Street Dogs - Fading American Dream (2006)

In a day and age where style has taken priority over substance, honest albums from honest bands tend to be few and far between. Luckily, there's still a few out there, and the Street Dogs continue to give hope that punk and rock can blend harmoniously and shine through the shitstorm of modern rock and faceless punk.

Stats: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/streetdogs
Rock If You Like: Dropkick Murphys - The Pogues - Angelic Upstarts

Tracklisting:
1 - Common People
2 - Not Without A Purpose
3 - Fatty
4 - Decency Police
5 - There Is Power In A Union
6 - Tobes Got A Drinking Problem
7 - Shards Of Life
8 - Sell Your Lies
9 - Rights To Your Soul
10 - Hard Luck Kid
11 - Fading American Dream
12 - Final Transmission
13 - Katie Bar The Door
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Nostromo - Ecce Lex (2003)

Switzerland's Nostromo dish up some non-stop, relentless grindcore in this 2003 release, Ecce Lex. Mix in equal parts grind riffing, breakdowns and high pitched screeching, and you get this volatile mix of churning music. Not for the faint of heart, that's for sure.

Status: Inactive
Rock it if you like: Nasum - Meshuggah - Vulgar Pigeons

Track listing:
1 - Rude Awakening
2 - What's Up With Your Cryo Tubes
3 - Stillborn Prophet
4 - End's Eve
5 - Lab Of Their Will
6 - Sunset Motel
7 - Pull The Pin
8 - Seeking An Exit
9 - Ecce Lex
10 - Feed The Living
11 - Turned Bleck
12 - Unwilling And Slow
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Bars - Introducing (2004)

Bars steps up to the plate with a non-stop, stripped-down, sonic onslaught. The debut is laden with a pissed-off rock n' roll swagger that is as pummeling as it is catchy. Regardless of perspective or expectations, Bars make rock n' roll, and make it explode. Formed in the summer of 2003, the Boston quintet pooled their influences and channeled them into a raw, focused outlet absent of gimmicks or facades.

Status: Active
Rock it if you like: The Hope Conspircacy - Hour Of The Wolf - Black Flag

Track listing:
1 - Bright Lights For Demise
2 - Like It Never Was
3 - You Are My Target Audience
4 - Up To My Neck
5 - Toecutter
6 - The Frequencies Are Fucked
7 - Type Face Love Letter
8 - I Was Asleep By Now
9 - Too Far Down
10 - This Is It
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Ritual - Wolves (2007)

Probably being one of the best German bands around right now, Ritual brings you eight new songs in the vein of Unbroken or The Hope Conspiracy. Just as on their debut LP "Precious Times" these kids play emotional hardcore that you won't find very often these days!

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/xritualx
Rock if you like: Blacklisted - The Hope Conspiracy - The Suicide File

Track listing:
1 - The Dead In Disguise
2 - Stone And Glass
3 - If There's A Hell, We're All Going Down
4 - Wolves
5 - The Escape
6 - Actress, Little Actress
7 - One Foot In The Grave
8 - Anchor
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Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heavy, Lonelier Than God (2008)

Whether it's with their infectious hardcore urgency, or uniquely powerful lyrics, the true grit of Blacklisted will move you. They carry a soul and energy unlike any other hardcore band. Picking up the torch that contemporary legends AN/GUTG once proudly carried. Merging a violence, honesty, and emotional outpouring into one untamable and inspiring hardcore animal.

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: American Nightmare - By The Grace Of God - The Hope Conspiracy

Track listing:

1 - Stations
2 - Tough Test
3 - I Am Weighing Me Down
4 - Always
5 - Memory Layne
6 - Circuit Breaker
7 - Matrimony
8 - Self Explosive
9 - Burning Monk
10 - Cannonized
11 - Wish
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Palehorse - Secrets Within Secrets (2005)

Palehorse has been the leading voice for the past 2 years against the post-911 society we live in. With their explosive debut EP “Secrets Within Secrets,” Palehorse offer genuine crossover appeal of traditional late ‘80s NYHC fused with todays modern trends (Hatebreed, Integrity, etc). “Secrets Within Secrets,” reminds us that when we stop looking and begin to see, we become aware.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.palehorse1948.com/
Rock it if you like: Ringworm - Living Hell - Shipwreck AD

