Gag - America's Greatest Hits LP

Well holy fuck shit, here it is...

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Helta Skelta - Beyond The Black Stump LP

Personally I'm very stoked about this release, the band was my first ever blogspot post since this blogs inception and somewhat of an influence in starting this blog, the band is doing a US tour next year, so rejoice with this contemporary Australian punk BANGER.

"Helta Skelta is the newest face of Australian punk - there I said it. Granted they already have an album and a few singles under their belt, Beyond the Black Stump sounds very different from previous outputs and believe this is the album people have been waiting for them to write. It's hands-down their strongest batch of songs, and the recording does them complete justice. The various elements of this album have always been there, swirling in the soup of varied influences and ideas these guys soak in, but this album smacks of a band getting its ducks in a row. In particular, Jon's vocals have mellowed from an earlier, more aggressive hardcore delivery into a brilliantly snarky, deadpan, sardonic drawl that draws easy comparison to EDDIE CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING or X. The guitars are tight, choppy and bright, the bass and drums pin the beat down with straightforward but rock-solid rhythms."

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Cuntz - Force The Zone LP

"Cuntz are, obviously, well hardcore, spitting out noisy garage punk with not a care in the world. Third album Force The Zone offers more of the Australian trio’s gnarly thrashing: they sound like they’ve spent too long in the Yabba and it has warped their minds."

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Uranium Club - Human Exploration LP

If you're not listening to this by now, you're fucking up.

 FFO: Wire, The Fall, Shitty Limits, early Total Control, Parquet Courts

Soma Coma - Dust LP

"Latest in the Cool Death catalogue, SOMA COMA rip through eight tracks of unparalleled rage on this debut long player. At it's most basic "Dust" is a tightly wound hardcore record that goes straight for the throat, rarely cutting loose. Upon further listens, SOMA COMA reveal a bit more in the mix, from the feral rasp of the vocals to the atonal guitar flourishes reminiscent of groups like Die Kreuzen. As the title track winds side B to a close, SOMA COMA slowly turn things loose after a smashing ten plus minutes of HC abuse. Recommended to those familiar with the outer-spaced hardcore of recent Australian groups like Straightjacket Nation, Gutter Gods, and Velvet Whip. SOMA COMA's "Dust" will crush your basic sensibilities and then keep crawling back for another 'go."

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Sin Motivo - El Desierto LP

"Finally! After two stunning demo tapes SIN MOTIVO created this untold hardcore punk 12" bastard. Born and bred in Fort Worth/ Denton, Texas' legacy of DIY, SIN MOTIVO seeks to push what it means to be punk in 2015. In equal parts Victim In Pain and Too Many Humans, SIN MOTIVO perpetually pushes Punk's lack of attention span.
 
Psychedelic drudging interwoven with a classic hardcore punk formula balances out to create a true sonic seduction. All aspects mentioned before are finally realized in their recent opus, El Desierto, an LP brought to you by members of Wiccans, The Sentenced, and Treatment.

Their recordings capture that energy perfectly and form some of the most driving and propulsive hardcore punk I have heard in ages. You need to hear this. These songs are chaotic and unrelenting. Constant changes make the songs feel relatively short although some of them stretch out over five minutes and even the shorter songs just plod along. Sin Motivo isn't afraid of frantically throwing anything and everything into a speedy, punk rock blender that persists of thumping around for a moment before exploding into a hardcore nail bomb.

If you like your hardcore chaotic and turbulent, you're in for a hell of a ride. This is hardcore punk with demonic vocals and hard-as-nail beats that is extremely hard to shake once you have heared it. Ferocious, dissonant hardcore focused in intensity and all-out rage. A record full of uneasiness and trepidation.
 
SIN MOTIVO is another living proof for how great the current Austin punk/hardcore crop is. 
Recorded / Mixed by Dentons finest, Mark Ryan and Jeff Burke ( Marked Men, High Tension Wires, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity ) and mastered by Daniel Hussain ( Red Dons ) I am more than honoured to release this timeless LP."

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Chain Rank - Up Against The Wall LP

BOSTON ALWAYS GOT IT GOING ON...

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The Achtungs - Welcome To Hell LP

The Finnish rock 'n' roll mutants are back again, this time around with their 2nd LP. 10 tracks of sleazy degenarate garage punk.

