Italy's Hierophant play blackened, metallic hardcore in the vein
of His Hero Is Gone, Darkthrone, Neurosis, Catharsis and Entombed.
Described by Hardboiled zine as "an otherworldly experience of dark,
cold, grimy and almost dehumanized hardcore," the sound of Hierophant is
a mix between crust/punk and sludgy metallic hardcore with a
dark/oppressive/ apocalyptic mood. Great Mother:
Holy Monster is the bands Bridge 9 debut with 8 tracks of a crushing aural assault.
Status - Active
Contact - facebook
Rock if you like - The Secret - Nails - Trap Them
Track listing:
1 - Son of the New Faith
2 - Son of the Tongue's Poison
3 - Son of the Four-Hands Way
4 - Son of the Carcinoma
5 - Son of Egotistic Love
6 - Son of the Public Castration
7 - Son of the Cathartic Cave
8 - Son of the Black Mirror DL
NAILS is beyond brutality. These grindcore tyrants of the American
underground have triumphantly returned with their 2nd full length
"ABANDON ALL LIFE"! These 10 tracks of barbaric rage have no resemblance to the laughable
retro party metal that passes as extreme music in today’s world. Abandon
All Life viciously carpet bombs the listener with a horrifying brand of
Death/ Grind/ Hardcore chaos. Bludgeoning beatdowns, grinding blasts,
hyper-distorted vocals, hard-hitting metallic chugs and early death
metal riffs intensifies to a climatic end where the guitars wail and
militant drum breakdowns send us marching. With profound hatred, the
howling war cry of ABANDON ALL LIFE shows NAILS as a band without equal
in their class.
Status - Active
Contact - facebook
Rock if you like - All Pigs Must Die - Entombed - Early Graves
Track listing:
1 - In Exodus
2 - Tyrant
3 - Absolute Control
4 - God's Cold Hands
5 - Wide Open Wounds
6 - Abandon All Life
7 - No Surrender
8 - Pariah
9 - Cry Wolf
10 - Suum Cuique DL
Paint It Black are back with another 6 track EP, this time on No Idea Records. Invisible is 10 minutes of classic pissed off punk hardcore that only these Philly legends can manifest. Help support an amazing band and preorder this, here.
No Zodiac start off the new year with releasing one of the heaviest records to come out in a long fucking time. Population Control is 10 tracks of pure unadulterated anger. If you like mean, heavy, and down right pissed off music click the link now. We here at the_hive realize that the year is only 5 days old, but this will surely be on the top 10 albums of the year next December. This shit is heavy as fuck. Get this ASAP!
Status: Active
Contact: facebook
Rock if you like: Grimlock - Xibalba - Harms Way
Track listing:
1 - Rigor Mortis
2 - Population Control
3 - Irreversible
4 - Drowning
5 - Sadistic Intent
6 - Non Existent
7 - Black Death
8 - Phase 7
9 - Without Consent
10 - Chaos Reigns DL
Some bands leave such an impression on fans that, even
after two decades, their sound still resonates deep and
wide. Southern California’s STRIFE is just such a band,
having once again tapped into the energy that has kept
listeners interested for 21 years.
Status: Active
Contact: facebook
Rock if you like: Earth Crisis - Snapcase - One King Down
Track listing:
1 - Torn Apart
2 - Carry The Torch
3 - Show No Mercy
4 - No Apologies
5 - The Distance
6 - Never Look Back
7 - In This Defiance
8 - The Burden
9 - Look Away
10 - Face Your Failures
11 - End Of Days
12 - Life Or Death
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Love Is Love // Return To Dust is Code Orange Kids' debut album,
recorded at God City Studios by Kurt Ballou (Converge). From the first
organic stick clicks of opener Flowermouth (The Leech) musical chaos
explodes in every direction imaginable. As their tangle of guitars and
angular percussion violently lurches about, it's apparent that Code
Orange Kids are not concerned with following the predetermined path of
any existing sub-genre. The band's dirges effortlessly become staccato
bursts in Liars // Trudge and Nothing (The Rat), two songs with so many
hairpin turns they are difficult to put into words. While adversely,
songs like Colore (Into Nothing) and Calm // Breathe unfurl as
beautifully layered musical expanses.
As impressive as these dynamics are, it is Code Orange Kids' untamed
heaviness and emotion in the title reference songs Choices (Love Is
Love) and Bloom (Return To Dust) that will leave you floored. These two
mostrous beasts smear the divisions between art-rock, punk, doom, and
noise in a way never heard before. Without a doubt, Love Is Love //
Return To Dust is truly impressive, as much a work of art as it is an
album. A shining example of the bright future that awaits the world of
aggressive music.
