Album Review: CAUSTIC EMINENCE – Another Day, Another Dollar

CAUSTIC EMINENCEAnother Day, Another DollarCling Recordings1996 For those youth group punk rawk kids whose exposure to punk in the 1990s was mostly found on Tooth & Nail Records, chances are they've never came across punk and hardcore punk without having to search outside of the comfort zone of the local Christian bookstore. No shade, just…

Album Review: CAUSE FOR REBELLION – The Emperor Is Naked: Live At The Meat Locker

CAUSE FOR REBELLIONThe Emperor Is Naked: Live At The Meat LockerThumper Punk Records2018 Cause For Rebellion is a SoCal based hardcore band, one of those with such kinetic energy that you begin sweating profusely just by listening passively to their music. And that's pretty much all of the information I have on this band. Their…

Album Review: GRACE & THIEVES – Shepherd Of The Wolves EP

GRACE & THIEVESShepherd Of The Wolves EPIndependent2013 Out of Salem, Oregon, came a band that went by the name Grace & Thieves. Or, Grace And Thieves, as the Googles likes to chide me over. Formed in 1999, they are self-described as a heavy, neurotic fast kind of hardcore punk…or, "like giant sandpaper fingernails across an…

Album Review: SPLIT – Saul Of Tarsus/Wickeds End

SPLITSaul Of Tarsus/Wickeds EndIndependent2017 Here we have a four-song 7-inch EP featuring thrash bands Saul Of Tarsus and Wickeds End, two relatively obscure thrash metal bands. Which is a pity, really. I've been aware of Wickeds End for some time; Saul Of Tarsus, this was my first real taste of the band. Saul Of Tarsus…

Album Review: PLATOON 1107 – Marine Forever…Forever Marine EP

PLATOON 1107Marine Forever…Forever MarineThumper Punk Records2016 Marine Forever…Forever Marine is the fourth EP by California hardcore punk project Platoon 1107. Released in 2016 on Thumper Punk Records, this seems to be more of a digital 7-inch, containing only four songs, two of which are instrumentals. The cover art is generic--use of a font generator over…