My new Toxpack Review up at New Noise Mag

Toxpack
Schall & Rausch(Napalm Records)

To read my review of Schall & Rausch, Go Here

Blazing new LP from Berlin's metallic Oi band. Superb writing and production push this beyond the average streetpunk.

New Integrity Music and Tour Schedule

Integrity Website

We only get a sample, but it is something. Dwid and Orr are back and dangling the carrot. Finding a new home on Relapse Records is tantalizing.

Integrity's new album will see a summer 2017 release on Relapse Records. It contains 11 tracks recorded and mixed at Developing Nations Studio in Baltimore with mastering handled by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Toxic Holocaust, Full Of Hell). More details on the album will be announced shortly.

Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume, coming this Summer via Relapse. The featured song is the album's opening track "Fallen To Destroy."

INTEGRITY 2017 Tour Dates:

Apr 07                 Richmond, VA      United Blood Festival

Apr 21                 Tilburg, NLD        Roadburn 2017
Apr 22                 London, UK          Birthdays Dalston

Jun 09                  Berlin, DE            Jugendkulturzentrum Linse
Jun 10                  Poznan, PL           Klub U Bazyla
Jun 11                  Prague, CZ            007
Jun 12                  Schweinfurt, DE   Alter Stattbahnhof
Jun 13                  Cologne, DE         MTC Cologne
Jun 14                  Arnhem, NL          Willemeen
Jun 15                  Brugge, BE           JH Comma
Jun 16                  Stadtmitte, DE      Stadmitte
Jun 17                  Ulm, DE               Eden
Jun 18                  Clisson, FR           Hellfest 2017

--- All Dates Oct 06 - 09 With Creepout ---

Oct 06                 Tokyo, JP            Antiknock
Oct 07                 Mie, JP                Chaos
Oct 08                 Osaka, JP             Hokage
Oct 09                 Tokyo, JP            Earthdom

Incendiary premiers track at Decibel

The searing new album from NYHC stalwarts, Incendiary, is coming soon. May 5th will give us Thousand Mile Stare on Closed Casket Activities.

You can hear a "Front Toward Enemy" of off it on Decibel. It is a slow burner; vicious riffs stomp while vocals are rapidly contrasted over the chugging plod. It's a pit inciter. The pent up tension is, well, incendiary to pit dwellers set to vent. The album gives us 10 tracks of passionate, angry hardcore.

A full audio interview with Brian and Brendan will be available here soon.



Thousand Mile Stare is up for pre-order on vinyl
Also check Closed Casket Activities.

Brixton Agency keeps us updated on the bands touring:
"Incendiary will be performing at this year's Groezrock Festival in Belgium, Sound & Fury Festival in Los Angeles, and Bloodaxe Festival in Japan, as well as the band's Brooklyn record release show and more tour dates to be announced."

you can also check out the faster, ripping track "The Product is You" on youtube.

Cheers to James at Brixton Agency

Silence Equals Death premieres song at New Noise Magazine

New hardcore kids, Silence Equals Death have been signed to Eulogy Recordings. It is an album with which I am extremely impressed. Dropping April 7th, End Times is a brash, potent record.

Stream "Common Ground" Here
You can also stream "Peacemaker" at Decibel
Catch Silence Equals Death live:

4/07/2017 The Stanhope House - Stanhope, NJ w/ Agnostic Front 

4/09/2017 Lucky 13 Saloon - Brooklyn, NY *release show w/ Apparition, Full Scale Riot, more

5/05/2017 Clash Bar - Clifton, NJ *release show w/ Threat 2 Society, Robots And Monsters, Ogre, Crime Scene
5/06/2017 5 Event South Tower - Callaway, MD w/ Inverted Planets, Only 4 Tonight

6/04/2017 Championship Bar - Trenton, NJ @ Micro Fest   

www.silenceequalsdeath.net

Gensu Dean and Diamond D drop video

Gensu Dean first grabbed my ears with the Guilty Simpsons 2014, Shaken, a remix EP of Mello Music Groups, Dice Game, by Guilty and Apollo Brown. One year earlier, in 2013, the seventeen track banger, Abrasions, with Fresno's legendary. Planet Asia, transfixed those who dared to listen. His beats knock with sparse meticulous elements. The Problem, his stunning album with 7evenThirty turned heads next. Gensu Dean's production is a rare gem these days. 

