Not Your Scene

Tag: hardcore

  • Acrid – Sea of Shit (2000)

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    Just when you thought Canadian hardcore peaked with Shotmaker and Union of Uranus, Ontario’s Acrid crawls out of the Great Lakes rust belt to deliver the most pissed-off slab of millennium-end fury since Capitalist Casualties’ “Disassembly Line.” This isn’t your polite Canadian stereotype bullshit – this is 28 minutes of pure, unfiltered rage against everything…

  • Aftershock – Through The Looking Glass (1999)

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    Some records hit like a punch. Through The Looking Glass by Aftershock doesn’t hit—it claws, twists, and drags you into its world, then spits you back out wrecked and wide-eyed. Just dropped on Devil’s Head in ’99, this is a scorched statement from a band that’s long outgrown the shadows they started in. Forget the…

  • Arkangel – Prayers Upon Deaf Ears (1998)

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    If you thought Europe couldn’t produce hardcore as apocalyptic and unrelenting as the States, Prayers Upon Deaf Ears by Arkangel will rip that smug idea straight from your skull. This 1998 scorcher out on Released Power Productions is a hate-fueled, metallic sermon delivered from the crumbling altars of Belgium’s brutal hardcore underground. It doesn’t ask…

  • Acme – …To Reduce The Choir To One Soloist (1996)

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    This thing doesn’t play nice. Acme’s …To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist, just out on Edison Records, isn’t here to win over the crowd. It’s here to annihilate it. This record is a bomb—detonated and still ringing in your ears days after you drop the needle. It’s violent, raw, and intentionally ugly, like a…

  • Ascension – The Years Of Fire (1996)

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    Cleveland’s underground just delivered another crushing blow to anyone stupid enough to think Ohio hardcore peaked with Integrity. While everyone’s jerking off to the latest Victory Records bullshit, Ascension has been quietly perfecting the art of controlled chaos in the same basements that spawned Confront and Face Value. Don’t underestimate Cleveland’s current crop of bands…

  • A chorus of disapproval – Truth Gives Wings To Strength (1994)

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    Hardcore needs a wake-up call every few years—a slap to the face when it gets too comfortable, too predictable, too full of posers saying all the right things but doing fuck all. Truth Gives Wings to Strength is that slap. A Chorus of Disapproval didn’t come to play nice or stroke your nostalgic fantasies of…