Nomads - Night​.​Owls​/​/​Mayhem​.​Aficionados​/​/​Death​.​Seekers EP (2012)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Metal

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: ACxDC/Nails

 

Track Listing:

1) Insomaniac

2) Slaughterhouse

3) Rot

 

Info:

Auditory Annihilation.

One of the best bands right now coming out of Los Angeles, California.

Their recent split with TREACHEROUSKIN has many people waiting

for their upcoming release in the fall.

If you love drugs, violence, and raw, fast, punk.

This is your band. 

 

 

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Brighter Arrows - Dreamliner (2013)

Genre: Emo/Alternative/Post-Rock

Website: Facebook/Tumblr 

Similar Sound: You'll Live/Locktender

 

Track Listing:

1) Every Hour, Every Day

2) The Occupation

3) Visitation

4) Vangelis China

5) Noshowme Shoshone

6) Half Memory

7) Splendor Beyond Compare

8) Submission

9) Dreamliner

 

 

Info:

Brighter Arrows follow up their 2012 releases with a darker, more ambitious, more dynamic and more expansive full length LP.

A bit different from Division And What It Is To Abide, but however, this

side of Brighter Arrows shows a different side of their awesome music.

 

 

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Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm (2013)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/NYHC

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Soul Search/Trapped Under Ice

 

Track Listing:

1) 7

2) Keep It Moving

3) Canned Heat

4) Pushing Me Away

5) Better Way

6) Snaked

7) Step To Rhythm

 

Info:

Turnstile is a young band from the Baltimore/DC area. For fans of Madball and Leeway, Turnstile delivers a unique mix of heavy and groovy. Formed in the late summer of 2010, the band has released a demo catching the ears of many audiences. The impelling riffs, catchy rhythms, and driving vocals bring out a sound that will make you jump.

 

 

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Backtrack - Darker Half (2011)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/NYHC

Website: Tumblr/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Expire/Foundation

 

Track Listing:

1) The Worst Of Both Worlds

2) Life's Plan

3) Too Close

4) Violent Split

5) The Greater Good

6) Scratch The Past

7) Darker Half

8) Hard To See

9) Erase The Rat

10) Enough To Know

11) Soul Sucker

12) Red Handed

  13) Retrace The Lines (CD Bonus)

14) Drawn Back To Misery (CD Bonus)

15) The Roots Of Evil (CD Bonus)

16) Welcome To The Pound (CD Bonus)

17) Deal With The Devil (CD Bonus)

18) Organized Crimes (CD Bonus)

19) Standing On Two Feet Demo (CD Bonus)

20) Kept Out Demo (CD Bonus)

21) Different Direction Demo (CD Bonus)

22) Another Way Back Demo (CD Bonus)

23) Paused Progress Demo (CD Bonus)

 

Info:

Uncompromising NYHC flag-bearers, Backtrack, have been working hard on their debut CD/LP, "Darker Half." Their album-titled single has already made its way around blogs, music news sites and message boards with more singles to be released all the way through street date. Since their 2008 demo release, they've released a string of 7"s, giving them three full years to hone their Long Island-inspired brand of NYHC for their first full-length.

 

 

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Citizen - Youth (2013)

Genre: Punk/Alternative/Indie

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Seahaven/Turnover

  

Track Listing:

1) Roam The Room

2) Figure You Out

3) The Summer

4) Sleep

5) How Does It Feel?

6) The Night I Drove Alone

7) Speaking With A Ghost

8) Your Head Got Misplaced

9) Sick And Impatient

10) Drawn Out

 

Info:

pop punk/Indie band from the Southeast Michigan/ Northwest Ohio area. They are currently Signed to Run For Cover Records

The band effortlessly blurs lines from crashing Foo Fighters-esque drums and and loud guitars to quiet, emotive twinkling breaks akin to peers Basement and Title Fight but with their own midwestern personality.

