March and April 2023 punk news | #Meganews 17
Discover March and April 2023 punk and DIY world news
Like every other month here we are again, ready to give space to your punk news for March and April 2023. Before we begin, as usual a bit of useful info!
Band: Güerra
Album: Quanta Fame Hai?
Subgenre: street punk / oi!
Physical format: 12″ vinyl
From: Romagna
Label: Radio Punk / Hellnation
Available in our distro: Yes, order here!
Info: Second album by the Forli province band. 12 new tracks with a street punk oi! 80s sound a la Blitz. You can listen to the song “Branco” below:
Band: Minoranza di Uno
Album: Il Peso della Sconfitta
Subgenre: anarcho-punk / hardcore punx
Physical format: CD
From: Friuli Venezia Giulia
Label: Radio Punk, Minoranza Autoproduzioni, Scatti Vorticosi, Tuscia Clan, Fra il dì e il fà, bus stop press, aigorl
Where to listen
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Info: mini-CD including about ten minutes divided into three chapters filled with poetry, hardcore punk and anarchic attitude. A must for lovers of engaged punx.
Band: Ultranoia
Album: Nudi+Crudi
Subgenre: punk, emo rock
Physical format: not available
From: Caserta
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: As per Epidemic’s press release: <<“Nudi+Crudi” is a record in which punk, emo and rock veins intertwine, creating a solid chain of 8 musical episodes that are melodic yet edgy, deep yet still fun.>>
Band: Hunting Lions
EP: “Dark” and “Light”
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: LP
From: Santa Rosa, California
Label: Pirates Press
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Two releases by the California band. In “Dark” 5 melodic punk rock songs that address various social and political issues such as the techno-gentrification of San Francisco and criticism of the widening socio-economic gap in the Bay Area. But also more lighthearted songs such as “KOTA”, a tribute to Californian car culture. Watch the video here. In “Light” the main topic are personal relationships and cover and vinyl are white. Here’s the video for “Nothing Wrong“
Band: Electric Chair
Album: S/T
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: LP
From: Olympia, WA
Label: Iron Lung Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: fast and powerful hardcore punk FFO Battalion Of Saints, Wasted Youth, Annihilation Time, Poison Idea and Bad Brains.
Band: Eteraz
Album: Destined To Kill
Subgenre: hardcore punk, d-beat
Physical format: Flexi 7″
From: Olympia, WA
Label: Iron Lung Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: The Olympia quartet brings out 2 short, chaotic tracks in the full d-beat tradition, influenced by bands such as Physique, Taqbir, Detestation, Urin, No Future and Discharge.
Band: FRISK / LAST AFFRONT
Album: Split
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: tape
From: Leeds / London
Label: Iron Lung Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Short, fast and angry hardcore from these two British lineups. If you like music that sounds like a massage with broken glass, this split album is for you!
Band: Slow Rush
EP: Fuck It! Miss Me! Hate Me!
Subgenre: alternative rock / indie rock / punk rock
Physical format: not available
From: Vicenza
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: A sound that combines elements of alt rock, post-punk, noise, and rock romance. Lyrics about real life, tragic loves, karmic encounters, incredible adventures.
Band: La Bruma
EP: S/T
Subgenre: Hardcore
Physical format: not available
From: Lodi
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: The band combines primitive hardcore from the Italian tradition with typically American old school sounds and melodic lines.
Band: The Raw Pots
Video and single: video: Out / single: I wanna
Subgenre: Punk
Physical format: not available
From: Italy
Label: DIY / Tunecore
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: The single “I wanna” is self-produced at home. The resulting sound is raw, but sincere. The song has a simple, hard-hitting, Ramones-inspired structure.
The video for “Out” is also entirely self-produced. The track features fresh punk with GreenDay-inspired sounds.
Band: Stygmate
Album: Vivant
Subgenre: Punk Rock
Physical format: CD
From: Paris, France
Label: Zone Onze Records, Konstroy, Maloka, Trauma Social, Mass Prod, Kanal Hysterik K.H#73
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: A cynical and ironic look at today’s reality to the rhythm of punk rock with sophisticated sounds. For fans of bands like OTH, Les Rats and Parabellum.
Band: Last Ditch Effort
Single: On the Inside
Subgenre: Punk Rock
Physical format: not available
From: San Jose, California USA
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: This single details the issues inherent in the American Prison Industrial Complex, which allows human lives to be owned by for-profit corporations. Modern day slavery is inherent in the working conditions and pay rates of prisoners, who have no real opportunity to organize or combat the intrusive system. Recorded at District Recording in San Jose by Ryan Perras.