Track listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Mayday
3 - Broken Cross
4 - The Deed
5 - Worse Than Death
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Meleeh - Heartland (2007)

Meleeh comes from Gävle in Sweden and shares the same driving energy as Children Of Fall. This is damn good music with alot of different dynamics in it, good sociopolitical lyrics too!
- Blackstarfoundation.com

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.meleeh.com/
Rock if you like: Eden Maine - Beecher - The Bled

Track listing:
1 - Angstridden
2 - Malign
3 - Where Demons Hunt
4 - The Doom
5 - Vittra
6 - Love Is Dead
7 - Clathea
8 - Black Blizzard
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Shogun - What Sin Has Twisted (2002)

One of the sickest albums ever to be released on Goodfellow Records. Brutal metal with dual Iron Maiden-esque riffing and HEARTWORK-era Carcass vocals. Fucking godly.

- Relapse Records

Status: Inactive

Rock if you like: Acacia - Skycamefalling - Heaven Shall Burn

Track listing:

1 - Missionary Impulse

2 - On The Stake

3 - King For A Day

4 - The Pull

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Derail - Picturesque (1999)

Derail are a 4 piece rock outfit out of middle-of-nowhere Iowa. Picturesque is their only recording to date and showcases how great their song writing ability really was. They do a great job of mixing melody and emotion and maintaining an honest feeling to their music.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Piebald - Hot Rod Circuit - Garrison

Track listing:
1 - Complex Complex
2 - Red Sky Charlie
3 - South Dakota
4 - Prelude
5 - Shifty Eyes
6 - Cubic Ziirconia
7 - Tall Ships Parade
8- Puzzle Pieces
9 - Reception
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Grimlock - Songs Of Self (1997)

Songs Of Self is the crushing debut from one of Bostons angriest bands of all time. Grimlick play a brand of hardcore that is straight to the point, heavy and mean as fuck. If this doesn't make you want to kick puppies and drowned your Ex then there is something wrong with you. Not for the faint of heart.

Status: Inactive

Rock if you like: Disembodied - 100 Demons - Martyr AD

Track listing:

1 - My Sins

2 - Cry Of The Dead

3 - Eye Of The World

4 - Processed

5 - Life (after silence)

6 - 24

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Quincy Punx - We're Not Punks... But We Play Them On TV (1993)

We're Not Punks... is the debut cd from this Minneapolis based street punk band. They play a style of punk that GG himself would probably listen to. Loud, Fast, Drunk and Funny. 23 songs to start a riot with or sit in your bedroom and drink yourself into a coma.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Blanks 77 - The Pist - Aus Rotten

Track listing:
1 - Nuke Seattle
2 - Don't Talk To Me
3 - Kamikaze
4 - Mutants
5 - Gun Control
6 - Under My Wheels
7 - Splatter Punk
8 - Stupid People
9 - No Brain No Pain
10 - Jerry Lewis
11 - I Don't Care
12 - Blowin' Chunks
13 - I Hate Everyone
14 - Fuck You
15 - Pain
16 - 5 State Killing Spree
17 - Eat A Bowl Of Fuck
18 - Crack Lab
19 - High Impact Camping
20 - Tina
21 - Young And Dumb
22 - I Hate Coffee
23 - Safety Pins
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Yyrkoon - Occult Medicine (2004)

Some people say this cd is better than Unhealthy Opera. I am not one of those people. But hey, make up your own mind. Listen to this as well, also very good.

Status: Inactive
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/yyrkoon
Rock if you like: Misery Index - Decapitated - Cryptopsy

Track listing:

1 - Intro

2 - Doctor X

3 - Censored Project

4 - Blasphemy

5 - Occult Medicine

6 - Revenant Horde

7 - Reversed World

8 - Trapped Into Life

9 - Surgical Distortion

10 - Schyzophrenic Carnage

11 - Erase The Past

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Yyrkoon - Unhealthy Opera (2006)

Amazing French death metal band, great lyrics, great riffs, great guitar work, drum work, song structure, etc. This cd has been kicking my ass lately. It needs to kick yours now too. Theres no shitty songs, boring parts, etc. It's just solid, punishing death metal, beginning to end. If you're gonna listen to any death metal listen to this. It certainly stand outs from the rest of the herd.

