WYTCH HAZELThe TruthIndependent2012 In the past decade or so, I've noticed a surge of retro 60s/70s style doom flavored hard rock and metal that seems to confound a lot of modern gatekeeper types. It's really amusing at times, some of the discussion threads that pop up, especially when it comes to the likes of Ghost.…
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…
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…
The LEADThe Past BehindThree Equals One/R.E.X. Records1987/1988 I don't think there would be anyone that would argue about whether or not The Lead had an important influence on the fledgling Christian punk and alternative underground in the 1980s. They were distinctly East Coast, starting with more of a punk style at first, but gradually began…
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…
SPLITSplit DecisionThumper Punk Records2014 Split releases are great. They're not as congested as your standard "various artists" samplers and collections, usually featuring a grip of songs from a small handful of like-minded bands. Perfect for punk, hardcore and grindcore bands, and pretty cheap to produce for DIY and independent labels. Anyway, we're looking at the…
INDOMINUSLegion WithinRoxx Records2016 When it comes to Metal and Hard Rock, Ireland has given the world its fair share of bands--Thin Lizzy immediately comes to mind, but there's also Gama Bomb, Primordial and Ravenlight, among many others. There was also a band called ForChristSake, which existed between 2001 to 2016. From the ashes of that…
The JULIESLovelifeFlying Tart Records1996 The Julies got their start around 1992, consisting at first of three friends wanting to make music that sounded like a "bridge between The Cure and Ride". Soon they got a fourth and finally fifth member, who brought in interest in the Pixies, and voila! An indie rock band was born.…
SLECHTVALKThunder Of WarFear Dark Records2005 Thunder Of War is a four-song EP that Slechtvalk released a few months after the release of their full-length release At The Dawn Of War in 2005. It contains four tracks, including two versions of a track from the full-length release, and two never before released tracks. So, maybe a…
IGNITEThe Cracked MirrorRowe Productions1995 So, apparently there's a lot of bands that are named Ignite? Or, at least there's one US hardcore group that also called themselves Ignite around the time when this particular group changed their name to Draxsen to differentiate… Ah, never mind. The Ignite I'm interested in right now, is the Australian…
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