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: The LEAD – The Past Behind

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…

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 punkā€¦or, "like giant sandpaper fingernails across an…

Album Review: PINK DAFFODILS – Listless

PINK DAFFODILSListlessSofa Records1997 Pink Daffodils was a hardcore band with some punk and emo influences that formed in 1995 in Philadelphia, through about 1999. According to Discogs, they released a couple of EPs before disbanding, with the vocalist and guitarist going on to form Red And Gold. Listless was their first EP, released on the…

Album Review: RED INK – Brutal Recompense

RED INKBrutal RecompenseIndependent1992 Red Ink was something of a thrash-based death metal band with some heavy crossover influences that formed in the late 80s in Houston, Texas. Their Facebook bio claims they were "Houston's only Christian death metal band" at the time, which I'm taking with a hefty grain of salt, here. They managed to…