 

 

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Creative Adult - Bulls In The Yard EP (2013)

Genre: Punk/Alternative/Hardcore

Website: Official Website/Twitter 

Similar Sound: Ceremony/Bauhaus
 

Track Listing:

1) Bulls In The Yard

2) Consumes Itself

3) Chemical Glow

4) Rushing Toward The Cemetery
 

Info:

Following the success of their debut 7” “Dead Air”, California North Bay’ers, Creative Adult, are announcing the release of their latest EP Bulls In The Yard with the premiere of their first single “Rushing Towards The Cemetery”.

the band goes down the vibing, manic path of their debut and wanders further into flourishes of contemplative effects – laden post punk.

Awesome Band. Check them out.

  

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Power Trip - Manifest Decimation (2013)

Genre: Metal/Thrash/Crossover

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Vio-Lence/Fire & Ice

Track Listing:

1) Manifest Decimation

2) Heretic's Fork

3) Conditioned To Death

4) Murderer's Row

5) Crossbreaker

6) Drown

7) Power Trip

8) The Hammer Of Doubt

  

Info:

Formed in early 2008, POWER TRIP is a crossover band from Dallas, Texas in the vein of late 80’s thrash, heavy metal and hardcore punk. For fans of Exodus, Vio-Lence, later Cro-Mags, and Prong.

Power Trip’s debut full length Manifest Destiny lays not a claim to total conquest for one bloodline, but a deterministic blood prophecy of planetary destruction by riff and simply put, it’s one of the best thrash records I’ve heard in a long time.

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Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte (2012)

Genre: Hardcore/Heavy Metal

Website: Facebook/Twitter 

Similar Sound: Nails/Palm

 

Track Listing:

 1) No Serenity

2) Soledad

3) Laid To Rest

4) Burn

5) Sentenced

6) The Flood

7) Hasta La Muerte

8) Mala Mujer

9) Stoneheart

10) Lujuria

11) Cold

 

Info:

Xibalba is a heavy hardcore/metal band from Pomona California

The Pomona, Calif., doom-inflected hardcore quintet Xibalba seem to understand this, and when they keep things straightforward, they're very good at making youth-crew songs that stick (and make you want to do anything but sit still).

Nothing on Hasta La Muerte will change the course of music, no, but Xibalba's the sort of hardcore group that has a pretty great chance of changing a few individual worlds.

Awesome record. Check them out!

 

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The Meteors - Wreckin' Crew (1983)

Genre: Psychobilly/Rockabilly/Punk

Website: Facebook/Meteors Fan Site 

Similar Sound: P. Paul Fenech/Demented Are Go

  

Track Listing:

1) Insane

2) I Ain't Ready

3) Johnny Remember Me

4) I Don't Worry About It

5) Axe Attack

6) Zombie Noise

7) Rattle Snakin' Daddy

8) When A Stranger Calls

9) Phantom Of The Opera

10) Blue Sunshine

11) Wreckin' Crew

12) Sick Things

13) Wild Thing

14) I'm Not Mad/Get Off My Cloud

15) Mutant Rock

16) Hills Have Eyes

17) Fear Of The Dark

18) Scream Of The Mutants
 

Info:

The Meteors are a psychobilly band from the United Kingdom, who are often credited with giving the genre its distinctive sound. Although the origins of psychobilly are debatable, the Meteors consider themselves the first and only psychobilly band. Fans of the band are known to use the slogan “Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly” (often shortened to just “OTMAPP”) as a rallying cry.