Status: Inactive
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/yyrkoon
Rock if you like: Misery Index - Decapitated - Cryptopsy

Track listing:

1 - Something Breathes

2 - Unhealthy Opera

3 - From The Depths

4 - Avatar Ceremony

5 - Temple Of Infinity

6 - Abnormal Intrusion

7 - Screaming Shores

8 - The Book

9 - Horror From The Sea

10 - Lair...

11 - ...Of Madness

12 - Injecting Dementia

13 - Signs (Bonus Track)

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Extortion - Sick (2008)

Extortion are back with 15 songs of blistering fast hate filled hardcore/ punk. Sick is their 3rd CD and it surely wont be a dissapointment to their strong fan base. Here on the_Hive we've been getting lots of requests for more of their material... so enjoy.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/extortionextortion
Rock if you like: DRI - Siege - Negative Approach

Track listing:

1 - Last Breath

2 - Rot

3 - H5N1

4 - Infection

5 - Wake Up Fucked

6 - Phone In Sick

7 - Overrun

8 - Fever

9 - Defensive

10 - Vomit

11 - Medication

12 - Delusional

13 - Bedridden

14 - Losing Battle

15 - Body Failure

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Burnt By The Sun/Carbomb - Split(2007)

The split features the first new material from BURNT BY THE SUN in over three years, “Goliath,” and CAR BOMB tracks “M^6” and “Pieces of You.”

Status: Active
Contact: www.shop.relapse.com
Rock If You Like: Endeavor - Disembodied - Human Remains

Tracklisting:
1 - Goliath
2 - Pieces Of You
3 - M^6
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American Me - Heat (2008)

American Me play an arsenal of loud,pissed,violent hardcore. Coming together as a 5 piece from former members of It Prevails and Hatchet Diaries, AM's sonically induced form of devastating music comes from inspiration of all aspects of real life... Everything from social values to personal issues that the regular 9-5 person experiences.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/AmericanMe503
Rock if you like: Reign Supreme - Turmoil - Buried Alive

Track listing:
1 - Attribute Of The Strong
2 - Black Malicious Lie
3 - Columbian Neck Tie
4 - Anfal Campaign
5 - Krystal Clear
6 - Said Nothing, Began Firing
7 - Grace Period
8 - Son Of A Machine Gun
9 - Flybag
10 - Finish 'Em All
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Carpathian - Nothing To Lose (2006)

Melbourne’s Carpathian has been making a name for themselves throughout Australia, presenting to eager audiences their punishing live show. Their debut album sees the band embrace multiple musical elements to present 30 minutes of relentless breakdowns, inspiring sing-alongs and lyrics that speak to a scene who are quickly growing tired of metaphors and insincerity. "Nothing To Lose" proves to provide an accurate soundtrack to the energy and buzzes of Australian hardcore in 2006 and shows that Carpathian are ready to put their own stamp on the world of heavy music.

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Modern Life Is War - Reign Supreme

Track listing:

1 - End Of The 1980's

2 - Drop It Like Its Hot

3 - Whot The Fuck Taught You Snaps?

4 - Six Months

5 - Nothing TO Lose

6 - Love Song

7 - The Rules Of Attraction

8 - Explosions

9 - Suckerpunch

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Death Wish Kids - Discography (2003)

The Death Wish Kids were a short lived punk rock band out of the Seattle area. Members went on to form The Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Modest Mouse etc... This is the long out of print discography that contains 11 tracks of snotty angst ridden punk.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Filth - Grimple - Combatwoundedveteran

Track listing:
1 - A.A.
2 - Hood
3 - 13
4 - Lucky
5 - Outsider
6 - Whips And Fur
7 - Traitor
8 - First Blood
9 - Traitor
10 - Sauce
11 - Anthem
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Plague Bringer - Life Songs In A Land Of Death (2008)

Plague Bringer is a duo from Chicago who's music is an assault of programmed bulldozer blast beats, de-tuned stabbing guitars and savage animalistic vokills, yielding a relentless blend of spastic electronic carnage. They continue to be a devastating presence in the metal underground converting skeptics of the drum machine genre into believers in the Plague.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.plaguebringer.com/

Rock if you like: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Pig Destroyer - Voltron

