American hardcore
Terror - The 25th Hour (Century Media)
Despite featuring fourteen tracks, the new album from LAHC stalwarts Terror – their sixth studio outing by my reckoning – clocks in at just under twenty three minutes in length, me
Agnostic Front - The American Dream Died (Nuclear Blast)
NYHC stalwarts Agnostic Front – what can you say that hasn’t already been said about everyone’s fave oi-fuelled wrecking crew?
Salvation - Resurrect the Tradition (Mighty Music)
American hardcore exponents Salvation purvey a stringently backwards-looking brand of old school (hey, they’re resurrecting the tradition, after all) that offers absolutely nothing
Madball - Hardcore Lives (Nuclear Blast)
Is there much point reviewing a Madball album in 2014?
Close Your Eyes - Line in the Sand (Victory Records)
Close Your Eyes are, by no means, an unknown quantity in the melodic hardcore scene.
Eidola: New EP Available Gratis
Bay Area, California hardcore mob Eidola have released their blistering new EP Ends Of The Spectrum via Bandcamp, with a "pay what you like" download option.
Terror's Scott Vogel: Living by the Code
This bloody muzak is killing me. And the bloody people in the phone conferencing centres always trick me by telling me they are about to put me on ‘silent hold’ before connecting my call.