Band: Guacamaya
Video: Veleno
Album: “Clessidra Senza Sabbia” coming soon
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: not available
From: Magenta
Label: Out of Control Produzioni
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: active since 2003, the punk rock / combat rock band recently announced the release of their new album “Clessidra Senza Sabbia”. To introduce us to this new work, here is the video for the song “Veleno”.
Band: Flores y Fuego
Album: “Altar” coming soon
Single/Video: Soy tu voz
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: LP coming soon
From: Guadalajara, Mexico
Label: Pirates Press
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Song off the upcoming album. You can already listen to it here. The album, sung in Spanish by singer Melisa, has themes such as gender inequality, unjust violence and more and contains 8 tracks with a powerful and raw punk sound.
Band: Various Artists
Album: LIFETIME PROBLEMS, AN INTERNATIONAL TRIBUTE TO THE DICKS
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: 7″
From: everywhere
Label: Take The City Records, Frantic City, Die Hipster!
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Anti-racist, anti-war, communist, queer to the core… 80s Texas punks THE DICKS are the perfect anti-heroes to help make these crazy times a little less dark! 2023 is the year for an international tribute to the Dicks, 40 years after the release of their seminal album “Kill from the Heart” on SST, later reissued on ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES.
Seven bands from around the world covering as many songs from the band’s discography, all packed into the two sides of one 7″ disc. Featuring: BRAT FARRAR (Australia), ILLEGAL LEATHER (UK), LADY BANANA (Sweden), BART AND THE BRATS (France), MITCH KRAMER (USA), THE DELINQUENTS (Italy) and GOODBYE JOHNNYS (Switzerland).
Band: Tres Cuervos
Album: S/T
Subgenre: oi! / punk
Physical format: LP
From: Madrid
Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Madrid band’s debut mini album with 5 songs full of rage!
Band: Bogavantes Con Tirantes
Album: Pelillos a la mar / Me cago en la mar
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: LP
From: Spain
Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: After several years of silence they reappear with this second 8-track album and a new lineup. Raw and direct oi! sung in Spanish.
Band: Tiro
Album: Gure Irtenbidea
Subgenre: oi! punk
Physical format:
From: Ondárroa, Basque Country
Label: Tough Ain’t Enought Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Five oi! punk songs that make up this debut work, sung in Basque and English
Band: Fracture
Album: Purgatoire
Subgenre: punk oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Paris, France
Label: Une vie pour rien Vinyles
Where to listen
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Info: A young Parisian trio, Fracture have already made waves with their sound and lyrics that alternate between oi! claims and angry punk!
Band: Claimed Choice
Album: S/T
Subgenre: punk oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Lyon, France
Label: Une Vie Pour Rien Vinyles
Where to listen
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Info: After more punk-rock and glam work, the Lyon-based band shifts this time more to the typical French oi! sound.
Band: Mr. Woland
Album: Burn The Streets Again
Video: Put On A Show
Subgenre: punk rock / rock n roll
Physical format: CD / Tape / LP
From: Padua
Label: Jetglow Recordings
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: “Put On A Show,” a single from the album “Burn The Streets Again” becomes the soundtrack to what is essentially a short film, directed and produced by Marco Fantacuzzi for Cinema Key and Jetglow Recordings. The band comments:
“It all starts from the lyrics of the song, which talk about that compelling need that each of us feels in realizing and living fully what truly makes us happy. An escape from what is imposed on us toward what we really want to be, a race toward full self-realization by seeking what makes us fully happy, may this be unconventional love or being on a stage even when there would seem to be no reason to do so.”
Band: Bad Blood
Album: The Bad Kind Decides
Subgenre: hardcore
Physical format: 12″ EP
From: Buffalo, NY
Label: Flatspot Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: hardcore punk from Buffalo that taking cues from 80s bands such as Warzone and Brotherhood creates a direct, fast and aggressive sound with lyrics that address the negative aspects of the surrounding reality. On vocals Scott Vogel (Terror, Buried Alive) along with guitarists Eric Ellman (They Live, Violent Way) and Mason Hutchins (Violent Way), bassist Greg Vinal (Exhibition) and drummer Nick Terlecky (Violent Way). The record came out in various colors and with the B-side silkscreened.
Band: Scowl
Album: Psychic Dance Routine
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: CD, tape, 12″ vinyl
From: Santa Cruz, California
Label: Flatspot Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Since forming in 2019, the band has consistently eschewed being pigeon-holed, moving far beyond the confines of what a typical “hardcore” band is considered. On Psychic Dance Routine, Scowl continue to push the boundaries of their sound and artistic presence, now laying somewhere between hardcore and alternative. As the band puts it, “it’s like Negative Approach meets The Breeders.”
Band: Ultra Razzia
Album: Jusqu’au bout de la nuit
Subgenre: oi!/punk
Physical format: LP
From: Montreal, Quebec
Label: Primator Crew (EU), Warthog Speak Records (USA)
Where to listen
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Info: Second album by the Montreal band that remains anchored in punk/oi! sounds with dark and gloomy atmospheres.