Track listing:

1 - Digital Weathering

2 - Focused Regression

3 - The Severed Breath

4 - Suffering in Reverse

5 - A Sentient Being

6 - Do No Harm

7 - Shadows Of Black Habit

8 - Wide Eyes Toward The Sky

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A Forest Of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth (1888)

Victorian Occult Psychedelic Black Metal. You'll probably find the voice annoying at first, but it might grow on you. The singer sounds like Jarvis Cocker in corpse paint, off his medication taking lessons from the singer of macabre. The music is very neurosis at times, with lots of violins, ambient and a bit folky sometimes but predominantly black metal/doomy shit. Lots of build ups, really experimental, songs are pretty long would probably make a good movie soundtrack if you had a movie about a zombie scarecrow terrorizing a farm with his army of crows that he's supposed to scare off, but instead aligns with. blah blah blah. download.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.aforestofstars.co.uk/
Rock if you like: Negura Bunget - Weakling - 5ive

Track listing:
1 - God
2 - Female
3 - Male
4 - Earth And Matter
5 - Microcosm
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The Secret - Disintoxication (2008)

This chaotic five piece returns with Disintoxication, their much anticipated follow up to 2004's Luce. The album showcases a young, fresh, hungry band that is just starting to find its true niche. The band is tight, their performances savage and this album is one that will put The Secret into the upper echelon of frantic metallic hardcore.

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Harlots - Comity - Botch

Track listing:

1 - Morte

2 - Intoxication

3 - Inferno

4 - Poisoned Blood Is Never Enough

5 - In Limbo

6 - Saul

7 - Funeral Monolith

8 - Umea

9 - Death To Pigs

10 - Kill The Dead

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Palehorse - Amongst The Flock (2006)

Debut CD from Connecticut's metallic hardcore upstarts. Fusing metal and hardcore similar to Hatebreed and Integrity, Palehorse steps it up with a nod to classic 80s thrash metal like Exodus or Nuclear Assault. 11 songs of pure destruction.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.palehorse1948.com/
Rock if you like: Ringworm - Living Hell - Shipwreck AD

Track listing:
1 - St. Louis
2 - Amongst The Flock
3 - Consuming Me
4 - Bleeding The Sheep
5 - Witch Hunt
6 - 33 Degree
7 - Last Place
8 - As The Serpent
9 - 1948
10 - Domestic War
11 - Mayday
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Still Breathing - September (2002)

Featuring members of Living Sacrifice, Soul Embrace combine technical guitar work with melodic hooks. A combination of both thrash, black and death metal, "September" is a powerful statement of metal majesty!
-www.interpunk.com

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Skycamefalling - Acacia - Adamantium

Track listing:
1 - Everything
2 - Sweet Wound Sour
3 - From Within
4 - With Hateful Pride
5 - Exhausted
6 - Forsaken
7 - Scars For Tomorrow
8 - One Kiss
9 - Only This
10 - Threatened
11 - Prevails
12 - Trusted Crown
13 - The Walk
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Some Kind Of Hate - Undisputed (2003)

Some Kind Of Hate's debut full length is 12 tracks of straight up, pissed off hardcore, a punishing cross between early 80's Boston and late 80's NYC hardcore.

Status: Inactive

Rock if you like: Outbreak - Trash Talk - Meltdown

Track listing:

1 - Desperate Like The Rest Of The Them

2 - Fuck These People

3 - Dog Tags

4 - Calling All The Bastards

5 - Who's Next

6 - Watch Them Fall

7 - The Big Letdown

8 - Loose Lips Sink Ships

9 - You Lose Again

10 - And In This Corner...

11 - All My Hero's

12 - Forgiveness Is A Bitch

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Disfear - Live The Storm (2008)

D-beat defenders Disfear strike back with its long-awaited new full-length Live The Storm. Live The Storm delivers a new-found ferocity and intensity captured by engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Coliseum, Doomriders, Animosity).