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Chicken Chain - Birth of the Googus LP

Drew Owens from SICK THOUGHTS new project, this time in HARDCORE territory. Raw, loud, nasty and demented as fuck. As if SICK THOUGHTS couldn't get even more punk.
FFO: japanese HCpunk(gai, aburadako) and midwest 80's USHC

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THISCLOSE - One Foot In The Grave

14 tracks of devastating, brain detonating hardcore in the tradition of Cal's Discharge, what if Cal was the only person in Discharge that thought heavy metal was cool? (Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing LP music, Grave New World LP vocals)

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The Inmates - Self Titled LP (2014)

"What more could you ask for in 2014? A new fuckin' INMATES record? Awe shit. Cleveland's finest are back with 7 new tracks of scorching Japanese-influenced HC plus a GUNS cover and a skit lambasting the "crust fund" oogle shitheads that you see riding the rails and winding up at punk gigs. Paul's vocals have weathered over the years a bit, sounding even more disgusted and skummy. The music here is 100% what you'd expect from the INMATES, raging top shelf negative HC punk. What are you waiting for? Just fucking get this."

The Combat Zone - Self Titled LP (320 Kbps HQ)

"After a killer 2013 demo The Combat Zone return with a 12 inch full of total degenerate punk, Think Boston Not L.A. meets Back on the Map. This is mean, lumbering, anti social hardcore that is not your friend."

Members of Male Nurses, Contingent, Green Beret, Chain Rank,
and other fine Boston musical acts.

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Gas Chamber - Hemorrhaging Light LP

"Buffalo hardcore has always made a significant yet largely misunderstood contribution to the furthering of musical mastery. And "Hemorrhaging Light" is no exception. With the same 7 notes that everyone else uses, GAS CHAMBER have managed to completely turn mere punk music into a tense, trans-formative journey. Very rarely in punk do we get to have a complete life shift in the space of one album. This is incredible music."

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Tercer Mundo - Ser Nosotros Mismos LP

"Their 2012 first EP was championed and heralded around the world as a modern classic by those in-the-know, as one of the most seminal and powerful hardcore records of the current times. Expectations must be high for their 2014 first LP.....and expectations are met. A rough and raw sound that manages to stay powerful and listenable, a rough and raw performance that manages to stay tight and fluid, and most importantly, fucking powerful and memorable songs that are dynamic, tense, and brutal all at once." 
 

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EEL - Endless Fucker LP

"9 songs of DrillmessMadnessViolentPunkerScum which will leave you highly uncomfortable, somewhere along the lines of Cleveland HC meets UK82 meets Japan: TOTALLY WRECKING PUNK CORE." 

TURN UP FUCK

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Leather - Easy LP

You already know

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Gutter Gods - Innersense LP

"12 inches of pure pleasure brought to you by the filthy freaks...THE GUTTER GODS. Fill the void in your life with fantasmic dreams drip drip dripping from over-stimulated pineal glands. Take a voyage like no other. Take their trip and you will see that life is only but a dream..."

FFO: United Mutation and Negative FX

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Cremalleras - Self Titled LP

"CREMALLERAS out of Monterrey, Mexico are a duo of guitar/drums/vocals playing hardcore punk, less vicious than TERCER MUNDO but with a way punker edge reminding me of a hardcore CHUTE DE ESPERMA I believe the girl playing guitar/singing was in RATAS DEL VATICANO and the drummer in MARGARITOS/TERCER MUNDO."

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Schizophasia - 4000 LP

"Canadian noise punks return with their 4th LP '4000'. 
This time they return to their roots and depart from the weird psychedelic styles they previously used on their two 7" and more like their early tapes, unleashing a torrent of total noise punk in the style of CONFUSE, a serious comparison to make in this instance. Side A is 5 tracks of stripped down crazed and violent angry punk chaos that brings to mind DISORDER at their noisiest. On Side B they crank up the intensity to unprecedented levels with 10 track of utter sonic mayhem."

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Las Otras - Devolver El Golpe LP

"Las Otras are an all women hardcore punk band from Barcelona. After a well received 7" they are back with a new 12" for their US tour of the west coast.  They are taking their cues from local bands of their friends in the DIY punk scene as well as 80's hardcore and punk like Ultimo Resorte and Antidogmatikss. Their new 12" is faster, but they are just as angry as before. Unabashedly political, the lyrics are still are about their radical feminist outlook and are screaming about the injustice that surrounds us. This isn't trendy or cool. This is pissed hardcore!"

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