Friday, November 2

Crimpshrine - Lame gig contest

Legendary proto-punk band from the Bay Area.
Formed in 1982 by Aaron Cometbus on drums and Jeff Ott on guitars and vocals, it featured several different bassplayers throughout the years such as Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels.
This is their only studio album.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jcyj0oton7c4urr

Tuesday, October 16

Padova Hardcore Compilation

This compilation features 19 bands + a declaration of war from Padova, northern Italy.
From punk to grind, hardcore to rock'n'roll, there's a lot of sehr gut stuff in here. Unfortunately the mp3s are in a low quality compression, BUT you have all the graphics included!

http://www.mediafire.com/?x1cbrr0rsg9a3sn

Tuesday, October 2

CJ Ramone - Reconquista

CJ has just finished his last south american tour and his first solo album obviously sounds like a Ramones album, but it's not as good as the worst Ramones album. Anyway there's something good in it, of course.

http://www.mediafire.com/?szh0lna4whovl9b
http://cjramone.com/

Wednesday, September 19

Strenght Approach - All the plans we made are going to fail

Strenght Approach were born in 1996 in Rome.
This album is from 2009, now they've got their newest "With or without you" lp out and tomorrow they'll begin a European tour.
Fast and clean newyork-ish hardcore.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymzuiz4mnyn
http://www.facebook.com/strengthapproach

Thursday, September 13

Collateral Damage - Eatcore

8-songs demo from last year. CD is a very good band from Italy, they just become a little boring every now and then but I'll take some time to remember everyone that it's only my opinion (of course).
Definitely waiting for something more!

http://www.mediafire.com/?8n8b2dgurth826k
http://www.facebook.com/pages/COLLATERAL-DAMAGE/147731195294549

Wednesday, September 5

Valhalla Pacifists/Burning The Prospect - Burning the pacifists

Valhalla Pacifists vs Burning The Prospect, aka english fastcore vs american crustpunk. You ask my favourite?
I say VP, no doubt about it.
Anyway, four tracks for the englishmen and two for the americans, get it if you still found it somewhere.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3w733qmbodrlc9w
http://www.freewebs.com/valhallapacifists/
http://www.sofaweb.org.uk/btp/

Thursday, August 30

FxAxSxTx - 2012 Demo

And of course, FxAxSxTx from Budapest.
As far as I know they are mostly members of Crippled Fox, also the music is similar, but, you know, faster. Tupa tupa at its highest levels.
Listen and download from Bandcamp.

http://fxaxsxt.bandcamp.com/

Thursday, August 23

Apart - Gray light

I hope these guys from South Carolina won't mind if I put their newest release on free download.
They seem to have a good following. I'm not really into this kind of music but they sounds quite good.
So buy their stuff if you like people like Piano Become The Teeth (at least it's what they said, I don't know them either, sorry - I'll try to remedy).

http://www.mediafire.com/?r4ea4mwzh7fhhlo
http://apartsc.bandcamp.com/

Thursday, August 16

TxCxAx - Abhorrence

Russian thrashcore. They are Teenage Christ's Adventure, they play fast and their lyrics are almost nonsense, but funny. Influenced by bands like Spazz.

http://www.mediafire.com/?746ie9a7e1vlz3u
http://www.facebook.com/txcxax
http://txcxax.bandcamp.com/

Thursday, August 9

Afonia - Smile of Sisyphus

Afonia is a three piece grindcore band from south Urals.
They toured Italy the other day so I had the pleasure to know them. They're tough as hell, desperate, fast and all the things good grind bands are.
They're also very kind persons.

http://www.mediafire.com/?589qizffih58qan
http://afoniaural.bandcamp.com/

Friday, August 3

Tear Me Down - Il tempo cambia

2012 album by these italian hardcore veterans, still hot. Twelve new tracks, sometimes fast sometimes slow, but always angry, filled with italian lyrics obviously against the cops.
Not the usual three-chord songs.

http://www.mediafire.com/?67w7dk21ad11v52
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_Me_Down

Friday, July 27

Lay It On The Line - A lesson in personal finance

South London hardcore band, born in January 2012.
This debut concept ep is from last May, and presents a true story about a rentboy who killed a teacher for a reason (sex). Actually you can hear some strong Iron Maiden influence here, those kind of melodies.
Name-your-price on Bandcamp.

Friday, July 20

Saturday, July 14

Violent Future - Demo tape

This 6-song demo really sounds like a tape from the '80.
Never too fast, but always super aggressive with that punky style I love to listen once in a while. Anyway they're a new band from Toronto, with ex-members of Urban Blight.


http://www.mediafire.com/?un555h7eh5a6w41
http://violentfuture.bandcamp.com/

Saturday, June 23

Off! - S/t

I guess everyone knows Off! by now.
Here's the new album, new songs, same formula.
They're in the middle of a UK tour at the moment.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mbqbawd7od3xr4q
http://offofficial.com/

Thursday, June 21

Friday, June 1

You Suck! - Shit happens ep

How many songs can be written using just four chords? Ask You Suck! But despite what people can say to me this is a quality, because they're able of never being boring, and they've got some style.

Ten skatepunk tracks, out with the help of six labels.


http://www.mediafire.com/?qiuzicu49k76pf4
http://it-it.facebook.com/yousuckhc

Friday, April 13

Social Justice - Unity is strenght

L.A. band from the late '80. Under this name their released this album and an ep; in 1992 they changed their name to downset. and experienced underground success all along the '90.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mmuxtm240uj

Wednesday, February 22

Heil Hidiot - Endlose Hidiotie


A-covered tape ep by Heil Hidiot, no-nazi punk hardcore italian band which now is dead but still worth a listen.
Recorded in 2008, out in 2009 on Goodbye Mankind Records.
Female vocals, etc. etc.

Wednesday, February 8

Antisexy - El lurido

Heavy album of a dead band.
Antisexy's final chapter delivers 24 grenades (i think 17+7 from their previous split with Endless Struggle) of furious thrashcore with sharp lyrics.
A must!

http://www.mediafire.com/?r363q5u0sjyza66

Wednesday, February 1

Devastator - La musica fa schifo

Epic release of a well-reknown italian band.
To me it's a sort of concept album about italy's underground music scene of today.
An incredible mixture of thrash+hardcore+metal, powerful, refreshing and -above all- classy.
No commentary needed about the graphics.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mztb69l7hbclc0h
http://it-it.facebook.com/devastatorcrew?sk=wall

Wednesday, January 25

La Crisi - III - Paura a colazione

III chapter of notorious La Crisi saga.
The first thing I noticed is that Mayo's voice keeps getting higher.  But your expectations of course will be satisfied (the boys have style).
Play it safe!

http://www.mediafire.com/?j16812eed3j3vx4
http://it-it.facebook.com/pages/La-Crisi-Official-Page/127010033980449?sk=wall

Wednesday, January 18

Eat You Alive - The last stage diving

Happy new year! I'm back.
First full lenght by EYA. You should buy this cd just because of its awesome artwork graphics, besides that you've got 13 tracks of snotty fastcore filled with heavy riffs and tough lyrics.
With ex-members of Antisexy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sxi105hbr9nfygc
http://it-it.facebook.com/pages/Eat-You-Alive/136274436450834