Johnny Truant - No Tears For The Creatures (2008)

No Tears for the Creatures is the latest sonic assault asserting Johnny Truant’s true musical potential and cementing their status as one today’s most important metal bands. Taking a more honest and introspective lyrical approach, Truant moves away from the metal core genre they are so often pigeon-holed in, towards honing a sound they can call truly their own.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/johnnytruant
Rock if you like: Skycamefalling - This Day Forward - Blood Has Been Shed

Track listing:
1 - The Grotesque
2 - Death Rides
3 - Last Arms Of The Apocalypse
4 - Widower
5 - Crush And Devour
6 - In Alcoholica
7 - Dead Ships Sinking
8 - Sunshine Diver
9 - Fog Lights
10 - The Weeping, Wailing And The Gnashing Of Teeth
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Incinerate - Anatomize (2008)

Incinerate are an all out aural assualt. They play a breed of death metal that is blistering fast, precisely technical and punishingly heavy. Anatomize is their 2nd CD and shows a great deal of growth and improvement in their songwriting over the years.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.incinerate.us/
Rock if you like: Suffocation - Origin - Benighted

Track listing:
1 - Continuum
2 - Emissary
3 - Depravity
4 - Inherited
5 - Infantiphagia
6 - Harvest
7 - Exsanguinate
8 - Ascendant
9 -Anathema
10 - Infecting The Crypts
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Digression Assassins - Omega (2008)

Digression Assassins are a three-piece from Stockholm, Sweden. Their music is raw, its complex and its energetic. A pure explosion of the sounds of metal, punk, hardcore and rock mixed through a blender on high speed.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/digressionassassins
Rock if you like: Ed Gein - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Burnt By The Sun

Track listing:
1 - Prophet
2 - Misanthropolis
3 - Gratification
4 - Apocryphal
5 - Omegasisterhood Of Heroin
6 - Streams
7 - Fields
8 - Sophism
9 - Three
10 - Mutiny
11 - Blank Spot
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Absent - Audi... Vide... Sile (2006)

Poland over the years has been known for being home to some amazing death metal bands. Well Absent is no exception to that theory. This CD contains everything you want to hear on a death metal album.

Status: Active
Contact: http://absent.pl/
Rock if you like: Aeon - Suffocation - Decapitated

Track listing:
1 - Sick Authority
2 - Insane For Power
3 - Path Of Truth
4 - Perfection
5 - Extermination
6 - Bloody Post
7 - The Pain From The Past
8 - Invisible Enemy
9 - The Abyss
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Dead Weight - We've Seen Better Days (2006)

South Florida has become a hotbed for heavy metallic hardcore, and Dead Weight fit in perfectly with their regional brethren. Boasting the former vocalis of All Hell Breaks Loose and current members of Dance Floor Justice and 24 Hours To Live, these Floridians break out with twelve tracks of brutality.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: All Hell Breaks Loose - First Blood - Terror

Track listing:
1 - Hatriot
2 - Fairweather
3 - Barcelona
4 - Parasite
5 - Picking Up The Pieces
6 - Red Eyes
7 - The Vigilante
8 - In The Sudden Case Of...
9 - Reunions
10 - Fourfifteen
11 - Reprise
12 - No Division
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Avail - 4AM Friday (1996)

4AM Friday is the sound of Avail hitting their stride. This collection of sing-along anthems for the everyman solidified their place as the kings of the Southern punk underground. This is NOT the remastered album that was released on Jade Tree Records.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Hot Water Music - Swingin' Utters - Ann Baretta

Track listing:
1 - Simple Song
2 - Order
3 - Tuesday
4 - 92
5 - McCarthy
6 - (Ben)
7 - Monroe Park
8 - Armchair
9 - Fix
10 - Blue Ridge
11 - Swing Low
12 - FCA
13 - Hang
14 - Governor
15 - Nameless
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Black Ships - Omens (2008)

