from now on!

Totally old school,totally straight edge, totally awesome!

Check STEP ASIDE and their crucial songs on FB: STEPXASIDE

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

FATAL BLOW - "Running Over You" Video

Just a few days ago, we did a review of FATAL BLOW's scorching new album Rise from Disgrace. Since it is hard to put to words the intensity that these guys deliver, we are glad to post this brand new video for the song "Running Over You". This is 100% REAL hardcore action and it is guaranteed to crush everything that stands in its way. Enjoy the real-talk Brazilian HC mobsters at work!

Yeah... hope you enjoy that uber old school bass break at 0:29!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

FATAL BLOW - 'Rise From Disgrace' album review (2011)

Brazil: a place of mesmerizing landscapes, diverse social conditions and crushing motherfucking hardcore! Fatal Blow are here to stamp their name on the genre with their new album entitled Rise from Disgrace. We are talking about some real intense, brutal old-school hardcore that brings the best of the 90s sound (Breakdown, Hoods) in collision with a full-fat, hard as nails modern production. It's a win-win situation!

Rise from Disgrace contains 10 fast & heavy hardcore blasts including an awesome cover of Agnostic Front's 'Your Mistake' (from 1984's classic Victim in Pain album). This is just non-stop, full blown hardcore action with pissed off vocals and crazy, over the top, seriously bad ass drumming. The guitar and bass deliver the frantic NY flavored riffs one after the other, leaving the listener with very little space for breathing and relaxing (just space for moshing and two stepping). I am glad to say that there is no punk, no Oi!, no street punk, no 'progression' etc on this album, but only 100% ferocious hardcore... and that's the way we like it when it comes to this style of music.

So if you like simple, honest, brutal hardcore that overflows with anger and attitude, this album's for you. You will not be disappointed by the energy these guys bring when you blast Rise from Disgrace at full volume. This is bulldog style music!
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Be sure to check FATAL BLOW on bandcamp. For a previous post of this awesome Brazilian hxc ourfit, go here.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Old School Classics: Dag Nasty "Four on the Floor" (1992)

Today I felt like searching the shelves of a record shop. So I found my self in Sonic Boom, a place that I haven't been to for a little more than 10 years. That's just crazy. What I found was an awesome hardcore / punk collection filled with old school goodies. When I saw Dag Nasty's Four on the Floor, I just knew I would be taking this album with me at home, forever mine now!

So Four on the Floor surely isn't Dag Nasty's most well known album; in fact, it just may be the most overlooked album of this band's celebrated career in emotive punk rock/HC. And that's what is so cool about gems like these, the fact that they somehow get forgotten in time and wait for you to discover them and enjoy the awesome music. I have already listened to it 3 times and I know this record will be played A LOT on my stereo this summer!

This piece of melodic punk rock history was released in 1992 by Epitaph during a time that Dave Smalley (vocals) had already formed Down By Law and was experincing quite a bit of success with them. Therefore, Four on the Floor was more like a Dag Nasty reunion, an ex-members-side project album. It was never promoted and Dag Nasty never toured on it. It was just the result of a bunch of Dag Nasty ex-members being in the same city during summer vacations. However, the songs are all great and carry the stamp of a Brett Gurewitz on production!

Four on the Floor is filled with the same awesome musicianship and heartfelt lyrics that always made Dag Nasty so special for hardcore and punk rock kids of all generations. Extremely poppy (yes!), very enegetic and very mid-tempo, it just plain rocks and delivers a breath of fresh air and positive hardcore energy some 19 years later! It is the heritage passed on by the late 80s Dischord bands (Dag Nasty being one of them), which was popularized even more in the early 90s by labels like Revelations Records and Equal Vision. This is the good stuff!

For all the above reasons, Four on the Floor is a definite piece of old school hardcore history that you should get into!

Monday, June 6, 2011

Old School Classics: Jerry's Kids

Many people wonder when exactly the line between punk and hardcore was crossed. It was in the early 80s for sure, but: which were the bands that did it and, moreover, what are exactly the elements that transform pissed off punk into raging hardcore? The answer lies in bands like Jerry's Kids and a little compilation from back in the day entitled This is Boston not L.A. A way to explain the formation of hardcore is this: what punk had, hardcore took and magnified X10 (the vocals, the distorted guitars, the drum pace), while at the same time dropping a lot of the dress codes and stuck up attitudes. Simple as that!

So if you don't believe us, go ahead and enjoy all the Jerry's Kids tracks from the ...Boston not L.A. compilation! You won't regret it! This was, erm, 1982 by the way...

Friday, April 29, 2011

Old School Revisited

An old school pic of a 1996 Warzone / Right Direction show: pure MAYHEM. Bring back the energy of the old school days!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

ANOTHER MISTAKE - "Life's Noose" Demo Review

And now time for some dirty, pissed off hardcore.

Another Mistake is the shit. Old school, no fronts hardcore like back in the day, played by dudes who couldn't give two shits about publicity, scene points or photos (they aren't even on Myspace, but you can find some info about 'em here and/or here). In their short career, they have already supported Agnostic Front and have put out a demo that really speaks for itself and makes a name for the band faster than you think.
Life's Noose is Another Mistake's first demo, in which the Louisville quartet bangs out 5 songs of mad angry hardcore not unlike Slapshot and Right Direction. There are absolutely no 00s elements in these guys' core, even the production sound is totally 90s if not 80s! Their demo was released on cassette (epic move) and of course it is sold out but the band itself has uploaded it for free downloading through the aforementioned websites.

I think that it is definitely good to have bands that stay loyal to the roots of hardcore (it's what we also aim to do with My Turn, the hardcore band I play guitar for). I mean it is obviously more than fine to listen to all that progressive post hardcore stuff, we all like it, and new sounds are always great and welcome. However, we should always remember where this music came from and try to accurately represent it and pay respect to it as much as we can, whenever we can. And I'm glad because Another Mistake does just that.

PERSECUTION lyrics
the only kids i respect anymore
are the ones down for the fucking core
been playing the nice guy far too long
taught to believe everyone belonged
now i see i was wrong
convictions weren't so strong
i'm still holding on
to the feeling of being young
hardcore is the air in my lungs

pit or die, time to decide

its in all our blood