Thrash To The Puss 5-Way Split

5 Bands, 5 or so minutes and Free! Pretty decent offer if you ask me. The 5 bands involved show all the different variations of hardcore, from straight up thrash to blistering powerviolence to even some jazz?!?!?

xHaroldshitmanx - Scottish thrash/powerviolence kids! One of the more productive bands about with splits and ep's a plenty and never ever let up or disappoint.

Damage - Powerful thrash filled tracks that make you wet yourself.

You Suck - Have since passed away! Which is such a shame, but they still have something to give. Super fast, super heavy straightedge kids, super awesome!!!

Unlearned - Members from the ever brilliant Kent Brockman so you know what's coming! Fuck Yeah!

Bill Shatnerrr - Angular thrash/jazz/hardcore and a whole lot of other crazy, adding something different.

So jump on board and get yourself a free copy, and spread it around!

Thrash To The Puss

Motivation

So here is the amazing Motivation! Straightedge Positive punk from Hungary. My love of the stuff coming out out Hungary is well known, it's almost like stepping back into the mid nineties with thrash/PV/hardcore bands just everywhere!

These fellows have been heading the charge for awhile now with the none stop tours and releases. It's good to see a hardcore band with a positive message, and yes i know alot of people do or don't agree with the straightedge principles but when the music is this good then who cares! Crank this shit up and let the posi river flow over you!

MYSPACE

Motivation - Life Of My Life

JXM

Just came across these guys today. Awesome fast thrash from Liverpool, UK. Really powerful stuff with that dirty ass sound that this music needs, plug in, play loud, play fast and thrash all the way!

I'm post up their split with the equally awesome GWC another great thrash/hardcore band also from Liverpool.

JXM are looking for gigs in the UK or anywhere i guess so if you can help then hit them up at their myspace page.

JXM Myspace

JXM/GWC Split

The Homefront

Awesome hardcore punk from Massachusetts, USA. Fast, melodic and just what this shit should do and throw in some wicked group vocals and bingo we got a super awesome band. Been listening to this album alot of recent, always dig some hardcore to the start of summer!

MYSPACE

The Homefront - Sacrifice

Under A Dying Sun

One of the most underrated bands ever! Since i heard their s/t album many moons ago i fell in love with them. Playing their own kind of emo/post punk tunes and unlike most bands around they play their own style, pretty dirty and well crafted songs. It's always a pleasure when a band put some thought into their stuff and show a varied range of music. With some really nice quiet, slow parts then burst into hyper, energetic frenzies and can then go either way. They always keep you guessing, which is awesome. Powerful stuff indeed.

Here is one of their earlier ep's Supernova. I was going to post their s/t album but i lent it to a dickhead friend and never saw it again!

Under A Dying Sun - Supernova

Video Post!

Yeah so i have been somewhat busy and i hope to post up more music soon, BUT in the meantime check out these awesome vids:

As The Sun Set - An early vid of these guys featuring some tracks off their first album.

Vid 1:



Vid 2:



Call Me Betty - Turbo Yeti Violence...Yes Please!



Amaget - Hmmmmmmm



Zach Hill & Carson McWhirter - Holy Shit



Airborn Audio - M Sayyid and High Priest From APC project. Amazing!



Hot Bone - Fantastic 2 piece doing some busking from Futuresonic last year.



Pantera - I'm Broken. Nuff said.



Fago Sepia - Just love these dude, fantastic jazzy/instrumental stuff. Outstanding.



Mosh And Wash - A small powerviolence/thrash gig in a laundromat, haha great stuff why don't more people do this kinda thing. Has some awesome bands from Canada and around there including Labrat.



GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! - Wish my beard was half as good.



He Who Corrupts - Haha love it!



Divets - Another ZX favourite, now a 3 piece plating some awesome stuff.



Thats all for now, now GO AWAY!

Well Wisher

I have previously posted a few early tracks by these local emo party kids previously, but here is a video of them playing last week. They played with the superb Grown Up's and was a fun filled gig! Watch out soon for the Well Wisher 7" and the split with the equally awesome Polina.

Now limber up, stretch and get some Emosize into your life!

Sharks Roar

I love Sharks Roar!!!! I came across them a couple of months ago and fell for them like that cute nerdy girl on the bus you see every morning. Anyways the music fell just at the right time as we started getting some sun and made the journey to work a tiny bit more pleasurable.

They play a great indie/garage band kinda still with more over tones of punk/emo etc etc and when it's all played out it just sounds great. They put their album up for download (link Below), so getting ready for summer? Then jump on this.