Status: Active
Contact: facebook bandcamp
Rock if you like: Full of Hell - Birds In A Row - Loma Prieta
Track listing:
1 - Flowermouth (The Leech)
2 - Around My Neck // On My Head
3 - Sleep (I've Been Slipping)
4 - Liars // Trudge
5 - Colors (Into Nothing)
6 - Nothing (The Rat)
7 - Roots Are Certain // Sky Is Empty
8 - Choices (Love Is Love)
9 - Calm // Breathe
10 - Bloom (Return To Dust) DL
On their first album since the tragic death of founding singer
Makh Daniels two years ago, Early Graves find a new voice with close
friend John Strachan, of the Funeral Pyre, taking over the blood
curdling vocal duties. The album features eight face-melting tracks that
clock in at just over thirty-two minutes.
Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: Cursed - His Hero Is Gone - All Pigs Must Die
Track listing:
1 - Skinwalker
2 - Misery
3 - Days Grow Old
4 - Red Horse
5 - Apocalyptic Nights
6 - Death Obsessed
7 - Pure Hell
8 - Quietus DL
The Secret are one of the heaviest and most extreme bands to ever
crawl their way out of Italy. Born and shaped in 2003, The Secret come
to life as an output for rage, darkness and negativity. The band comines
elements of crust/grind, primitive black metal, dark soundscapes and
monolithic riffs to take the listener by the hand through a hallucinated
trip towards a foggy and yet invisible tomorrow.
Track listing:
1 - Agnus Dei
2 - May God Damn All Of Us
3 - Violent Infection
4 - Geometric Power
5 - Post Modern Nihil Est
6 - Daily Life
7 - Love Your Enemy
8 - Vermin Of Dust
9 - Darkness I Became
10 - Heretic Temple
11 - The Bottomless Pit
12 - Obscure Dogma
13 - Seven Billion Graves DL
The undisputed kings of grind, Pig Destroyer return with their
long awaited new full length Book Burner. Book Burner is a resounding
statement of championship, as every element of Pig Destroyer towers
above their closest peers - a 32 minute, 19 song knockout punch of
cerebral viciousness.
Status: Active
Contact: facebook
Rock if you like: Nasum - Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Napalm Death
Track listing:
1 - Sis
2 - The American's Head
3 - The Underground Man
4 - Eve
5 - Diplomat
6 - All Seeing Eye
7 - Valley Of The Geysers
8 - Book Burner
9 - Machiavellian
10 - Baltimore Strangler
11 - White Lady
12 - The Bug
13 - Iron Drunk
14 - Burning Palm
15 - Dirty Knife
16 - Totaled
17 - Kamikaze Heart
18 - King Of Clubs
19 - Permanent Funeral DL
After over a decade of creating music, three full lengths, tens
of thousands of combined albums sold & hundreds upon hundreds of
shows alongside the biggest names in metal and hardcore, The Tony Danza
Tapdance Extravaganza have delivered what will serve as an incredible
direct and heavy material to date.
Status: Active
Contact: facebook
Rock if you like: The Red Chord - The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Great Redneck Hope
Track listing:
1 - Behind Those Eyes
2 - You Won't
3 - Rudy X3
4 - The Crossfire
5 - Hold The Line
6 - Death Eater
7 - Canadian Bacon
8 - Paul Bunyan And The Blue Ox
9 - Disconnecting Pt. 1
10 - This Cut Was The Deepest
11 - Disconnecting Pt. 2
12 - The Alpha/ The Omega
13 - Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
14 - Don't Try This At Home
15 - This Is Forever DL
Forwards ever, backwards never. In a perfect world, those four
words would tell you everything you need to know about Sacrament
thrash-punk juggernaut Trash Talk. But in a perfect world, these four
furious scions of guitar-wrought destruction wouldn't exist. Lee,
Garrett, Spencer, and Sam are fueled by our ugly, and they give it back
in spades.
Status: Active
Contact: http://trashtalkhc.com/
Rock if you like: Siege - Outbreak - Lewd Acts
Track listing:
1 - Eat The Cycle
2 - Exile On Broadway
3 - My Rules
4 - F.E.B.N.