Band: 3D & The Holograms
Album: S/T
Subgenre: hardcore punk garage
Physical format: LP
From: Sydney (Australia) / Olympia, WA (USA)
Label: Roachleg Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: From the creators of the bands Research Reactor Corp. and Tee Vee Repairmann comes this chaotic band straddling garage, punk and hardcore!
Band: various artists
Album: Promo Kasetea Vol. 3
Subgenre: oi! punk
Physical format: tape
From: everywhere
Label: mendeku diskak
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Third volume of “Promo Kasetea,” the Basque label Mendeku Diskak’s series of compilation tapes featuring 10 songs from its upcoming releases:
-041- TERRE NEUVE s/t 7”
-042- REVERTT “Euskal Hardcorra” 12”
-043- COLLAPS s/t 7”
-044- RÉSILIENCE s/t 7”
-045- CUERO / PURO ODIO “Morir En Vizcaya” Split 12”
-046- CROSSHAIRS “Perverted Law” 12”
-047- ENEMIC INTERIOR “II” 7”
-048- CIDADÃO “Todos Os Dias” 7″
-049- LOST LEGION “Autoproduktion” 7″
Band: Asedio
Album: Fuego
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: LP
From: Barcelona
Label: Common People Records
Where to listen
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Info: After several lineup changes, Catalans Asedio are back with their third album. 8 new songs with an extra melodic touch compared to the style of their earlier, harder and rougher works.
Band: Brutal Siegers
Album: Caras Sucias
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Barcelona
Label: Common People Records
Where to listen
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Info: Two new tracks by the band with members from Brux, Acero Condal, Area de Combate that serve as a preview of what will be their next LP to be released in late 2023. This time only lyrics in Spanish, while in terms of sound we are always in the rough and raw oi! mixed with punk and this work also features saxophone.
Band: +LaCroce+
Video: Roma è la mia città
Album: “La prima Croce” coming soon
Subgenre: HC-No School
Physical format: not available
From: Rome
Label: Rumagna Sgroza, Ostia Records, Lanterna Pirata
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: DIY video off the upcoming album via Rumagna Sgroza, Ostia Records and Lanterna Pirata. No-School hardcore that is of no use to anyone, laughing at a dead world and spitting venom on joy.
Band: Turn Against
Video: Nostalgia
Subgenre: Punk-hc
Physical format: not available
From: Comacchio (Ferrara)
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: This single describes the nostalgic moments of life, of moments in the grip of doubt and despondency where one inevitably seeks a refuge to distract one’s thoughts. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Federico Viola (Animal House Studio, Ferrara). Video edited by Valerio Guidi, filmed by Valerio Guidi and Giacomo Luzzi.
Band: Surreal Noise
Single: Forse
Subgenre: Pop Punk
Physical format: not available
From: Lecco
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Second single from the band with a more grunge feel, especially in the chorus featuring the big muff distortion.
Band: Clayface
Single: Employee Of The Year
Album: “Ailments” 12″ coming soon
Subgenre: Skate Punk
Physical format: not available
From: Oldham, Engand
Label: Horn & Hoof Records, Serial Bowl Records, Cats Claw records, White Russian Records, PunkRock radar
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Blending early skate punk influences with gruff, shout along melodies and a hint of hardcore purism, Clayface touch on themes of alienation, self loathing and the frustration of modern day life. Fast, energetic and pissed off yet laden with a healthy pop sensibility and infectious hooks.
Band: Öil!
Album: The Honour Of Glory
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: LP
From: California
Label: Contra Records (EU) / Mr. Face Records (US)
Where to listen
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Info: 12 new songs by the California band dedicated to an oi! that doesn’t take itself too seriously! Suffice it to say that the debut album was titled “The Glory Of Honour” and this one is titled “The Honour Of Glory,” and as Contra Records specifies in the release, “seriously, no joke!”
Band: Losers Parade
Album: Restless
Subgenre: stoner punk
Physical format: tape
From: Liguria
Label: Flamingo Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Ligurian band’s third album released on tape via Genoa-based label Flamingo Records. A mix of stoner and old school hardcore punk!
Band: I Recover
Album: Until I Wake
Subgenre: melodic punk hardcore
Physical format: LP
From: Köln/Leipzig, Germany
Label: STTW Records, I.Corrupt.Records, Crew Cuts (UK), Boslevan Records (UK), Extinction Burst (US), Hi Liberate Rec (Japan), Sakanade Rec (Japan).
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: 7 melodic hardcore tracks FFO Samiam, Leatherface and Ebullition Records.
