The Flatliners – New Ruin LP
The Flatliners New Ruin LP (Dine Alone/Fat Wreck Chords) In the twenty-year duration of The Flatliners’ career to date, it’s actually pretty remarkable to…
melodic hardcore
Gob – Apt. 13
As of this writing, it has been seven years since Gob‘s last album of new material came out. That’s a pretty long time to…
Rise Against – The Black Market
After illustrating that they were more than capable of moving forward beyond their melodic hardcore foundations with Appeal To Reason and Endgame, The Black…
Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
With a swinging and universally mean attack, Cancer Bats set fire to much of their own past as well as a significant number of the bands that would pretend to be their peers as they find the best possible middle ground between old school hardcore (like Black Flag) and Seventies/Eighties-era metal (think Judas Priest), and throw in something that loosely resembles the raw energy of skate punk for good measure.