 

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Chain Of Flowers - Sleep EP (2013)

Genre: Shoegaze/Punk/Alternative

Website: Facebook/Official 

Similar Sound: The Cure/Wavves

 

Track Listing:

1) Sleep

2) Slide

3) Clutching The Night

  

Info:

The new project from Welsh hardcore heroes Crossbreaker's frontman Josh Smith recently made their live debut, supporting Milk Music and Eagulls at Clwb Ifor Bach. It was an excellent fit - the one track that's online at present is indie grunge personified - which means catchy as hell and delectably full-throttle.
NME
Smart money says this is the next band that’ll rise above the rest by word of mouth alone with a lead vocalist channeling the aura of a Morrissey or Ian Curtis.
Louder Than War


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My Iron Lung - Grief EP (2012)

Genre: Emo/Hardcore/Screamo

Website: Facebook/Tumblr

Similar Sound: Touche Amore/You'll Live

  

Track Listing:

1) Broken Homes

2) Clementine

3) Family Traits

4) Late Bloomers, Early Caskets

5) Here's To The Collaborative Efforts Made By All Things Under The Sun

 

Info:

My Iron Lung is a new band out of San Diego, California. Formed in 2010 by former members of bands such as A Better Hope Foundation, Heritage, and Crowne Hill; Doug, Matthew, Justin, and David are well on their way to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the busy Southern California music scene. My Iron Lung’s debut EP, No Such Thing, drops on the first day of 2011. 

Along with their recent release Grief EP.

This band is amazing.

 

 

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AFI - A Fire Inside EP (1998)

Genre: Alternative/Punk/Rock

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Son Of Sam/Aiden

  

Track Listing:

1) 3 1/2

2) Over Exposure

3) The Hanging Garden

4) Demonomania

 

Info:

A Fire Inside is an EP by American rock band AFI. It was released on September 29, 1998 through Nitro Records. The EP title is a quote from the introductory track on their previous album Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, as well as the band name's permanent abbreviation. The EP includes two original songs and two covers.
One of AFI's more raw and gritty releases.
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Jawbreaker - Bivouac (1992)

Genre: Punk/Rock/Emo

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Lifetime/Jets To Brazil
 

Track Listing:

1) Shield Your Eyes

2) Big

3) Chesterfield King

4) Sleep

5) Donatello

6) Face Down

7) P.S. New York Is Burning

8) Like A Secret

9) Tour Song

10) You Don't Know...

11) Pack It Up

12) Parabola

13) Bivouac
 

Info:

Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band has its root in Los Angeles, CA, where Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler were students at the exclusive private Crossroads High School. The band came together when they met Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988.


 

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Hightide Hotel - Secret Somethings Vol. 2 (2011)

Genre: Emo/Indie/Rock

Website: Facebook/Tumblr 

Similar Sound: By Surprise/Snowing

  

Track Listing:

1) Intro 

2) Ballad

3) Ultimatum

4) Hollow

5) Your Bed

6) My Bed

7) Hospital Green

8) Malice

9) Closer

10) Outro

Info:

Hightide Hotel is an emo band from Philadelphia. Members include Benjamin Schmidt, Christopher Thomas, and David Sampson. Former member - Nathaniel Dionne.

They are releasing one more full-length entitled “Naturally” in 2013 before disbanding.

Check them out!

 

 

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Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002)

 Genre: Emo/Indie/Alternative

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Brand New/Bayside
 

Track Listing:

1) You Know How I Do

2) Bike Scene

3) Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)

4) There's No 'I' In Team

5) Great Romances Of The 20th Century

6) Ghost Man On Third

7) Timberwolves At New Jersey

8) The Blue Channel

9) You're So Last Summer

10) Head Club

Info:

Taking Back Sunday originally formed on Long Island, New York, USA in 1999. The band has gone through several lineup changes. Their first release came in 2001 with the Taking Back Sunday EP, and featured Antonio Longo on vocals, John Nolan on guitar and backing vocals, Eddie Reyes on guitar (the original founder of the band), Jesse Lacey, Adam Lazzara and Mark O’Connell replaced Stevie D) they released the follow-up album Tell All Your Friends, which was produced by Sal Villaneuva. The album gave the band a first taste of success in the scene. 