Band: Good Morning Cernobyl
Album: NO TIME TO FEAR
Subgenre: Punk
Physical format: not available
From: Milan / Perugia
Label: DIY and La Cura Dischi
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Album with a primal ’70s punk style with a guitar line that draws from hardrock, then returns in the compactness of adrenaline and nervous structures, the three voices of the respective members often intertwine with a compact interpretation.
Noteworthy tidbit: The bass, during recording, was played by replacing the classic pick, with a cap from a Tennent’s beer bottle.
Band: Devasta
Ep: Resisti
Subgenre: Street punk
Physical format: Cd digipack
From: Rome
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Fast and melodic with sing along refrains in Italian, FFO Rancid and Nofx.
Band: Causa
Ep: Nel mondo degli OK
Subgenre: punk
Physical format: Film roll container with USB flash drive and lyric booklet in 100 hand-numbered copies
From: Pisa
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: 5 tracks of anti-fascist and anti-capitalist punk digitally or in an original and totally DIY physical format: a USB flash drive wrapped in a booklet with lyrics and inserted in a film roll container, in 100 hand-numbered copies
Band: The Malvos
Video: Blue jeans and a white t-shirt
Subgenre: Punk rock
Physical format: vinyl EP coming soon
From: Turin
Label: DIY / moments records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Punk rock a la Ramones, Huntingtons and Manges, The Malvos come out with their first video clip anticipating their first album. The title is just a pretext to talk about simplicity, that’s all we need to be ready for a battle, in a present increasingly dominated by appearing in a studied way and full of expectations often disappointed. In music as in everyone’s personal life.
Band: TENORE FI
Single: “BIS”
Subgenre: Rap
Physical format: not available
From: Florence
Label: Romanticismo Periferico
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: “BIS” refers to the hard prison regime that Alfredo Cospito has been forced to live under in a hunger strike since last October.
Band: Bull Brigade
Album: Reissue for “Strade Smarrite” 15th birthday
Subgenre: oi! street punk
Physical format: 12″ vinyl
From: Turin
Label: Motorcity Produzioni
Where to listen
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Info: “Strade Smarrite” was perhaps one of the most important street-punk albums of the post-2000 Italian scene. Today Strade Smarrite is coming back to light after 15 years, in fully remastered splatter yellow-blue colored vinyl and with new artwork done in pen by Gigio Bonizio, lead singer of Church Of Violence and an influential voice of the Turin hardcore punk movement.
Band: The Offenders
Album: Orthodoxy of new radicalism
Subgenre: punk rock street punk
Physical format: LP / CD
From: Berlin
Label: Long Beach Records Europe
Where to listen
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Info: A contemporary portrait of society in which punk rock is mixed with folk elements (mandolin and bouzouki). 12 new tracks by the German band.
Band: Enola Gay
Single: PTS.DUP
Subgenre: Post-Punk
Physical format: not available
From: Belfast, Ireland
Label: Modern Sky UK
Where to listen
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Info: Enola Gay lambast Northern Irish conservative party the DUP and their influence on the impressionable youth of today, suffering from identity erosion and abandonment by their own government. Whilst instrumentally and verbally scalding, PTS.DUP also yearns for a united Ireland while also prompting listeners to think about how and why frustrated parts of the community are indoctrinated into resentment from an early age to suit a misinformed agenda. FFO: Joy Division, The Prodigy, Gilla Band, Death Grips.
Band: Kokeshi Milk
Album: Lost and Found
Subgenre: synth punk
Physical format: CD
From: Italy
Label: 1q84 Tapes / Zen Arcade Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Synth Punk Duo. DIY ethics: everything you see and hear is the product of the duo, every sound, every frame, every design, every editing, every mix and mastering, every comma.
Band: Scheletri
Song/Video: Torino Non è la mia città
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: not available
From: Turin
Label: Rebuilding
Where to listen
Info: The video was shot on 16mm film in March 2020 by director Giuseppe Garau (also vocals and guitar of Scheletri) with the help of Giacomo “Josh” Giorgi (To Kill, Sundial Mill) just before the pandemic and lockdown. The track was recorded in the summer of 2022 and will be part of a new “collection” album in LP format along with four other new tracks and those from the previous 2019 EP. The full length is scheduled for release in September 2023 via Rebuilding.
Band: Enemic Interior
Album: II
Subgenre: punk
Physical format: 7″
From: Barcelona
Label: Mendeku Diskak
Where to listen
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Info: After their demotape in early 22 (and recently reissued on vinyl) this Catalan band is back with 6 new tracks on this 7inch in the same vein as their debut: hearty songs with bleak and introspective lyrics sung in catalan, filled with bittersweet melodies that go deep. Somber Punk with exquisite sensitivity that mingles with Post-Punk without falling into any formula, showing nothing but excellent songwriting skills in order to combine different elements and influences of various sub-categories of Punk creating something really unique and very personal. It’s catchy, angry, gloomy, melodic, raw, desperate.
