Dan Slessor

Hell Or Highwater The Other Side Having only dropped their debut full-length in February, Hell Or Highwater have wasted no time in following it up with this 5-track EP. However, these aren’t inferior tracks that failed make the cut. While Begin Again was a great though patchy collection, every track here is killer in its […]

All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature When All Pigs Must Die dropped 2011’s visceral God Is War, a damn fine record by anyone’s standards, they were still that band with members drawn from the ranks of the Hope Conspiracy, Bloodhorse and Converge. On Nothing Violates This Nature, the Boston hardcore mob demonstrate once […]

Larry And His Flask By The Lamplight Upon exposure to By The Lamplight, it isn’t hard to grasp why many—including Frank Turner—have been singing the praises of Larry And His Flask of late. Difficult to pigeonhole, the Redmond, Oregon, sextet draw on a wide range of traditional styles and influences to create an organic, unforced […]

Into The Flood Vices Blunt-force trauma is the only language spoken in Into The Flood’s world. With the exception of the brief instrumental title track, which kicks the record off, everything on Vices is purpose-built to hurt. With an emphasis on the kind of armor-plated pneumatic chuggery that Bury Your Dead made their stock in trade, […]

30 Seconds To Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams With 2009’s This Is War, 30 Seconds To Mars released their finest work, a towering, anthemic album on a vast scale, and it was well suited to the larger venues they made the jump to. It would have been hard for anyone to make a record […]

Death Ray Vision Get Lost Or Get Dead EP Originally united in Overcast, Death Ray Vision vocalist Brian Fair (Shadows Fall) and bassist Mike D’Antonio (Killswitch Engage) have gone onto bigger and better things. With Get Lost Of Get Dead, they return to their roots. There’s no high concept; this is five tracks of thrash-flavored […]

Enabler Shift Of Redemption EP Having dropped arguably the most visceral and aggressive album of 2012 with All Hail The Void, Milwaukee’s Enabler return with the Shift Of Redemption EP, four more blasts of scathing aural violence. Following yet another shuffle in their ranks (which saw drummer Andy Hurley depart as Fall Out Boy returned […]

The Mongoloids Mongo Life If testosterone made a noise as it passed through the male nervous system, it would quite likely sound like Mongo Life. Dealing in snub-nosed, thrash-flavored hardcore—or perhaps hardcore-flavored thrash is more succinct—the New Jersey quintet chug and stomp their way through 12 chunky tracks. Not fans of anything that could be […]

Hundredth Revolt EP On first exposure, the five tracks of Revolt appear to be solid if unspectacular additions to Hundredth’s arsenal. Aggressive, chunky and in your face, they seem very much a continuation of where the band left off with 2011’s dynamic Let Go, encapsulating the variety within the their uncompromising hardcore sound without progressing […]