Hailing from Montreal Canada, Black Ships play a devestating style of punk/ hardcore. Omens is their debut full length and excedes all expections that were made due to their crushing early Eps. This CD is dark, grim and boiling with hate.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/blackships
Rock if you like: Cursed - Shipwreck AD - Living Hell

Track listing:
1 - No Eulogy
2 - The Flaws In Self Help
3 - Ars Moriendi
4 - When All Else Fails
5 - Pestilence
6 - The End
7 - Liars Are A Dying Breed
8 - Victims
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Swingin' Utters - A Juvenile Product Of The Working Class (1996)

Swingin' Utters are a phenomenal punk band out of the bay area that bring anger, grit and swagger along with just enough melody to keep things interesting. Juvenile Product is their pinnacle release that has 16 classic tracks of their unique brand of punk rock. This is a must have for any fan of bay area punk.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Rancid - Avail - Anti-Flag

Track listing:
1 - Windspitting Punk
2 - No Time To Play
3 - Nowhere Fast
4 - Keep Running
5 - Sustain
6 - On In All
7 - Derailer
8 - The Next In Line
9 - Sign It Away
10 - Time Tells Time
11 - Almost Brave
12 - Fifteenth And T
13 - London Drunk
14 - The Black Pint
15 - Bigot's Barrel
16 - A Step To Go
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Screw 32 - Under The Inlfuence Of Bad People (1997)

Melodic energetic East Bay punk rock with clean melodic vocals & sincere lyrics with an edge. If you dig stuff like AFI, Avail, Bouncing Souls, etc., be sure not to miss this one. One of the most overlooked Fat Wreck Chords releases. Don't miss out on this album.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Good Riddance - 88 Fingers Louie - Fury 66

Track listing:
1 - My Crazy Life
2 - Misunderstood
3 - Broken
4 - Something You Said
5 - Don't Let Them Take You Alive
6 - Black Marker
7 - Paint This Town Red
8 - Sick To Death
9 - Stick And Stones
10 - Painless
11 - One Time Angels
12 - Responsibility
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Misey Index - Traitors (2008)

Grinding metal powerhouse Misery Index has returned with their explosive new full-length album Traitors. Two-years in the making, Traitors shows the band evolving into the full-formed killing machine that their earlier material only hinted at. Guitars grind, drums detonate and the band’s furious vocal onslaught rail against a world aflame. More a declaration of war than a collection of mere songs.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.myspace.com/miseryindex

Rock if you like: Dying Fetus - Coldworker - Cephalic Carnage

Track listing:

1 - We Never Come In Peace

2 - Theocracy

3 - Partisans Of Grief

4 - Traitors

5 - Ghosts Of Catalonia

6 - Occupation

7 - Ruling Class Cancelled

8 - The Arbiter

9 - American Idolaty

10 - Thrown To The Sun

11 - Black Sites

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The Legacy - Beyond Hurt Beyond Hell (2008)

The Legacy are back with another excellent display of crushing and unrelenting hardcore. Beyond Hurt Beyond Hell showcases their growth in their songwriting and lyrical abilities. They keep pumping out great records, don't get left behind.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thelegacy
Rock if you like: This Is Hell - Comeback Kid - Verse

Track listing:
1 - Alpha
2 - Ill Fated
3 - Fire And Brimstone
4 - Sand And Time
5 - Remnants
6 - Exsomnis
7 - Curse Of The Ages
8 - Ashes To Ashes
9 - The Sun Weilds Mercy
10 - Closure
11 - Cagliari
12 - Dusk
13 - Omega
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The Abandoned Hearts Club - The Initial Confessions Of... (2004)

Their out of print self-released four-song debut finally reissued. Completely remixed and remastered with stunning new artwork by Jeremy Wabiszczewicz (Daughters/Monsters In Disguise). This Canadian powerhouse plays intelligent metalcore (but not that mosh chugga style) with ex-members of Spread The Disease.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Curl Up And Die - Eyelid - The Minor Times