Band: RÉSILIENCE
Album: S/T
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Paris
Label: Mendeku Diskak
Where to listen
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Info: Featuring one track on the PARIS ON OI! compilation, this new project with members of a great number of bands have their own proper debut with this 7” EP containing 4 tracks plus an intro of perfectly executed French OI!: great guitar work, perfect balance between melody and rawness, slightly gloomy, aggressive and catchy.
Band: Collaps
Album: s/t
Subgenre: punk oi hardcore
Physical format: 7″
From: Germany
Label: Mendeku Diskak
Where to listen
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Info: COLLAPS is a new band made up of some veterans in the German scene(s). 4 tracks (plus an amazing and classy piano intro) of PUNK in capital letters. it’s Punk with heavy influences from Oi! and Hardcore. but each of the 4 songs have a unique feel to it, diverse riff patterns and drum beats. Nice lyrics with a touch of sarcasm and irony about daily life issues and other scene subjects.
Band: Terre Neuve
Album: s/t
Subgenre: oi! hardcore
Physical format: 7″
From: Belgium
Label: Mendeku Diskak
Where to listen
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Info: Debut release from this new band from Belgium made up by ¾ of INSTRUCTOR members swapping instruments. This debut 7″ EP contains 6 tracks of some sort of mix between abrasive mid-tempo Hardcore and negative-vibes-only OI! with lyrics full of bitterness and angst sung in French.
Band: Bullshit Detectör
Album: Death Depression
Subgenre: punk oi!
Physical format: LP
From: Texas
Label: Contra Records, Guerilla Vinyl
Where to listen
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Info: Massive oi! with anarcho/wave style aesthetic! All covers are hand screen printed by Contra Records.
Band: Belgrado
Album: Intra Apogeum
Subgenre: post-punk
Physical format: LP
From: Barcelona
Label: La Vida Es Un Mus
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: After 7 years since their last full-length, the post-punk band is back with 8 new tracks. Starting with a post-punk base, the band mixes it with disco, dub and psychedelic elements and a good amount of electronics. Also released in April was this video for the song “Nie Zapomnę“
Band: TÀRREGA 91
Album: Fill De La Merda
Subgenre: punk
Physical format: 7″
From: Tàrrega, Catalunya
Label: La Vida Es Un Mus
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: the debut band in this 7″ celebrates the riots that nearly burned down City Hall in 1991 and ended with the arrest of 86 young people. Hardcore punk a la Discharge, anarchic and angry tracks that could fit on Welcome to 1984, P.E.A.C.E. or any Attack Punk compilation.
Band: Turbo
Album: Demo 2023
Subgenre: hardcore / crust
Physical format: tape
From: London
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Hardcore punk and crust intertwine to perfection with fierce, screaming vocals. 6 songs lasting about 1 minute each!
Band: CYBERPLASM
Album: Autogenesis
Subgenre: techno / electro
Physical format: LP
From: Olympia, WA
Label: Iron Lung Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Although still a punk band, there are no guitars on this record. Instead, there is an abundance of dissonant noise and dystopian political lyricism. A mix of 90s techno and manic ultra-fuzz punk that seems to come from the future will make you feel like you are at an underground rave.
Band: The Vacant Lot
Album: Living Underground
Subgenre: punk
Physical format: LP
From: Canberra
Label: Iron Lung Records
Where to listen
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Info: Vacant Lot are a first wave punk band from Canberra who released a single EP in 1981 on Thought Criminals’ label, Doublethink Records. They played a few gigs and disbanded shortly thereafter. This is the vinyl reissue remastered in 2022.
Band: Operation Ibis
Album: Avian Overlords
Subgenre: ska-punk
Physical format: LP
From: Sydney
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: new EP by the Australian ska punk band with a strong DIY ethic capable of playing and entertaining in any context, even the “less conventional” ones for a punk concert!
Band: Fool’s Errand
Album: Big Up The Impact
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: LP
From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: New album by the one-man band with roots firmly planted in early Oi!, Punk Rock and Hardcore. This album features members of bands such as Bad Assets (Detroit), English Teeth (Philadelphia), Kong Kong (Stockholm, Sweden) and more!
Band: Sal Rinella e le Pallottole
Song: Milano
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: not available
From: Milan
Label: Ammonia Records
Where to listen
Info: Milano is a typically punk rock song, in which the band declares its love for “their” city, but with an obvious ironic twist: this love is also a kind of toxic relationship, made up of contradictions, multiple faces, and few certainties. FFO Punkreas, Pornoriviste… but also Mad Beat and Bull Brigade.