5 - Uncivil Disobedience
6 - Blossom & Burn
7 - Reasons
8 - Fuck Nostalgia
9 - Apathy
10 - Thanks, But No Thanks
11 - Bad Habits
12 - Swinging To Pieces
13 - For The Lesser Good
14 - Dogman DL
Converge have cemented their place in genre they helped create, consistently listed among hard music’s most influential and important bands. Now with their new album All We Love We Leave Behind, Converge continue to build on their devoted base. All We Love We Leave Behind continues that development, while bringing to the foreground the amazing guitar of founding member Kurt Ballou, who is emerging as a true guitar god. With leader Jacob Bannon finding searing melodies amidst the chaos of chords that is their hallmark, All We Love We Leave Behind continues the evolution of this important band.
Status: Active
Contact: http://www.convergecult.com/
Rock if you like: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Curl Up And Die - Botch
Track listing:
1 - Aimless Arrow
2 - Tresspasses
3 - Tender Abuse
4 - Sadness Comes Home
5 - Empty On The Inside
6 - Sparrow's Fall
7 - A Glacial Place
8 - Vicious Muse
9 - Veins And Veils
10 - Coral Blue
11 - Shame In A Way
12 - Precipice
13 - All We Love We Leave Behind
14 - Predatory Glow DL
Ashkara are a crust/ dbeat band out of Switzerland that features members of Cwill. In Absence is their 8 track debut that is punishing and heavy as well as melodic technical. Ashkara fucking rule. Make sure you support these guys!
Status: Active Contact: www.ashkara.org Rock if you like: Fall of Efrafa - From Ashes Rise - Cwill
songs of fast, bitter Midwestern hardcore punk clocking in under 26 minutes. After a slew of releases over the last few years, this is Protestant throwing down the gauntlet and cutting the shit.
After a lengthy period of hibernation that led many to assume they’d long since called it a day, progressive hardcore outfit THE BRODERICK are back with their long-overdue, debut full-length, Free To Rot, Free Of Sin. Taking their time to write and really hone in on the essence of their sound, THE BRODERICK have delivered one of the most challenging heavy releases of 2012. Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thebroderickhc
Rock if you like: Turmoil - Carpathian - Parallax
Track listing:
1 - Black Lung
2 - Distance
3 - 1950 DA
4 - Drone
5 - Unseen
6 - Low Sky
7 - Brave New World
8 - Savages
9 - Unheard
10 - Diving Bell DL
Whips/Chains play a brand of heavy, apocalyptic music for the trying times we live in. Unpolished and pure, this massive sounding down-tuned three piece takes influence from bands His Hero Is Gone, Bolt Thrower, and others. Features Ryan Patterson (Coliseum), Ben Sears (Black God), and Will Allard (Xerxes).
Status: Active Contact: http://whipschains.com/ Rock if you like: Coliseum - His Hero Is Gone - Rise and Fall
Track listing: 1 - Secular Front 2 - Brick and Mortar 3 - Trembling 4 - Master/ Slave 5 - Human Filth DL
Canadian “progressive thrash” legends Propagandhi join the Epitaph roster with their new album Failed States, just in time for their politically engaged anthems to form a soundtrack to that magical theatrical production known as the US elections. Failed States is the band’s sixth album, and their second as a fourpiece with the addition of Dave “The Beaver” Guillas on guitar. This has lead to a distinctive thickening and fortifying of the band’s sound, to the point where they now achieve maximum heaviness, in a good way. This is most definitely the best Propagandhi album yet, full of loud, fast, indignant songs that stick in your head.
Salt Lake City, UT natives Gaza play a form of grindcore mixed with drone-sludgy and mathy hardcore with an unmatched intesity. Gaza also lyrically attack the religious foundation the country continues to rely on. No Absolutes In Human Suffering is their 3rd release. Don't miss the boat on this one.
Status: Active Contact: Facebook Rock if you like: Coalesce - Kid Gorgeous - Engineer
Track listing: 1 - Mostly Hair and Bones Now 2 - This We Celebrate 3 - The Truth Weighs Nothing 4 - Not With All The Hope In The World 5 - The Vipers 6 - No Absolutes In Human Suffering 7 - The Crown 8 - When They Beg 9 - Winter In Her Blood 10 - Skull Trophy 11 - Routine And Then Death DL
California's dark hardcore masters, Xibalba, are back. Hasta la Muerte is 11 tracks of some of the heaviest music to come out in years. This is sure to be on everyone's best of 2012 list. Get it here!
Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs is 44 tracks of hardto-find and out-of-print material from the early years of the Locust. San Diego legends the Locust have been blowing minds since 1994 with their unique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave weirdness. The band quickly earned a reputation for their unique sound and live presentations. In the process they have created a singular body of work, and an important piece of that appears on Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs, collecting for the first time all of the band’s pre-Epitaph recordings.