MYSPACE

Sharks Roar Album

Arcing

Awesome little band that has popped up out of the ashes of the amazing Tiny Hawks. It features two of the members and a new girl on bass. There are not any tracks up on their myface page as yet but there is a pretty brilliant video of them that you should check out.

MYSPACE

Drowningman

I have been meaning to post this for ages, but alas i am lazy. So over the past few weeks i have been having this album "Rock And Roll Killing Machine" and have fallen in love with it all over again. It simply is one of the best hardcore albums ever, with amazing guitar work alot different from all the other bands around at this time and vocals that are delivered with so much rage that it will make you nose bleed.

There is something quite sinister about the album, i think it's mainly down to the lyrics and the semi dirty sound of it all. Rarely does an album have such an impact but that it did.

Drowningman - Rock And Roll Killing Machine

The End of History?

So a great new hardcore band from the sunny UK. Featuring ex members of the awesome Jesus of Spazzareth then you already have an idea of what these dudes about. They only have one track up at the moment but it's amazingly good, short (like 38 seconds short), fast and unrelenting. The future looks bright!

MYSPACE

The Madness of the Crowd Zine

Cool new little zine from one of the guitarists from Guilotines (see below post). Interesting small look at the music that surrounds his area with interviews with Amateur Assassins (an amazing band you should check out) and also Jake from Power Negi Records.

First issue has just gone out so go and snap one up!

MYSPACE

Guilotines

Super fast spazzy stuff from some kids in the Midlands UK. Playing Daughters styled hardcore with tints of all kinds of badness. With tracks rarely going over 30 seconds blink and you shall miss them!

They have an impressive line up of forth coming ep's with Henry Fonda, Kaza and Black Mass to name a few. So definitely a band to keep your seedy eye on this year.

MYSPACE

My Castle, Your Castle

Awesome new band from Scotland. Playing old decent emo/screamo tunes that at the moment are rough recordings but still adds the certain dirty demo, one take recording quality that i love! With the whole emergence of great US bands playing this stuff, midwest Penpals, Grown ups, The Exploration, Merchant Ships, Boyfriends etc etc cool to see someone closer to home doing it.

They have now hooked up with a new guitarist and are currently recording, so keep your eye put for their new stuff.

MYSPACE

Bill Shatnerrr New Track

UK Spazzcore giants have come out of retirement to carry on their journey into hardcore. Currently recording new tracks for a split with the awesome You Suck and Guillotines that should be out later in the year.

Go and check out their new track Charlie and the Zombie Factory (rough mix) on their myspace.

Also can still download their frantic demo here - DEMO

MYSPACE

Amaget

Hurrah another local band, from Burnley (a small trip down the road), and hell what a band! Powerful, noisy riffs with super thumped drums and you could imagine this guys would be loud as fuck live and leave your ears ringing for days. At points they sound like some unborn child from Skingraft Records, with occasional vocals and spazzed out guitar riffs coming at you like a bare knuckle cage fighter that will leave you half beat to death in a pool of your own blood. Awesome.

MYSAPCE

Bandcamp

MOTIM

These guys are so fucking awesome! They play some great screamo/metal/hardcore music from Brazil. But unlike most bands in these genres they play with intelligence drifting in and out of the said genres with ease and unboundable energy. This is one of the best ep's i have heard in a long time, so get it!

MYSPACE

EP

Bluetip

So here is one of my favourite bands of all time! Bouncing out of Washington DC, home of some of the best post hardcore bands ever and these guys in their prime were it. I deciding to go for their first album Dischord No 101 as for me is the most energy packed of of their albums. From the first "Fuck This Shit" lyric to the odd country and western track at the very end then there is many fully complete albums as this. Anyways enough brown nosing, grab a copy.

Dischord No 101

Eigenheimer

Here's something a bit different. I have been listening to this guy for the past few days. Popping out some great ambient/dance/acid jazzy/chiptune from the Netherlands then this guy has something for everyone. Some of it reminds me of the early 90's dance stuff like 808 State, which is only a good thing. So get your glow sticks ready and get the guys first two albums!

MYSPACE

For No Gold

TWO

Teeth

Time for some more Powerviolence/Thrash me thinks. Bullying their way from California come Teeth a straight up no bullshit band that play hard and play fast! The kind of band you can massacre in short waves with Mac 10's.

MYSPACE

Live at Spawn Ranch (First Recordings)

Demo

New Years Rough Tape