Sial - Tari Pemusnah Kuasa

Absolutely savage hardcore punk/d-beat from Malaysia with an awesome female screamer. Southeast Asian hardcore punk are guaranteed butchery, so you should know. 2020 LP on La Vida En Us Mus.

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Ohyda - Koszmar

Rarely do I care about new hardcore punk releases, although until the age of 24 it was my favorite music genre. It's not only that I have grown up, I really think that music standards in this scene have dropped so much that most things are completely unoriginal. But here comes this great Polish band playing a mix of d-beat, post punk and psychedelic sounds, like a mix between legendary Polish band Abaddon, the legendary Siekera bits, Killing Joke, and huge Hawkwind and Voivod influences, with tons of delay in the vocals and chorus/reverb/delay in the guitar, and even blast-beats, making an explosive mix of apocalyptic post-nuclear explosion hardcore. Amazing. 2019 Lp on La Vida En Us Mus.

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Reign Of Bombs / Bombstrike Split LP

 

Reign Of Bombs: classic gnarly Swedish d-beat ala Totalitar and Skitkids. Bombstrike: Swedish rabid d-beat but heavier and more technical, with members of honorable bands of the Scandinavian filth underground such as Massgrav, Scurvy, Repugnant, General Surgery and a guy who also played in the (godawful in my opinion) Ghost. 2005 LP on Cage Match Federation, Wasted Sounds, and Yellow Dog Records.

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Katastrofialue ‎– Taivaasta Roskiin '94 7"

Ultra-noisy classic Finnish d-beat/hardcore punk by Katastrofialue in the vein of the legends Bastards, Riistetyt and Terveet Kadet. 2004 7" on Power It Up. Get more greatness on their Tuskatakuu 94-98 cd comp that you can find on the long-running this is kawaii not hawaii blog.

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I Shot Cyrus / Discarga Split LP

Split between two legendary punk bands from Brazil that I was crazy about during my early twenties and are now sadly defunct. I Shot Cyrus plays thrashcore with a slightly metallic edge, and Discarga is maddening fastcore/powerviolence with less metal and more punk that makes you want to destroy everything, plus their side ends with the intro of "For Whom The Bell Tolls!" Essential listening. 2005 LP on Peculios Discos.

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Vae Victis / Ahriman split 7"

Two strangely groovy and technical hardcore tracks akin to Rune and Stalingrad from Ahriman, and two screaming and raging anthems of crust/screamoviolence/black metal madness by the great Vae Victis. 1998 7" on Satan's Pimp and 702 Records.

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Vae Victis - Ugly Reflection LP

Just when you thought that spring was finally here and that there wouldn't be any more rain and gloomy skies, there's yet another week of storms and greyness. What better weather for some bleak metallic hardcore by Vae Victis, a band from Reno featuring the beast of Jensen Ward (Iron Lung, Artimus Pyle). Short, desperate pieces of crust-via-black metal-via noise rock dissonance, up to par with His Hero Is Gone and Gehenna. Classic but underrated album. 2001 LP on Back The Draft and Moral Atrophy.

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Lipowski - Groń Umarł tape

If I remember correctly I discovered this at the disc stalls when I went to the Obscene Extreme Festival in Czech Republic in 2006. I've never found any information about this band, which is a shame because we're talking some really hard-hitting dark apocalyptic and violent metallic hardcore punk in the vein of His Hero Is Gone and Artimus Pyle, but with their own personality, some really hymnal-almost black metal-parts, and sung in Polish. Check it out-it rocks. 2001 tape on Insane Society.

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Kritická Situace ‎– Kritická Situace

Awesome late-80s-to-mid-90s hardcore punk from the Czech Republic, which I learned while reading the old legendary issues of Inside Front zine run by Brian Catharsis/Crimethinc. They sing in their mother tongue, and they have a mid-to-moderately-fast paced style that includes quite a lot of metal influences and an anthemic feel. This was released in 1993 by Day After Records, but I have ripped it from my tape copy that was done by Slovakian label Hirax Records.

