Bluntshit - 2014 - Demo

Bluntshit is a hardcore punk band from Berlin, Germany. Demo is their debut ep. Bluntshit play a very straight forward brand of hardcore punk with a thick layer of crust over top. Don't know much about this band or this EP other than it it rips hard aside from a couple of questionable vocals. Highlights include 60€, GMRE, DBSB and Revenge Of Stench,   If you like your hardcore punk with a nice layer of crust with some razor sharp production, Bluntshit's Demo will serve well. Thanks to Dead Air At The Pulpit

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Barren Hope - 2014 - Anaffa

Barren Hope is a hardcore punk band from Haifa, Israel. Anaffa is their debut ep. Barren Hope play a crusty brand of hardcore garnering comparisons to bands like Protestant, The Holy Mountain, Centuries, and Masakari.



Barren Hope blast through these 8 songs in just over 20 minutes going back and forth between full speed hardcore and a more mid tempo sludgy stomp all the while covered in a layer of distortion and crust. If you like hardcore punk to be crusty and heavy, Barren Hope's Anaffa will serve well.

Nausea - 2014 - Condemmed To The System

Nausea is a four piece grindcore band from Los Angelese, California, USA. Condemmed To The System is their new LP. Members have also played in Terrorizer, Phobia, Majesty, Exhumed, Chemical Bitches,  Murder Construct and Intronaut so you know roughly what to expect. This slab of pure, uncut grindcore has both new songs like   …And We Suffer and Hate and Deception as well as previously unreleased songs like Falsely Accused and Does God Need Help?



 Nausea isn't reinveinting the wheel by any means but if there is one thing they know how to do well, is play unrelentingly heavy political grindcore. The political messages embodied in song titles like Condemn Big Business and Corporation Pull-In are about as subtle as Oscar Garcia's vocals are cryptically growled. If you like grindcore, Nausea's Condemmed To The System will serve well.

Young Thug & Bloody Jay - 2014 - Black Portland

Young Thug and Bloody Jay are rappers from Atlanta, Georgia. Black Portland is their new collaborative mixtape. Young Thug has been attracting some attention for his unique, idiosyncratic style of rap and Bloody Jay just released Blatlanta II:Brazy. The beats on Black Portland for the most part are mainstream beats that you would hear on the radio or in the club, once Young Thug lays down his vocals they become part of his weirdo, twisted world.



 Rarely do I hear rappers doing so many other things vocally than just rap, Young Thug's vocals include shouts, lazy mumble mouth, accenting punctuation, and sometimes just vocalizations. Highlights include Signs, No Fucks, 4 Eva Bloody, Movin, Paranoia, No Love, Danny Glover & Lets Go Play. If you like your rap to sound like the mainstream but bending that to suit their own personalities and style, then Young Thug & Bloody Jay's Black Portland will serve well.

Accidente - 2014 - Amistad Y Rebelión

Accidente is a punk rock band from Madrid, Spain. Amistad Y Rebelión is their second LP. Accidente play a melodic brand of punk fronted by a woman with an excellent voice. They cite bands like The Vicious, Massysteri, Leftover Crack, Lost World, The Assassinators, Decisión, Kartón de Zumo, Minor Threat, The Clash and are garnering comparisons to bands like The Libyans, Strike Anywhere, Terrible Feelings, and Against Me! I would list my favourite songs but there's no point in listing every single song. If you like your punk rock with a clear melodic sense but never forgetting how to rock, Accidente's Amistad Y Rebelión will serve well. Thanks to Manic Compression for the link.

The Redefiners - 2014 - Chapter 2: Creating Luck

The Redefiners are a hip hop duo from Chicago consisting of ATM and Mentality. Chapter 2: Creating Luck is their new mixtape. Both ATM and Mentality have fast flows and they can trade verses back and forth with no problems, each has their own unique style but their voices are also similar enough for the album to feel cohesive. Production by Relta, Derrick Thomas, Arturizzy, Gin Jacket, NB, 6ix, CmR, Da Vinci, Omito, All Stars, Da and Soul and guest verses from SwizZz, Cam Meeskins, Taylor Bennet and KiDD The Chicagoan.





