Through Thorn and Brier is a band made up of four musicians from New Jersey who claim their key influences and interests are “pizza” and “filth”. Although billed as crust/hardcore punk, their music rarely takes the speedy grindcore or powerviolence route of their closer contemporaries. Where most are content with thrashing out minute long bursts of noise paying homage to the likes of Discharge and F-Minus, Through Thorn and Brier take far longer to get their point across, preferring instead to throw down long, grinding metallic riffs, served up with a slightly raw garage punk production value. On this EP, the mix of styles serves them well.
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Madball: UK/Irish tour dates
Hardcore punk legends Madball return to the UK in September for a short run of dates supported by Breaking Point and Coldburn. The dates are followed by one night in Dublin.
The dates are part of the promotion for the band’s 2014 release ‘Hardcore Lives’, available now on Nuclear Blast Records.
Tracklist revealed for new Sick of it All album
New York hardcore punk legends Sick of it All return at the end of September with a new full length album. Produced by Tue Madsen, ‘Last Act of Defiance’ is the band’s first new work since 2010.
The full confirmed track listing is as follows:
Gallows UK tour dates
Hardcore punk heroes Gallows begin a short UK tour this week kicking off in Brighton, including an appearance at the Sonisphere Festival. The UK shows are followed by an appearance at the Makeskirk Festival in Norway.
All confirmed dates are below.
GENOVIA FOREVER – Shut Up And Listen! EP
With a typeface best associated with UK anarcho-punks Crass and a number of US bands that launched careers in the early 80s, the choice of sleeve art on this EP from Illinois hardcore band Genovia Forever gives listeners a pretty good idea of what to expect. Except, there’s a twist: the band’s name, the people depicted on the sleeve and at least one of these songs provides a direct reference to The Princess Diaries… Odd bedfellows indeed, but those things have inspired this four piece band to make an extremely angry recording – six tracks that recall those times when 7”s in monochrome wraparound sleeves sprang from DIY punk practitioners all across the US.