Status: Active
Contact: www.Disfear.com
Rock if you like: Motorhead - Entombed - The Great Deceiver

Track listing:
1 - Get It Off
2 - Fiery Father
3 - Deadweight
4 - The Cage
5 - The Furnace
6 - Live The Storm
7 - Testament
8 - In Exodus
9 - Maps Of War
10 - Phantom
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Black Friday '29 - Blackout (2003)

A band intend on pushing hardcore over it's limit. Black Friday '29 captures the raw, explosive anger of hardcore which got so popular in the early eighties but sounding totally unique. The vocalist expresses his rage and ferocity on songs as "Blackout" or "Black Friday" backed up by heavy pounding riffage. Black Friday ’29 reaches a new level of sheer intensity and total fury.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.blackfriday29.com/
Rock if you like: Panic - Carry On - Hands Tied

Track listing:
1 - Change II
2 - She Lost
3 - Second Rate
4 - Black Out
5 - Black Friday
6 - Interlude
7 - On My Shoulders
8 - Change
9 - Not Much Left
10 - She Lost
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Behind Enemy Lines - Know Your Enemy (2005)

Former Aus-Rotten lyricist and vocalist Dave moves on with former Aus-Rotten drummer Matt, along with Bill Chamberlain on guitar (formerly of The Pist, React, etc.), and another Matt on bass. What you get is brutal punk rock, with the power of a run-away steam roller, and some of the most relavent anarcho-punk lyrics and anger delivered today. The likeness to Aus-Rotten is undeniable, but add on the powerful sound of React and you can get an idea of what the next wave of anarcho-punk will sound like.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.wearebehindenemylines.com/
Rock if you like: Discharge - The Pist - Penance

Track listing:
1 - Behind Enemy Lines
2 - Setting Things Right
3 - American Made Death Squad
4 - Why Does She Stay?
5 - The Cure
6 - Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
7 - Devestated
8 - Murder At The G8 Summit
9 - Voice Of Dissent
10 - Dogmatic Slumber
11 - Fucking Bastards
12 - The Growing Wealth Gap
13 - Closure?
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Totalitar - Vi Ar Eliten (2007)

One of the best and longest going D-Beat Hardcore bands. Stockholm’s TOTALITÄR are one of the most renowned classic Swedish hardcore bands from the 1980’s, with almost twenty releases since their beginnings in 1985. Respected for their challenging political lyrics, integrity and continual inventive spins on a brutal and straightforward formula of rock-driven, blasting hardcore. This is their third and final full length cd.

Status: Inactive
Contact: http://hem.passagen.se/strebers/totalitar.htm
Rock if you like: Wolfpack - Skitsystem - Tragedy

Track listing:
1. Vi Ar Eliten
2. Fienden
3. Du Har Sa Kalla Hander
4. En Av Dom Som Dom Skamtar Om
5. Mer Skit Att Valja
6. Piller Mot Allt
7. Nej Vi Ska Inte Ha Nat
8. Det Lyckade Barnet
9. Overtid, Overflod Mot For Tidig Dod
10. Vi Ar Eliten
11. Dom Hyllar Valdet
12. Du Som Bara Hatar
13. Hors Jag, Syns Jag?
14. Psykopaten Bestammer
15. Vi Ar Inte Manniskor
16. Market Jag Bar
17. In I Ruset

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Audio Kollaps - Ultima Ratio (2002)

Awesome Crust/Thrash/Grind from Germany, this cd was also produced by Mieszko Talarczyk from Nasum.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.audiokollaps.de
Rock if you like: Terrorizer - Discharge - Napalm Death

Track listing:
1 - Atomic
2 - Scheisse Im System
3 - Die Leere
4 - Tief Gesunken
5 - Irrenhaus
6 - Die Macht Der 5 Sekunden
7 - Rausch Der Gerechtigkeit
8 - Horst
9 - Angst
10 - Freiheit Und Lüge
11 - Hirntod
12 - Alles Schwindel
13 - Zu Spät
14 - Stille Schreie
15 - ...Und Der Terror Geht W
16 - Sucht
17 - Die Zeichen Stehen Auf K
18 - Das Schweigende Heer

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Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender (1990)

Quite possibly the most popular release ever on Revelation Records. Intelligent and introspective lyrics combined with one of the most intense and heartfelt vocal performances ever captured on a hardcore record make this a must have for any fan of the genre. Features Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine on vocals.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Youth Of Today - Gorrila Biscuits - Bold

Track listing:
1 - Burning Fight
2 - Undertone
3 - By A Thread
4 - No Spiritual Surrender
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