Band: Lasso
Album: Ordem Imaginada EP
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: 7″
From: Brazil
Label: Sorry State Records (US) Static Shock Records (UK).
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Raw, angry and energetic hardcore for this Brazilian band now on its third work in three years!
Band: Hiatus
Album: Out Of Hand
Subgenre: crust punk
Physical format: LP
Provenienza: Belgium
Label: Ruin Nation
Where to listen
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Info: Third album by the legendary Belgian crust punk band and is their first new recording since 1996. The album contains 12 new tracks and one re-recorded track, and rest assured that HIATUS have lost none of their musical power and ferocity.
Band: Dozed
Album: Your Option is Off EP
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: tape
From: Indonesia
Label: Salvation Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Indonesian quartet for lovers of rough old-school hardcore a la Violent Reaction, Public Acid, Teen Idles, Arms Race.
Band: Ideal Victim
Album: Diary Of A Pig
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: tape
From: Portugal
Label: A World Divided
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Debut album by Ideal Victim from Porto, a band with members of Nukke. Angry and aggressive hardcore punk with a strong message against patriarchy.
Band: Battery March
Album: Futur pour eux
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Boston
Label: Primator Crew (France) Mister Face Records (USA)
Where to listen
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Info: Oi!/punk from Boston, a mix between the classic Oi! US style and bands from Portland like Death Ridge Boys. The French version has a red cover, the US one has a blue cover.
Band: Neallta Fola
Album: Iraultza
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: LP
From: Basque Country
Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records
Where to listen
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Info: Fifteen years have passed since the recording of NEALLTA FOLLA’s album IRAULTZA, originally released on CD by Teletetxo and Puzkarra Records. Now it comes out reissued in vinyl format.
Band: Streetwise
Singolo: Deus Ez / Ikustezin EP
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Navarre
Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records, kaset ekoizpenak, mawashi skins records
Where to listen
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Info: New work by Navarre-based band STREETWISE presenting the tracks “Deus Ez” and “Ikustezin” as a preview of their forthcoming new album. Oi! mixing with punk rock elements making it melodic to the right point.
Band: Gazed / Sator
Album: split s/t
Subgenre: post punk / doom
Physical format: tape
From: Genoa
Label: Flamingo Records
Where to listen
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Info: split between the two Genoese bands: the working class wave of Gazed meets the psychedelic, doom sludge of Sator. Three intense songs!
Band: Initiate
Album: Cerebral Circus
Subgenre: hardcore
Physical format: CD / LP
From: California
Label: Triple B
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: heavy hardcore, melodic at times, sharp screaming and rough guitars with elaborate riffs.
Band: Nukke
Album: Virtue Signaling EP
Subgenre: black metal punk
Physical format: 7″ / tape
From: Portugal
Label: Desolate Records (7″) Sistema Mortal Tapes (tape)
Where to listen
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Info: With a hellish mixture of black metal and fast, raw hardcore punk this album shows a somber perspective on the growing condition of oppression in the last four years.
Band: Xerox
Album: Demo 2023
Subgenre: hardcore
Physical format: not available
From: Olympia
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: Hardcore heavily influenced by grindcore, powerviolence and crust punk. Sharp screams, noise and blast beats!
Band: TRNGGNS
Album: Why is it formed?
Subgenre: hardcore
Physical format: not available
From: Bukittinggi, Indonesia
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: debut album by this immediate and dark hardcore punk band from Indonesia. Dissonant and reverberating screams, rhythm changes, and razor-sharp guitars!
Band: Fredag den 13:e
Album: Cupiditas Corrupto
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: not available
From: Gothenburg, Sweden
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: This EP released only digitally is the B-side of the full-length to be released in the summer/fall. The band, active since 2006, offers powerful hardcore mixed with Scandinavian-style d-beat.
Band: GEL
Album: Only Constant
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: CD / tape / LP
From: New Jersey
Label: Convulse Records
Where to listen
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Info: Debut album for the band. Hardcore punk from the freaks for the freaks! An exercise in groove and aggression that is both undeniable and anthemic.
Band: Pastøräl
Album: 1312
Subgenre: powerviolence / hardcore
Physical format: not available
From: Rimouski, Québec
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: screamed powerviolence in different styles. This is the band’s self-definition:
JD wants nothing to do with having a twin pedal and we respect that. Matthieu wants nothing to do with using a pitch shifter and we respect that. Frank and Bruno always want to play with balaclavas and we respect that.
Band: Carne Pa Canhão
Album: Escumalha EP
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: CD
From: Coimbra, Portugal
Label: Moshpit Alternative Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: Raw, straightforward hardcore punk that is decidedly old school with Portuguese vocals.
