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EP review: Initiate release ‘With Love // With Rage’

By Hannah Calver August 27, 2026

From Southern California, hardcore band Initiate have just signed with Blue Grape Music. New EP ‘With Love // With Rage’ released on 7th August 2026 with 5 incredibly heavy tracks. Intense, chaotic, raw, ferocious, vicious, and full of emotion, what more can I say?Continue Reading

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EP review: RAD – ‘Rad To The Bone’

By Alex Goose August 27, 2026

Like so many of the best bands, RAD may not take themselves too seriously as people, but ‘Rad To The Bone’ sees them take a huge step towards becoming genuine crossover thrash contenders. The songs within are more musically developed and intricate than anything the Brighton crew have done before...Continue Reading

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Album review: MC16 reckon ‘We’re Gonna Need A Milkman’

By Richie Viral August 26, 2026

When everything is going wrong, forget the police or politicians, what society really needs according to MC16, is the reassuring presence of the milkman. 'We’re Gonna Need A Milkman' is a twelve song follow up to the midlands-based trio’s 2025 debut 'Machine Code’ and is supposed to be their happier album. The punk foundations remain wonderfully obvious throughout - Continue Reading

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Album review: The Hard-Ons and Jerry A release long-promised self-titled joint LP

By Phil Withall August 26, 2026

Australian punk royalty (if that’s not too much of a contradiction) Hard-Ons have known Jerry A. Lang, the American lead singer of Portland legends Poison Idea, since they first toured together back in the late Eighties. Studio collaboration - ‘Hard-Ons/Jerry A’, releaesd 14th August 2026, brings together the feeling of the music that inspired them both with their own Continue Reading

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Album review: State Power – ‘Hyperstition’

By Alex Goose August 24, 2026

As state of the world addresses go, this debut album from Dutch hardcore crew State Power is up there with the best of them. Much of ‘Hyperstition’ sees them quite rightly railing against modern malaises such as our over-reliance on technology, the disintegration of traditional communities...Continue Reading

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EP review: Thorns – ‘Ready To Strike’

By Alex Goose August 24, 2026

Well, after witnessing their ripper of a gig at London’s Black Heart last month, how could we not check out this new EP from youthful thrash crew Thorns? The Ohio natives’ CV is already pretty damn impressive...Continue Reading

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Album review: The Cramps ‘Gravest Gravy’

By Ian Ladlow August 20, 2026

The never-before-released, Alex Chilton-produced 1977 album by The Cramps, 'Gravest Gravy', mixed & mastered by Henry Rollins & Ian MacKaye is the first release on newly restarted Vengeance Records. Not one of the songs feels like a demo – each is already fully formed.  Whether you are a lifelong Cramps fan or somebody who discovered the band through the appearance of ‘Goo Continue Reading

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Album review: Daily Thompson bond over release of a brand-new record ‘Glue’

By Sonny Tyler August 20, 2026

This band is a new one to me, but they've obviously been around for a while, as 'Glue' is Daily Thompson's 7th album release. Musically inspired by late 80"s/early 90's grunge music, 'Glue' was recorded at the aforementioned HQ of grunge in Port Orchard, Seattle. The tone of the album, right down to the cover art, feels autumnal, and these often unpredictable songs have a Continue Reading

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EP review: Barriers – ‘Time Crisis’

By Alex Goose August 18, 2026

It was just over eight months ago that we last saw Brighton quartet Barriers, at a superb gig at London's Deptford Endeavour, and so we’re thankful that - in roughly the gestation period for a human being - they’ve created and birthed this belter of a new EP.Continue Reading

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Album review: The Barbarians Of California – ‘MEGATONS’

By Alex Goose August 17, 2026

Damn. No sooner had we said that the best hardcore is usually born from struggle, than we came across this great sophomore album from The Barbarians Of California, with its somewhat…unorthodox take on the genre.Continue Reading