i’m warning y’all bands lying to your fans about how to the merch cut process works is not gonna get the results you want and it’s coming off as the greediest shit i’ve ever seen. demonizing venues instead or agents or label people that drive mercedes who’s rent you pay is insane
Bands splitting into two bands and touring under different names playing the same songs is about as sad as it gets. Somebody please remind me how much it sucks if I ever end up in a situation like that.
Everyone says “hold onto your friends and tell them you love them” when there’s a loss. It rings true, and Cayle lived that every single day. The man couldn’t hang up the phone or walk away without telling you he loved you.
Yearly PSA for bands and members:
“Stoked to be a part of this.” = you are excited to be included
“Stoked to be apart of this.” = you are stoked to be separated from it
@caasihale
Somewhere there’s a YouTube guitar player crying on their 8 string diagonal fretboard because they couldn’t write this and that it was played on a Jaguar
ETID became the band that helped smaller hardcore bands and always had their finger on the pulse.
@andycomplains
was the reason
@MetalBlade
ever looked in Twitching Tongues’ direction. My condolences to Buffalo, NY. Shame it had to end in a public dumpster fire. RIP big time.
I understand why this is getting shit on but I do think it’s weird to HATE the idea of playing music for a living. Obviously that’s hard even for the biggest ACTUAL hardcore band to accomplish, and what strikes a nerve most about this statement is “commercial viability”.
Our monthly column The Black Market examines heavy metal's longstanding love of the trifecta: when the band name, song title, and album title are all the same.
Plus: the best metal of April 2023!
My favorite takeaway from this Hardlore episode is a bunch of people probably checking out Demilich and maybe 75% of them turning it off within seconds. I hope the 25% that love it enjoy their changed lives.
I Love my straight edge friends endlessly and have the upmost respect for the straight edge. I def dont miss doing blow in order to have fun, v dark times, but if u think a little recreational blow is awful/crazy/taboo then ur sheltered little life is showing in the realest way
This week, in "Comics Have Always Been Political (and Still Are)" : Frank Castle tries to insist that law enforcement should never valorize or emulate the Punisher; ripped from the headlines about local police departments by Rosenberg/Kudranski/Fabela
“Technique” is for nerds. If your screams don’t come from the same place as the most violent and emotional sounds you’ve ever produced — if you’re not threatening the long-term health of your throat — you’re not screaming. You’re just making funny monster noises
Stranger Things/Metallica discourse is interesting. Metallica is a top 40 pop artist with their own whole movie, there’s simply nothing to gatekeep there, but good for the “metal” news outlets bleeding the talking point dry.
Ingrown is the type of band where if I was 21 years old and saw them live randomly while knowing nothing about them, I’d still start moshing immediately.
I’m happy about people buying BC Rich guitars and them becoming cool again, as well as hardcore bands all playing Fender. That’s one less CUsToM djent, PRS or Ibanez guitar I gotta look at.
Not sure why I torture myself reading what Reddit hardcore thinks about things but the 160 reply thread of them arguing about Earth Crisis and straight edge has convinced me to never look again.
Put some respect on one of the heaviest bands in the universe. Pound for pound I think SOVEREIGN is their heaviest track. The track FLOOD was my starting point for the verse of In Love There is No Law. Eye of Every Storm is one of my late night driving records. RIP Steve Albini.
Vamachara, Like it or Not, God’s Hate, Downpresser, Minus, Hands of God, Section H8, Slowbleed, Young Lords, and Dead Heat all have sick new records finished or almost done. CA hardcore is going to be INSANE next year.
All those who piled on, those who sang along, this one’s for you…
FULL AMERICAN TOUR WITH OBITUARY, IMMOLATION, AND BLOOD INCANTATION.
🇺🇸🇨🇦
Tickets on sale tomorrow at 10AM.
I understand that you wanna go against the grain or whatever but when you half-wear a mask under your nose, you’re effectively the dumbest person in the room.
Honestly it blows my mind every time a band travels to work with me, and my mind was blown when a band from Alaska hit me up. Drummer also takes the cake for hardest hitting drummer I’ve ever put microphones on. SHE is a wild genre blend that is more palatable than you’d think.
From absolute ass-whooping hardcore, to fun jumping jangle guitars, to circle pitting evil HM2 death metal -
@sound_and_fury
really felt like a complete experience. Can’t wait for next year.
Sunami are fucking clowns to think nobody would notice that they blatantly stole one of the most iconic powerviolence album covers ever for their shirt design lmao. Trendcore simps will seethe in defense of this though.
Some of my fav NYHC LPs for people looking for a place to start: a thread. Saw a lot of talk about it the last few days and just wanted to put some info out there.
Showback!
3 years ago today,
@codeorangetoth
played day 2 of Outbreak Fest ft
@taylorxyoung
📷: David Tan, Sean Pitcam & Carly Tyrell.
🎤: Lewis Glass
Full set:
Fest:
Sub:
Pat:
Making a record without demoing songs 1-3 times is the coolest way to go. Just jump in and make magic. Overthinking is how you end up with a convoluted mess (sometimes).
Clip of Oasis making “Champagne Supernova” in 1995.
Noel Gallagher writes the lyrics. Does a single play-through for his brother Liam. Then Noel goes to watch football while Liam — after one listen — smashes the song on the first recording.
Total beasts at their mid-90s peak.
We def don’t need to keep pretending that anything this person says matters. This is a classic case of “never created anything so I just talk shit about stuff.”
This new Terminal Nation album is insane.
This might be the bottom. Not sure we can get worse than this. Pure garbage. Holy shit. It simply can't get worse than this.
The response to Twitching Tongues - Sleep Therapy Redux 2xLP has been insane. Only a limited amount of one vinyl color left, along with todays merch drop. Pick it up and stream the full album now at
Just watched someone who has definitely never moshed ever mosh his little heart out worse than I’ve ever seen in my life over to a girl just to say hi. It was 0% facetious and I 100% enjoyed it.