2016 brought the Refined Alkaline Water compilation boasting Roc Marciano, J Live and MMG's Red Pill, among more. The opener is a scorcher with Diamond D. The video, directed by Tommy Nova, dropped today. Gensu Dean's lead single "Principles & Codes" brings guest feature and legend Diamond D (DITC).  "The silhouette and smoke drenched video...[has] Diamond continue his reign as a pioneering force, while Gensu Dean stamps out once again his right to one of the best analog producers doing it today." The energy of Lil' Fame (MOP) in the sampled hook bust through the chill mood of the track. 

Gensu bandcamp

Reality Slap new video Blaze on Loudwire

Earsplit PR announces Lisbon, Portugal's hardcore outfit, Reality Slap, drop their second video of off their energetic EP, Limitless, released a few months ago on WAR Records.  Check My Review on New Noise Mag Reality Slap harness immense energy and crushing riffs like Dmize, Breakdown, Backtrack and Terror.

Loudwire debuts "Blaze" video

Reality Slap comments, "We felt that 'Blaze' would be a perfect song to start the record with after the intro. It has a lot of dynamics, and it's a great bridge between the old Reality Slap and the new. Lyrically, it talks about friendship and how some people can connect strongly no matter how far they might be from each other. Sharing the same views and energy, emitting the same light, and giving you a light you can follow through dark times."

Loudwire posts with the video, "Clocking in at just 70 seconds... Reality Slap accomplish a lot, opening up with a clanking, spotlight bass lick and rapid-fire rhythms. Blurring the lines between hardcore, punk and crossover, the quintet tear through pit-ready breakdowns, amplified when the members go airborne."

See the band's prior video which premiered on New Noise Mag

Buy Limitless at WAR Records on colored 12" vinyl, CD, and digital formats. 

SUPPORT:
http://www.facebook.com/realityslap 
http://www.bandcamp.com/realityslaphc

http://www.war-rec.com
http://www.facebook.com/WARRECORDS.HC 
http://www.instagram.com/WARRECORDS 
http://www.twitter.com/WARRECORDS1 
https://warrec.bandcamp.com 

Black n Blue Bowl 2017 announced

if you care - you already know the big news, Rest In Pieces reunion! Rob Echeverria is back with Craig and Armand, and hopefully the shorts! My Rage may be my favorite NYHC record. I'm stoked. Check instagram for band updates and Rob E posting cool practice pics.


Get ready for my favorites - "My Rage", "Fools of the World", "Joe Ignorant", "Bitter Mind", and "Keep Your Distance". These are all classics that still stir me inside, getting me to scream and point in the car or the house alone. Obviously the crowd will go beserk for "Stark Raving Nude", "Chinese Fortune Cookie", and "Balls n All"!


Here is the complete roster:
Sunday, May 21 at Webster Hall, New York, NY. 
$35 in advance ($40) at the door, 1pm.

Gorilla Biscuits
Rest In Pieces
Token Entry
Terror
Indecision
Maximum Penalty
Fire & Ice
God's Hate
Vietnom
Line of Scrimmage
Brick By Brick
Break Away
Coldside
Mind Force

BNB Productions have a list of NY record stores. Get your tickets!


Break Away is a superb band who I listen to frequently. Such killer energy. Terror always destroys. And this is right after their new EP, The Walls Will Fall, comes out on Pure Noise (look for audio of Scott Vogel interview posted soon).  Obviously reunions of Token Entry and GB are exciting. But let's not overlook Indecision! Brooklyn gets repped hard here. Brick By Brick and Gods Hate will decimate; definitely two of my releases from last year for brutal metalcore. Fire & Ice, Vietnom, and Maximum Penalty may not play continually, but they all come to hit hard. Coldside is a dope band.