They cite artists like De La Soul. Tribe Called Quest, Big Pun & Kendrick Lamar. Stylisticily and production wise this album doesn't stray very far from a flow focused, almost gangster hard type beat but The Redefiners tend to stay away from the gun play seeming to prefer a more conscious, positive vibe. Highlights include Blue Dream, Absurd, Mind In The Clouds, The Heavenly Three Ft. Cam Meekins, Candy Shoppa, Lingo Ft. KiDD The Chicagoan, October's Diary, Take Flight and Spit Flow. If you like hip hop or rap, The Redefiners' Chapter 2: Creating Luck will serve well.

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Bleak Bulge - 2013 - Bleak Bulge

Bleak Bulge is an extreme band from Amsterdamn. Bleak Bulge is their debut EP. Bleak Bulge play a hard to pin down brand of extreme music that melds together hardcore punk, black metal, powerviolence and noise punk into one loud, lofi, overwhelming beast of terror. Sometimes Bleak Bulge play take no prisoners, powerviolence speed hardcore punk wrapped in multiple layers of noise and distortion with a singer who could just as easily front a depressive black metal band and then sometimes Bleak Bulge slow things down a little bit to a sludgy stomp layered under distortion and just a hint of a melodic guitar line breaking through the layers of noise. The faster bits remind me of a more distorted, black metal influenced Superjoint Ritual. Highlights include Destroy Your Body, Bleak Bulge, Bulge Rising, Media Culture Decline and Untitled (Bonus Track). If you like extreme music you will probably find something great in Bleak Bulge's Bleak Bulge. Thanks to Manic Compression.

Vinny Vegas - 2013 - The Big White Whale

Vinny Vegas is a five piece progressive rock band from Baltimore, Maryland, America. The Big White Wale is their debut LP. Vinny Vegas play an expansive brand of rock that incorporates post-rock, soul jazz and a heavy dosing of keys make for a melodic groove that various members can solo or create atmosphere in. I like this more than I like of progressive music because this is firmly based in rock and roll and never strays
far from that.



The Big White Whale opens with the longest track Highs & Lows and continues in that vein for the rest of the album. Highlights include Rubber Sternum, Patterns Weave, Claws, If you like your progressive rock to not forget how to rock but still stretch out with melody and instrumentation, Vinny Vegas' The Big White Whale will serve well.

Iron Mind - 2014 - Iron Mind

Iron Mind is a five piece hardcore punk band from Melbourne, Australia. Iron Mind is their second LP courtesy of Flatspot Records. Iron Mind play a riff heavy brand of hardcore that manages to be both limber and heavy. At their best Iron Mind bring together agile hardcore riffs but imbue with with metal heaviness and flesh it out with a singer who sounds like he's barely able to escape the demons that pursue them. If you're interested in some riff heavy, pit focused hardcore that rarely decelerates then Iron Mind's Iron Mind will serve well. Thanks to Music Approved By A Banana

Slippertails - 2014 - There's A Disturbing Trend

Slippertails is a punk rock duo from central New Jersey. There's A Disturbing Trend is their new LP. Slippertails play a noisy brand of lofi punk rock garnering physical and sonic comparisons to Frank Black. The singer has an atonal talking style capable of an emotive whine but never ventures much beyond those territories while the guitar churns out somewhat melodic, generally very distorted old school punk rock. These songs are as interested in crawling along at glacier speed wallowing in distortion and noise as they are in saddling a mid tempo, shifting riff with distorted vocals and riding it into the dust. Highlights include Hip New Jerk, Walk, Will Peel You Open and Altar Wine. If you like your punk with a little sludge and a focus on doing what feels good, Slippertails' There's A Disturbing Trend will serve well.

Chalkboards - 2013 - Chalkboards

Chalkboards is a two piece chiptune band from Austin, Texas, USA. Chalkboards is their new EP. Chalkboards play a lush melodic brand of chiptune, finding the melody using two 1989 Gameboys and then filling out the sound with more "standard" instruments. Chalkboards manage to conjure an atmosphere that is equal parts Air, Brian Eno, Anamanaguchi and shoegaze indie rock. These songs have dual functions, you can put your whole attention towards it and absorb every nook and cranny of what Chalkboards is trying to do or you can let it receed into the background and use it as ambient music floating in the background providing atmosphere. There are definitely other instruments at use here than just the Gameboys but everything else is shrouded in lovely distortion and subsides into the background. Highlights include This World Is Not Yours, Splitting The Room In Two, My Favorite Show Is On The Television, The Sickets Kickflip You've Ever Seen, There's Twentytwo Fireflies In My Jar and The World Belongs To Us. If you like your chiptune catchy and dreamy, Chalkboards` Chalkboards will serve well.