Band: Teenage Bottlerocket
Album: “So Dumb/So Stoked” EP
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: 7″
From: Wyoming, USA
Label: Pirates Press
Where to listen
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Info: 4 new songs by the band with unmistakable melodic punk rock that was also recently in Italy for three dates. Watch the lyric video for “So Dumb”.
Band: Wasting Time
Video/Song: Losing My Mind
Subgenre: melodic punk rock
Physical format: not available
From: Toronto
Label: Disconnect Disconnect Records
Where to listen
Info: The new single “Losing My Mind” sees the band follow up their appearance on last year’s Fast Around The World Volume 3 compilation and team up with UK-based Disconnect Disconnect Records to launch 2 1/2 minutes of fast and fun melodic punk rock!
Band: Tchernobyl
Album: “Face au mur” EP
Subgenre: punk oi!
Physical format: 7″
From: Paris
Label: Une Vie Pour Rien
Where to listen
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Info: second 7″ by the Parisian band with their unmistakable and original punk oi! sound with lyrics in French.
Band: Helem
Album: Black Sheep
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: 12″
From: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Label: Fire and Flames, Brigade Chaos, Solidarity Records, Punk’n’Loud, Emergency Records, Angry Voice, Hardcore For The Losers, Abbruch Records and Pauli Punker Records
Where to listen
Available in our distro: not available
Info: The long-awaited new album from the Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Israel) band. 12 more melodic tracks of anti-fascist hardcore punk from the Middle East.
Band: Bull Brigade feat. EGreen
Song/Video: Il fuoco reloaded LIVE
Subgenre: punk rock / rap
Physical format: not available
From: Turin
Label: Motorcity / Payback
Where to listen
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Info: The punk rock band from Turin revises in a brand new live studio version one of the best songs off their last album “Il Fuoco Non si è Spento.” Egreen, a leading name in the Italian rap scene, features in this version with his verses
Band: Vecchia Volpe
Single: Seminando caøs
Subgenre: Punk Hardcore
Physical format: not available
From: Friuli Venezia Giulia
Label: Diy
Where to listen
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Info: Very direct hardcore punk sounds with blunt content. Music as a weapon, words as stones.
Band: Various Artists
Album: Chaos in Tarragona
Subgenre: oi! punk
Physical format: 12″
From: Tarragona
Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records
Where to listen
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Info: After Chaos En France and Chaos in Basque Country label TAE records presents this compilation with 11 bands from Tarragona.
Band: Tatxers
Album: S/T
Subgenre: post-punk
Physical format: LP
From: Pamplona
Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records
Where to listen
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Info: 11 new tracks by the band from Pamplona that sings in Basque. Very catchy post-punk sound.
Band: Cuero / Puro Odio
Album: Morir En Vizcaya
Subgenre: oi! punk / hardcore / metal
Physical format: 12″
From: Bilbao / Bermeo
Label: Mendeku Diskak
Where to listen
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Info: Two bands from the Basque Country storming in with fierce and aggressive oi! punk with elements of hardcore and old school metal.
Band: Filippo Andreani
Album: Detto tra noi
Subgenre: singer-songwriter
Physical format: CD
From: Como
Label: Hellnation / Ammonia
Where to listen
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Info: 10 enjoyable and singable songs by singer-songwriter Filippo Andreani, whom you will surely already know as the guitarist of Atarassia Grop.
Band: The Wops
Album: Spots
Subgenre: punk rock
Physical format: 12″ LP
From: Venice
Label: Hellnation / Rave Up
Where to listen
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Info: Forty years after the disbandment of the legendary Venetian band, this anthology collects all the studio recordings by the Wops, who in real time had released only four songs and two self-produced demo tapes in 1981 and 1983. Great punk rock with California hardcore deviations. The 24 tracks have been remastered and the album comes with a booklet containing photos, flyers and lots of biographical notes. A release long awaited for years, finally available!
Band: Basement Boppers
Single: Basement Bop
Subgenre: rockabilly rock n roll
Physical format: 7″
From: Bologna
Label: Hellnation
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Info: Single with two songs, one on each side for the rockabilly/rock n roll trio from Bologna. A nice little gem to spin in DJ sets. Watch the video for one of the two songs!
Band: Doum Doum Lovers
Album: S/T
Subgenre: garage rock
Physical format: 12″/CD
From: Périgueux, France
Label: Hellnation / Same Produkt
Where to listen
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Info: 12 songs recorded on white vinyl by the French garage rock duo with a light and catchy sound.
Band: Gasse!
Album: La Fabbrica dei Mostri
Subgenre: hardcore punk / Thrash metal / crossover
Physical format: CD / Tape
From: Rome
Label: Rumagna Sgroza, Impeto Records, Ostia Records, Timebomb Records, Rumori in Cantina, Mastice Produzioni
Where to listen
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Info: new band from Rome dedicated to hardcore punk heavily infected with thrash metal and crossover. 15 powerful and violent tracks!