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Mönster ‎– Death Before Disorder LP

 Mönster were a German-Canadian-Polish hardcore powerhouse with members of Highscore, Costa's Cake House, Insuiciety, The Black Hand and legendary Born Dead Icons. They played a raging mix of dbeat punk with Motorheadesque rock 'n' roll. After they released this lp I saw them live at a squat in my hometown and I even grabbed the mic to sing one verse from the anthemic "Failed." Guaranteed room destruction music. 2005 LP on Sabotage.

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Mönster / Chainbreaker split 7"

Two tracks of hymnal hardcore punk 'n' roll by Canadian-Polish-German conglomeration Mönster and two more tracks of filthy, screaming rock 'n' roll hardcore punk Germans Chainbreaker. The guy on the cover reminds of a little bit of Papa Smurf, doesn't he? 2006 7" on Vendetta Records.

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Katastrophobia ‎– Age Of Aquarius LP

Had Nausea released another album after Extinction, this is what it would have probably sounded like. Dark, agonizing metallic d-beat crust punk with technical prowess; the highlight is the slow arpeggiated guitar parts that are close both to Nausea, Profane Existence-styled crust bands and black metal. The two last tracks, "Last Rites" and "Absolute Christ," are the best example of this. Unfortunately, after this amazing lp Katastrophobia broke up. That's what happens with all good punk bands anyway. 2001 lp on Nabate, Active Distribution, and Morning Star.

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Katastrophobia ‎– Homo Morticinus 7"

Even faster, even more technical, even more vicious and bent on destroying everything, this is the second 7" of Belgian crust punk masters Katastrophobia. All four tracks will kick your ass up to the mouth of Scheldt. Great artwork, too, but I'm too bored to scan it. 2000 7" on Morning Star.

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Katastrophobia ‎– Katastrophobia 7"

Great crust punk/thrash from Belgium, featuring a member of Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat. I can hear influences from Nausea, along with fellow Belgians Hiatus, but with great technical proficiency, lots of breaks and changes and a rabid playing style. 1998 7" on Nabate.

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Timebomb ‎– The Beat Is Here, Fellas

And here's Timebomb's Ovidian metamorphosis from apocalyptic hardcore death metal to political experimental noise pop-punk close to Fugazi, Unwound, The International Noise Conspiracy, with their singer sounding like a more nasal Men At Work vocalist with an Italian accent! Despite being nothing remotely close to their classic discography I still like it! 2001 cd on Cane Records.

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Timebomb & Redemption split cd

On this split cd, Timebomb re-record three tracks from Hymns For a Decaying Empire, playing them tighter and closer to a metalcore sound, which is still good, albeit slightly less apocalyptic. Nonetheless, they still rock on this one, and nothing hinted to the surprise they had in store sometime later. Redemption is another vegan/straight edge band from Italy, and they play what one might call metalcore, with a more melodic edge close to early Caliban and Lifeforce Records, lots of double-bass and a female vocalist with a very cute and lovable voice. Not something amazing, but much better than what metalcore would come to mean a few years later. 1999 cd on War.Ds.

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Timebomb - The Full Wrath of the Slave cd

Easily on of the ten best metallic hardcore albums of all time, right up there with Integrity's mid-1990s unholy trinity, Kickback's Forever War, Catharsis, Ringworm's debut, All Out War's For Those Who Were Crucified, Gehenna's The Birth Of Vengeance 7". Rarely has hardcore sounded so majestic and with a sense of mournfulness and desperation, created by the masterly executed black metal-inspired riffs and blastbeats over the hardcore violence. 1998 cd on CrimethInc.

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Timebomb ‎– Hymns For A Decaying Empire LP

Wow, one of my favorite records of all time, absolutely epic and devastating metallic hardcore with 
creative influences (not copying that is) by the melodic moments of early Integrity, Bolt Thrower, and some black metal, but with a hugely personal sound and intense energy and political passion oozing from every note and drum hit. The lyrics are great with references to everyday life under capitalism, antifascist violence and all. Last track is an interview of the band in Italian. 1995 LP on the historical SOA Records.

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