Absolut - 2014 - Punk Survival

Absolut is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Punk Survival is their debut LP. Absolut play a speedy brand of hardcore influenced by bands like Anti-Cimex and Gauze. The vocals are incomprehensible screams of a demon being tortured, the guitar ranges from tight, noisy hardcore riffs to wild, Slayer-esque screaming solos and the drums are never anything less than utterly chaotic. The lofi production only serves to heighten the hardcore pummeling, this album is  best played in a room full of people with multiple strobe lights flashing. If you like your hardcore to be absolutely pummeling with no mind for anything else, Absolut's Punk Survival will serve well.

Robb Flynn & Friends

Friday (Jan 17) saw the ‘Rob Flynn And Friends’ benefit gig take place in spectacular style, with the likes of Robert Trujillo, Chuck Billy and Robb himself all thrashing out some badass covers of classic Black Sabbath tracks.


The concert was organised by Forbidden and Spiralarms guitarist Craig Locicero in honour of a good friend of many of the bands from the Bay Area scene who’s suffered a heartbreaking tragedy.



“A good friend of ours and all around great person, Nikki Davis, was in a motorcycle accident with her husband Jeff,” explains Craig. “Sadly, Jeff died at the scene. Fortunately, Nikki survived but she was unconscious for a few days. She awoke to the daunting reality that her husband, soulmate and best friend had passed away. It was heartbreaking to all of us in the Bay Area scene. Robb Flynn and I have known Nikki for at least 25 years and she is a huge supporter of the Bay Area’s metal and punk scene. I wanted to help Nikki out a year ago, but most every band was busy on tour and unavailable. A few weeks ago, I had approached Robb about doing a benefit for Nikki and he thought it was a great idea.



“Robb has gone above and beyond to help bring together something very special and memorable to help Nikki on January 17th. He’s been the catalyst for getting this thing off the ground so quickly and Nikki is very thankful. We hope to raise enough money to help Nikki continue to get back on her feet because the healing is not finished. She still has medical bills to pay and we want to do anything we can to help our old friend.”

Living Ghosts - 2014 - The Thought Of Giving Up

Living Ghosts are a four piece emo band from Oxnard, California, USA. The Thought Of Giving Up is their second EP. Living Ghosts are garnering comparisons to bands like  Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Citizen, and Old Gray and feature former members of HRBRS. Living Ghosts plays an eclectic brand of emo. In the first three tracks of The Thought Of Giving Up Living Ghosts move through emo that would be reminscient of Foxing if Foxing where even more quiet and reserved on Like The Sea, a  somewhat discordant up tempo emo song that breaks part and barely rebuilds on Arrows and an even more melodic, straight forward emo sound on Falling Apart (Featuring Jazzmine Brazil). Highlights include Falling Apart Ft. Jazzmine Brazil, Arrows, Light,  If you like your post-hardcore to be progressive and genre mixing but not pretentious, Living Ghosts' The Thought Of Giving Up will serve well.

Battle Ruins - 2014 - Battle Ruins

Battle Ruins is a heavy metal band. Battle Ruins is their new LP. They play a straight forward brand of heavy metal that would not be out of place next to NWOBHM bands in playing a brand of thrash and citing Vengeance and Fortress as influences. Think 3 Inches Of Blood without any speed metal influences and it would come out something like this.




There are lots of heavy guitars that pull out melodic solos and the singer has a voice that can do the high melodic parts as well as the gruffer parts. This is a surprisingly strong set of songs for songs that sound like they could have been written thirty years ago, this LP could easily pass for a recently discovered long lost masterpiece.