Band: Örök
Song: La Vita Vola
Subgenre: rock punk
Physical format: not available
From: Lago Maggiore – Italy
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: The song, with sounds somewhere between classic rock and pop punk, is meant to represent an invitation to live fully in the present, not letting the good times be ruined by thoughts related to a past gone or an unlikely future.
Band: Wristwatch
Song: Rules
Subgenre: Garage/Post Punk
Physical format: out on July 28
From: Madison, WI – USA
Label: No Coast Records
Where to listen
Info: Speedy garage-punk with hooks from the No Coast – Madison, WI. The band’s new album, II drops July 28th, 2023. The leadoff track, “Rules”. FFO: Jay Reatard, Buzzcocks, Ty Segall, Oh Sees
Band: Human Colonies / TENEBRA
Album: split
Subgenre: rock / shoegaze / noisepop
Physical format: tape
From: Bologna / Valtellina / Mantova
Label: Nonomori
Where to listen
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Info: The split contains two cover versions, one from Pentagram (‘Forever My Queen’) by Human Colonies and one from Lucio Battisti (‘Insieme a te sto bene’) by TENEBRA.
Band: The Uncouth
Video: “Know Your Roots”, LP coming soon
Subgenre: oi!
Physical format: LP coming soon
From: Kansas City
Label: Insurgence Records / Contra Records
Where to listen
Info: in anticipation of the self-titled LP due out this summer, here is the video for “Know Your Roots.” The band active since 2010 offers oi! street punk with a very rock n roll sound.
Band: Young Blades
Album: Power in Numbers
Subgenre: rock n roll post punk
Physical format: not available
From: Montreal, Quebec
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: 10 tracks with a post punk rock n roll sound with street punk influences make up the band’s second work.
Band: Atrabotkė
Album: S/T
Subgenre: crust punk
Physical format: not available
From: Kaunas, Lithuania
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: 10 songs including a cover by the crust punk band with strong hardcore influences with female vocals and powerful Doom-like choruses that mix to form a highly original sound!
Band: Tetem
Album: S/T
Subgenre: crust punk
Physical format: not available
From: Budapest, Hungary
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: 8 tracks all between 2 and 3 minutes of crust punk/hardcore with melodic riffs reminiscent of Tragedy.
Band: Waraholics
Album: Absolut Wastelanders
Subgenre: hardcore punk / d-beat
Physical format: CD
From: Sweden, Australia and Germany
Label: DIY
Where to listen
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Info: In these 10 songs by this band with members from three countries you will find Swedish-style hardcore punk for fans of Disfear, Wolfbrigade and Avskum.
Band: Mortsafe
EP: MOURNOGRAPHY
Subgenre: punk / metal
Physical format: tape
From: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Label: Fiadh Productions (US), Realm & Ritual (US), Vita Detestabilis (UK and EU)
Where to listen
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Info: Four-track EP by this British band that from a punk base then includes elements of metal, Hardcore, Crust, D-Beat, goth and Post-Punk.
Band: Brutal Bravo
Album: Hate The Kids
Subgenre: oi! street punk
Physical format: 12″ LP
From: Friburg, Germany
Label: Contra Records
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Info: Brutal Bravo über Alles! Finally available 12″ vinyl singles collection containing all 7″, the split side with The Lads, 4 new tracks and a bonus track. A must-have for fans of the German oi! band. No ballads in oi!
Band: Adrenochrome
Album: In Memoriam
Subgenre: dark / post-punk / deathrock
Physical format: 12″ LP / tape
From: Oakland, CA
Label: Symphonies of Destruction (LP), Chaotic No Good (tape)
Where to listen
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Info: Dark punk band with members from Ötzi, Kurraka, False Figure, Cruz De Navajas, Zotz. Female vocals and dark but very catchy sound.
Band: Loose Teeth
Album: Beer Money
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: not available
From: Oslo, Norway
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: 11 very fast and very short hardcore punk tracks. Raw and effective!
Band: Warand
Album: Hell 37
Subgenre: Crust/D-Beat
Physical format: not available
From: Moscow, Russia
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: 8 chaotic, violent and ferocious songs that can be placed within the raw punk / crust d-beat strand.
Band: COLONY·DROP
Album: Casval
Subgenre: d-beat
Physical format: not available
From: Suginami City, Japan
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: From Japan 8 d-beat raw punx tracks for noise lovers!
Band: Strong Reaction
Album: Selective Justice Selective Freedom
Subgenre: hardcore punk
Physical format: not available
From: Americana, Brazil
Label: DIY
Where to listen
Info: Fast, old-school hardcore punk from Brazil. 9 tracks not to be missed!
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