Cut The Shit

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Q:How angry can you get? A: Cut The Shit. This is the sound fucked up kids make when they're sick of their school, fed up with the prescription amphetamines forced down their throats, ready to punch their parents and skate. Sloppy aggression, fueled by speed and honest anger. No diatribes here, just pissed thrash.

Slices - The 7"s

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Unsettling noisy hardcore punk. Not unlike your other B-Side of My War bands, only better.

Wrangler Brutes - Discography

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Sam and Brooks from Born Against, Andy and Cundo from Nazti Skinz. Why say anything more when the music speaks for itself? One of the smartest, noisiest punk bands to grace your speakers. You truly need all their music.

Cold Sweat - Blinded

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The second full length from this Seattle powerhouse. Employing the noisier paint-peeling qualities of Rollins-era Black Flag, the speed of Deep Wound and the darkness of Rorschach to force out another creeping, speedy rager. This record improves on its predecessor while taking some new direction. Cold Sweat let up as much as they disappointed.

Cold Sweat - Severed Ties

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Angry, fast, powerful and damn good. Cold Sweat are one of those bands of the last decade that will leave a lasting imprint on punk and be remembered as one of the greats of '00s hardcore. Featuring members of Walls, Iron Lung and Repercussions and packing a heavy punch and having that same strange darkside that seems unique to early black metal, noise rock and a select few greater hardcore punk bands.

Raw Nerves - Murders Among Us (LINK FIXED)

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Raw Nerves, not Raw Nerve. A crusty, metallic hardcore band from Portland, Oregon. They are really heavy and a little slowed down, but still a rager none the less. They take influence from a vast amount of punk but have a decidedly Northwestern sound. There are tinges of Resist and Poison Idea here and there. They also cite Sex/Vid as a heavy influence, but I personally don't hear it.

This Ep must require a few spins before you start to get into them. It seems boring at first, but it's not. This is not the case with the new LP, which is fucking fantastic first play, but I'm waiting for that to sell out before I post it here.

The one time I saw Raw Nerves they played a short angry set full of faster songs than they seem to have recorded. Maybe they just play faster live but they seem a lot more enthusiastic and passionate than this recording lets on, so go see them. Especially if you can see them with Resist, Iron Lung and Dropdead in Seattle.

Magnum Force - Demo 'x9 reup

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Magnum Force are Arizona's premier powerviolence band. Their sound takes more from Crossed Out and No Comment instead of Iron Lung and Hatred Surge. The same could be said for their imagery, reminiscent of early Spazz and Capitalist Casualties records. Get fucking ready!

Blank Stare - LP

Hell yes. Boston hardcore the way it was meant to be. Fast, pissed, and delightfully rough around the edges, Blank Stare dropped a behemoth of an LP in 2008 before their demise in Fall of 2009. Every time I toss on this 10 track ripper, I can barely sit still, as the band rages through each song with reckless abandon with lightning fast chord changes and percussion.

An excellent form of pure fast hardcore, Blank Stare complete their LP in about 16 minutes, leaving out any filler while still giving people a little more than the 45 second songs which seem to frequent the genre more often these days. Totally in your face and unapologetic, these dudes seemed to increase their aggressiveness exponentially with each and every song, devoid of any weak links. Toss in plenty of old school influences from legendary Boston acts you've already heard about 500 times, and the picture becomes clear. Download this and max out the volume.

Male Nurses - Self Titled 7"

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Male Nurses have progressed a great deal since their demo, adding surf rock rhythm to some traditional hardcore rippers. A fucking great record all around. It's really reminiscent of the Authorities at their best, except I am pretty sure Male Nurses has better lyrics. No one can touch the ingenious stupidity that Authorities reached in their heyday. Fuck, this is good!

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Slices - Cruising

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The Iron Lung write up on this is wrong, when they said this is just punk I expected something like their earlier releases (though I wouldn't say those aren't just punk either), and while this is definitely Slices, this is a much weirder and harder to digest album. Slices play noisy hardcore punk in the same vein as their other Pittsburgh peers Brain Handle. They're fast, except kinda not, they are insane, brilliant, creepy and unique while still feeling classic and anthemic. A must.

Slices are currently finishing up a west coast tour with the ever astounding Iron Lung. Don't miss out!