 I would list my favourite songs but I would end up listing all of them. As it stands Battle Ruins Battle Ruins is a very good thrashy old school metal album.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien - 2014 - Iller Than Most

Del tha Funky Homosapien is a rapper and producer from Oakland, California. Iller Than Most is his eleventh solo album. Del tha Funky Homosapien is an underground rapper with impeccable lyricism that manages to be conscious but still fun and party making. The opening track Leader is an outright banger and one that I will add to the ongoing rotation. His production style on this album seems a little more raw and brings in more noises that tend towards the discordant side of things, garnering comparisons production wise to bands like Death Grips. As a full length solo album this is a tad disappointing but as a new mixtape between full lengths it's quite good. There are some genuine great songs on here like the aforementioned Leader, Mental Fitness, Militant, Wreckin The Upside, and Grand Royal but this album is more uneven than I've come to expect from Del. If you like your hip hop coming from the underground, wise but never forgetting to have fun, Del tha Funky Homosapien's Iller Than Most will serve well.

Truman - 2014 - Truman EP

Truman is a four piece screamo band from Richmond, Virginia, USA. Truman is their debut EP. Truman play a straight ahead brand of screamo that aims itself carefully and then explodes at full speed. Multiple vocalists scream their lungs out while the distorted guitars rage, providing a basis on which to expand. There is perhaps an overrelliance on sound clips, every single track on here has audio from somewhere else and really only A Declaration puts the clips to good use.



Splitlip comes raring out of the gate and never lets up while Lolo Ferrari gives the riffs a little bit of breathing room before everything explodes. Euler's Circuit has a bit of a hardcore stomp to it, A Declaration is an excellent revolutionary sound collage set to a tight riff and closing track Lamplighter brings things back around with more traditional screamo that opened the ep. If you can put up with some lofi demo production, Truman's Truman is solid ep by a band to watch.

You Blew It! - 2014 - Keep Doing What You're Doing

You Blew It! is a three piece emo band from Orlando, Florida, America. Keep Doing What You're Doing is their new LP courtesy of Topshelf Records. You Blew It! play a brand of midwest emo garnering comparisons to bands like American Football and Braid. It's not that they're doing anything new, melodic noodly guitars, shouted but still melodic vocals and an overweening sense of meloncholy aren't ground breaking but there's something to be said for a band that can pull all those things together into an album that practically demands re-listening. Highlights include Match & Tinder, Regional Dialect, A Different Kind Of Kindling, Rock Springs, You & Me & Me,Gray Matter and Better To Best .  If you like your emo straight ahead with a clear melodic sense, You Blew It!'s Keep Doing What You're Doing will serve well.

Beatriz Carnicero & Chulo - 2013 Split

Beatriz Carnicero is a hardcore punk band from Uraguay. The split with Chulo is their fourth release. Beatriz Carnicero play a speedy brand of hardcore influenced by power violence. The longest of these songs is barely over a minute long and that's only because of a long audio clip. They get in, smash you over the head with the riff, rip your guts apart with the tortured vocals and then move quickly on to the next musical ambush



Chulo is a three piece grindcore/powerviolence band from Bogota, Colombia. Their split with Beatriz Carnicero is their eleventh release. Chulo play a supremely heavy brand of power violence that is as interested in chugging along a riff as they are exploding like a pipe bomb showering you in shrapnel. They cite bands like Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Man is the Bastard, Infest, Napalm Death. The singer has a completely incomprehensible screech whether guttural or high pitched and the saw blade guitars are out of control. 

Have it All - 2013 - Changes

 Have It All are a five piece international hardcore band with members based in Padova, Italy) & Dusseldorf, Germany. Changes is their second EP. Have It All play a brand of hardcore that instrumentally owes a debt to both emo. The singer has a solid desperate shout and the guitars bring just the right amount of melody to enhance the crunch and squeal. The guitars on Circles remind me of Thoughts Paint The Sky and in general there is a tendency towards a heavy brand of hardcore that is heading in the direction of metalcore. These songs are usually very heavy  but they counterbalance that by bringing a sense of melancholy melody. Highly recommended. Highlights include Side By Side, Untitled, Circles and Create. If you like your hardcore heavy and fast while still leaving room for some emo, Have It All's Changes will serve well.

