“Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!” – Wendy O. Williams Whoever said anything in the world of legitimate punk rock was supposed to be safe or friendly missed the point
Hardcore Punk Archive
Forbidden Magazine presents: Nate of the Living Dead’s “Best of 2011″
Off Balance – One Dyin’ And A Buryin’
Whoever said hardcore was supposed to be anything but dangerous and relentless in anger was dead fucking wrong. Hardcore is not some happy, Hot Topic bullshit. It’s absolutely never been meant for the fakers and bandwagon-chasers of a disposable mainstream. Hardcore isn’t for swoop haircuts. It’s not some word to throw around so all of
All Pigs Must Die – God Is War
Filth, rage, and relentless, christ-crushing blasphemy. Unforgiving, agonized darkness, fleet-footed, metallic aggression, blackened harshness, and a punk-as-fuck middle finger all raised high and blissfully turned up to eleven…drenched in the gritty nihilistic shadows of the true underground. If your interests lie anywhere near where mine reside, these are the kinds of things that will get
At Our Heels – Misanthropy and Godlessness
It’s probably a pretty safe bet that most legitimate, die-hard music fans have at least one pet peeve in common with their peers. For some, it’s most definitely the use of genre types or the multitude of throw-away labels that can be slapped on a band’s sound for an easy way out. Meanwhile, the action
Neurosis – Souls At Zero (reissue)
Nails – Unsilent Death
Powerviolence: a raw and dissonant subgenre of hardcore punk, closely related to the raging fury known as grindcore. If you think throwing this band’s name into the Google search box is going to gain you much insight at all on the background of Nails or what makes this band tick, then you are gravely mistaken.
Arson Anthem – Insecurity Notoriety
New Orleans, Louisiana…in the year of our dog, 2006. Hurricane Katrina wages a relentless and deadly war against the unsuspecting citizens of the grand and historic city, leaving a devastating mark not to be forgotten. Eyehategod’s Mike IX Williams faced the loss of his material possessions and transplanted himself into a spare apartment belonging to