 

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Forrest - Before You Go EP (2012)

Genre: Emo/Alternative/Punk

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Sunny Day Real Estate/Turnover
 

Track Listing:

1) Nothing More To Say

2) September

3) Hope

4) Five To Nine

5) Hearts And Minds

6)  Forget

Info:

Alternative/Emo from South Wales heavily influenced by the sounds of Brand New and Sunny Day Real Estate.
Before You Go 7” out on Something New Records and What We Should Be Doing.
And a split with Irish Folk/punk The Winter Passing, on Guys With Beards Records.


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Ruiner - Prepare To Be Let Down (2007)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Melodic Hardcore

Website: Facebook/Myspace 

Similar Sound: Life Long Tragedy/Killing The Dream

 

Track Listing:

1) Prepare To Be Let Down

2) Bottom Line: Fuck You

3) The Lives We Fear

4)  That Stone Better Be On Fire

5) 40 Miles North

6) A Song For Beggars

7) A Long Time Coming

8) Repetition

9) Choke On It

10) When The Mourning Ends

11) Sleepless

12) Kiss That Motherfucker Goodnight

Info:

Ruiner was a fast, but Melodic Hardcore band from Baltimore, Maryland. They released three LPs(I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes, Prepare To Be Let Down, and Hell Is Empty). They also released two EPs(What Could Possibly Go Right, and Dead Weight).

 

Ruiner's fairly hyped, proper Bridge 9 debut might come as a bit of a surprise to anyone who skipped over the album's teaser 7", The Lives We Fear, released several weeks ago. The band hasn't necessarily gone any sort of drastic stylistic makeover -- they're still playing fast and foreboding, semi-melodic hardcore in the form of desperate heartwrenching moment after desperate heartwrenching moment, but a few traits have been tweaked along the way.

 

 

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Daylight - Jar (2013)

Genre: Grunge/Emo/Alternative

Website: Bandcamp/Daylight Official 

Similar Sound: Title Fight/Basement

 

Track Listing:

1) Sponge

2) Life In A Jar

3) Outside Of Me

4) Sheltered

5) Crawl

6) Last October 

7) Youngest Daughter

8) Knew

9) No One's Deserving

10) Hole In The Ground

11) In On It

12) Around The Railing

Info:

Daylight is a band from Doylestown, PA. Channeling alternative bands from the 90s, punk bands from the 80s and adding their own current attitude, Daylight comes at you with catchy riffs and hooks that will make you want to scream out every word. Pennsylvania keeps churning out amazing young bands and Daylight can be added to the top of the list. Their debut full length LP is due out the spring of 2013.

 

 

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Kite Party - Baseball Season (2011)

Genre: Alternative/Indie/Rock

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Hard Girls/The Clippers

Track Listing:
1) Welcome To Miami
2) Runner
3) Spirit Gum
4) Buried In Dogs
5) Arizona
6) Hightower
7) Southpaw
8) Jaws Of Life
9) We Won't Survive

Info:
Kite Party's new album, Baseball Season is a meditation on love, loss, and the daily struggles of being in a band whose name is perpetually misread as Katy Perry. 
Something you can't miss up on.


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Zombie Ghost Train - Glad Rags & Body Bags (2006)

  Genre: Psychobilly/Horror/Punk

Website: Facebook/Myspace 

Similar Sound: Rezurex/The Quakes

Track Listing:

1) Glad Rags & Body Bags

2) R.I.P.

3) Dark TImes

4) Graveyard Queen

5) Black White And Dead

6) Deadcat Rumble

7) Girl U Want

8) Alone

9) Night Time Crawling

10) Zombie Beach

11) Gone

12) Buried Next To The King

13) You're My Baby

Info:

Zombie Ghost Train was an Australian psychobilly and gothabilly band located in Sydney, NSW, Australia. The band formed with Stu Arkoff (guitars and vocals), Azzy T (drums), and Captain Reckless (bass and backing vocals). In 2007, Azzy T left to pursue other musical ventures and was replaced by JM. The band released two albums, Glad Rags & Body Bags and Dealing the Death Card, as well as the EP Monster Formal Wear.


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