I Kill Giants - 2014 - No One Will Ever Leave You

I Kill Giants are a four piece emo band from Boston, Massachusets. No One Will Ever Leave You is their new EP. I Kill Giants play a mathy, slightly noodly brand of emo with lots of tapping and desperate shouted vocals. Even though this was released on January 2nd, the middle of winter, this feels like a very summer record, it should be blasting from a car stereo as bunch of friends drive to the beach. The opening track Slaughtering The Wolves Like Sheep is classic I Kill Giants, easily melding indie and math rock into a noodly, some what discordant catchy tune. The next two tracks don't break a minute and both Classic Riptide and In Response have irrepressible catchy rhythms and melodies. And Butcher Shoppe/////Machine Gun close things out on a little more pop punk vibe but run through I Kill Giant's mathy filter. This EP show's a band reaching and developing their own unique sound and this EP leaves me wanting much more. An early highlight of 2014. If you like indie, emo or math rock, I Kill Giant's No One Will Ever Leave You will serve well.

Self Defense Family - 2014 - Try Me

Self Defense Family is a punk band from the United States of America. Try Me is their fourth LP, the first since changing their name from End Of A Year. Self Defense Family play a dark, brooding yet still energetic brand of post-hardcore. One piece of this album that is getting a lot of press, aside from the usual justified hype of a new Self Defense Family record is the near 40 minute two part interview with former porn star Angelique Bernstein describing her trouble filled life. While these songs are nominally post-hardcore they are more accurately described as punk based meditations on various personal issues. You could mosh to this album if you really wanted to but that would kind of be missing the point. This is intense, personal music at it's finest, it won't be for everyone but those that it touches will find an beautiful piece of art. Highlights include Mistress Appears At Funeral, Nail House Music and more.  If you like your post-hardcore willing and able to explore the reaches of itself, Self Defense Family's Try Me will serve well.

lovechild - 2014 - "In Heaven, Everything is Fine."

 lovechild is a hardcore punk band from the United States of America. "In Heaven, Everything is Fine." is their new LP courtesy of Mayfly records. Lovechild features members of Cerce and Debaser and play a noisy brand of hardcore that borrows from the screamo side of things. They are garnering comparisons to bands like The Nerve Agents, Panic and Some Girls. For the most part this LP is straight ahead hardcore punk with some very noisy guitars and a particularly desperate singer. Highlights include Perfectionist (Perfectionism), Oh, Love.,  If you like your hardcore punk to feel like it's about to fall apart at the seems but is going too fast for that to actually happen, lovechild's "In Heaven, Everything is Fine." will serve well.

Abject Pax - 2013 - Abject Pax

Abject Pax is a hardcore punk band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Abject Pax is their debut EP. They play a brand of hardcore that takes some influences from the goth rock school of songwriting. The basis for these songs is hardcore but there is such an atmosphere of theatrical dread and doom that they take a left turn at some point. The music is all standard hardcore punk but flourishes like the melodic backing vocals in Mind & Body create an atmosphere where anything dark might happen.  Highly recommended and a strong contender for EP of the year. Highlights include Abject Pax, Not Morals, the aforementioned Mind & Body. If you like your hardcore with a little flourish, Abject Pax's Abject Pax will serve well.

Drugs Of Faith - 2013 - Architectural Failures

Drugs Of Faith are a hardcore punk band from Washington, DC, USA. Architectural Failures is their new EP in advance of a new LP in 2014. Drugs Of Faith play a brand of hardcore that has learned all the right aggressive, abrasive lessons from the grindcore school of songwriting. The guitars have a harshness and jumpy mathy riffs that recalls bands like Botch or Comadre in what they do to the hardcore base Drugs Of Faith starts with. They might have started with hardcore punk but they also cite Voivod, Napalm Death, Killing Joke, Entombed and Enemy Soil as influences. Highlights include Placing Bets and The Incumbent. If you like your hardcore unrelenting and abrasive, Drugs Of Faith Architectural Failures will serve well.

Beatriz Carnicero - Pudrëtë - Split 2013

Beatriz Carnicero is a hardcore punk band from Uraguay. The split with Pudrëtë is their third release. Beatriz Carnicero play a speedy brand of hardcore influenced by power violence. The longest of these songs is 48 seconds long. They get in, smash you over the head with the riff, rip your guts apart with the tortured vocals and then move quickly on to the next musical ambush.



Pudrëtë play a more straight forward brand of hardcore. Their songs are equally short but are of a more lofi 80s hardcore punk style. These songs bury everything under a layer of distortion but they still have the same speedy attack as Beatriz Carnicero. Personally I prefer the first half as I dont have as much tolerance for lofi hardcore as I used to, but there is some good noisy hardcore here.