Track listing:
1 - Consensus Emptiness And The Never Encore Obsession
2 - The Failure A Posteriori
3 - Evlis Presley's Rock And Roll War Effort
4 - The Abstraction Of Form And Function
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The Legacy - Solitude (2007)

The Legacy are an established European hardcore band with great pedigree being taken to the next level through hardworking, regular gigging and windmilling brutality. Using melody and intelligence to round out their sound.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thelegacy
Rock if you like: This Is Hell - Comeback Kid - Verse

Track listing:
1 - Ghost Town
2 - Black Ice
3 - This Too Shall Pass
4 - Out At Sea
5 - You Get So Alone At Times It Just Makes Sense
6 - The Witching Hour
7 - Arrows Down
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The Nicaea Room - Bulletproof Benny Takes On The Yuppie Brigade (2004)

The Nicaea Room devastates the typical "tough guy" metal, by introducing elements of Jazz and Rock N Roll into their sound. Thus creating something sweeping and different. A great debut from a way too short lived band.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Red Chord - Into The Moat

Track listing:
1 - Billion And A Half Dreams
2 - Sleeping With The Piranhas
3 - The Hostage
4 - The Yuppie Grinder V2.0
5 - Quitter
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Born Dead Icons - Ruins (2003)

Like an unstoppable juggernaut Born Dead Icons thunder forward with more dark and heavy war chants. Ruins is a hard assault of Motorhead meets Amebix inspired hardcore that will certainly keep the die hard Born Dead Icons troops plundering and pillaging late into the night.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Motorhead - DS-13 - Discharge

Track listing:
1 - Lure
2 - Colored Rags
3 - National Insecurity
4 - Ruins
5 - Land Hunger
6 - Superstitions
7 - Enemies
8 - Seeds Of Desolation
9 - Medicine Gods
10 - Aiming Guns
11 - Untitled
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Ruiner - I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes (2008)

Ruiner has made a name for themselves in the hardcore and punk scenes with relentless touring and a DIY attitude that had the band releasing their own records back when no one would give these Baltimore upstarts a chance. I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes is a 14-song collection of the 'What Could Possibly Go Right' EP. the split with Day Of The Dead, as well as their original demo. All of these songs are out of print and have been remastered to give them a sharper, louder and heavier sound.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.youruiner.com/

Rock if you like: This Is Hell - All Teeth 666 - Comeback Kid

Track listing:

1 - Once Loved

2 - Paint Peals

3 - Adhering To Superstition

4 - Lockjaw

5 - Getting Over The Overs

6 - Out Go The Candles

7 - A Bridge Too Many

8 - Six By Six

9 - Dear Philadelphia

10 - Sincerly

11 - Paint Peals (demo)

12 - Adhering To Superstition (demo)

13 - Six By Six (demo

14 - The Lives We Fear (demo)

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Sabertooth Zombie - The Only Good Politician Is A Dead Politician (2005)

Sabertooth Zombie has slowly been amassing a loyal underground following. This is an early Ep they released that is a perfect display of the brand of fastcore they are known for. If you are a fan you need this, if you haven't heard STZ this is a good record to start with.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/sabertoothzombie
Rock if you like: Ceremony - Trap Them - Lights Out

Track listing:
1 - Fragments
2 - Eat And Shit
3 - Mind Fuck Infection
4 - Get Bent
5 - Giant
6 - Out
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Iron Age - Constant Stuggle (2006)

This Austin, Texas band has recorded one hell of a hard hitting album! Taking cues from crossover acts from the 80's. Having only a demo under their belts prior to recording "Constant Struggle", Iron Age draws from experience with previous bands. Singer Jason Tarpey fronted Far From Breaking and guitarist Wade Allison played guitar in Desperate Measures.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/ironagetexas
Rock if you like: Cro-mags - Leeway - Agnostic Front