Afgrund is an international grind band(swe/ita/fin) based in Stockholm, Sweden. They play a punishing style of grind that is surely to please the purists and those new to the genre alike. The Age of Dumb is 18 tracks filled with blast beats and shredding guitar work. Get this shit now!
Split Cranium are a D-Beat inspired punk band based out of both the US and Finland. Although at first listen this album may seem a bit more melodic than other D-Beat juggernauts, Split Cranium ultimately add a fresh look to a genre that can be a bit stale at times. Features Aaron Turner of Isis on vocals and guitars.
This may be one of the best splits released in the last 10 years. If you like crossover/ thrash you are going to love this. 2 tracks by each band. Get this now!
Ohio's HOMEWRECKER present their most vicious effort to date! Nine tracks of dark brooding metallic hardcore/powerviolence recorded at the infamous MARS compound. If you like what you hear make sure you pick this one up.
Seven Sisters Of Sleep are back with their most punishing release to date. SSOS chugs through 6 tracks of downtuned sludge with an unwavering heaviness that should be illegal. Check this shit out then buy it.
Pendulum Swings is full of simple and stripped-down yet super fun and heavy hardcore mixed with Suicidal Tendencies-style trash – a must have for any fan of hardcore. Recorded at Howl Street Recordings in Milwaukee, WI and mastered by Jay Maas of Getaway Recordings (Defeater, Bane, Cruel Hand), this record is sure to be on of the heaviest exports from the Midwest this year.
This is one of the best EPs we here at the_hive have received in quite a while now. LA's Nomads play vicious, pissed off hardcore punk with many different influences. Judging by the 3 songs on this EP Nomads are on the right track and should be a force not to fuck with in the next few years.
Ten songs of heavy, pissed off, hardcore from Denver, CO. Powerful, abrasive and influenced by mid-90s hardcore, features just under 20 minutes of socially conscious anger and rage.
My friend's band just put out their new record. It rules and you should give them money for it. Stream it here and if you like it, buy the record and a shirt here.
Ashkara are a crust/ dbeat band out of Switzerland that features members of Cwill. In Absence is their 8 track debut that is punishing and heavy as well as melodic technical. Ashkara fucking rule. Make sure you support these guys!
songs of fast, bitter Midwestern hardcore punk clocking in under 26 minutes. After a slew of releases over the last few years, this is Protestant throwing down the gauntlet and cutting the shit. 
After a lengthy period of hibernation that led many to assume they’d long since called it a day, progressive hardcore outfit THE BRODERICK are back with their long-overdue, debut full-length, Free To Rot, Free Of Sin. Taking their time to write and really hone in on the essence of their sound, THE BRODERICK have delivered one of the most challenging heavy releases of 2012.
Salt Lake City, UT natives Gaza play a form of grindcore mixed with drone-sludgy and mathy hardcore with an unmatched intesity. Gaza also lyrically attack the religious foundation the country continues to rely on. No Absolutes In Human Suffering is their 3rd release. Don't miss the boat on this one.
California's dark hardcore masters, Xibalba, are back. Hasta la Muerte is 11 tracks of some of the heaviest music to come out in years. This is sure to be on everyone's best of 2012 list. Get it here!
Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs is 44 tracks of hardto-find and out-of-print material from the early years of the Locust. San Diego legends the Locust have been blowing minds since 1994 with their unique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave weirdness. The band quickly earned a reputation for their unique sound and live presentations. In the process they have created a singular body of work, and an important piece of that appears on Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs, collecting for the first time all of the band’s pre-Epitaph recordings.
Afgrund is an international grind band(swe/ita/fin) based in Stockholm, Sweden. They play a punishing style of grind that is surely to please the purists and those new to the genre alike. The Age of Dumb is 18 tracks filled with blast beats and shredding guitar work. Get this shit now!
Split Cranium are a D-Beat inspired punk band based out of both the US and Finland. Although at first listen this album may seem a bit more melodic than other D-Beat juggernauts, Split Cranium ultimately add a fresh look to a genre that can be a bit stale at times. Features Aaron Turner of Isis on vocals and guitars. 
Seven Sisters Of Sleep are back with their most punishing release to date. SSOS chugs through 6 tracks of downtuned sludge with an unwavering heaviness that should be illegal. Check this shit out then buy it. 
Pendulum Swings is full of simple and stripped-down yet super fun and heavy hardcore mixed with Suicidal Tendencies-style trash – a must have for any fan of hardcore. Recorded at Howl Street Recordings in Milwaukee, WI and mastered by Jay Maas of Getaway Recordings (Defeater, Bane, Cruel Hand), this record is sure to be on of the heaviest exports from the Midwest this year.