Brain Corruption - 2013 - Artifacts Of Humanity

Brain Corruption are a two piece grindcore band Germany. Artifacts Of Humanity is their debut EP. Brain Corruption play a hard hitting brand of grindcore that focuses on d-beat and blast beats but also brings in some crust in the overall sound. The singer has an excellent shout that goes from a cleaner shout to a lower, distorted growl that would not be out of place in a death metal band. They blast through these 10 songs in just over 12 minutes including a cover of The Cancer Grows On by Ulcerrhoea, never pausing or slowing down, they continue to rain fast, brutal grindcore from the tortured heavens. If you like your grindcore uncompromising and fast, Brain Corruption's Artifacts Of Humanity will serve well.

Posture & The Grizzly - 2013 - Calling All Creeps (or The Passion Pit of Mel Gibson Jesus Christ and the Adam Sandler Movielife)

Posture & The Grizzly are a three piece emo band from Willimantic, Connecticut, America. Calling All Creeps (or The Passion Pit of Mel Gibson Jesus Christ and the Adam Sandler Movielife) is their debut EP, released by Broken World Media. Posture & The Grizzly play a scrappy brand of punked up emo that fits nicely in the Algernon Cadwallader school of shouty, somewhat noodley emo. The singer has an excellent gruff shout with some melodic backup and the guitars are suitably noodly and not particularly twinkly. These three songs are an excellent basis on which to grow and hone their own voice. If you like your emo punked up with just the right amount of noodle, Posture & The Grizzly's Calling All Creeps (or The Passion Pit of Mel Gibson Jesus Christ and the Adam Sandler Movielife) will serve well.

Black Veins - 2013 - The Cycle Will Cease To End

Black Veins is a three piece hardcore punk band from Birmingham, England. The Cycle Will Cease To End is their debut ep. Black Veins play a brand of hardcore that has feet in both sludge and powerviolence. The EP starts with the monstrous sludge stomp of To Break Their Control, followed immediately by the title track, hardcore played at powerviolence speed and the rest of the EP follows suit. Stone Sun incorporates a tad of melody and a the best vocals on the album for a perfect middle piece, while Collapse has barking vocals and a nearly ceaseless driving energy that Black Veins can destroy and rebuild out of sludge. If you like your hardcore alternately sludgy and speedy, Black Vein's The Cycle Will Cease To End will serve well.

The Day Man Lost - 2013 - Split with Prolefeed

The Day Man Lost is a hardcore punk band from Preston, England. Their new EP is a split with Prolefeed. The Day Man Lost play a speedy brand of hardcore punk with elements of grindcore and powerviolence. These songs have the consistent fast menace of heavy riffs played at top speed. The vocals are indecipherable screams and are in the middle of the mix leaving lots of room for thrashy guitars and rumbling drums. Even when there are oh so brief moments of calm, you know it's only moment before you're crushed under the weight.I would list favourite songs but why list all of them. If you like your hardcore unrelenting and heavy, The Day Man Lost side of their split with Prolefeed will work well.

Curb Biters - 2013 - Demo

Curb Biters are a four piece hardcore band from Houston, Texas, USA. Demo is their debut. Curb Biters plays a sloppy brand of hardcore punk featuring members of Vipers, Ex Gfs, Back to Back, Stagnant Youth, Secret Prostitutes and others. These are rageddy hardcore songs that somehow manage to stay together and bash something coherent together.



The vocalist has a snearing shout and the lofi production only serves to make the distorted guitars louder. Curb Biters don't seem interested in taking things slow or getting to know you, they only one know speed. This could be described as mysterious guy hardcore if the singer wore a mask or they weren't on social media. If you can stand some production and mixing issues, Curb Biter's Demo will serve well.

gross - 2013 - Demo

gross is a hardcore punk band from Orlando, Florida. Demo is their debut. gross play a speedy brand of hardcore that brings in both noise and powerviolence. If gross decides to slow down for a moment they bring in lots of noise and synths to create a terrifying atmosphere as they to to great effect on There Is So Much Celebration. Otherwise they play a fast, straight forward brand of hardcore buried under extra layers of distortion. The singer has an excellent demonic yell that would also work in some metal bands. If you like your hardcore fast and noisy, gross' Demo will serve well. Thanks to Manic Compression.