Track listing:
1 - We're Dust/ The Violator
2 - Return To The Void
3 - Fear Itself
4 - Evil Ways
5 - Twisted Faith
6 - Butchers Bill
7 - Balance
8 - Brainwreck
9 - Cheat Death
10 - Iron Age
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Hope And Suicide - Razorblade Smile (2002)

Hope And Suicide play a mix of Metalic Hardcore that is both raw and energetic. They are surely a band that any fans of this genre will easily fall in love with. Razorblade Smile is a great Ep that was put out by now defunct label Ides Of March Records.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.hopeandsuicide.com/
Rock if you like: Turmoil - Santa Sangre - Bloodlet

Track listing:
1 - The Dead Hate The Living
2 - Bring The Wine
3 - You're Easier To Medicate When You're Tied Down
4 - Reluctant King
5 - Standard Issue Will
6 - Left Uncovered For The Flies
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Cast Aside - The Struggle (2004)

In a time when the darkness of complacency plagues the hardcore community, Cast Aside rose as a new dawn to bring us a brighter day. Heralded as one of the leaders of a new breed of straight edge hardcore, Cast Aside define the contemporary straight edge principles of heart, integrity, and respect. All qualities once thought lost in the hardcore community's ongoing evolution, now reborn as a new fight in Cast Aside's never ending personal war.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Embrace Today - The Promise - Reign Supreme

Track listing:
1 - Stand Up
2 - No Excuses
3 - Self Destruct
4 - Honor
5 - Last Chance
6 - Falling Out
7 - To The End
8 - Dead Beat
9 - Say Goodbye
10 - Outro
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Preacher Gone To Texas - Choice Vs. Chance (2002)

Hailing from the Quad Cities Preacher plays heavy and fast and hardcore with melodic breakdowns. Probably one of the best unsung hardcore bands from the Midwest we have seen in years.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Shai Hulud - Sleeping By The Riverside - Bird Of Ill Omen

1 - Sorrows For The Wounded
2 - Fallacy Of Composition
3 - Handshake To Heartbreak
4 - Devoted Apology
5 - Radials On Rumble Strips
6 - The Armada
7 - Forgive The Silent Kiss
8 - One Scream Motive For Movement
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The Killing Tree - We Sing Sin (2004)

This album is the highly anticipated follow up to the Killing Tree's previous full length on OneDaySavior Records. This Chicago based band play ferocious hardcore, reminiscent of those famous wind gusts that constantly whip through the city. The Killing Tree's singer is also in the band Rise Against.

Status: Inactive

Rock if you like: Rise Against - Screw 32 - Fury 66

Track listing:

1 - Mascara (Original Sin)

2 - Everything You Had Is Gone (Fall From Grace)

3 - Jesus Christ Pose (Man's Awakening)

4 - We Have Awakened (Vengence)

5 - Look Alive

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A Trunk Full Of Dead Bodies - My Smile, Her Corpse (2003)

Six songs that blur the boundaries of emo and screamo. ATFODB not only improve on their emocore sound, but showcase an intelligent adaptation of hardcore. Textured guitar work, mixed with seemingly dark overtones, backed by clean vocals with piercing screams at times. Features guest vocals from Rachel Minton and Vince Ratti of Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer and backing vocals by Anthony Green of Saosin.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Boys Night Out - The Program - Keepsake

Track listing:
1 - Green On '73
2 - Bi-Polar Opposites
3 - Finger In Your Throat
4 - Spare Me The Couch
5 - Ride Or Die
6 - Take The Train
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Eden Maine - The Treachery Pact (2002)

Eden Maine are the short lived metal hardcore band out of the UK. The Treachery Pact is their debut Ep released on Engineer Records. After this release they quickly began gaining a good reputation due to their extensive touring schedule and great live performances. This band will surely be missed.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Converge - Beecher - Razor Crusade

Track listing:
1 - A Road That Leads To Fate
2 - Cold Light
3 - Ephemera
4 - The Black
5 - Scene One
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